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I thought you couldn't work in Thailand with a tourist visa. If journalists are an exception to this rule, I would expect they would be given something other than tourist status.

Can you pay with Thai baht if you renew at the embassy? My daughter has to go in person because she is applying as a first time adult.

Once positive thing could come out of this. Perhaps a crime this tragic and so highly publicized is enough to affect change in the RTP. It seems as though this shooting can be traced to police mismanagement, or better yet corruption because they wanted to keep the perpetrator's name out of the news when he caused trouble while a member of the RTP. One thing that would help is if the media did not continuously publish pictures of the shooter. It makes bad people famous. This I think invites copy cat actions. In America some shooters make videos before they commit their acts so they can be shown on social media. The media in the US constantly flashes pictures of the shooters again and again on the 24 hour news cycle. They even seem to keep a tally of who has shot the most people. To me this just entices other unstable people to shoot for the record (no pun intended this is very serious). These shootings are quite often committed by people with suicidal tendencies who want to take other innocent people with them when they die. For want of a better term, a suicide party of sorts. Check how many times this pattern has occurred in the US in recent years.

I usually see the obstacles in the parking spaces in front of street vendors' carts. They block the spaces so their customers, usually on motorcycles have a place to park. Perhaps they fear if customers cannot find a parking space close by, they will simply go to another shop. I find this less inconvenient than all the cars that double park or park close to intersections so you cannot see the traffic coming through the intersection.

How well developed is the institution of psychiatrics in Thailand? How long has this area of study been available here? How many years have psychiatrists and psychologists been in practice?

Could the bookstore possibly list or photograph titles and sell them online? I would be interested. I do not get to Bangkok often. Up here in the northeast there are really no good bookstores with English language titles.