Tropicalevo

I do not like many of your topics, but I would never wish ill on you. Hope that you recover soon. By the way - Glenmorangie. Works for me.

Nooooo. I want a long, long, sleep. Please do not bring me back.

I think that Thailand is working towards that. To my knowledge, this is the first time that Thailand has had a single reporting system for arrivals in Thailand. Hotels, villas, condos etc. I suspect that the tricky bit is that TM 30 is for everyone. Originally just tourists, but now, everyone. Huge database. The TM 47 system is not usually used by tourists/short stay etc. Let's hope that they get there but many folk will not like it.

Fairly recent. This year some time. There are some good threads on it. I found this one. https://aseannow.com/topic/1306628-tm30-new-website-address-for-filing-notifications-and-registration/

OK. That is the theory. BUT if the person wants an extension or anything else at immigration, they will have to have a TM 30. Saying 'but it is not my job' will not help. I had some friends who were taken to the immigration office because they did not have TM 30's. Immigration were threatening to cancel their visas. (Real threat or not, I do not know.) Friends phoned their landlord who called me and he asked 'what do I do'. I told him and he did their TM 30 before they got to the front of the 'naughty' queue. Phew! Close. (Here on Samui, immigration are carrying out random checks looking for tourists with no TM 30 or expired visas.)

Not. Well done.

That would have been on the old 'Samui Hotel system'. The new system is Thailand wide and everyone had to start from scratch when it started. Old system records lost.

I know what a Tomboy is but I did not know that they had Tomboy bars. So why are there blokes there? Or is it a pick up bar where blokes can short time a tomboy. But tomboy's like girls??? Ok. I give up. I leave it all to you experts.

There is no extradition treaty between Germany and Thailand. BJ is seeking 'assistance' from the German embassy here. In an article in the BP (I think) police in Germany have arrested the guy and offered to let Thai police interview him (via video???).

I guess that I need to get out more but what the heck is a Tomboy bar?

The PM has lost the plot. It is only fake news if it is not true. However, photographs would indicate that this story is true.

He became a monk for a while https://bnn.network/world/thailand/thai-police-deputy-commissioner-temporarily-ordains-as-monk/

Yes - we ban all smoking. We only have a problem with weed smokers.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/09/asia/thailand-cannabis-legal-minister-interview-intl-hnk/index.html Not according to Anutin

I too am happy that legal cannabis is successful. It is the non legal, recreational use that I object to. (Yes - smoking it is illegal.) Getting totally stoned guests out of the beds and onto their scooters, cleaning all of the makings and junk out of the villas and getting rid of the smell, repairing the toke burns in the furniture etc are what I object too. Alcohol drinkers do not create as much mess and trouble in the villas.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=drugs+grown+in+myanmar&t=ffab&atb=v352-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images Home made. Google may give better results.

But if they stop the drugs from crossing the border, how will the military generals get their payroll?

That will keep the anti-scam police even more busy

Technically yes, but some years ago the police officially announced that a photocopy was acceptable but the original must be available. Later, some government department somewhere (sorry - I have a very poor memory) said that photos on a mobile phone were also acceptable. But a photo or copy of just the details page may not be enough. One also needs photos of the visa/immigration stamp given on arrival as per the TM 30 system. Only the police can take your passport. All of the dodgy scooter rental folk (and others) demanding that you hand over your passport as deposit - definitely illegal. The passport is a government document, not the individual's private property.

Does anyone really 'jump' in front of a moving car?

Not a good starting point. I never bothered with a bus pass as I retired long after I left the UK. I told the pension people that I lived overseas and I also gave them a UK address for banking etc. I receive only the basic OAP. My government and private pensions are the only monies being paid into my bank account and the revenue people know about all of them.

Not true in UK Banking. I had an account with Nat West in Jersey (Tax free. I have lived overseas for years). I was connected to a friend (business connection) who was murdered by a wanted scammer in the USA. Because the scammer was wanted for money laundering, my bank account was frozen until I could prove that all monies were obtained legally. That took nine months to prove as it covered multiple countries. I had to live on loans and a credit card during that time. Once I proved my innocence, the money was released and the account was closed.

I do not know your nationality, but my Thai id is no good for domestic flights either. The name on the document that you use, has to exactly match the name on the boarding pass. My passport is UK with the English spelling of my name, but the name on my pink is is a phonetic version.

And this is what is sad about the whole mess. Many young, underage girls are sold off for money. Usually by a close family member. (My good friend's daughter was offered for sale by her grandmother.)

Any photo id is valid for an internal flight in Thailand. I mistakenly once used my Taronga Zoo (Sydney) membership card.