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Why can't the air force obliterate these launch sites along with the ordnance supply chain and arms depots where they're all stored and put an end to this whole thing? I can't imagine for one minute that Thailand hasn't been watching them for years.

You don't need an 'E-Visa' - but this was not simply an e-visa - it was an e-visa 'E' Type. Big difference. It's the kind of visa you can extend in the country - banned for Thais according to the immigration officer. Ok for me though.

Laughable and zero chance.

On the Cambodian side of things they've been dishing out special treatment to Thais for months now in a very negative way I reported this a couple of months back when I went there. Thai Mrs on valid E visa, not accepted - "you're a tourist" they said to her as they happily accepted my identical E visa due to my British passport. They're a joke, corrupt to the very core - and this is just the Cambodian immigration officers before we entered the country. Needless to say we booked a flight, and left a few days later. I hope the government there disintegrates and when the resulting civil war is settled we shall see what's left....

Bombing the Hun regime back to the stone age is the solution here.

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Based on what I've heard in the US they have State issued ID cards which are accepted and required by everyone. If for some reason the Federal Government mandated that everyone must have a central government issues ID apparently this would be a big election issue, they would not have it. No idea why.

When it comes to National security they're not going to care about company profits - it's about inflicting pain on the opposing side. This would be a pressure point. As we've seen with Thai businesses operating in Cambodia (7/11 etc) - nobody cares if they all go bankrupt, least of all the government.

Yeah, I don't get it at all. At one point in the past they may have rubber stamped proof of address documents but proving the address tends to rely on things like bank statements or immigration documents - or simply a lease / rental agreement with your name on it. To renew my passport I used an agent and they created a new lease document between my Mrs and me which listed the address - they needed a proof of address for that - which is a bit weird - what do they care where I live ? Also when I KYC'd with a whole bunch of foreign crypto trading companies some 7 or 8 years ago they wanted a proof of address - I changed the address on my bank statement to English, had 3 months of statements printed out and sent that - more than good enough. So the bank is often the ultimate proof of address or a lease. It makes little sense for an Embassy to become involved in any way.

They are mistaken, your Embassy doesn't know anything, immigration do

Get one from immigration

This is how to hit them hard, close the routes from Thailand to Cambodia. For 'national security reasons' or some other excuse - it will hit them where it hurts.

Crush them

Your point?

They are making a move after many years of not being here. Also, you're mostly seeing code share flights between LHR and the middle east although there might be one or two direct from Gatwick - not sure on that. I think they partner with Etihad - so the BA - AUS routes are long gone and BKK is just a pipe dream for now. You see BA used to run a massive operation between the UK and Australia - via Bangkok as a kind of hub. No more.

BA comes to mind immediately. When you can't predict who's going to be turned away by immigration and it is on the airline to return them to the country of origin that affects many things. It's not the only reason they pulled out I'm sure but it definitely didn't help things.

Oh it's very clear. I know some who changed their plans completely due to this. They are reasonably wealthy, old and travel often - the exact kind of people Thailand says it wants to attract. You know what - they also hate paperwork and this 60 day entry system suited them very well. Not any more.

Hilarious for a country which likes tourists so much - when there's elections we all know what this means - mass closures of bars and entertainment leaving the tourists with little to do in the evening multiple times due to advance voting - these lucky people will likely only find out about the closures when they leave their hotel on the day and find everything's closed.

Time to cancel the flights to Cambodia, they do target Thais on arrival and have been doing so for months now - even prior to these new incidents.

What if you only come for say between 3 and 5 weeks per trip and like to make more than 2 trips per year. Clear as mud. They will deny don't they. Some people have business to attend to back in the home country and don't live in Thailand - all caught up in the same net of dumbness. Airlines hate it when rules are not crystal clear - they did this before - some major airlines no longer fly to Bangkok - why is that?

The Cambodians need to be beaten into such a defeat that they dare not act out again. I really don't know what the thought process is over there, they know they can't possibly 'win' anything so why do they persist? Who's actually in charge over there giving the orders? The end of the Hun era is required and that should be the goal but I suspect there's a lot more to it than we're being allowed to know.

Yeah, that didn't happen, the PM was fired and the government changed and just like that this idea disappeared.

They make simple statements on their websites. The giant accountants whom you or I would not get an appointment with if we tried as they need letters of introduction from existing clients, etc. The problem here is that I fully expect 2026 to be no different, if not worse than 2025 when it comes to foreign remittances - there was a massive deficit in the first quarter of money flowing into Thailand, I haven't seen any figured for the rest of the year - this will really hit home in January - they promised changes in laws but they did not come - don't expect anything to change for the better, if anything it will get worse next year

Scraping the barrel already, nobody better in the party? They had more than a decade to prepare for eventual governing and look at the state of them. It's pathetic. They're just as bad as the other lot. Stale, rotten, corrupt, out of touch and without a clue.

I haven't installed any updates this particular computer for a while now. It still pops up something every few days even though I keep pausing them - so I repaused again - this time it stretches into January 2026. It's the Pro version so there is a little more flexibility with the pauses but they do go away and seem to come back again pretty quickly. I won't be surprised one bit if Microsoft backtracks early next year and reinstates updates for all again, especially as there's still just under half the Windows computers out there running v10 apparently. Most people who can't upgrade to Win 11 don't realise that the 'requirements' for installing it are already on their computer - this TPM is already on many older computers but it's just disabled by default in the BIOS - but then again many don't know what a BIOS is...so good luck with that, lol