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Thailand's Constitutional Court to Decide on Move Forward Party's Dissolution on August 7
Disheartening for the 14m + voters that elected them as the clear, overwhelming winners of the election. -
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American father reunites with Thai daughter after 48 years apart
Not sure why you are talking about "this mans father", Anyway......."Terry, a former American GI, was stationed in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, 50 years ago during the Vietnam War" That would be 1974 Einstein......plenty of US military in Thailand at that time. -
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Mystery Deepens: Missing British Man Boarded Flight from Thailand
sad or tragic...You would disappoint JD Vance -
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Tourists Safe After Going Missing In Tham Nam Thalu cave
Very unfair, I am sure a lot of them would be unaware of the dangers and put their faith in tour company. -
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Thailand's Constitutional Court to Decide on Move Forward Party's Dissolution on August 7
The ruling also banned Pita and 10 senior MFP figures from politics for 10 (not 5) years! Disgraceful action by the Constitutional Court! -
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Thailand's Constitutional Court to Decide on Move Forward Party's Dissolution on August 7
The ruling tells you what you need to know about the Constitutional Court. -
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The Tim Walz thread.
Trump looks 10 years younger and isn't weird woke. Tim is weird. -
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Mystery Deepens: Missing British Man Boarded Flight from Thailand
Not one to assume, but it does sound like you know what he's doing. -
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Mystery Deepens: Missing British Man Boarded Flight from Thailand
For those that don't think it's possible. Lets say this guy: sells his passport to a pawnshop (or it's "stolen" or whatever). And then this guy: buys that passport, goes to a ticket agent, uses the passport to buy a plane ticket and goes to the airport. As neither guy is likely to be in Thailand's "Immigration database" (presumably) and Thailand is probably one of the 176 countries (out of 196) that don't normally check passports against Interpol's database, what are the chances some Thai Immigration officer - that's checked 400 people through already and sees 400 more in line and his lunch break is coming up - is going to question that guy "b" doesn't quite exactly look like guy "a" - when guy "a" is at the end of a two week binge drinking and "other fun" holiday ? Probably zero chance. Even if Thailand did check the passport against Interpol's database - it would only raise a flag if it had been reported stolen or the owner was "wanted" (i.e. had a red notice). What is more likely is that the IO will glance at guy "b" and the passport and note the guy is the "right age, skin and hair colour and similar scraggy facial hair. Passport and fingerprint scans don't raise any flags in the system. Stamp, stamp - "have a nice flight" and guy "b" is heading for the boarding gate. I have never seen an IO give someone the 3rd degree (interrogation) like some people seem to think they do with everyone they see. And I've stood in a lot of Immigration lines over the years in places like Kabul, Dubai, Delhi, Manila, Bangkok, Cairo, Istanbul as well as numerous Euro and North American airports. It's always the same thing. Hand them your passport, they look at you, look at your facepage, put it on the scanner, type something on the computer while they wait for the scan to finish, check that no flags were raised, tell you to look into the camera and/or put your hand on the scanner, stamp your passport and hand it to you while waving the next person forward. They've totally forgotten you 2 seconds after putting your passport on the scanner and most won't even give you a glance after the first time they've looked at you. Unless little lights start flashing on their computer screen of course. So as long as you look similar to the guy in the passport photo and you aren't in the "database" for some reason (and the passport hasn't been reported as stolen) it's really not that hard for someone to get through Immigration using someone else's ID. (Another, older case involving Thailand. A career criminal from Canada "stole" someone's ID (passport) and used it to fly to Thailand. He spent a year here before murdering his girfriend in a fit of rage. He then mutilated her face, dismembered her body, hauled the pieces to a local swamp and dumped them before heading to the airport.) Where he bought a plane ticket, casually passed through Immigration and flew back to Canada - still using that "stolen" ID. That was before "biometrics" and fingerprint scanners - which wouldn't have made any difference at all because the person in the stolen ID wouldn't have been in Thailand's database anyways so no flags would have been raised when he flew out. (I questioned when that "stolen ID" was reported as being stolen but never recieved a response. "Privacy concerns" I guess.) ps: Guy "b" in the photos above is the son of a friend of mine. After my previous post I was catching up on some Facebook posts and there was one from my friend with her son and it was like "THERE ! See that ? Someone completely unrelated that could probably easily pass for the missing guy if he showed up at the airport with his passport." -
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Mystery Deepens: Missing British Man Boarded Flight from Thailand
But then he'd have to still fly to England. Cheapest way is straight there, maybe 2 stops, unless Finland was the next stop from Thailand, but according to the story, his girlfriend expected him back straight away. not side trip to Finland and not going on.
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