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Online 90 day check during weekends
Online reporting can be made 14 days before. It will take 2-3 days for approval from immigration. Reporting on weekend is not an issue as long as the immigration website is up and running. -
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Starmer Faces Rising Pressure as Labour MPs Demand Grooming Gangs Inquiry
If you assert there are those who need to face justice then it seems you know this to be the case, it’s then a matter for the police. -
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Driving a Thailand registered car into Lao. Anyone done this recently?
You've been told wrong or they were referring to the pre-Covid rules, which only ever applied to Koh Kong (not anywhere else). Nearly every trip I make, I leave through one border crossing and return through another (regardless of whether I'm heading to Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia or leaving for Laos and then re-entering from Cambodia). Even pre-Covid, I would normally exit at one point and re-enter at another, the exception being Koh Kong (nowadays, I generally re-enter Thailand that way, but exit from another border). For Cambodia, you register your intentions through the Cambodian customs app (specifying the entry and exit points) and while Thai customs doesn't seem to care (except if returning through Ban Khao Din), it's best to inform Thai customs and tell them you're re-entering through a different border and check the paperwork for accuracy before leaving. If it's wrong, tell them to correct it and print again (you need to be able to read Thai though - as the critical information regarding re-entry borders is printed only in Thai, despite the form being bilingual otherwise). The rules have changed post-Covid and Cambodia has really improved it's system. It's definitely easier to drive your car to Cambodia compared to Laos (though Laos isn't difficult; you do need a car passport though). For Cambodia, you can get 30 days, although it's up to you what you specify (the first time I entered under the new customs system from Ban Pakkard, I received 60 days without even asking). I don't know what the maximum is, either 60 or 90 days, probably. If there's any chance of spending more than 30 days outside of Thailand with your vehicle, you MUST inform Thai customs BEFORE departure. The only way of extending the Thai customs paperwork from outside of Thailand is to return to the border with your vehicle IN PERSON, which sort of defeats the whole thing. If you need to do that, you have to sign out of the country you've just come from, re-enter Thailand and do a new customs declaration to leave. Otherwise, if you don't do anything and stay away over 30 days, you simply pay a 1000 Baht fine upon re-entry. Doesn't matter how long you've been away for. 1000 Baht is the fine for Thai vehicles. It's 1000 Baht per day for foreign vehicles overstaying in Thailand, with a maximum of 10,000 Baht. Therefore, if you need 60 or 90 days, seek permission through customs in Bangkok or at the border when you're departing. Enter the maximum amount of time you need for Cambodia into app BEFORE entering (although in-country extensions are allowed, they take around 2 or 3 days to be approved). Cross-border insurance is available for Cambodia now. You purchase it online prior to entry, but it's not yet mandatory. According to a Khmer Times article, it will soon become mandatory, though when exactly is not known. Laos seems to only allow Thai cars entry for 15 days now; you can however extend this once in country, thus permitting 30 days or possibly longer (depending on how long you are allowed to extend for). Previously, you always received 30 days automatically when entering. Crossing the Cambodia-Laos border from Cambodia will be a very frustrating exercise if you aren't aware of the unlisted rules. You need your car passport and it needs to be stamped from the time you leave Thailand. You need to tell Thai and Cambodian customs of this requirement; it's not done automatically. Only some of the larger borders have the stamps on the Thai side; meanwhile all of them have the required stamps on the Cambodian side (go figure, Thai customs is way less organized these days than Cambodia). For crossings from Thailand to Laos via Cambodia, the best border to use for EXITING Thailand is Aranyaprathet/Poipet. Chong Sa-ngam/Choam is also good (though for anyone in that area, unless they want to see Preah Vihear and Stung Treng, you might as well head directly for Laos, entering at Chong Mek, which isn't too far away). Chong Chom / O'Smach probably has these stamps too on the Thai and Cambodian sides, seeing it was always the most straightforward border crossing for vehicles in the past (haven't enquired as I haven't been there since 2022. Moreover, Cambodia has now moved customs twice; first from the hut 300m down the road from the border to a building over a km away in a back street and finally, back to the border where it should have been all along). Ban Khao Din, Ban Laem, Ban Pakkard and Hat Lek are not recommended as exit points if you wish to proceed to Laos, as Thai customs won't have the required customs stamps. Not only that, but Ban Laem and Ban Pakkard require a silly military form to be allowed to leave the country in your Thai registered vehicle (this is issued for free, but it's a silly bureaucratic requirement that requires extra time). It's easier in the other direction though (Laos to Cambodia), as you'll have the required stamps in your car passport already, seeing it is mandatory to present one to leave Thailand for Laos - thus crossing from Laos to Cambodia is the way to go. Once you're stamped into Cambodia, there's no real need to get the exit stamp from Cambodia and entry stamp from Thailand in your car passport anymore. I requested them, but struggled to get Thai customs at Hat Lek to co-operate. It was only thanks to the Cambodian helper being able to improvise that I was able to get any stamp. The head of customs was most unco-operative. In the Cambodia to Laos direction, it's mandatory, you're not entering Laos without these stamps. I realize that the vast majority of people wishing to drive to Cambodia from Thailand will return to Thailand, so no need to get too involved with the Cambodia-Laos direct crossing unless you really, really want to do it (like I did and have). -
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Polish man arrested for spanking Thai woman’s bottom (video)
Maybe it wasn't made clear to him that he only needed to apologise and he was scared about what would happen if he went. Still, a complete idiot. -
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British Man Arrested at Airport for Allegedly Defrauding Wife and Forging Documents
If it was a replacement deed, then it was not forged, just duplicated and it was a legal document. Am I missing something? -
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