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So will these be available for foreigners? On entry, or only exit?

There was no "security breach". He carried items that weren't allowed, and they were found during the screening process as they should have been. Presumably these mortar rounds didn't contain explosive, or he's an even bigger fool than he already appears to be. It would have been nice to read an explanation of where he had gotten these and why he was carrying them.

These appear to be exactly the same rules that have been in place for nearly 20 years, though Thai airports haven't always strictly enforced them. Can anyone tell me what has changed?

And yet Vietnamese people come to Thailand instead of vacationing domestically within their own country because they believe costs are cheaper here... Vietnam's transport networks are far worse than Thailand's, so I don't know what they're talking about. And TAT continues to be obsessed with tour packages and "new attractions", even though an increasing number of Chinese now travel independently, and are first time visitors who are perfectly happy to see "old attractions".

They took away the income requirement for the Wealthy Global Citizen category, not for Wealthy Pensioners. Yes, this. Despite the references to "two years" in the description, everyone I know who has been approved for the Wealthy Pensioner LTR has only been asked to show one year of income.

So clearly the problem is the bus...and the road? 🤔

It's amazing how your terrorist arrests can increase if you just expand your definition of the word "terrorist".

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-executive-order-state-climate-laws-illegal-legal-unconstitutional/

It doesn't have to be an advance warning to be useful, though of course that would be ideal. The day the earthquake struck, people evacuated their buildings and then had no idea what to do. The government did in fact send out mass SMS messages explaining what had happened and telling people when it was safe to go back inside, but for most people those messages arrived so late as to be useless. (In my case, the SMS came eight hours late.) If they can manage to get the word out to everyone quickly, that could be very helpful. I personally didn't receive anything from this supposedly successful test on either my DTAC or True number, though, so I'm not sure whether their bragging is justified or not.

These are the same folks who said two weeks ago that the baht would be crashing through 34.5...

Stop with the study tours and just build the damned thing - this has been dragging on for years and years now, with little to show for it.

Not mentioned in the article: - Cracking down on officials who accept bribes - Arresting the Thais who take money to put their names on the papers of the nominee companies - Developing foreign language skills in the tourism industry so that foreign guides would no longer be needed No, instead the "solution" is...cut the visa exemption period to 30 days? Inconveniencing millions of tourists to punish a few dozen illegal guides?

He and his party believe firmly in states' rights, except when they don't.

This is a highly imaginative interpretation of these rulings. One involved venue, one involved standing (something the Supreme Court itself seems fairly unconcerned with these days), and the third was a disagreement over the application of the Administrative Procedure Act. All of these are quite ordinary matters that are routinely hashed out in appeals courts in all types of cases. And in the case involving venue, the court unanimously struck down Trump's attempt to use the Alien Enemies Act as a way to avoid giving due process to deportees - I would hardly call that a victory for him no matter how he tries to spin it.

No, Thai citizens will enjoy the discounted fares. Have a Thai passport, but lived abroad your entire life? 20 baht! Have a foreign passport and lived in Thailand since childhood? Full fare for you! And in typical Thai fashion, anyone who isn't Thai can only be a tourist...

I've never seen any "routine check" of an arriving passenger's pockets at any airport in Thailand, ever. Or did he literally hand the passport containing the drugs to the immigration officer? And if this all stemmed from this magical "routine check", how had they organized a "joint operation" to arrest the guy?

These buses are either safe or they aren't. If they're safe, allow them everywhere, and if not, ban them completely. This "compromise" solution makes no sense at all.

The VN e-visa system now covers visitors from all countries and territories (though of course it will be irrelevant to people who are visa exempt). https://vnembassy-canberra.mofa.gov.vn/en-us/News/EmbassyNews/Pages/Vietnam-Introduces-E-Visa-for-All-Nationalities-from-August-15,-2023.aspx

My transfers normally take under 10 seconds, but the one yesterday ended up taking 90 minutes. I have no idea what the reason was, but it was still fast enough that I'm not going to worry about it.

Those are Electronic Travel Authorizations (ETAs), which are what Thailand announced last year and then completely stopped talking about. What is being discussed in the OP is an electronic arrival card, akin to what is being used in Malaysia, Singapore, and Cambodia. They're not the same.

This is exactly correct. The person you dealt with at the Revenue Dept is misunderstanding the difference between a Social Security payment and a pension paid for being a former government employee. How (or if) you can get him to admit his error, though, will be the real challenge.

Price gouging by both the retailer and the suppliers... https://youtu.be/Z8-wqv9_-Ac?si=-REDODgQiTgqWw29

I'm having trouble understanding exactly which type of "shady" massage parlor they're trying to crack down on - the ones that are really just providing sexual services, or legitimate massage shops with poorly trained staff? Micromanaging the pricing structure of thousands of massage shops seems like a pointless endeavor, and one that they'll never be able to enforce. Not only Chuvit - a former Minister of Commerce came from the family that owns the huge Poseidon Entertainment Complex on Ratchada. And you're right, many of these establishments have folded for economic reasons - there are more valuable ways to use the land that they sit on - but the ones that have been closed down by authorities were accused of illegal use of ground water or employing minors, not of offering sexual services.

That's the perpetual Thai response to tourism in general.

That's fine, but then they can expect leasing aircraft from overseas to become more difficult - many of the leasing companies want to have their own personnel operating their planes.