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Yeah, I remember paying the 500 Baht fee at the counter many years ago at the old airport. I believe this was increased and then they forced the airlines to collect the tax. No doubt the airlines will collect the increased charge as well.

This is a joke The so called 'little ghosts' are economic migrants breaking the law. It is yet another denigration of the term 'people trafficking'.

Does she have any sisters who are currently unmarried?

I guess you should make changes which help people far in advance of an election. It's called thinking ahead. Not much of that going on.

This trial might not even take place for a year, she won't be pregnant when she faces eventual trial. They never execute anyone immediately. The child will be many years old in the unlikely scenario that any execution is ever carried out even if she is sentenced to death. So assuming she's not pregnant at the trial and the baby is long gone am I supposed to believe that if she was pregnant at the time of arrest then that's it - the sentence is pre-determined due to her condition at the time of arrest? She certainly wasn't pregnant when all these murders happened due to the amount of time which has elapsed, she may have been doing this for many years before being detected.

What if the trial drags on for years and she's no longer pregnant?

Yeah, what happened in the end?

BMW pulls out into the path of an oncoming pickup. Should have perhaps looked before pulling out into the larger road and this could have been easily avoided.

That's not the reason, many people have been doing this for the last 20 years and that's just what I remember. Going back that far there was no such nonsense of 2 overland entries a year and being randomly denied entry. Also you could simply overstay and just pay the fine back then yet people still wanted to 'keep legal'. I suspect it's simply down to the cost, they want to spend less.

They're going to ban Starlink aren't they?

Why don't they name these arrested people?

Is this the usual route to smuggle Heroin into Thailand? I would thought it more likely to come straight into Thailand from that whole 'golden triangle' area / Myanmar. How and why was this guy there with this pakage?

Oh, they're never going to allow anyone to watch the CCTV.

I wonder how many days over the reporting date they were, no mention of that in the article. Back when they changed overstaying a visa from something that you were fined for and nothing more I also wondered if /when they would turn the 90 day reporting into a crime. So if they're going down this route why don't they fine the people who are actually responsible for doing the 90 day report - the home owner / landlord.

Mine went from about 10k to just over 11k Baht It's hot and I use a lot of AC, fully expected. I did replace a couple of AC units so they are more up to date and less inefficient - this shows right now as my bills are about the same as the last couple of years. Without buying those 2 AC units I suspect it would be a lot higher.

Welcome to Thailand, stop drinking now, piss into this cup and wait here for 2 hours while we do our very best to imprison you and complete the paperwork, also - papers please.....

Wishful and magical thinking that the numbers would be so low. Nobody who gets what can be best described as 'a cold' will report it, only the more serious cases will be counted.

I guess they're worth what people will pay, which is this case seems to be nothing.

They did a much better job than the other available systems. Fast and efficient - nobody could compete with this level of competency so they did what they do best - made up some nonsense charges and shut them down.

Yeah, it's the normal untracked stuff that can go missing. I once went about 2 years without receiving any mail even though I was signed up to various services which billed me monthly and definitely mailed out invoices / statements. I believe whoever was 'doing the deliveries' must have retired because it's service as normal now. Once something tracked did not get delivered and I went down there and told them I know it's in this building, then I said "go and get it' which was duly translated. They managed to find it pretty quickly at that point. Kept me waiting weeks before I bothered to go down there.

But did they do anything wrong?

It's not an act.

Nobody is going to panic at this news, it's simply not going to happen. 10k cases a day is nothing in a country this size.

Thailand is on the list of 'Nine forbidden countries' for the Chinese. Google it - "china nine forbidden countries" - it's a rabbit hole. Certain news stories are now making a little more sense with hindsight - like that fake diplomat driving around in a police car. I wonder if he was somehow related to these illegal police stations in some way.

Interesting, very interesting. Apparently there's a list of 9 forbidden countries where the Chinese government has issued a notice back in 2021 and Thailand is on the list. Source for this and so much more : https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/230000-policing-expands Where are all the Chinese tourists again? I have to wonder if these kidnappers are rogue Chinese police - they wouldn't be corrupt and working with a honeytrap would they? I'm so sure you will delete this post that I would bet money on it but that's illegal.....