Stocky

+1 for 19 Crimes, either the Red Blend or the Shiraz. Available Big-C, Tops, Villa Market and no doubt a few more. If you have a Wine Connection in your area then they have a good selection of wines at reasonable (for Thailand) prices.

Similar problem here during the wet season. We've managed to shut off access in most places, but we've a couple of spots they always seem to find a way in. Mothballs have some effect, we tried traps but handling and disposing is an issue, best we found, but brutal, was to drop the trap into a large bucket of water and leave for 20 minutes. Glue traps laced with food and poison pellets is the preferred method, also brutal but more hands off. It's a problem that always seems to return, regardless what you do.

You want a medal or what?!

When I pointed the above out to immigration in Hat Yai earlier this year, when my paperwork for extension renewal was initially rejected over an out of date TM30 (I'd been to Bangkok), I was told "that is Bangkok, this is Songkhla". The OP needs to bite the bullet and make the trip to Chiang Mai.

Hat Yai (Songkhla) even if you only leave the province you need to do a new TM30 on return. I was up in Bangkok last weekend, nearly forgot my TM30, wife went in today, officer threatened to charge the wife Bht1,600 because she was late, wife pleaded father's day holiday so was let off.

You're wrong, it's financial profiling, nothing to do with race.

Phnarr, phnarr

Ganja

No, it says your trip must be within 3 days of submission. When I went through KLIA2 in July there were plenty of people being helped to complete the online registration in an area ahead of the immigration desks. So it appears you can submit a MDAC right up to the point of arrival. The other post above says the same.

Why? You just visit the website and take 5 minutes to complete the MDAC - it's not that onerous.

I printed out the completed form but it wasn't asked for, it obviously comes up on screen when the IO scans your passport

Had to do this for the first time on my last trip to KL in July. All very easy, just complete the details a couple days before arrival. Similar to the Singapore digital arrival card.

I was going to say, given you've faced the exact same issue twice it's probably an issue with your phone camera rather than Wise or Bitkub.

Hat Yai are a little more lenient, the list of requirements states within 6 months, but I've never tested it. Wife pops into the amphur the same week as I'm making the application.

Where does the article mention tourism? It's about "enhancing regional transport in southern Thailand" doesn't mention tourism at all.

Likewise. I signed up from Thailand in 2018, beyond the initial data required to set up the account, proof of ID and address, I've not had to supply any further details.

A valid point that most westerners fail to grasp, tourism in southern Thailand is not about westerners, but visitors from Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia who have a better grasp of the realities and dangers. That said whilst Malaysians do indeed love Songkhla, they're not going to detour 150km via Phatthalung to use this bridge!

I has nothing to do with tourism.

Goods traffic to/from Songkhla deep sea port and the oil terminal. .

It doesn't go to Songkhla Town, rather the bridge connects to the spit of land north of Meung Songkhla and the districts of Ranot, Sathing Phra and Singha Nakhorn, the last contains the Songkhla deep sea port. The spit of land is separated from Songkhla Town by the channel that empties Lake Songkhla, there's a car ferry connecting the two. The new bridge is primarily intended for goods traffic to the port.

And neither have you. It's not whinging, all I'm pointing out is Google will give you and idea but it doesn't show you availability.

I couldn't find any available in Hat Yai, which is why I have one in Bangkok. Google all you want, but that won't tell you if they actually have any boxes available. .

Vivaldi is a spin off from the Opera browser that was bought by a Chinese group in 2016. The original developers of Opera started Vivaldi. Like Brave it has built in ad blockers and privacy features. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)

Brave and Vivaldi

It always surprises me when people say they don't keep track of their finances.