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This from what everyone knows to be a completely corrupt arm of the junta that has kept any opposition to the status quo of the military elite in power as will this joke of a psuedo election of a partly new Senate.

e.g. "You want boom boom mister?" Bit harsh really. The better English speakers are the girls etc that work the bars.

I wonder what indoor activities exactly?

Way above Chula according to https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2024/world-ranking#!/length/25/locations/THA/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats Chula is in the 601-801 range and the university I went to is in the 301-350 range. I did find this article from 2016. Flinders celebrates 50 years with world Top 50 spot "Flinders has climbed 31 places from 77th in 2015 to 46th in 2016" https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2016/04/07/flinders-celebrates-50-years-with-world-top-50-spot/ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016/young-university-rankings?page=1# Now why don't you tell us all about your university's ranking assuming you graduated from one?

Heinous crime. I do wonder, however, if BKK is the end point or whether there is another final destination.

Thailand: Not the Hub of Higher Education

What do you think. Girl or LB?

TIT. You can only see from behind. You might get a surprise.

The image is actually not representative of sex workers in Thailand. Tourist areas are only a small % of the overall number. I also question the validity of these numbers. IMHO it would be a lot higher.

Sorry but it's a stupid world full of stupid people. Is it part of a plan to completely dumb down people? I notice that AseanNow now has a TikTok account. Just sayin'.

If you're going to say I said someting please quote me. Where did I say: ".... people who already have travel insurance should be exempt,"? Please do not misrepresent what posters have posted.

Monetarily compelled would be my guess. Probably already handed over a pretty penny.

Still does but it's a departure tax. Might be wrong but as far as I know all airports have this on departure from the country.

Part of this tax is about insurance. Why would a Thai flying out of Thailand have to pay this? Indeed why should anyone flying out of Thailand have to pay this?

Thank you for adding to the conversation although it would seem you have missed the point. A) It's a tax. B) Is it a valid tax? C) How will it be implemented?

As said before the airlines said NO last time. Do you think anything has changed? What about land border crossings? What about Thai nationals? What about people with work permits? What about people who have insurance already? I'm sure this list can be expanded. Are the airlines meant to sort this out? Simplistic, poorly thought out policies often have very complex implemenations. This is one of them and to say just add it to the ticket obviously is too simplistic. That's why it didn't happen before.

Easily checked you say. Of course you would have to check each and every tourist coming in. How many per day would that be? How many problems will occur? What level of insurance is needed. You are fully insured would you need be pay the tax? Should people who have full comprehensive travel insurance need to pay? What about those with travel insurance but not to the level you can afford? Maybe it's not the case that "the matter is easily checked.".

One of the reasons it didn't happen before was because the airlines said no.

Rediculous. Do you not remember why this didn't happen when it was first proposed? Who will check in the 'tax booths'? How many 'tax booths' will be needed. How about a line for full insurance, another for minimal insurance and another for no insurance? All will need to be checked. Remember the airlines will not do this. It's unworkable this is why it's not happening.

They're trying to make waiting times getting through shorter and your idea would make it a whole lot longer.

Say what you like but the question remains, HOW? This is why it hasn't been implemented. As for travel insurance how can this be checked? What level of travel insurance? Who collects the Bt300? It's not as straightforward as your post suggests.

Are! The magic of ChatGPT.

AI can help society and AI can produce articles for sites like this.

Here we go again. Same old tax with the same problem. How it's to be collected. This is something that was never properly thought through. Policy first, how to implement it an afterthought. Going from this article this problem is yet to be solved.

Liking a country and criticising aspects of said country can live hand in hand and both the love and the hate should be allowed to be freely expressed.