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No, it doesn't, and one look at a map or at the MRT website would have told them that. There are actually only nine lines currently operating, and that includes ALL operators. "According to the draft bill, certain services – including the BTS Green (Sukhumvit) Line – will likely be excluded as joining the common ticketing system will be voluntary." Voluntary? If any operator can just choose not to participate because it isn't in their financial interest to do so, why bother?

It never made any sense that a point of parliamentary procedure would be decided by a vote of the members, anyway - that should be the responsibility of the house speaker, or parliamentarian.

I certainly used that type of Wang console, which was used for our classified networks into the 90s. I'm not a touch typist, so I don't recall much about the keyboard - only that the machine was slow and the screen was poor.

...except that don't mention alcohol at all, which is odd. If they don't also alter the alcohol selling hours, this would mean a lot of bars staying open all night serving cola and soda water!

The terms "fire engine" and "fire truck" are used pretty much interchangeably in American English, at least where I grew up.

This is a problem with the "verification" process for many financial apps here (electronic wallets, etc). They tell you to take off your glasses, and then they give written instructions on the screen - look to the right, nod your head, blink - that you can't read, because you're not wearing your glasses... ????

RIP. Incidentally, a simple glance at any map - or even at the sign in the photo - would show that Tha Phra is a station on the MRT, not the BTS.

Amazing how the planted articles from watch dealers always say demand for watches is up, and the planted articles from real estate brokers and developers always say that demand for property is through the roof ????

Boo-freaking-hoo

Damrongsak is a member of the Senate - he could avoid any unrest simply by voting for the people's choice and convincing his fellow senators to do the same.

Just to clarify, this announcement has nothing at all to do with normal Bangkok bus services, or with the old red buses that still belch black smoke all over the capital. The Bus Rapid Transit line is meant to take the place of a train line, with limited stops, all-door boarding from platforms, pre-payment of fares, and priority running along streets. Unfortunately, the Bangkok BRT has never been a "real" BRT, as city authorities don't want to implement features that would inconvenience motorists, such as dedicated lanes or signal priority at traffic lights. (This is a common problem around the world, not just in Bangkok.) In addition, Bangkok made the odd decision to use small buses on its BRT, rather than the long articulated buses normally used on BRT systems to achieve greater passenger capacity. it's therefore kind of surprising that they're talking about "introducing smaller, electricity-powered buses into the fleet" and "incorporat[ing] additional BRT stops near pedestrian crossings", both of which seem to be steering the system into being less of an actual BRT and more of a garden variety bus service.

The pool and other amenities are designed to look good in brochures and help the developer sell the units, not to be used. Many of these buildings have beautiful but undersized common areas that would become impossibly crowded if even a small percentage of tenants ever started using them.

Clearly the solution to the overstay problem is MORE BMWs! ????

Previous articles were labeling this an "embezzlement" case, and now they've changed to "asset seizure" and "money laundering", "involv[ing] participants from both the police force and the general public". Let's be clear: this case is about extortion committed by police officers. Why aren't they willing to say as much? And why all the cautions that "all implicated parties are considered innocent", something which is rarely if ever stated when average nobodies are arrested, paraded in front of cameras, and forced to "reenact" the offenses that they deny having committed?

Yes, this is probably the first time in recorded history that a Bentley has ever been pulled over in Thailand! "Do you know who I am???"

216,000 square kilometers!! That's almost half the size of Thailand itself - very impressive indeed ????

"The brakes failed"

That just isn't true. Individual countries may have their own idiosyncracies when it comes to divorce and marriage, but for the most part they follow some broad principles. One, called "comity of nations", means that they generally accept civil acts from other countries (unless they violate pubic policy, like a bigamous or incestuous or underage marriage). So, if you get married in one country, you're still married when you go to another country. Without this concept, people would have to keep repeating things like marriage, divorce, and birth registrations every time they moved to another jurisdiction. Another principle is that the authority in the best position - and with the clearest legal authority - to adjudicate civil matters is the authority in the place where the affected parties reside or are physically located. That means that it's perfectly normal and acceptable for a couple to marry in one country, and then divorce in a different country that they happen to be living in years later. This is why we used to see so many "quickie Dominican divorces" for US couples back when divorce in the USA was difficult. The issue for the OP - assuming he's not just trolling - may be that his country requires some kind of paperwork to be filed to officially put them on notice that he's legally divorced. This would be similar to how things are done in Thailand, where you are certainly considered "married" after getting married abroad, but you can't use that marriage for any local legal purpose (like a spouse visa) without depositing the foreign certificate at an amphur and having it recorded locally. This is more typically seen in civil law countries than in countries following the common law.

The new satellite is connected to the main terminal by an automated people mover (shuttle train) that terminates next to immigration, so actually the new gates will probably require less walking than the current distant ones at the ends of the E, F, and G concourses.

Pretty confusing, as press announcements from AOT usually are. - This isn't a "terminal", it's a satellite passenger concourse. It adds two dozen gates, but no additional capacity for check-in, immigration, security, or baggage handling. - I don't understand how this concourse can increase passenger capacity at BKK. Right now, flight numbers are limited by runway capacity, and passenger numbers primarily by the capacity of immigration, security, and baggage systems. The number of gates hasn't been a limiting factor, since bus gates are always available. - Even if the new structure somehow increases passenger capacity to the "staggering" 60 million promised, that's still BELOW the number of flyers that passed through the airport annually in the years just before covid.

Maybe the Tourist Police could just carry out their assigned role of protecting tourists, and leave visa and employment law violations to Immigration and the local police?

Oddly enough, I don't find his promise to stay on as long as possible particularly soothing.

These guys are just determined to trade in their Benzes for tumbrels, aren't they...

International credit cards are fine. Some people occasionally have had trouble registering them, but that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

Neither capability nor ethics was a consideration when the senators themselves were voted for...oh, my mistake, they weren't voted for at all...