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I got a QR code before and it arrived in several hours. There is guidance that says you should apply 7 days in advance but I am in a hurry to get home and would like to cut that down to less.

I was just reading the travel requirements to enter Thailand. *Thai Nationals aren't required to submit Covid test.* 

Wow.

I worked at a job that is a month on/ month off, so I have been using 30 day permission to stay stamps when I come to live in LOS with my Thai wife. I do not use a visa. I do not believe this is a visa on arrival but I could be wrong. I didn't fill out any paperwork at the airport except for the arrival card. I hold a US passport. This has been my method for a long time. Some time ago I needed an extension and went to the Korat immigration office. I think they gave me a two week extension?

My question is what are the current rules regarding extension of permission to stay stamps (non visa) . I lost my job and need to stay here another 30 days.

The chickens are on their way home to roost.

The process is scheduled to be complete in July, a month after the June 18^th deadline given by the ICAO.

It would seem to be a simple issue to hire foreign staff to bolster the DCA's critical (criminal) understaffing. Drive the fully qualified staff, new and old, to complete reassessment of airline operators. They have TWO WHOLE MONTHS to get this thing right. Why not schedule a completion date for, say, a week before the deadline instead of a few weeks after.

It is possible that what is going on now is simply a face saving delay tactic. The Thais will wait until the ICAO takes concrete action, then offer weak excuses and bring in the (foreign) cavalry.

He is an Admiral. They need a PhD in education. More like a team of them really.

No, no, no. Probably just reassigning more PT minions. And so it goes.

The title confuses me. Have they gotten rid of the barriers to corruption?

I congratulate all posters that focused on only one or two things to ridicule in the General's speech. Talk about a target rich environment.

Headline should read "Jump In Army Volunteers Stems From Failing Thai Economy Overseen by Army Professionals"

the ongoing "reform" exercise.

Fixed that for ya.

Finland's teachers are highly trained and have amazing work ethic. Students too. Nuff said.

Words fail me.

No policing of the roads anyways. More unenforced nonsense. What a <deleted> moron too...80 is baby slow.

If tablets are introduced in classroom, at least the kids will be able to explain to the teachers how it works.

Hardly. All teachers at my school have tablets and smartphones. They use them all the time even while sitting at the front of the classroom or sitting outside the classroom. The students are doing the same so I guess everybody is happy happy.

Exactly. Why buy students tablets when their noses are already pressed into a phone.Every day the bar is lowered...

Why not start with the Thammasat massacre then?

However, I think the US of A still has the most cleanup and explanation work to when it comes to skeletons in the closet...

Lots and lots of contenders when you start talking about "the most".

I'm really interested to know, what safety measures the Thai planes do not implement.

There must be something really wrong that the Japanese and now the Koreans don't like.

I started thinking if I should ever fly again on Thai planes.

Anybody can help here?

Costas, I'm sure that Thai airlines are operated just as well as Thai railroads, Thai tour buses, Thai highways, and Thai bar fights.

Cheers

That's just it. Transport standards are appalling in Thailand. In Korea, Japan and most other countries the mini-vans that kill countless every year would be off the road or heavily overseen, and a death toll on the roads like Thailand's would be a matter of national urgency. Kids of 10 in multiple numbers on bikes without helmets filling the roads would be likewise.

I know these sorts of things go on in India, Indonesia (where the road toll has been cut and rules increasingly enforced) and parts of Africa but Thailand is not a third world country infrastructure or development wise, whereas most of those are. This new lot, after initial mumblings about sorting this sort of thing out, are no better than any government before them when it comes to addressing any of this. The minister's words above show he's as clueless as the rest.

Absolutely. It is a matter of priorities, regulation, and enforcement. Not impossible, just difficult-- someone needs to step in, kick a-- and take names. For better or worse, that kind of mentality cannot exist here.

Unfortunately, sometime it seems that nobody gives a damn from the top to the bottom.

Art 44 cannot be applied to harm anybody until it is used ? Clear so far ?

So when it is used anything goes ?

Riiight. And it took them about 3 hours before there was significant gumflapping about using article 44 to fix this and that.

From a movie I saw once...."I didn't think their guns were loaded"

"Well you were wrong, gins are always loaded".

The tourism industry has already seen positive changes after last week’s cancellation of martial law enforcement

Whew! I was worried it was going to go the other way, or maybe take longer than 48 hours. Thanks for the good news Minister!

Imagine how much the Thais rip each other off. Wonder how much has to be settled with hired guns, and how much of that is swept under the carpet.

He better move fast, and keep his mouth shut.

Oh, oh my. Something tells me he is just not capable.

Pretty damn generous. I have only gotten a 4% raise 1 year out of the last 6. The other years were a lot less.

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