Burma Bill

Fair enough, but 20 years ago when I retired to LOS I am sure its position would have been higher - no bureaucratic hassle with visas in those days and 80 baht to 1 GBP!!

Yes indeed, from todays Khmer press (25 October 2021):- "A group of more than 30 Cambodians were sent back to their country after illegally crossing the border into Thailand" https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50958516/more-than-30-cambodians-sent-back-to-cambodia-by-thai-authorities/

finds Thais bullish on domestic travel

"Happy hour" - now serving Kratom mocktails!!! (reference link to original article) Kratom, which stimulates the same brain receptors as morphine but with much milder effects, came off the Thai government's banned list in August................ The move threw .......................a lifeline, though kratom mocktails sell for just $4 compared with regular gin and tonics at $11.

Yes indeed. Maybe due to transportation costs? Both vegetables are not grown on a commercial scale in Thailand, so have to be imported (as here in Cambodia). Australia was a big exporter but nowadays it is China and for reference:- The Australian fresh broccoli and cauliflower industries have experienced significant displacement in export markets. Exports for both products have declined rapidly in recent years. Export volumes of have collectively fallen by 92 per cent since its peak in 2001. China now produces 45 per cent of the world’s cauliflower and broccoli. Its production has grown 51 per cent since the year 2000. https://ausveg.com.au/app/data/technical-insights/docs/VG05028.pdf Incidentally, sometimes I can buy delicious Australian celery when in season.

Welcome happy tourists to your dream holiday - Amazing Thailand!!

Trying to take work home???????

Perhaps that is why they were prostrating - a LAY person!!!!

a perk of the job?????

Thank you, I lived in Isaan (Khon Kaen Province) for 6 years, so if I had remained , it would have been Sinovac? I now live in Cambodia and coincidentally my two vaccinations were Sinovac, the only one available at the time (and still is for first/second jabs).

Well I never, what will the possible tourists from the 46 countries think???

May I oblige???? From the UK National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw117436/Ronnie-Barker-Ronnie-Corbett-The-Two-Ronnies

For reference (Wikipedia):- Kambala is an annual buffalo race held in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka

In the Far South, should "crime' read "insurgency"?????

Having a brush with the law???

I experienced similar noise discomfort many years ago when I lived in a mountain village in Lanna. Behind my house was another one at a higher level owned by a local council official. He had a "junkie" son who would play ghetto blasting music throughout the night when he hosted "parties" for his friends. His father had no proper control over his son and eventually moved with the rest of the family into a new house further in the village leaving "junkie' to fend for himself. It became unbearable to sleep during the numerous parties. Dad being a local official and friend of the village policeman, meant I had to be diplomatic, but luck came my way when Dad became financially embarrassed. Through my Thai family, I purchased the house/land for 50,000 baht I seem to remember, (when there were 60 baht to one GBP), had "junkie" sent back to his father, demolished the ramshackle wooden house and started growing lime trees and sweet corn. To keep cordial relations, I let the father have the recyclable teak wood from the old house and access by a track to farmland beyond, owned by the village Mayor. Anyone in such circumstances, you have my sympathy and I wish you good luck. Never again did I experience such noise pollution in Thailand or Cambodia where I now live.

Reference for Cambodia (20 October 2021), yes, E-Visas are now available but please note you must go into quarantine as shown below unless you are an official Government guest:- No. Description Quarantine period Tests For fully vaccinated 1 Official government’s guests and top government officials who return from mission abroad Implement special regime in accordance to the decision of the Royal Government 2 Investors, Technical officials both of Cambodian and foreigner, Diplomatic officials, Officials cooperation projects and government official who return from mission abroad (including their family members) 3 days Test PCR only once 3 General travelers who are Cambodian or foreigners 7days First: Rapid Second: PCR For Not yet vaccinated or fully vaccinated 4 All type of travelers who have not yet vaccinated against Covid-19 or received full vaccination 14 days First: Rapid Second: PCR https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50955436/quarantine-for-inbound-travelers-to-cambodia-at-every-entrances/

Evidently yes, but across the road from my apartment here in Cambodia is a Buddhist temple where the monks use a ladder to scale a perimeter wall over which they make cash purchases of soft drinks, bags of ice (genuine frozen water stuff!) and smart phone top-up scratch cards from a lady with a stall below.

Interesting, but from my experience, it depends on which doctor one consults. Here in Cambodia, my Khmer doctor advised me to have Sinovac and not Sinopharm as I am an insulin dependent Type 2 diabetic.

I wonder what would happen on arrival if one refused? Sent back with one's holiday cash still in the pocket? - I bet not!

And be subject to hacking as in OP!!

Yes indeed and pre-covid-19, many thousands of Thais did so as I witnessed at Tachilek in Burma and Poipet in Cambodia. They only have to show ID cards.