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Has there perhaps been some misunderstanding or miscommunication? The postage rate depends on size and weight of item. The bigger the item, the higher the rate.

I don't think there is any school in Bangkok that teaches English exclusively to classes of non-Thai adults.

Answering my own question: Yes, according to this news report they were brought to the police station: https://www.asiaone.com/entertainment/pay-27000-baht-be-free-taiwanese-actress-charlene-an-warns-corrupt-cops-bangkok-thailand-travel

Was she brought to the police station? There are so many topics running on this, I find it impossible to double-check what is what.

What CCTV? I must have missed that. Where was it posted?

I suggest that somebody should start a separate topic about rice. This topic is about bread.

I am dead serious. After reading all the replies prior to that point, you asked the serious question whether you should report the matter to the police. Therefore, I am convinced that if you do not report it you will, for the rest of your life, be haunted by the question if you did the right thing.

You should go and report for the remaining 1000.

And I would appreciate it if the OP then posted a copy of the police report in this topic.

The police found 27,000 Baht and the liked the look of it.

I think we don't have the full story here. What exactly happened after she clicked on the link? Did a self-executing program start and install some malware? This appears to be a possibility. Or did a website open on which she was asked to type some information about her bank account and she did that?

What's the opposite of malware? Since "mal" derives from Latin malus, which means bad, and bonus means good, I shall call it bonware. It appears that your computer or the browser you use has been infected with bonware.

Good Gracious Lord! Does the Thai Public Health minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, honestly believe that the "airlines and check in staff" take their instruction about the check-in requirements for flights to Thailand from the news media? There has been no "confusion...at airports around the world". Thailand used standard operating procedure (SOP) to get the vaccination requirement included in the database that check-in staff worldwide consult with a few keyboard taps for each passenger and until the same SOP was used to remove this requirement, it was there for check-in staff to see. I do not know what the aforementioned SOP exactly is but I have a feeling that it is a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) issued the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT), judging from the following excerpt from this news article:

One of the wealthy tourists the Thai Minister of Tourism and Sports is always clamouring about was stopped in India from boarding for his flight to Bangkok. https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/trends/story/kolkata-man-caught-trying-to-fly-to-bangkok-with-40000-stashed-in-pan-masala-sachets-359510-2023-01-09

"a wee dram" is the idiom you were looking for.

Therefore, we have one mandatory requirement (must) and three optional recommendations (should) Hence, China won't send their unvaccinated people to Thailand.

From the news article to which a link is given in the OP: “In case that some countries require their arrivals to pass RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 before trips, such travelers will be required to have health insurance. This will benefit them if they are infected and must stay in Thailand until their recovery. Therefore, tourists should have their health insurance before visiting Thailand,” the [Thai] health minister said. My question: Does China require that outbound passengers pass a Covid-19 test before travelling?

Thank you for posting the two links to news articles which comfirm that the EU decided not to make Covid-19 tests and the wearing of masks mandatory.

EU rejects Italian demand to impose Covid curbs on arrivals from China France, Germany and other states say situation does not warrant change in coronavirus policies Henry Foy in Brussels, Amy Kazmin in Rome, Sarah White in Paris and George Parker in London DECEMBER 30 2022 The EU has rejected an Italian demand to reimpose travel restrictions on arrivals from China, as capitals across the world take divergent approaches to surging numbers of coronavirus infections in the country. EU officials at a meeting on Thursday did not endorse a call from Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, for the bloc to collectively follow Rome’s move to test all air arrivals from China in response to Beijing’s abrupt decision to lift its zero-Covid policies. Read more: https://www.ft.com/content/117b664e-2a06-4e3c-9ff5-42d1434f5e6e

Where did you see this one? Some readers of this topic may want to go and sample her food.

Happy New Year to all!

I see no information about what the countries testing arriving passengers from China for Covid-19 are doing with the passers who test positive. Also this article in another publication does not mention it: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3790837-nearly-half-of-passengers-from-china-to-milan-have-covid-italian-officials/ What plans does Thailand have in this regard?

Back-pedalling from what? Can you give a link to a government order cancelling public New Year celebrations? The only "order" I have seen referred to somewhere was that the government and judiciary ordered their offices to cancel celebrations. I have seen it mentioned in the news media that the Khao San Road countdown was cancelled at the initiative of the committee for that event, and that in Pattaya it was the city's mayor who first decided to cancel the fireworks that were planned for several days but he subsequently allowed it to go ahead except for New Year's Eve.

In China, people with Covid-19 are now allowed to go to work. It remains to be seen whether they are also allowed to travel abroad for a vacation.

Apparently, the imported Pfizer vaccine will be used only to vaccinate expats, ie foreigners: