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Pattaya Mail goes all-electronic this month

December 1 marks the last print edition of Pattaya Mail which now becomes a completely electronic newspaper via its popular website, Facebook and e-version....

Gay marriage in Thailand will take longer than currently anticipated

Thai premier Srettha Thavisin has promised to fast-track the promise to allow same sex marriage in Thailand with parliamentary debates planned as early as...

Pattaya expats lobby Thai prime minister for better visa treatment

A group of expats based in Pattaya, mainly holding one year extensions of stay for retirement or marriage, have written to Premier Srettha Thavisin...

Thai Revenue offers glimmer of clarification on tax changes

The Revenue Department this week has reassured Thais and expats living here that the new rules on taxation apply only from January 2024 and...

Visa exemptions in Thailand don’t result in a tourist boom

The prime minister’s hope that temporarily suspending visa requirements will automatically result in a quick-fix foreign tourist expansion has proved optimistic. Nationals of China,...

Thailand’s 6,000 marijuana shops can stay open if they behave themselves

The public health ministry has completed the first draft of a new cannabis act, but without automatically reclassifying the “controlled herb” as a narcotic....

Thais are hooked on the legend of the Loch Ness Monster

The latest international expedition to Scotland’s Loch Ness hasn’t dredged up any monsters, even though the organizers say that DNA samples taken from the...

Thailand’s proposal to tax foreign income next year could end up...

A former chairman of Baker McKenzie, the influential legal services firm based in Bangkok, has suggested that the controversial Thai Revenue announcement could be...

Patrolling Chinese police in Thailand “unthinkable” say critics

The informal suggestion of premier Srettha Thavisin that joint patrols of Chinese and Thai police might appear in tourist areas has gone down like...

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