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51 Security Clearances Revoked?
I miss no point, You are making a fool of yourself. -
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Has Thailand Caught Up with the 21st Century?
You're sure (the BOLD text)? Are you Edgar Case? I suspect if someone made a similar assumption about Thailand, you would take exception. As for bribes, 2024 was the first year I wasn't hit up for a "fee" that would clear up an "issue" with my 150+ page Business Visa renewal, a tome the IO doesn't even look at, but just "knows" there's a problem. I know other business owners also have the same experience. We come to accept it's just a cost of doing business. In that section of Imm, I don't know for sure, and would need "Bob" to educate me, but I think those might be real Rolexes on the wrists. The highest I had to pay to "expedite" an issue, "which otherwise might take a month to clear up", was 85,000 baht. They size up the applicant, look at paid-in capital plus P&L of the business, and seemingly decide how far they can go. On the plus side, which the OP noted in detail, Thailand has fully and usually quite competently embraced all of the new technologies the outside world has developed, from wifi to cell signals to medical care (at least in major hospitals) to payment systems (these are actually kind of slow everywhere in the world, as residents here would know if standing behind someone at 7-11 trying to use their phone to pay...cash is much faster.) The banking system is mostly secure, and I make most all payments---staff and suppliers---via a combo of laptop and phone (to receive a OTP). Electricity in generally good, and tends to survive thunderstorms (unlike a residence I have in a European country, where I receive an alert on my phone during storms to unplug my wifi and TV boxes, lest they blow out). When the power does go out in my BKK area, I'm impressed technicians can go through the rat's nest of wires at every junction and determine where the fault lies. I've lived in many countries, and have chosen Thailand for the time being to be my port of call. I am well aware every nation has its particular issues, and I simply accept what they have here. All in all Thailand works quite well, and its pluses outweigh the minuses for me. -
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Thailand's Visa-Free Policy for Chinese Nationals Faces Scrutiny
They have no idea what long-term planning is and they are sloppy in everything they do. -
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Thai immigration online 90 day reporting system
Yesterday send my 90 days , 15 days early. No TM 30 after coming Back From outside. 90 days Approved today. No Problem. -
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Toxic air: Thailand considers work from home nationwide
Indian and Chinese tourists will be used to it. Truly so. Several years ago I taught a graduate class of PRC students and told them to be careful because of the toxic air. They didn't find anything worth worrying about. -
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Trump Executive order protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attack
All of a sudden not a fan of freedom of speech.
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