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. But what counts as a remittance – does it include ATM withdrawals and credit card […]

The long-simmering conflict between Thailand and Cambodia over the demarcation of their 817km border has exploded in 2025, with batteries of air strikes and heavy artillery that have killed more than 40 people and displaced hundreds of thousands. But what are the root causes of the clashes?  In this epic edition of Bangkok Post’s “Deeper Dive” podcast, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Professor […]

Casinos polarise opinion. They’re legal in parts of north America and Europe but mostly illegal in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia – including Thailand. But that could be changing. The legalisation of casinos is part of the Entertainment Complex bill in the Thai parliament, although opposition has recently pushed the bill to the […]

“Armageddon” is the word veteran human rights campaigner Phil Robertson uses to describe the sudden shutdown of most of the United States’ aid programmes around the world. In January, US President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause on foreign aid, and weeks later, decided to terminate 90% of contracts providing such aid worldwide, including in […]

An average of 47 people in Thailand die from smoking cigarettes every day, while there has not been a single recorded death here from using e-cigarettes. Millions of people have successfully used vaping to quit smoking, and many countries actively promote vaping as a means to quit the deadly habit. Yet conventional cigarettes are available […]

Flooding has devasted many parts of Thailand in 2024. More than 50 people lost their lives in kingdom’s North earlier in the year, and at least 25 have recently been killed in the South. While climate change is partly responsible, there are specific man-made causes for the disaster, “Pai” Pianporn Deetes told Bangkok Post’s “Deeper […]

Thailand’s recent relaxation of visa restrictions was necessary for both the economy and social stability, says a leading travel historian, because the kingdom is deeply dependent on tourism. On the latest edition of the Bangkok Post vodcast “Deeper Dive”, Imtiaz Muqbil worries that countries will compete with each other for tourist revenue in a race to the bottom that risks “overtourism” in certain […]

Thailand’s major overhaul of visas and entry rules has stirred up strong reactions — mostly joy and excitement, but also confusion and even some resentment. To clarify the new rules, the Bangkok Post’s Deeper Dive vodcast posed readers’ questions to Naruchai Ninnad, one of the chief architects of the new visa scheme in his role as deputy director-general of the Department of […]