Lorry

Yes, but not in Soi 81, I am afraid

Try https://www.immigration.go.th/#serviceonline If you are in Bangkok, try https://gov.immigration1.queueonline.net/appointment/login.html?v35 It sometimes works, not very intuitively though The old link used to be https://www.immigration.go.th/?page_id=20131 It's not working.

You are funny. You follow your masters from Mainland China in every sentence - and then you say mainlanders are too stupid to develop a good business idea by themselves?

Malaysia deports Taiwanese to Mainland China because Malaysia is licking China's boots. As I have said before, Taiwanese are very valuable workers in the scamming industry, they speak Chinese (for the main market) and English (for the US, the emerging market) and they are digital natives. The bosses are mainland Chinese. No scam enterprise is interested in 75y.o. Swiss computer illiterates.

In Hua Hin, this has been officially adopted as the attitude towards foreigners (decades ago already). In Bangkok or even Pattaya, it's up to the individual how they treat foreigners.

Why is this in the "News" section? Nothing new about it

Many Taiwanese are too scared to visit Thailand anyway. Too many have been kidnapped by the scam enterprises in SE Asia. Taiwanese scam workers are valuable because they can speak Chinese (mainland China is still the biggest market for online scams), they can speak English (the biggest emerging market for online scams is the US), and many have IT knowledge (scam bosses still don't want to pay the kind of salaries and perks their brethren in California pay)

You are right. But the easiest way to get help at the airport is ordering a wheelchair (free) if your age makes it plausible that you cannot walk those endless miles through the airports. You are right, again, that traveling to the UK only makes sense if he has someone and somewhere to go.

It's too early. Home governments may need years until they react. They just got notified in the end of last year.

Individual transfers are not reported, balances are reported. Whether or not you have a Thai TIN doesn't matter. Whether or not you stay more then 180 days should not matter, either

This will work IF he is still lucid enough not to cause problems. Just order a wheelchair and get a non-stop flight. If he is so demented that he does things like getting out of the wheelchair, refusing to board, unable to eat... whatever, he needs someone to travel with him. If he is incontinent, or cannot use the toilet on the plane, things get complicated.

I know him!

OMG Just for you: the second post was irony. I thought that was obvious. It explains why Thai police would say "they are all there by their own will". BTW the involvement of so many foreign embassies, since about a year ago, has disturbed the owners of the scam enterprises. So they have started to pay higher wages, to attract volunteers, and to rely less on kidnapping and torture. But it still happens a lot.

Very expensive

Good. Sleeping with earplugs, I cannot hear it at all. During the day, it doesn't disturb me. (I am very sensitive to noise. Xiaomi is quieter, BTW)

It is impossible being kidnapped in Bangkok and then being driven for many hours through all of Thailand across a border to the scam center, passing through many police and military checkpoints and crossing an international border. Thai police, military and immigration would notice. So, these people must all have traveled on their own will, with the proper visa. Agreed?

They kidnapped a lot more than 7000 people. Online scamming has become a global industry, bigger than the drug trade. It has taken over whole countries (eg Cambodia). It originated in China, but the scamming enterprises now need English speakers to serve the US market. Their employees usually come willingly to Bangkok (having been duped), but not many work willingly in a prison compound, complete with torture rooms, in warlord-held territory in Myanmar, or in the Lao part of the golden triangle. Required reading: https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/08/southeast-asia-web-scams-reach-us-setting-alarms-law-enforcement https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/05/transnational-crime-southeast-asia-growing-threat-global-peace-and-security https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2025-02-08 https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc

This is something i have read about 100 times in this thread, and many thousands of times on TV during the last 20 years. I never discuss the subject with farang - because in my experience, farang are awful drivers, especially when let loose in Thailand. Here farang feel free to do everything they wouldn't dare to do at home. BTW Thais admire many things in farang, farang are rich, farang have a good heart, are responsible and hard working... but I have never heard a Thai admire farang driving skills. Maybe farang don't drive the way Thais do, and thus don't fit in in Thai traffic (I am being polite here). But whatever farang lack in driving skills, they make up for it with their super-sized ego. Everybody is a Michael Schumacher. Having said all this, this thread is about road safety, and OP is absolutely right that the point is not whether Thais (or farang) are bad drivers. It's very refreshing to read about road safety in Thailand from a rational perspective, and not the usual racist rant you here from every barstool. Kudos to OP.

Best tax post for a long time. Smart poster and smart tax office. I should move to Samui to file my taxes there.

It doesn't only apply to pension income, but it doesn't apply to all of the various categories of assessable income listed in the RC. This is all listed quite explicitly in the RC and had been posted before by @chiang mai, e.g. on August 23.

Which is exactly why it's implemented

... then that tells you something about that county. (Just as the posts in this thread tell you something about that country)

From the abstract of the article OP linked on Wednesday: "The public blame drivers rather than the state" BTW a good introduction into the subject is the NYT article from 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/world/asia/thailand-inequality-road-fatalities.html Not as long and not scientific, but easy to read.

The leader of today's Economist. You get 1 free article, to get another one delete history. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/06/the-vast-and-sophisticated-global-enterprise-that-is-scam-inc https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/02/07/scam-inc-reveals-a-world-of-crime-even-worse-than-the-drug-trade https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/02/06/online-scams-may-already-be-as-big-a-scourge-as-illegal-drugs The Thai government is working very hard against the scammers, who kidnap their victims often in Thailand, ferry them unhindered through multiple police and military checkpoints to a neighboring country, where they force them to work as slaves in the scam center towns using Thai infrastructure (Thai electricity, Thai mobile networks).

The content is not so much outdated (the referenced studies are fairly recent) as debated. As for the usefulness of PSA, German guidelines discuss PSA on 10 pages, without any conclusive result. A bit too much for this forum. Sweden (and Norway) obviously recommends the Stockholm3 test, which is also used by the university hospital of Zurich.