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Interesting and well-deserved move for the migrants. Guess citizenship applications for expats working and living here for long-time remain stalled?

Tam Jai is 650mg per sachet, not 65.

Good day, diving newbie here, aiming for the Basic Open Water license. What about diving on Koh Tao this season? Are the waters less muddy now than elsewhere? Is the island a bit of a tourist ghetto? I remember Koh Phi Phi a few years ago, wanted to leave again immediately... Inputs appreciated where you'd go now for the first diving experience 🙏

Again? Heard of such a plan a felt hundred times already. It's an insult to any average brain capacity. But with short-term memories prevailing around there, they keep on dreaming of becoming something they can never be. BTW I never stay in Pattaya, nearby Jomtien and better even Sattahip offer everything I need. There is no market for a TAT Pattaya. Anyway, they all know, they just pretend.

However, citizenship application in the west is much quicker, more transparent, much less bureaucratic process. And yes, I met farang folks here with a Thai ID who cannot speak a sentence of Thai. They hired agents to get things done.

In my MOI interview batch most candidates were Chinese. I wonder whether some Chinese applications continued to be processed while the official process came to a halt? I mean the officials' uproar regarding this passport "scam" is kind of telling. Closing the case was surprisingly quick and efficient. https://thethaiger.com/news/national/chinese-couple-deported-over-passport-sale-billboard-in-bangkok

A friend just smilingly showed me his spanky new TH passport. RG announcement was on April 6, MOI interview two years before. Process somewhat still moving it seems, but not sure what it takes so still make it.

The usual jerk reaction. Trying to do my part by cleaning up the beaches myself, engaging with local authorities about solutions... there can only be betterment by realizing what's wrong, what could be done better and then act. But just accepting anything as is, well, your choice, not mine.

Can't he just wear civilian clothes? Doesn't foster confidence, all these uniforms everywhere here.

PKK has the perfect location, yet bewildering "city planning." The whole beach front is wasted, looks abandoned, not a single restaurant for instance along that long beach road... could easily be the perfect town.

Thailand 5.0, anyone?

Agree... let's keep those hidden treasures secret 😇

Been a while in LOS, three decades to be exact. Until some years ago you could stroll along any beach, I don't recollect feeling tempted to always walk with a waste bag in hand to collect all the rubbish washed up on beaches. Until some years ago, I don't recollect having been warned about PM2.5. Of course there was the slash and burn season. Now? The air in the places we all know is so bad, you can clean the floor daily and you still have a dark fingertip when checking the floor. Oh, and I prefer to stay in a beach town which was rather sleepy until a few years ago. Meanwhile, there was so much development, when schools are off in the afternoon there are Bangkok-like traffic jams. It's a wild building frenzy. Of course, infrastructure is not expanded. The authorities just informed there is not enough water, so tabs are closed each day after 10 a.m. Oh and of course hardly anyone in decision power cares about the future. There is hardly any awareness about the environment. Kids throw away ice tea cups and snack packings, because... who cares. And especially now, in this heat with ample clear skies and burning sun, the authorities still don't make it a priority to feed the power grid with solar power. Cheap electricity: Thailand could run on it, but the vested interests love coal. At least tourism arrival numbers are reaching record levels again... Thais get upset with rage tourists who are not too "krieng jai"... Thailand has become all about short-term profits, with zero vision about a sustainable future.

Wow. Sounds like in Stalinist Soviet Union.

How... will it all be enforced?

They dare yet again once more? I bet not.

You give up so easily, OP? This can happen anywhere with any company. Unfortunately you have to waste some time on this, but you'll get your money back.

Yeah but also very quiet, definitely an oversupply of watering holes along Pak Nam Pran beach stretch ????

Homebrewing law got loosened last year, or is it still not possible for small places to sell their own brewed beer? Anyone in the know?

Heard this from a European embassy, the ambassador told me they'd be supporting a lie in signing such a paper. Obviously there are workarounds. An applicant told me he submitted an own written statement and it was accepted.

Looking for such a place in / around Hua Hin.

To-be-redcarded tourists are certainly a tiny minority. No bashing here, but Thais are world champions in rule-bending, a sizeable part of the population would be red-carded in no time.

Only one desk open? That's not respectful, since it's still kind of high season and visitors are made to wait unnecessarily. Oh and the recent long queues at Suvarnabhumi immigration all the way down to the automated walkways, similarly disrespectful. Staff the desks, problems solved, people don't have to spend a holiday day for paperwork.

True that, just wiped down the mosquito net doors, black, within a few days... weather pattern in general seems very strange this year, usually mid to end of January the wind season changes, also the direction of the waves. Now is March, still no southernly winds and the wave direction is still undecided. So let's bunker down at Bluport immigration and enjoy the aircon. Would usually be kiteboarding this time around, waiting for the change of wind – which bring the clean air.

Not to look down on others like you seem to look down on me.