TallGuyJohninBKK

Among the various potential reasons, getting an account balance letter from the bank to give to Thai Immigration. Also, for the future, most of the account update details that a person might have to do down the road, such as updating a passport number or personal phone number, typically have to be done in the specific branch where your account is housed (i.e., your "home" branch).

Do you mean Nate? Or the participating police? I mean, regarding the latter, don't they have anything else better to be doing???

I'm confused here... The Thai Navy wants to evict various common folks for encroaching on a protected national forest.... So... the Thai Navy can come in with a 3,763 rai military development project in the same protected area consisting of.... "the 22nd Anti-Aircraft Battalion, the 2nd Anti-Aircraft Regiment, the Anti-Aircraft Command Unit, an Air Defense and Coastal Defense Center, and the 4th Naval Police Battalion of the Naval Police Department." If the national forest there is really a "protected" area, then it ought to be "protected" from the Thai Navy encroachers just as much as from the common folks encroachers. The article as written makes no sense, and doesn't explain how or why the planned Navy development should be treated any different there than any other "development."

I don't recall ever having seen any authoritative breakdown that divvies up the various levels of contribution to the air pollution problem here by country. Suffice to say, things would be a lot better in Thailand if Thailand got its own house in order for starters.

Today's COVID update from the Thai Ministry of Public Health shows a second consecutive week of declines in all the key COVID indicators -- the first back-to-back week of declines since the spring surge began at the beginning of April. From June 11-17: COVID Hospitalized patients 2,158 cases, daily average of 308 cases/day (down from 2,709) COVID Fatalities 60 cases, daily average of 8 cases/day, (down from 69) --------------------- 296 COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition (down from 382) 186 COVID patients hospitalized requiring intubation to breath (down from 231) Key indicators for the past two weekly periods: June 4-10: June 11-17 (the latest update issued today): https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

Problems that make me not want to use them for my own use anymore. But not problems that would prevent some Thai person who might pick them up off the street to use them and do who knows what with the hard disks, if I were to leave them not securely wiped.

The first question to always ask in these kinds of cosmetic surgery gone bad cases is did the clinic where the mishap occurred have the proper license to be performing the kind of surgery that was done. And more often than not, the places that crop up in these kinds of news reports turn out to NOT be licensed for the procedure that resulted in the mishap, as apparently was the case here. "The health office said that the clinic has a license, but it had not sought permission for an expansion to provide plastic surgery services." In other words, they probably weren't licensed to be performing surgical procedures of the type that resulted in the fatality of the woman here. From past news reports of this type, Thailand seems to be awash with storefront cosmetic clinics that end up offering medical and/or surgical procedures without all the legally required elements in place.

The purpose of the vaccines, against the currently circulating Omicron strains of COVID, is to reduce people's chances of either getting seriously ill or dying from a COVID infection. Studies show the vaccines still reduce the risks of serious COVID illness and death, particularly if the person has had three or more vaccine shots, quite well even months after the last prior vaccination. The protection against mere infection, from the currently circulating Omicron strains, is much less and shorter in the duration of that protection, usually lasting only up to a couple months from the last prior shot. As time has passed and the virus has mutated, the more recent versions have become both more contagious and more able to evade the vaccines' protections against mere infection, which were much stronger against the original version of the virus at the beginning of the pandemic. That's one reason, the next generation of COVID vaccines due out probably later this year will be formulated against the currently circulating XBB strains of the virus, which hopefully will boost the vaccines' levels of effectiveness.

So "vigilant" that the first crook mentioned in the OP report allegedly had been operating as a criminal here for the past TEN YEARS! How much more "vigilant" can Thai Immigration get??? And as for "ensur[ing] the integrity of immigration processes.": How about, in just one case/arrest: "law enforcement officers found 64 Chinese passports (with counterfeit stamps and visas) and 41 forged government documents." What does that suggest about the extent of the Immigration fraud occurring here among foreigners of some particular nationalities?

I didn't realize Lyft was operating ride hailing services here??? Lyft wasn't among the list of 7 ride hailing apps that recently were listed as being approved by the DLT in Thailand.

Anyone keeping track of just how many different news threads there have been in recent days here with various government officials / so-called civil servants being accused of involvement in various kinds of corruption? It's a pretty LONG list. And whatever makes it into the news is just the tip of a much bigger corruption iceberg here. It seems to be embedded in the fabric of government service here.

I'm not sure "MUT" is really the acronym they want to be using in connection with this beauty pageant.....

Assuming that the above photo is mostly of folks who have been rounded up by Immigration somewhere, don't see many, if any, farangs among this group. Except that the couple of guys at the right edge in uniform look like they need some extra hours in the gym after work....

From my last online 90-day report, I don't recall the TM6 number being asked for there, anymore????

I got no TM6 on my return to Thailand in May. (But I'm still keeping my last old one stapled in my passport until told otherwise.) I kept waiting (from force of habit) for the airline cabin crew to start passing them out as we neared landing, but none were forthcoming, and none asked for at the Immigration counter upon arrival.

You'd think with all their supposed fancy technology, they could get their email notifications system to recognize when someone has left and returned to the country, and thus triggered a new and different 90 day reporting deadline.... But apparently, no, not that sophisticated or advanced. ???? PS - when I left on my outbound trip in May, at the airport's Immigration checkpoint, they wanted digital scans of all 10 fingers plus of course the digital photo of my face..... And yet, even with their 90-day reporting system, they can't seem to regularly find and track down the loads of foreigners who have overstayed their permissions to stay year by hundreds of days to multiple years.

I got an email reminder from Immigration BKK last week for an upcoming 90 day report due date, even though a month-old international trip had already rendered that prior 90-day reporting deadline invalid.

The scary part is, the Thai police locally there apparently believe they can get away with making these kinds of rubbish public statements/claims, and people are supposed to believe them? It's a farce. The Japanese lady here needs to go the Japanese version of Charlene An, and not let them get away with it... But I'm guessing, the victim here will just disappear as will the case at hand (so to speak....)

It seems like there have been about a half dozen of these same kinds of news reports posted here lately... each being announced by the Immigration division in a different province, with Bangkok now being the latest one here..... Obviously some edict has come down from on high, and all the different divisions are trying to show they're all the ball and following orders -- even while most of the time, dodgy criminal ventures are rampant in their areas by foreigners and Thais alike, both before and after their so-called sweeps. The one place that really needs a good sweeping is the RTP.

Sure like to hear..... just what kind of legitimate "traditional" Thai massage technique of a woman customer is going involve, as the article recounts, the masseur "putting his finger into her vagina"? Just as bad, the police are actually publicly parroting that nonsense? And before even being able to speak directly with the victim, because they couldn't seem to readily come up with a Japanese interpreter? All in all, it sounds like a thoroughly shoddy failure of law enforcement...not surprisingly.

And if you are older in age as many posters here are, considerably less likely to die or become seriously ill from COVID should the person become infected. These days, as the latest COVID variants have become more contagious and more vaccine evasive, the vaccines' protection against serious illness and death is stronger than the protection against mere infection.

Per the US CDC: All vaccinated groups had overall lower risk of dying from COVID-19 and testing positive for COVID-19 compared with people who were unvaccinated. People who were vaccinated with an updated (bivalent) booster dose had lower rates of dying from COVID-19 and slightly lower rates of testing positive for COVID-19 compared with people who were vaccinated but had not received an updated booster dose. "In March 2023, people 18 years and older and vaccinated with an updated (bivalent) booster had: 5.3X lower risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated people." Incidence per 100,000 population: Source link:

Actually, CIMB abandoned their online banking via website before either of those two last year, and went app only.. And now, re this thread, I found this in my email last night:

No... not from a wealthy family during the years Biden was growing up, unlike some other presidential candidates we know. "Biden's father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946,[12] but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old,[13][14][15] and for several years the family lived with Biden's maternal grandparents in Scranton.[16] Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden's father could not find steady work.[17] Beginning in 1953 when Biden was ten,[18] the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield.[19][20][14][16] Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#Early_life_(1942–1965)

If you have some actual proof (not unsubstantiated claims) from credible sources (not disreputable conspiracy theorists), present it... Otherwise, you'll just be in the same boat as the right-wing GOP lawmakers who've been crying wolf for years without any actual proof.