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Plans to allow foreigners to own Thai land hit the first...

Government plans to encourage one million well-heeled foreigners to base themselves in Thailand with 10 year visas and the right to buy freehold land...

UK continues to suppress visits to Thailand

In a shock decision, the UK authorities have refused to remove Thailand from its list of banned countries. Although the British Department of Transport...

Thailand’s new rules for retiree visas sound alarm bells

The Thai Cabinet has agreed the framework of a new visa policy which has been under consideration by government committees for most of 2021. ...

Pattaya Sandbox sealed transport routes may bite the dust

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has indicated that some of the least popular aspects of the Move On Pattaya program are to be...

Experts begin investigation of Pattaya’s nightclub fire

Initial feedback is warning against the widely-held assumption on social media that the padlocked Nashaa club fire was likely started deliberately. The nitery, strongly...

Debates rage about the five future scenarios for Pattaya

The virus pandemic has certainly turned up the heat on what Pattaya will look like in two or five years from now. Projections range...

Pattaya adopts wait and see approach to upcoming tourist “surge”

The hope by Thai authorities that the final months of the year will lead to a flood of international Sandbox visitors in tourist-starved Pattaya...

Ghost city Pattaya loses some of its chains

Pattaya made the most of its new freedoms on day one of the government’s limited liberalization of red zone provinces.  The barbers and salons...

Pattaya Move On Sandbox decides to bite the bullet

Apart from some crabapple expats, everyone wishes success to the proposed Pattaya Sandbox reopening on October 1. Under the plan, fully-vaccinated international tourists will...

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