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News Forum - Police bust Belarusian man in Phuket for allegedly stealing cash and crypto from Russians
How do you physically steal crypto-currency? -
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News Forum - Thailand’s Tourism Authority reminds visitors of current anti-smoking laws
I'd much rather sit near someone smoking an electronic cigarette, a nice cigar or the sweet smell of cannabis than have to put up with and inhale disgusting stink of cigarette smoke that's damaging my health, I can't believe so many European visitors still smoke with all the knowledge available, you can smell them a mile off even when they're not chuffing away. So get with it governments and give us non smokers a break. -
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News Forum - Thai police admit extorting money from Taiwanese actress
Dom is correct. it's endemic throughout most of Asia, probably worse in certain countries. A $3m yacht I was taking through Indonesia was held in Kupang on demand of an "import Bond" amounting to ~$10,000. This, despite being Australian Registered and with all documents in order. 3 days of negotiations got "bribe" down to $1,000 and I learned later they'd pulled the same scam on the Darwin to Ambon race yachts. Fortunately, Thailand does have some very good people in positions of power. ie Big Joke, who are slowly exposing the criminally corrupt and young folk are not shy about helping via social media. The coming election period will be interesting as there will be a few major upsets for the current regime of rip off merchants. One can only hope that change comes for the better. -
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News Forum - Haze Pollution Forces School Closures in Bangkok
Haze pollution is devastating Thailand’s capital city of Bangkok, and forced several schools to close yesterday. Schools such as Chulalongkorn University Demonstration Secondary School and Jindabamrung School temporarily closed their doors due to the respiratory impact on students and announced reopening on Monday. The Education Ministry has established coordination centers to monitor the PM2.5 situation … The story Haze Pollution Forces School Closures in Bangkok as seen on Thaiger News. Read the full story -
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News Forum - Thai police admit extorting money from Taiwanese actress
It's ASEAN. Corruption is endemic. Only Singapore and perhaps Brunei are transparent. I was a victim of it lately and lost my Bourban bought at KLIA2. I travelled on a late AirAsia flight and arrived DM International around 7:30ish. I planned a later flight because I wanted to avoid the menacing Chinese tourists who have absolutely no sense of order and queues. Immediately, at the immigration counter, a middleaged immigration lady "flagged me" down and consulted her colleagues. I queried them, "why, why, why,..." I even allowed them to understand that I travelled as an ASEAN national and our ASEANAship shouldn't be questioned. She was just belligerent and asked to go to another section to be interviewed. Complying, I sat there which seemed like hours, and they sent a young man to interview me. He thought I don't understand Thai mixed with his broken English that I don't understand, and suddenly, boom!, he said the BOSS wanted me to pay a charge of 2,000 Baht. Then, I did a trick and informed that I'd have 1,000 Baht with me. Suddenly, he responded, "mai bpen rai, I'd ask my boss"!!! Oh he returned in a nifty, and said, "1,000 Baht is fine with my boss"! Then I said, "fine, however, I needed to take a photograph of the transaction." Then everything fall apart on his end, he became rather nervous and unconvinced. As I whipped out my phone to film the event, he stopped me. Then suddenly he said, "don't make this anymore difficult, I negotiate again with my boss." He returned pretty quick as well, and brought me to a counter to have my Passport chopped and signed without any issues. He even acknowledged a "khop khun khrap, courteously". I left the immigration to collect my bags at the bag carousel, and forgotten to retrieve the Jim Beam, after an unnerving episode. I kept thinking about the predicaments between the corruption harassment and my own predicament, and I concluded that corruption is a cooperation amongst a group of individuals who may have ground work done up to target certain people at a certain time. They won't do it when there's a crowd.
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