Bangkok Barry

They don't have a choice, do they. Do you have a solution? There have been plenty of uprisings and street protests and road closures and riots and burning down of shopping malls. and it achieved what, exactly? Usually a military coup. Rinse and repeat, throughout recent (the last 80-90 years) Thai history.

Trailing wires. Perfectly normal. What's the problem?

It doesn't matter who the people prefer. They get what they're given. Thai-style democracy. Same as it ever was.

No doubt the money to do it properly ran out - to someone's account perhaps?

He will do it and the world will 'protest in the strongest possible terms'. That's it. As it has about human rights abuses. What the world should do, and won't, is end all trade with China and close all their embassies worldwide. But money always has and always will trump human rights. And China knows that and the country will continue to do whatever it wants with impunity.

You obviously haven't read that there is a plan to reduce tax on alcohol from Jan 1. By how much, we wait to see.

In 1933 in London they set up the London Transport Passenger Board to bring all the different lines under one management. 90 years on, Bangkok....... Give them time. Give them time. But by the time they might get around to it Bangkok is forecast to be under water isn't it, so the overhead rail system might be the only thing able to operate. It's just that there'll be no passengers to use it.

Well, the MRT gives old farts like me a discounted fare, but the BTS charges full price for all foreigners at all times, even though Thais get a discount in off-peak hours. So they're trying. Give it time.

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Are you sure it wasn't? The 76 crew and passengers, mostly foreign tourists...

In the UK the dog would have been put down immediately and the owner charged. What has happened in this case? As usual, the D- reporting tells us nothing.

Yes, and if I arrived in the country and saw them I'd find it disturbing. How on Earth do they see themselves in police uniform offering a welcome? They have no idea.

Clearly some are ignoring this law. Can you tell me any law that is enforced in Thailand? They are treated like red traffic lights, as a suggestion, nothing more.

I'm enormously relieved that he managed to get back to Thailand in time, just before he fell so sick that he's had to spend months in hospital. Close run thing, that.

I'm not sure, but the UK government might be the first anywhere to deny residency to its own citizens, UK passport holders, unless they divorce or separate from their wife. I wonder which law firm will be the first to gather such victims and take the case to the Court Of Human Rights. EDIT: I see that it's happened. Inevitable. Reunite Families, a support and campaign organisation for people affected by immigration rules, has instructed the law firm Leigh Day to explore legal avenues to challenge the changes announced on 4 December by the home secretary What is needed is a clause that removes UK passport holders from the ruling. It's not actually aimed at them but at Mt Patel bringing half his village from India, but Brits have been caught up in it. I guess it's not only Thailand that doesn't think things through.

Has as much legitimacy as Thailand being the Land of Smiles.

That's the way the world works. Order someone else to do it and you're okay. That system currently operates in Russia and Israel, and to a lesser extent Palestine.

The Thai Examiner link tells us what it covers. The plan provides for insurance coverage of ฿500,000 per person for injuries and ฿1 million in case of death due to an accident.

The Thai Examiner link gives far more info than the original post - as it always does. Seems to be the only decent source for Thai news that is properly written. All other sources often leave a lot to be desired.

Dual pricing is led by the government by instituting the policy at national parks, so there is zero chance they will prevent others doing it.

They won't. It's for a few days. It is reported that the Ministry of Tourism and Sports will seek about 50 million baht from the Central Fund to buy insurance coverage for tourists visiting Thailand over the New Year period.

Firstly, it's a bribe as the rules say that if you cannot produce evidence of 800,000 then the service - issuance of the required extension - will be refused, but an agent can arrange for that 'triviality' to be overlooked for a fee that is then shared with the IO in appreciation of his 'understanding'. Secondly, there was no suggesting in this case that the OP can't attend immigration due to ill health. When - when - that is the case, there are legal and free ways that can be addressed.

How do you know other than the Officer are standing in the room? Maybe he read the linked article?

I guess you didn't read to the end, where I wrote But each to their own, I suppose.

It would be interesting to know, and the OP hasn't told us, why he is thinking of changing to a retirement extension, paying an agent 20,000 to bribe an immigration official, when he has a perfectly good marriage extension for half the financial requirement and no agent/bribe fee to pay. Surely paying 20,000 (and circumventing the law) rather than 'suffering' one day of inconvenience and providing a few forms and a bank letter isn't worth 20,000? But each to their own, I suppose. Some people have money to burn.