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Valid question indeed! But since the junta "legalized" itself with rigged election processes they managed to replace Thaksin's puppet government in 2014 with a Thaksin puppet government in 2023 ????

If he is serious, then do away with lots of rubbish within the immigration kingdom. A tourist hardly stays longer than 45 day on a vacation, hence a 45 days period would be more than enough to allow X countries to arrive without a visa. All others, so defined by the government, would continues to need a visa. Do away with the "only two overland border crossings per year". I am aware, that this killed a thriving trade of border runners in the hundreds of thousands. Take 500'000 border runners with an average monthly spending of THB 20'000 result in 120 billion (not million) Thai Baht. I cross overland twice a month (will all the necessary paperwork) and still fill in a TM6 each and every time. Arriving by air as well as all Thais are no longer obliged to do a TM6. The confusion with immigration officers when I present my TM6 is amazing. Tell your banking system to allow tourists to have bank accounts. They park their holiday money there, withdraw it whenever and wherever they need cash and, as they cannot use overdraft facilities, would be a more than welcome addition to the product of Thai tourism. Get rid of the two-tier pricing policy, presently officially sanctioned even by the tourism authority of Thailand. If Thai tourists would be treated the same way round, everybody would cry "foul". Promote domestic tourism by non-Thais; do away with all that TM30 nonsense. 65% of Thai people do NOT live at their registered address, so why breathe down on the alien necks; is Thailand afraid of all those non-Thais or is it pure demonstration of who-is-who-on-the-Thai-banana-boat?

Roulette - les jeux sont faites ???? Let's see what the Thailand casino has up its sleeves as a next move 8-)

Well, the new puppets in the armed forces and the police are set by the outgoing experts - the chessboard is ready for the next coup - me thinks!

"some of his government’s initiatives will be continued by the new administration, to lead Thailand to the “finish line.” Well, define "finish line"; he walks off the stage after nine years. The constitution which he and his cronies wrote, stipulates a maximum of eight years - oh well - the Thai people did not go over the moon as it was, like everything else "mai pen rai". Interesting enough he replaced a government run by puppetmaster Thaksin Shinawatra with ........... a government run by puppet master Thaksin Shinawatra. Reminds me of the US which replaced the Taliban in Afghanistan - after 15 years of open war - with the Taliban. Well done, Uncle Too, you were a very attentive student of the Americans indeed!

The dottori might be reminded of patient's rights and confidentiality. We all have our little assumptions on the health condition of Dr T yet officially the doctor has to keep his mouth shut as all that falls under privileged information. I am not a doctor but I saw the disembarkation at Don Meuang, the kneeling and the greetings as well as the returning back into the building. Given the emotional stress and the temperatures outside an ice-cold airport terminal I found, that Dr T took all that rather cool, no sweating and no signs of any discomfort ........

I fly very, very frequently between Udon and Bangkok on Thaivietjet Air. It is utterly disturbing to see all those quality Thai passengers embarking the plane with not only one but up to four cabin bags. On top of it you can take it to the bank, that every flight includes up to ten of these pizza-boxes of Krispy Kreme which are on sale at the departing airport. All those quality flyers have not realized yet, that the same Krispy Kreme stuff (sugary calorie-boosters) is available at the destination airport as well. All this is not only a total mess but unnecessarily delays boarding and punctual departure. I had discussions with fellow passengers and their tremendous avalanche of cabin luggage. They have no problem in taking my small bag down and just put it on a nearby seat in order to put their outsized stuff in. So I congratulate the inflight manager to boot off those unruly semi-divine Thais for misbehavior. The luggage limit is set to seven kilogrammes and you can only imagine, by how much said cabin bag(s) exceeded that particular limitation.

We both know that the clearing of the stage will require massive force. It will come with lots and lots of shavings from planing to say the least; maybe it will turn the entire country upside down. But the three previous attempts in 1973, 1976 and 1992 had little impact on changes nor did they change the marching direction of the dinosaurs nor the oligarch elite. But Thailand belongs to the Thais, just make sure you're not in the firing line once the proverbial manure hits the proverbial air mixing device ????

Without "Khon Afliccaaahhhh" this article would have never made the news - me thinks!

Many voters' prayers have been heard and hopefully the dinosaur sticks to his "retirement" plans ........

Srettha Thavisin cannot have the slightest clue who to appoint so the musical chair is in full rotation while the 30th PM can watch - possibly not to his financial disadvantage. Although it has to be said, that the pricing might have gone through the roof given the number of new sucklings on the Thai trough ........ What a hopeless farçe for a country in the 21st century claiming to be no longer neither banana republic nor a 3rd world country ..........

Does it really matter, who is feeding on the Thai trough of taxpayers money? As long as there are plenty of governmental vehicles from far away Germany with the little "S600" at the left back end ..........

15 minutes of fame?

Furniture ....... ?

In other words, Prayut made it clear. "Don't piss into my soup and my boys and me shall leave you in peace". And that is the outgoing unelected PM talking to the incoming unelected PM positioned by MPs and senators absolutely contrary to the wish of the people. I just hope that this will not be the spark Thailand would need to explode the country into the 21st century ....... as it might turn out very, very, very nasty!

50 years in the general slammer, no private hospital suite with not one but two fans ....... the works! The BiB deserve a medal, or give 'em two for a really good job done. What do people think happens in these karaoke dungeons? The main money spinner is neither booze nor singing - me thinks ???? And school uniforms are taken off so much faster than all that fancy stuff; after all the girls have spent years in these terrible outfits which combine dreadful designs, the poorest of poor fabric quality with unmet high pricing!

Musical chair ...... five weeks long to find out, who can feed on which trough of taxpayers money; brilliant!

Here we go again; at least the ordeal will not last the entire four years - me thinks 8-)

Pita might want to push the closure of the bankruptcy hearing at the courts to avoid, that in four years the establishment will serve the very same old soup of inherited shareholding in a defunct media company with zero activities is being served once more again ????

Thai Politics - explained .mp4 The electorate receives the blessings of the cognoscenti ........

Write back to them and tell them, that you've decided to go elsewhere ........ I would not say anything, if all the restaurants, bars and hotels would be overflowing of quality tourists ...........

I hope someone gave him the list of who-is-who on the banana boat

What an upgrade, I did not know that Social Security Insurance in Thailand also covers airlifts ........

Maybe he was afraid that Prawit would want to borrow the watch and, as we were told, the owner died. Karma has it, that Thaksin was right NOT to wear the watch so Prawit would not get funny ideas?

He might have stabbed him but too many Thai newscasters would have witnessed the excitement of Anutin over the choice ..........