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I think this is an AI generated article based on the question : "Chat GPT please write an article about noisy, drug taking tourists renting  rooms in my expensive condo block"  It is just too generic and uninteresting to have been written by a real human being.

Many countries do not bother with outward immigration checks, leaving the onus to the airline to report the names and passport numbers of departing passengers. I am sure there are ways to therefore streamline checks for outward passengers. One suggestion is not require photo and fingerprint if the immigration officer believes all papers to be legitimate? My 2 cents worth!

While the intentions are good, this reminds me of the discussions a few years ago when it was decided driving with high heels should be illegal! Impossible to enforce. The blacked out windows in nearly all cars make this regulation almost totally pointless. 

Seems a little bizarre for the judge to say it is not discrimination because it is good for Thailand. That in itself is discrimination.

However us farangs should not be too self righteous. The cost of a visa to get into UK for a Thai is enormous and the UK government could be assessed to have discriminated against the Thai by taking a substantial fee upfront even before arrival in our sunny uplands.

1.5 million tourists is about 10,000 (or 50 aircraft per day)!  Given all the rules, this looks a little optimistic. 

Thailand seems to have a static number of 19 Coronavirus people..... By the spread of it elsewhere, this would seem to be unrealistic. How can it be possibly true that a visitor from South Korea gets the virus but no Thai gets it? Far from restricting Chinese inbound tourism from China, Thailand has welcomed tourists from China and Coronavirus has only been partially resticted in Thailand by the actions of the Chinese government.  Thailand is in danger of really killing off their tourist industry by it laissez faire attitude towards the virus. It really is time for some decisive leadership. Action and transparency can still save the day.

Surely the police should also look at the Taxi prices on the Island which rip off every foreigner who goes there and innocently uses the government authorised taxi service. On my one occasion I went there, the USD50 journey was so short, I was shocked and angry as I thought the journey would last longer than 7 minutes for the price.  The authorities should be looking into taxi competition and fairer prices. Due to the ludicrous cost of airfares to the Island from Bangkok combined with the legalised theft from taxi drivers, I avoid Samui as there are far better value places to visit in Thailand. 

"Thaivisa notes that if past years are anything to go by somewhere between one thousand and two thousand  people are likely to lose their lives in that 21 day period. 

An average of about 70 people die on the nation's roads every day not just at Songkran. "

So over the 21 days the road death rate is about average.... ???

It surprises me that the BMA does not have the power to instruct that the supply of water and electricity is stopped.... better than paying THB130million then hoping to recover it.

A 24 year old has died. That should at least get some sympathy for his family. RIP.

References to the cost of bungalows and comparisons to a farang investigation by the police demonstrate the green eyed monster in some of these posts.

Definitely conduct unbecoming of an army officer. 

Does this mean we can still use the app to call Uber onto private property?

The Tobacco Monopoly after many years of killing people should have given up its land off Rama 4 to be a park. This was really a no brainer. Instead it has been sold which has made the monopolised tobacco drug merchants even richer.  So much for government responsibility and conscience

A ridiculous case....  the lawyer admitted he notarised a document not in the presence of the required party. How the case got this far speaks volumes for true justice in Thailand.