Bangkok Post stories
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Do you owe income tax in Thailand?
If you stay more than 180 days in any calendar year in Thailand, you are considered a Thai tax resident, and since the beginning of 2024, any money you remit, or bring into the country, is assessable for income tax.
Why Thai-Cambodian border conflict still festers
Duelling civilisations going back 1,000 years and a poorly drawn colonial map are to blame, says scholar
Thailand weighs casino legalisation
Lessons from Singapore, Las Vegas and beyond as uncertainty surrounds the stalled Entertainment Complex Bill
Aid cuts could affect US itself
“Armageddon” is the word veteran human rights campaigner Phil Robertson uses to describe the sudden shutdown of most of the US’ aid programmes around the world.
Vaping a way to cut smoking death toll?
Over the past 20 years, fewer than 100 people worldwide have died from vaping, while more than 100 million people have died from smoking regular cigarettes. In Thailand, the tobacco death toll is 71,000 people each year, and from vaping – zero. So why are cigarettes available in every convenience store, while e-cigarettes are banned?
‘Humans to blame’ for devastating floods in Northern Thailand
Campaigner Pianporn ‘Pai’ Deetes identifies three specific causes of the problem: deforestation, dams, and encroachment
Explainer: Thailand’s new visas
Details of the new 5-year ‘Destination Thailand’ visa, the 60-day entry stamp, and more
Reforestation seen as only viable smog solution
Animal agriculture, not fossil fuels, is becoming the biggest driver of climate change worldwide
New cannabis bill ‘restricts freedoms’
Activist rejects claim of many complaints
Ban wildlife trade to prevent next pandemic: campaigner
Freeland founder Steve Galster says trafficking in wildlife, both protected and legal, spreads zoonotic diseases
Respect nature, pleads wildlife trafficking cop
A deeper dive into Thailand’s illegal trafficking of wild animals, a lucrative industry worth US$20 billion
Bitcoin booms and crypto conundrums
Bitkub CEO ‘Topp’ Jirayut Srupsrisopa outlines the pitfalls and potential of blockchain-based assets
‘Superpimp’-turned-whistleblower won’t give up fight
Chuvit Kamolvisit, who says Thailand is corrupt to the core, advocates legalising gambling and sin taxes to top up junior police salaries
Fighting Thailand’s ‘scamdemic’
Industrial-scale online crime in ‘lawless’ border areas in neighbouring countries is growing in volume and sophistication
Feeding the beast: Chiang Mai smoke seen as world’s climate change problem
From Chiang Mai air pollution to global climate change, animal agriculture is the elephant in the room — and biochar one way to tame it.
Slaughtering the planet — on a farm
Many scientists say animal agriculture is a bigger driver of climate change than fossil fuels, contrary to popular belief (with video embeds)
How has Thailand kept the lid on Covid?
A panel of experts discusses how Thailand, the first country to record an infection outside China, managed to bring Covid-19 under control (with video embed)
Economist calls for ‘blanket rescue’
Bangkok Bank’s chief economist outlines his suggested response to the coronavirus pandemic (with video embed)
Dictating the internet
A new report unveils how governments manipulate tech laws to assault free speech
Reporter’s Notebook: Hong Kong protests – behind the barricade
My reflections after two months in Hong Kong (with video embed)
QuickWrap Newscast
A short summary of some of the week’s top stories (with video embed)
Exclusive interview with ILO director-general Guy Ryder
International Labour Organization chief waxes knowledgeable on everything from fishing slavery to AI (with video embed)
Exclusive interview with Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
I spoke to the Thai billionaire opposition leader before the 2019 election (with video embeds)
Exclusive interview with Abhisit Vejjajiva
I spoke to the former Democrat leader and Thai prime minister a week before the 2019 election (with video embed)
Political explainer: Thailand’s Senate
I describe the complicated, carefully engineered appointment mechanisms for the Thai Senate (with video embed)
China’s heavenly nature
My ‘B’ magazine cover story about Mount Qingcheng, a verdant wonderland known as the historical birthplace of Taoism (with video embed)
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Prachuap Khiri Khan by big bike
I joined a motorcycle tour of one of Thailand’s most beautiful provinces
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Jungle Aid
A Hua Hin-based NGO provides a lifeline to poor Karen villagers
Rabies epidemic is ‘fake news’
Animal activists decry hysteria
Festive skydining
Paid advertorial for a Bangkok restaurant (under pseudonym)
Europe tightens curbs with economic toll worsening: Virus update
An example of how I use embeds to enrich wire stories