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Selling openly on a crowded street is an interesting way to try to avoid detection 🙄

Out of all the fraud and overcharging of tourists that goes on thousands of times every single day around the country, this is the crime they decide to go after?

These people are (presumably) not wanted for crimes in their home country, so "extradition" is not involved at all.

That has not been the experience of multiple applicants on this forum (or of one of my friends who doesn't post here). Despite the "past two years" verbiage, BoI actually seems fine - for the WP category - with financial evidence that only covers the previous year (and said as much explicitly to @JimGant, as he related above). There have also been several people here who dealt with the issue of applying before the current year's income tax return was due, and who simply explained to BoI that they hadn't filed yet. They just submitted the prior year's return along with statements and other evidence for the current year, and were approved with no issues.

No, Non-Alcoholic Wine Isn't Just Grape Juice

My experience is that Thai immigration will let you in if you manage to get all the way here, but the airline may question you at check-in and possibly deny boarding. The safest course would be to get a new passport before your trip.

The announcement was about an exhibition of French wines, and his comments were about reducing the price of imported wines. None of this was about Thai-made wines.

Let's just keep announcing this over and over again, without ever actually implementing it.

No, it doesn't - it underlines that certain officials have no understanding of what the city's soul is, but want to show off their own power. Please remind me how "comply[ing] with income assessments and taxation" makes the environment more "orderly and hygienic"? And while it's theoretically true that everyone should pay the taxes that they owe, exactly how much will be collected from vendors making less than 25k per month? And whenever this subject comes up, some official will start yapping about how they want to make Bangkok "more like Singapore". Leaving aside the question of whether that's even a desirable goal, do they know that Singapore built its hawker centers and THEN moved the vendors off the street, rather than kicking them out today with a vague promise of an indoor selling area to appear (magically) at some indeterminate point in the future?

This kind of "cooperation" (US detects criminals operating in Thailand and asks the Thais to bust them) has been going on for decades, long before animosity with China heated up.

I've read this a few times before, but I still don't understand it. I'm not British, so I have no background other than what I've seen in the media. So, could someone explain this idea to me like I was five years old? Why would a payment which comes entirely from the UK government, and is based on contributions to the UK pension system made while working in the UK, have any "reciprocity" angle at all? Why would any foreign country have to sign off on UK citizens getting increased payments from the UK? What exactly is "reciprocal" here?

You are absolutely correct. The airlines flatly stated that they had no way of adding a fee to tickets if it only applied to certain passengers and not others.

No mention of "Non" or "Non-immigrant" at all.

So are the companies "bogus", or are they actually being "operated"? Is this about doing business illegally, or about opening shell companies that don't do business at all?

Sure. But for working illegally or running an unlicensed business, not for operating a fraudulent scheme (as the first article implies he was doing).

"Thaiembassy.com" is not a Thai government website, and routinely contains inaccurate information.

This is at least the 10th time this proposal has been "announced", and usually it's presented as though it's a done deal (like all "proposals" from this government).

He wasn't "posing" as a tour guide and running a "scheme", he was an actual tour guide, running tours. He was violating employment laws, but it doesn't sound like he was defrauding his customers.

Another article I read specified that it was net of expenses.

I think the issue was that TG was taken to task by the government after passengers filed complaints that they had bought business class tickets on these old Thai Smile planes and were only given economy with a blocked middle seat ("Euro-business"). TG was required to post a warning about this on their booking engine, and finally ended up rebranding those seats as "premium economy" rather than business. Refitting the planes in question will allow them to market a short haul business class product once again. That's just my guess.

So maybe they told you and you didn't understand what they were saying?

Ditto. This is a non-existent issue.

Let me see if I have this straight. A man starts an underground swingers' club, and is perfectly fine with members having sex with his wife, as long as he's allowed to watch. But now one of these hand-picked members starts getting a bit too friendly with the wife, and sometimes the founder is just too busy to watch their couplings (who has time? Am I right?). So now that the vibe of the swinging club has been totally messed up, he takes the only logical next step: he complains to the member's boss. Yes, complains that the member wasn't, well, using his member in a nice way. Because that's what you do when you run an underground sex club 🤔 I thought the first rule of Swing Club is that you don't talk about Swing Club?

Only one charge remaining - the statute of limitations on the other charges has already been allowed to run its course.

And then a hopeful feeling again - Maybe I'll wait to see the new LTR requirements 🙂 "Long Stay" has always been used by MFA to refer to the O-A and O-X categories - LTR is a totally different animal, and there's no indication here that they intend to make any changes to that program.