klauskunkel

I explain it to you; A visa is like a new shirt. When you arrive at border control the IO looks at your shirt, the pattern, the weave and the fabric and decides whether this shirt is good enough to enter Thailand. If he lets you enter, your shirt changes its status from new to used. You are still wearing the same shirt, it's just used now, and you will wear this same shirt for your whole stay in Thailand. Some people have reason to change their shirt, maybe it became smelly after 45 days, or they are bored with it and want to try a different style, well lucky for those people there are forms that let them change their stiff-collared arrival shirts into for example more comfortable t-shirts. I hope this clears it up for you

To paraphrase Marie Antoinette: Let them have Pi(e).

He was of course genenerally speaking, not mathematically.

Looks like Prawit may need to donate some watches to make up the difference Gen Prawit confirms Thais Can Watch World Cup

Not to worry: the corrupt police will reform the corrupt gun program.

OK, he is leaving.

Maybe he can get a doggy bag?

However, the age-old tradition of corruption in government is undiminished and those "regulators" can rest easy, no combat coming their way.

and getting hotter every year

Finally a system that will shift the blame from the driver to where it belongs: the AI.

No Rugrats

The three months parameter doesn't apply here. She was 8 months pregnant and could have delivered a healthy baby...

if you make it look less like a scam maybe the response would be better

Bangkok is bigger

They start to imagine all the strange stuff you will eat unknowingly...

I see, he wants to build a house for his mom, so he can hide there in the future...

Well, he made it into Wikipdia's Corruption in Thailand article: Sanit Mahathavorn, Bangkok police chief When the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) revealed the asset declarations of new NLA members, it was disclosed that Bangkok police chief Police Lieutenant General Sanit Mahathavorn had received monthly payments of 50,000 baht since 2015 from alcohol conglomerate Thai Beverage PLC as an adviser to the firm.[43] Sanit also serves as a member of the city's alcohol control committee, raising conflict of interest issues. Calls for him to step down from his police post were immediate.[44] In January 2017 a Royal Thai Police investigation confirmed that Sanit is not violating police rules by holding an advisory role with a major alcohol conglomerate.[45] On 1 March 2017, more than two months after the original allegations were made, both Sanit and ThaiBev denied that he was ever employed by ThaiBev and that the report was due to clerical error.[46] Just two weeks after Sanit's denial that he was on ThaiBev's payroll, Thailand's Office of the Ombudsman said that it had obtained his original financial disclosure document and found it certified with his signature. It now appears that there were two versions of Sanit's financial disclosure form, one listing ThaiBev payments and one with no mention of ThaiBev. Unexplained is how the ThaiBev salary did not appear on the version of Sanit's financial disclosure statement posted online by the NACC.[47] In mid-March the Office of the Ombudsman, which had accepted a petition to investigate the case, announced that there is not enough evidence for it to consider and the matter is closed.[48]

does this fall into the "lipstick on a pig" category?

Yes, but Thai Rath failed to mention the two companies' financial involvement with the government party..., maybe a bit dangerous? Here is an excerpt from ISEAS 2021/29 “Thailand’s Elected Junta: The Pluralistic Poverty of Phalang Pracharat” by Paul Chambers (the entire paper is a good read, btw.): PARTY FINANCE Phalang Pracharat has primarily relied on financial infusions from its various factions, on public subsidies, and on private donations. The NCPO initially encouraged wealthy individuals and corporations to support Phalang Pracharat, and enticed them with promised benefits if they did so and threatened less preferential treatment if they did not. The choice proved easy since Phalang Pracharat’s 2019 victory and durability in office were a foregone conclusion. The party has thus since 2019 had the most access to finance of any political party. At least 39 of Phalang Pracharat’s MPs are company directors or in limited partnerships with a total level of capital amounting to 3.25 billion baht (US$108.3 million).[23] Most of these affluent MPs have been party faction leaders. Then there are deeper-pocketed financiers standing in the shadows of the MPs including such leading Thai concerns as Charoen Phokpand, ThaiBev, the Central Group, and Boonrawd Brewery. These concerns have reportedly been willing to contribute much more money than the MPs (though exact amounts are unknown).[24]

Not too sure about this Panus guy's ability of lending credibility to Montri as a Constitution drafter, since Thailand needs a new one every 4 years anyway... Speaking of which, time's about up: Panus, get your duct tape!

I'm also curious, what's the new offerings?

A new Thai constitution, roughly every four years, it's about time...

I took part in a similar event last month, but I had a permit. It did cost 1,000 baht.

It's not the law's fault, cancel the law makers.

"After that she went to Phlu Ta Luang police station to file a complaint but after doing so the policeman who wrote it down forbade her from discussing this case with the media." Anti-Defamation Laws and Police protect Chop Shops.