Tropicalevo

According to the government site, Canadians still need a visa. https://vietnamvisa.govt.vn/requirements/

When you dance with the devil, do not be surprised that the devil wants revenge when you tread on his toes.

Rubbish. No one checks the details that the traveller puts on the document/app whatever. For years I 'stayed' at the Holiday Inn whenever I was travelling to Thailand.

I wonder where they are buying the 'lead-based materials' from? China perhaps?

They have already started exploratory drilling for the bridge. We have noticed that when there is a cruise ship in these days, Grab and Bolt are useless and even our regular group of taxis are difficult to hire if not pre booked. Hopefully, I will be a pile of ashes when both of these are actually finished. It certainly will be 'tricky' living here with those amounts of traffic. Here in Plai Laem, we know when there is a cruise ship in when the small convoy of coaches arrive at the temple. (They take up all of the parking there!) The crazy thing is that there are not enough vans and taxis for that volume of people, but if they bring more to the island, there will be too many when the ships have gone. We already have four Grab cars/vans parked permanently at the entrance of the development where I live. They are there more often than when they are driving. They have even set up a small camp under the trees with chairs and a table. https://www.cruisetimetables.com/cruises-to-ko-samui-thailand-2025.html

Well, they were not wrong in this instance.

Translates as "I am happy with the size of the brown envelope, so sod you."

Then maybe insist that sprinkler systems are installed on these cannabis farms?

But a tad too close to Russia

If I was born today, knowing what I know now, yes - suicide at the earliest opportunity.

This could possible seal the deal for Thailand becoming another remote Chinese state. This government have pizzed off their second 'bestest friend'.

Vapes and cigarettes are not comparable. When folk buy fags, everyone knows what is inside them and they are taxed and controlled. When folk buy vapes, there is no control or tax and no one really knows what they are buying. Quite a few stories around the place about vapes containing 'drugs' in one form or another.

Nice one Fier

Thank you for the update. Couldn't happen to a nicer chap.

As the previous poster wrote - a good idea. But why do I get a slight whiff of a brown envelope here?

I just tried that it it did not work. I always log in with my user name. I tried to log in with my email address but the same password and it failed. 'Display name or password incorrect' So I tried to sign in as a new user with my email address and the same password and it failed. 'Display name is used by another member' I guess that means that it is good bye AN

No surprises there then. Orbán has long been known as a Putin 'yes' man.

Well spotted https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thailands-submarine-project-to-finish-in-six-months-amid-delays

If North Korea does invade South Korea, the local residents will wish that more exercises had been carried out 'in civilian populated zones'. That is where the heaviest fighting is likely to be. That is where laughing boy Kim will want to do most damage.

The convoy of lies rumbles on. Other countries DID offer to take these refugees. Why should those countries have to ask China?

Come on Thailand. Just admit that you do not gig a fig about the poor farmers. This is just a PR exercise to try and get your names in the papers.

So the Chinese victim criminal knowingly purchased a forged Thai id card, with the intention of obtaining a Thai passport illegally. Not sure what the penalty is for have a forged id card.

Could they use the same planes just to drop water on the fires?

Pretty normal I think. My first wife attacked me when I told her that I was leaving and getting a divorce. The attacks continued for some years when I was visiting the kids - until she made sure that I did not see them again.

Many of our customers buy slabs/boxes of beer for their stay in the villas. Some even stop at a 7/11 to buy a box whilst on the way from the airport.