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New elections for what? You do know what happened last time don’t you?

“This plan supports tourism while keeping order,” Prasertexplained. “ So tourists in tourist areas get booze, locals in local areas get kept in order? How about this for an idea. Practicing Buddhists who take their faith seriously, make a choice not to drink alcohol on religious days. People of other faiths, no faith or less serious Buddhists get to drink alcohol. Forcing the terms of a faith on everyone is bound to cause controversy.

You are not wrong. The south of the country probably wonders why Buddhist rules apply to them though.

There’s no need to highlight Thai road dangers. We all see them graphically everyday. Although in this case the danger appears to have come from the quad bike rider himself. No other vehicle involved.

Of course. How else could so many people get visa extensions without the required money in the bank? Local immigration officials leeway and a payment of cash under the table is the answer

“To bolster this effort, the immigration office now conducts bi-monthly meetings with consular officials, ensuring that all new arrivals have no active arrest warrants, appear on no blacklists, and possess sufficient funds and a defined itinerary.” How does the monthly meeting ensure what is stated? Do the consular officials hand over a list of new arrivals that do have active arrest warrants, do appear on blacklists, don’t have sufficient funds and don’t have a defined itinerary? Sorry, I find that very unlikely.

You certainly type a good game.

Easy to think that he doesn’t want to give details of the incident to the police because it was a friend or girlfriend who did the stabbing. Not so easy to understand why he didn’t want medical treatment….unless he had no money to pay?

Hmm, revenue for Government, I can certainly see that. Jobs for Thai people? Well yes, just as when a new hotel opens, jobs are created, but it’s not like casinos are going to be built by the dozens, so the number of new jobs in comparison to the size of the workforce will be minuscule. On the other hand, the scope for corruption and graft is immense. Thailand stands a chance of becoming a worldwide hub for money laundering because the track record of the country for enforcing meaningful regulation is very poor. And that revenue created for the government, that comes from the customers of the casinos. Nobody cares if high roller Chinese lose a packet at a casino, but how about gambling addicts like Thai people? The potential for destruction of middle class wealth is huge. i’m not saying that casinos are all bad. Singapore, Macao and Las Vegas ( although the latter has experienced a period of time when the mob were involved) have shown that they can work well within a community. Equally, the risks involved with casinos when not properly regulated are amply demonstrated elsewhere.

Seems to me that it is all about legalizing casinos. Everything else is just camouflage to distract from single controversial fact.

There is all that for sure. But Thais don’t help themselves. The wealth destruction from gambling is just incredible. It’s progressed from “just” cock fights, lottery’s and cards to illegal online slots. The amount of money lost is just staggering to me. And then there is drugs and alcohol.🤦‍♂️

They do realize that everyone is going to ignore these rules, just like they ignore the current ones, don’t they? I mean, sure, the cops will police selected parts of it so as to receive back handlers, but outside of that, do as you will. The recent legalization of weed says it all. No smoking weed in public? How has that gone?

No I mean China’s orbit. It’s obvious that legally Thailand is recognized as an independent country, as opposed to, say, Taiwan. Claiming that Thailand is a 35th province of China is like claiming the UK is a State of the USA. It’s not, it is simply in its orbit and mostly follows what the super power country wants.

Blah blah blah. I can just picture Rubio being asked “ shall we send the strongly condemn letter?”

I don’t think Thailand really cares about what Human Rights groups around the world think. And of course they are sucking up to China in preference to the USA. Why wouldn’t they? They obviously think China will be a stable and advantageous ally in many different ways and we all know how the USA treats its allies. It’s a no brainer that Thailand would prefer to be in China’s orbit.

There are quality Chinese tourists. Singapore targets high rollers with its integrated resorts, as does Macao with its outright Casino operations. Believe me, they spend big. Of course they don’t usually travel around on tour buses 😂

Sometimes the condo owner has a contract with the condo builder/manager allowing the latter to rent out his apartment. So the owner of the condo may not actually know to whom their apartment is being rented. So the question is a valid one in some cases.

What has the 90 day visa got to do with this issue? If the visa was for 30 days would it stop these people coming on holiday and acting as they do? SMH

Young people coming on holiday to Thailand where drug use is legalised, drink relatively cheap and prostitutes openly available for hire…of course they want to party all hours. The fault lies with whomever is renting out the rooms, almost certainly against the condo rules. THEY are the ones the other owners should be complaining about. I f you pay peanuts you get monkeys and if you rent rooms to young people on holiday and out for a wild time, you get noise at all hours. just once I wish Thai people would complain about the cause, not the symptom of a problem.

I don’t know if the drop is 94% or not, but based on what is see in Phuket, it is a very very significant drop indeed. What nonsense, Thailand still the top Chinese destination. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Exactly what I say on every thread like this. Thailand gets the tourists that match the services that it provides. Remove the easy sex, drugs and drink and you would get a different kind of tourist. I recently commented on the difference between Pattaya and Danang. Both R and R destinations for IS service men during the Vietnam war, one now a family resort, the other a sleaze pit. Pattaya gets the tourists that it was built for, and the building was done by Thai’s keen to make quick money without the need for capital investment

And yet the first two buses presumably also ignored the checkpoint and did not crash as a result of overheated brakes? Sounds like waffle to me. Can’t see the checkpoint would do anything other than maybe wake the driver up a bit

Hmm, 3 am crash. Immediately makes me think of a sleepy driver. Maybe not, but it’s my first thought

Well if there is a concern over the quality of tourists, and 90% of bookings are Russians, it would suggest exactly where the authorities need to look!

Good to see that in the light of all the recent farang bad behavior, the police are stepping up their crackdown on not wearing helmets. That’ll stop farang from having it off on the beach and wandering around naked. of course, traffic stops also fill police coffers….