Today in News from Thailand
• Five capitals join forces: 'Five Cities – One Destination'
• Severe weather is coming in the South of Thailand
• Army has 'good conversation' with activists and Pheu Thai members
The government has announced its plans to spend land on poor landless farmers. But Bangkok Post has little faith in it. Only large landowners have benefited from previous programs.
On November 6, on the way to the Loy Krathong parade in Si Chumphu, hit by a Thai on a motorcycle, who didn't look out of his shell. The man had nothing himself, but complained bitterly that the headlight of his bicycle was broken.
At the end of November I will go to Thailand again and have to take insulin and morphine with me. The latter is quite ready, the paperwork must be in order. And both the former and the latter can be done without any problem.
Soon I will go to Thailand with my husband. We think it would be fun to go on a dinner cruise in Bangkok.
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is considering lifting martial law in parts of Thailand to boost tourism and the economy.
Recently I asked a question in the forum about applying for a visa in Germany. The day before yesterday I took my passport, passport photo and completed application form to the Koniglich Thailandisches Honorargeneralkonsulat in Essen (D) with the information I had gathered.
"At the immigration office in Bangkok you get the feeling that you are being treated like a boat refugee who accidentally docked his rickety boat in Thailand." Louis Tinner writes off his frustration with arbitrariness.
Today in News from Thailand:
• Hua Hin will have a monument with statues of Rama I to IX
• Exchange Thai and Chinese pilots
• Hot-headed ranger shoots and kills three colleagues
Next year I want to go on holiday to Thailand for 4 weeks. I want to do that end of March beginning of April. I have heard that school holidays start around this time and school holidays are at the same time all over the country.
By the end of this year, the 'Tax file for post-active persons' will be expanded with questions and answers about 'gifts after' and 'bequeaths after' emigration from the Netherlands to Thailand. The compilers are open to questions, experiences and suggestions. If you have any questions, you can ask them in a comment.
We are going on holiday from Isaan, my wife and child plus babysitter and I to Koh Lanta for 10 days. Well you can see on the internet everything you can do there, and yes we will go snorkeling etc etc, but I would like some more information about what to do there.
Who can refresh my memory? Some time ago I read something about a possibility to book cheap hotels. Not one of the well known like Agoda etc but I thought through a Thai organization.
Today in News from Thailand:
• Constitutional Commission takes solemn vow
• Rolls-Royce is selling well in Thailand
• Radio commercials still banned
Last week, the Dutch Hua Hin/Cha-am Association organized a fun herring and beer party. In just over an hour, herring farmer Pim Hoonhout had run out of stock.
Bangkok Post opens today with an almost full-page article about – let me call it – the hunt for former Prime Minister Yingluck. The National Anti-Corruption Commission is taking two paths to get its act together.
On the internet I read that with the Visa Exemption Rule (30 days stamp) the restriction of a maximum stay of 90 days per 6 months has been abolished.
