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AirAsia works great. If you ultimately don't use the ticket, you can easily request an airport tax refund, so if you book let's say a promotional ticket from Bangkok to Da Nang for 1400 baht, you'll get about 700 baht back and lose about as much.

2 hours ago, BritTim said:

It is quite reasonable to assume the child would be better off in Thailand than Somalia.

I don't doubt that. I do doubt, however, that a Thai consul or immigration officer would be sympathetic to that kind of argument - maybe one in a million.

50 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

What citizenship are you hoping to get for your child?

Obviously you are not Thai and you state your wife is non Thai also.

Good point. I was wondering the same - the OP didn't write what the child's connection to Thailand is and neither parent seems to be Thai. For that reason, I don't see how a child angle could be plaid at a consulate; not sure what @BritTim has in mind?

A friend of mine just cancelled his upcoming holiday. Seriously, who wants that kind of stuff during what's meant to be a time to relax and unwind.

"I have thousands of Chinese clients who I talk to on a daily basis."

That's a lot of talking.

Back on topic though, you do have a point. There's a very visible disconnect between the Thai government and regular, worried Thais. So Chinese still get in, but are apparently made feel unwelcome in quite some cases. That's not a good situation for anyone involved, and social media will make sure that the most extreme stories will have the biggest audience.

How can anyone be that dumb, reckless and shortsighted? In the big scheme of things, the real problem aren't those Chinese who stay away now (they could still come another time), but those who do come and carry the virus.

I wonder what's worse in this particular case, being murdered or being reborn with his karma.

Confidence? He has evaded capture for many years! Even Big Joke's big crackdown. Looks more like they finally got lucky this time.

12 hours ago, dg1980 said:

Question: how many TV members would call in if they knew someone on overstay?

 

If it’s not a black and white issue, what would your criteria for calling in be?

I wouldn't report an overstayer as such. If they do something beyond merely overstaying that I'd feel the need to report (such as, poisoning dogs or molesting children), I would consider reporting them for overstay, as - sadly - that seems to promise the quickest results with the otherwise mostly useless plod.

Whenever there's an international health crisis, you can rest assured that some Thai quacks will come out, boasting that they've found a cure.

I recall, at the very least, Thai rabies and dengue cures. I'm just wondering why I don't recall any Thai Nobel Prize laureates, in medicine or in fact in general.

4 hours ago, mickey rat said:

Thanks, Prayuth for a job well done! Keep up the good work. Your devotion and concern for the well-being of the people is nothing short of awe inspiring. ???? 

Quite right, nothing short of breathtaking!

Now, if only they could fix the air pollution after they've fixed the overcrowding.

Pretty nonsensical considering that many Thais never officially "move house" when they move. Most of my Thai friends in Bangkok aren't registered in Bangkok, which explains the low number of Bangkok residents (to the point that it makes that figure meaningless).

They also seem to have forgotten a few million migrant workers. I wonder which foreigners they count, only permanent residents? Surely there are a lot more foreigners than what they state in Thailand on all kinds of "non-resident" visas and extensions.

I don't get why this is even news. 260 jobs combined? That's next to nothing - I could plaster a single street with 7/11s and employ more people than this!

A pathetic waste of resources any way you look at it.

As far as I know, nothing you can print yourself (including statements requested via their K-Plus app) includes your address. I think your only option is requesting a statement at a branch, and even then, it's probably a good idea to tell them that you need your address on it.

STILL under pressure? The virus woes have only just begun!

Personally, I could go totally cashless in Bangkok. Between my Rabbit card, TrueMoney app, Grab and PromptPay QR code payments via K-Plus, there's almost nothing left that I need cash to pay for. A few street vendors that I use to buy from, but even among them accepting QR code payments is quite common already.

All that said, however, I "could" but I "don't". I still use cash quite a bit, more often than necessary.

The demographic that's interested in Netflix probably has at least a debit card, the TrueMoney wallet, or both. More than making Netflix more accessible to those who couldn't pay for it yet, looks like this is about giving the Netflix brand additional exposure in stores on those physical cards.

I don't think it's a scam as such. If they reject an application "invisibly", the applicant would likely just try elsewhere and that other embassy wouldn't know about the previous rejection. That more embassies and consulates use "void" stamps nowadays seems to be a deliberate effort to deface an applicant's passport to make that kind of "shopping around" harder. Yet another Thailand 0.4 solution for a problem that Thailand 4.0 plans to solve with a - much delayed - centralized database.