On 11/12/2025 at 6:37 PM, Burma Bill said:

 

I absolutley agree, even though business with Cambodia is small. Thai companies arre not allowed to export to Cambodia as there is a ban on many Thai products and produce, including LPG and other petroleum products. There is also a general boycott of  Thai products and Services. Here in Siem Reap the PTT petrol/gas stations are ghost-like with no customers. It is the same for the 7-11 and Amazon Coffee shops. I visited MAKRO today and it was interesting to see Cambodian flags by produce marked "sourced locally". Nothing coming in from Thailand. Thai companies in Cambodia currently face a "do not buy Thai" nationwide boycott. IMO Thailand has certainly shot its self in the foot! Many better quality products without the high sugar content are being imported from friendly nations such as the EU, UK, USA, Australia/New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, India and Vietnam.What a choice we have on the supermarket shelves these days!

 

 

Business with Cambodia is not "small".Food,farmacy, electronics, oil, sugar, rubber, and refined oil products are some of the products that have been hugely impacted. Just check on new business reports on the Thai stock market!

23 hours ago, Canadian Snowbird said:

The METV (multi-entry tourist visa) has suited my circumstances for the previous 10 years, only now with the Cambodian border closure has it become an issue. I am here in Thailand for 5.5 months to escape Canada's harsh winters. My point is, Thai Immigration should be doing something on a temporary basis while the border dispute continues, even if that means permitting a couple of 60 day extensions for those on an METV because 12 hours there and another 12 back for a visa run to Laos in a commuter van is just an accident waiting to happen; not to mention more than double the cost. If the border dispute continues, I may consider going to Vietnam where the visa requirements are less onerous. I have a few friends already considering that option, especially when you add on the over inflated Thai baht. 

Why is it that those considering leaving Thailand can only think of relocating to either Vietnam or the Philippines ?  Is it the perceived availability of paid for sex or do they just have a very limited imagination?

After all there is a big wide world out there, 

19 hours ago, my friend I said:

 

Why doesn't Thailand agree to have the border line confirmed by an independent party?

because if the decision went against them , as it did before, the loss of face would be unbearable. In the meantime civilians of both countries will suffer whilst the respective governments go to war over a few hectares of  basically uninhabitable jungle, containing a couple of very unimpressive ruins that have been ignored for decades by both sides ( until one side shows any interest)

Hardly worth dying for

On 11/13/2025 at 5:45 AM, Canadian Snowbird said:

The METV (multi-entry tourist visa) has suited my circumstances for the previous 10 years, only now with the Cambodian border closure has it become an issue. I am here in Thailand for 5.5 months to escape Canada's harsh winters. My point is, Thai Immigration should be doing something on a temporary basis while the border dispute continues, even if that means permitting a couple of 60 day extensions for those on an METV because 12 hours there and another 12 back for a visa run to Laos in a commuter van is just an accident waiting to happen; not to mention more than double the cost. If the border dispute continues, I may consider going to Vietnam where the visa requirements are less onerous. I have a few friends already considering that option, especially when you add on the over inflated Thai baht. 

You don’t have to do all that. One visa entry 60 days, plus one extension 30 days. Take a cheap flight to Vietnam or Penang, stay a week there ( won’t break your bank surely, and come back into Thailand on another Visa Exempt 60 days. Surely 5 months is enough ? Don’t push it more than that as immigration  is getting more careful every day, and might eventually stop the second Visa Exempt. Or , just stay the 3 months and 2 months in Vietnam or Cambodia etc. Times are changing, been a lot of news over the Visa run problems by foreigners abusing the system. 

20 hours ago, geisha said:

You don’t have to do all that. One visa entry 60 days, plus one extension 30 days. Take a cheap flight to Vietnam or Penang, stay a week there ( won’t break your bank surely, and come back into Thailand on another Visa Exempt 60 days. Surely 5 months is enough ? Don’t push it more than that as immigration  is getting more careful every day, and might eventually stop the second Visa Exempt. Or , just stay the 3 months and 2 months in Vietnam or Cambodia etc. Times are changing, been a lot of news over the Visa run problems by foreigners abusing the system. 

Why would I do Visa Exempt when I already have a Multi-Entry Tourist Visa (METV)? I am aware of the option to fly to Vietnam and back, but add in the taxi cost to Bangkok and back, flight costs and hotel costs and you have significantly increased the cost and time compared to an 8 hour visa run to the Cambodian border at Ban Pakkard and back. People seem to be missing the point here. I have been doing that visa run twice a year for 9 of the past 11 years and its always busy, but Thailand has done nothing to assist those people that have now lost that option while the border dispute continues, and they risk losing those tourists as a result.