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Foreigners as of July 1 will be permitted to work in 12 professions previously reserved for Thais, though 28 other kinds of jobs remain off limits, including traditional Thai-style massage. An updated list of occupations reserved for Thais was announced on Thursday, the number dropping from 39 on th...

GERMANS, RUSSIANS NETTED IN THIS WEEK’S ‘X-RAY’ FOREIGNER RAIDS More than 100 foreigners were arrested Thursday night in yet another raid targeting schools, hotels and restaurants nationwide. The latest round of the tourist police’s weekly operation saw 110 foreigners rounded up from 83 locations a...

May calls for 'free elections' in Thailand British Prime Minister Theresa May called for "free and open elections" in Thailand as she met with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha in London on Wednesday. During their sit-down, Gen Prayut assured May that Thailand would hold a general election early nex...

THOUSANDS OF FOREIGNERS TURNED AWAY AT THAI AIRPORTS More than 3,600 foreigners with criminal records have been arrested at or turned away from five major airports in the first six months of the year, immigration police said Sunday. In what was described as a national security effort, immigration o...

Believe it or not, most individuals are unaware of their own blood type. Human beings have only four types of blood—A, AB, B and the universal O type. Within these types of blood, you can have an RH factor of either negative or positive. What does that mean? The Rhesus factor (Rh), means that anyone...

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10 hurt when passenger bus plunges into ditch An interprovincial passenger bus travelling from Bangkok to the Northeast plunged into a roadside ditch in Sida district of Nakhon Ratchasim province in the early hours of Wednesday, injuring 10 passengers. Police said the bus was carrying at least 30 p...

Apple fined millions for Australia false iPhone claims Apple was Tuesday fined Aus$9 million (US$6.7 million) by an Australian court for making false claims about consumer rights when refusing to fix faulty iPhones and iPads previously repaired by a third party. Customers of the US tech giant had c...

Travelling more.

PeteC wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:57 pm

Relationships, marriage, children, money, work, unforeseen circumstances......all these things have gotten in the way over the years.

All of that is getting in the way!

18 students injured as school van crashes into ditch in Hat Yai Eighteen students were slightly injured when their school van crashed into a roadside ditch about one kilometre from their school in Songkhla's Hat Yai district on Tuesday morning. The accident occurred on the Hat Yai-bound Asia highwa...

11 provinces warned of floods, high waves Two provinces in the lower Central and nine in the South have been warned of possible flash floods, landslides and strong wind waves, according to Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department director-general Chayapol Thitisak. Mr Chayapol said the departm...

115376_th.jpg Bomb disposal experts were called to the Soi 6 area of Hua Hin on Monday morning following the discovery of an object which locals said looked like an explosive device. Local police and military officials attended the scene next to railway line on Soi 6 where they found an M18 smoke g...

Anyone know why this route is not running after October? Want to book in early November but no flights.

The 'schools' in this country are businesses that profit from customers (parents) by offering a marginally better 'education' by employing foreigners with a better command of the language in which the school is pitching it's most expensive service (usually called an EP -"English Program"). The profi...

Visa raids nab 50 foreigners Fifty foreign nationals were arrested for overstaying their visas and other offences in the latest of a series of coordinated police raids on 87 locations across the country early Saturday. The raids involving teams of police and officers from other agencies targeted lo...