NanLaew

It's all based on what's widely known as Navarronomics. Those less familiar with this American term may refer to Kwartenomics, as practiced briefly by the UK's Conservative party.

Talking about dim sheep, do some research before spouting nonsense willya? Australia already has its premier msm fake news provider. It's called Sky. Bahhhh...

Oh no...France24 is doing it too!!!

Are they tax-paying Aussie penguins then?

Scapegoats for deep-rooted and endemic Thai corruption. The government's 7-day "root-cause" investigation of the collapse will ultimately blame the whole illegal enterprise on an unqualified site foreman from Myanmar who didn't have a work permit either, so was working illegally. Of course he perished in the building collapse.

The UK stopped extending passport expiration dates by carrying over unspent time from old passports to new ones in September 2018. Giyf

I renewed both my full but not close to expiration UK passports at VFS Trendy in Jan and Feb 2015, and both renewals came back in less than two weeks with Oct and Nov 2025 expiration dates respectively, so credit was still available. YMMV(FS) TiT(rendy)

Do you have any proof that this old "at the scene" road death classification is still in use, or is it possible this is just another case of trope recycling because Thai people lie or have no common sense?

That's right. You weren't there about 15 years ago in Khon Kaen.

I had that sprung on me once, the casual offer to meet my friend at KFC saw a horde of her family cling-ons descend across two tables and order mega buckets. I went and paid the bill for me and my squeeze, and bid them farewell as I had an 'early' appointment (I didn't). I didn't stick around to see the shock and horror that my khi-niaow farang moment precipitated.

The Thai laws on public decency have been used to arrest people for 'going commando'. In the same was as your friendly immigration officer can conjure up the need for a previously unheard of document, or the traffic cop can select a farang-driver for having an overloaded pickup while ignoring the top-heavy ones driven by the locals going past, the cops can charge you with public decency disorder. That's why, when he couldn't issue a ticket for anything else, he tried the 'no nickers' wild card.

Yes, NOW there are several. I was talking about the good old days when I was the only know-it-all on ThaiVisa!

I know that feeling. Having kept ahead of my UK passport renewals in different countries over +40 years globe-trotting, I got busy these past 6 months and all of a sudden both my passports are due to expire in Oct and Nov 2025. No problem, I says, I'll do it on my next break. However, I have already fallen foul of the EU's rules on maximum 10-year passport validity. Both of my passports were among those that the former HMPO gave you 9-months credit for renewing early. So as far as immigration at Schiphol was concerned, and despite the printed expiration date, they "expired" last month and were illegal for EU entry. Oops!

Did you read the OP? (rhetorical) Yup, a wee bit arcane, but that's no unexpected or surprising to anyone who has actually had to deal with Thai government paperwork. It is certainly not the disaster that the click-baitey OP suggests? It hasn't even started, and the usual suspects are bashing away at Thailand already? (you know who you are) You must really hate yourselves a lot to project all this negativity and doom on the country you have chosen to pitch your tent in.

Not quite. You were always allowed to provide a nominee for the collection process after the new passport had arrived back at VFS. However, applying was initially an "applicant only" option until Key Visa were officially allowed to handle the entire process. I understand that there's only one other officially approved full-service that is only contactable via the Facebook platform. It's called "xxxx" sending machine (I forget the guy's name, hence the xxxx).