khunjeff

Exactly. A "confused" emoji might mean "I don't understand what you're trying to say", or "I don't understand why you're saying it", or "I don't understand why the people you wrote about did what they did", or any number of other things.

"Thai airline" could describe any of the several Thailand-registered carriers, hence the confusion. "Thai Airways" is never mentioned in the article.

As usual, this seems like overkill to arrest one hapless low-wage illegal worker (while his Thai bosses apparently weren't touched). And though the authorities are acting as though busting a cannabis farm is a big deal, it appears that only license and permit regulations were violated - and even the officials acknowledge that getting the right permits is easy and cheap.

What a joke of a penalty 😔

The page you cited messed up the terminology - it should be "non-quota immigrant visa", not "non-immigrant quota". "6. NON-QUOTA IMMIGRANT VISA - This type of visa is granted only by the Office of Immigration Bureau in Bangkok to aliens who are domiciled in Thailand having as evidence valid permits to re-enter the Kingdom. Applicants shall submit their applications together with the Certificate of Residence directly to the Immigration Bureau in Bangkok." https://athens.thaiembassy.org/th/publicservice/17617-types-of-visa?page=5d74fae415e39c30ec0013f2&menu=5d74fae415e39c30ec0013f3 So yes, this does refer to permanent residence (whenever immigration says "residence", they're talking about PR). That is from the second of two paragraphs separated by the word "or". The OP was asking about the first paragraph, which did indeed mean PR. I imported all of my household effects when I came here on an OA - basically a container-load. The shipment was subject to duty, but that only came to about 20k baht, which was less than it would have cost just to replace my espresso machine. My employer paid for packing, shipping, and delivery as part of my retirement, so for me it made sense - for those who need to pay all the costs themselves, though, the math could be very different.

It's different because Thailand actually stopped using entry forms over two years ago, and over 50 million foreigners have entered without one - and without the kingdom collapsing. It's obvious that the system worked just fine without the forms, so why re-introduce them? Why not just emulate Vietnam or the US, and get rid of entry forms completely?

A lot of "mandating", "ordering", "directing", and "instructing", but nothing in the way of actual policies to stop the smoke.

Even though Thipsamai is famous, I've never met anyone - Thai or foreign - who is particularly impressed by their pad Thai. At this point, they seem to be coasting along on a reputation from long ago.

A very large part of the discussion and angst about this issue has been precisely the question of who actually has to file a tax return, what information would be included on it, and how to account for income that is not taxable in Thailand due to DTAs, LTR status, etc. - so I'm afraid it's not nearly as straightforward as you say.

Although I've heard Trump can be fairly pleasant in one-on-one encounters, the words "graceful", "generous", and "warm" are not normally associated with him...

Are any members here familiar with that area? I'm confused by the statement that he "crashed into an overpass". Did he run into one of the pillars holding it up, or is part of it low enough that he could literally knock his head against the span?

I guess it's easier to get praise if you punish anyone who gives you criticism.

Agree - the story starts out talking about getting data on "income" and "earnings", and then says that will lead to a tax on "wealth". I don't know whether the speaker wasn't clear in his presentation, or the reporter didn't explain it clearly, but I'm not following this at all.

Problem: Chinese entertainers are answering fake job ads and then being forcibly abducted to scam centers in Burma with assistance from corrupt Thai officials Solution: cut the period of stay for Chinese tourists from 30 days to 15 days Wait, what? 🤔

For the love of god, their answer to every problem is...checkpoints. Not only are checkpoints a very poor and inefficient strategy for crime prevention in general, but foreigners who were victimized by these scams have reported that they were stopped at checkpoints while being transported to the border, and were waved through when the officers recognized the faces of the traffickers. So yeah, it still all comes down to "Directive 1" on his list, as usual - and we know how successful that's likely to be.

This case has been going on for decades now. The sale of the land was long ago determined to have been illegal, and at least one person went to prison years ago for the corruption involved in the project - and only now the titles are being revoked?

"With effective from April 1, 2019, New York branch only process ACH with appropriate IAT format and all non-IAT transactions will be returned." https://www.bangkokbank.com/en/Personal/Other-Services/Transfers/Transferring-Into-Thailand/Transfer-money-from-US-to-Thailand-via-Bangkok-Bank-NewYork-branch

That's a confusingly specific designation 🧐

Yeah, because charging 150k baht obviously sounds like a normal price for importing rabbits. Sure... 🙄

Treating people like these as criminals - rather than victims, which is clearly what they are - is one of the reasons why Thailand keeps ending up on Trafficking in Persons watchlists. They fled from captors who had confiscated their passports, and have no desire to stay in Thailand, so just turn them over to their embassy and call it a day, instead of engaging in this jingoistic nonsense.

I thought the GOP wanted all decisions related to education to be made at the local level, with no "interference" from Washington? 🤔

The piratical DCC (Dynamic Currency Conversion) offered at some ATMs and point of sale credit card terminals - which proposes an exchange rate up to 6% worse than the one provided by Visa or MasterCard - lets you choose how you will be billed, not how you want to pay. The merchant will be paid in THB no matter which option you select. In any case, I have no idea why the speaker added the bit about credit card payments being converted to baht. Any credit card payment in Thailand could theoretically be considered a remittance, though the odds that Thai tax authorities would actually sift through hundreds of millions of card transactions looking for tax evaders seems low to non-existent.

Yes, embassies can perform any marriage registrations that they want. Whether a given country will recognize those registrations, on the other hand, is a different matter, and that's the case even for opposite sex marriages.

So, this "course" is taught by police officers in a university classroom... Police: "we had nothing to do with this" University: "we had nothing to do with this" The mind boggles 🤔

And solving the traffic problem in Bangkok within six months. His absurd promises are never-ending.