Taiwan extends visa-free entry scheme for Thais

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Taiwan extends visa-free entry scheme for Thais

By The Nation

 

National Palace Museum, Taipei photo from wikipedia

 

Taiwan’s foreign ministry has announced the extension of its trial 14-day visa-free entry programme for nationals from Thailand, Brunei, and the Philippines until July next year.

 

The decision followed a June 11 inter-ministerial meeting convened by the foreign ministry and attended by officials from government agencies overseeing national security, police administration, investigation, immigration, tourism, and economy and trade.

 

The visa-free treatment for nationals from these three countries will continue for another year from August 1, 2018, through July 31, 2019.

This measure is being continued to attract visitors from Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy partner countries for tourism and business purposes, and to increase people-to-people exchanges.

The programme may be extended after a review of the results.

 

According to statistics from the Taiwan's Tourism Bureau, nationals from New Southbound Policy partner countries made a total of 2,284,382 visits to Taiwan in 2017, a significant year-on-year increase of 27.65 per cent over the 1,789,503 visits made in 2016. The country saw its visa-free policy as achieving the expected effect.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30350083

 

 

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[yellowboat]

Interesting that Thais are not illegally working there as they have been reportedly doing in South Korea.  Perhaps the Taiwanese may want to overhaul their economy, not to attract illegal migrants, but to keep up South Korea.  ?

 

Other than the economy, Taiwan is a wonderful place.  Fake news is dealt with by laws, due process, and not by a military strongman . 

[lionsincity]

26 minutes ago, yellowboat said:

Interesting that Thais are not illegally working there as they have been reportedly doing in South Korea.  Perhaps the Taiwanese may want to overhaul their economy, not to attract illegal migrants, but to keep up South Korea.  ?

 

Other than the economy, Taiwan is a wonderful place.  Fake news is dealt with by laws, due process, and not by a military strongman . 

 

There are lots of thai girls in taiwan doing "Pattaya" style work.

[chado]

2 hours ago, lionsincity said:

 

There are lots of thai girls in taiwan doing "Pattaya" style work. 

where????

[bermannor]

18 hours ago, lionsincity said:

 

There are lots of thai girls in taiwan doing "Pattaya" style work.

What mean "lots" for you?

Have you been there? What are the service fees?

As an expert, you should not let us die stupid!

[mike324]

There are lots of runners there too, but more in South Korea and Japan because salaries there are a lot higher, and there are no fines for being caught and sent back for South Korea, not sure about Japan.

 

Taiwan is extending it because their tourism sector is benefiting greatly from Thai tourist. Taiwan is a "new" popular  travel destination for Koreans (because of a tv show) and Thai this past 2 years (for thais because of visa free travel).

 

The ironic thing is that Taiwanese who visits Thailand still needs a visa due to pressure from China.

 

 

[jimster]

On 7/15/2018 at 11:25 AM, yellowboat said:

Interesting that Thais are not illegally working there as they have been reportedly doing in South Korea.  Perhaps the Taiwanese may want to overhaul their economy, not to attract illegal migrants, but to keep up South Korea.  ?

 

Other than the economy, Taiwan is a wonderful place.  Fake news is dealt with by laws, due process, and not by a military strongman . 

"Fake news"? What are you on about? Completely irrelevant to this topic. But while we're on the subject, "fake news" is a euphemism for anything the government doesn't like. In reality, mainstream media is the biggest purveyor of fake news. They're just scared of losing the narrative hence why anything they don't like is called "fake news".

[jimster]

On 7/16/2018 at 10:40 AM, mike324 said:

There are lots of runners there too, but more in South Korea and Japan because salaries there are a lot higher, and there are no fines for being caught and sent back for South Korea, not sure about Japan.

 

Taiwan is extending it because their tourism sector is benefiting greatly from Thai tourist. Taiwan is a "new" popular  travel destination for Koreans (because of a tv show) and Thai this past 2 years (for thais because of visa free travel).

 

The ironic thing is that Taiwanese who visits Thailand still needs a visa due to pressure from China.

 

 

Well they get a visa on arrival. Same thing, just they have to pay money for it.

[mike324]

15 hours ago, jimster said:

Well they get a visa on arrival. Same thing, just they have to pay money for it.

Visa on arrival is not the same as visa exempt.