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A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

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Welcum to Thailand. And we know you are cumming :p

THAILAND is more secure now thanks to a new screening system at the recently opened Thai Immigration 24/7 centre in Suan Plu, according to authorities.

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The system uses an "Advanced Passenger Processing System" (APPS) to stop "undesirable" foreigners from coming to Thailand based on data gathered at their point of origin.

Police Lt-General Nathathorn Prousoontorn, chief of the Immigration Bureau, told The Nation that the APPS would screen incoming passengers before a decision was made whether to let them in to the country.

The APPS gathers passenger information from airlines flying to Thailand based on the data collected at the check-in airline service counters, including name, gender, nationality and country of residence. That data are sent to the APPS database along with the flight number and passenger seat number.

"Before the APPS system, information about passengers or any travellers coming to Thailand would be collected and sent to the Immigration Bureau by paper files, but now collecting it as electronic information and using the APPS system to handle the data, we can monitor incoming passengers in real time," Nathathorn said.

He added that criminal data from Interpol would be linked to the APPS system this year so authorities could intercept criminals coming in to the country.

The system was set up this month at the newly opened Thai Immigration 24/7 Centre and at major airports. APPS is already in use in other countries such as Japan, Canada, China, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The system is being used alongside other security tools including the Personal Identification Blacklist Immigration Control System, the Case Management Intelligence System, CCTV surveillance and the CRIMES system. All of these systems are operated and monitored by the Immigration 24/7 Centre, which aims to be the hub of Thailand's immigration procedures and help to improve national security.

The immigration centre at Suanplu's Immigration Division One will have officers monitoring incoming data 24 hours a day.

Nathathorn added that the new APPS system could also help to address non-criminal issues such as the recent Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) case in which a 71-year-old man with the virus travelled to Thailand from Oman.

The new system could almost instantly provide information about other passengers who were sitting near the man and who might be at risk - a process that previously could have taken up to a day.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/New-immigration-screening-system-unveiled-30278217.html


 

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Vendor sells decorations including monkey dolls at a gift shop for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Bangkok's Chinatown. Chinese people around the world will celebrate the Chinese New Year, also called Spring Festival, which this year falls on Feb 8, the first day of the Year of the Monkey.PHOTO BY EPA

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Home coming for CNY

 

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Surprised cold spell back to Bangkok and over the next few days too

 

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OMG its even colder now this morning

 

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A funny slice of thai mango today

Car burglary suspect found snoozing in vehicle
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Car burglary suspect Somnuek Riabhuad, 37, covers up with a pink blanket as he is taken from a pickup truck where he was found sleeping on Wednesday morning . (Photo by Pongpat Wongyala)

  • Bangkok Post Published: 10/02/2016 at 11:20 AM
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PATHUM THANI – A burglary suspect wanted for breaking into a pickup truck in Muang district wasn’t hard for police to find: He was sleeping in the cab.

Somnuek Riabhuad, 37 of Kamphaeng Phet, was discovered around 6.30am Wednesday snoozing with a thin blanket over him behind the driver's seat of a Mitsubhishi Triton parked in front of a building on Thetsamphan Road in tambon Bang Prok, said Pol Lt Col Banchong Noowa, a duty officer at Muang police station.

Owner Natthawut Kultrakarn, 18, a first-year-student at Bangkok Rangsit University, and his neighbours met police when they arrived. The left window of the pickup was shattered and there were traces the cab had been ransacked, but nothing was missing, the owner said.

Mr Somnuek man gave conflicting explanations when being questioned. He told police he worked at a construction site in this central province. He got cold and decided to break into the parked truck to sleep, police said.

He was held in police custody for further interrogation and legal action on charges of damaging the property of the vehicle owner.
 

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American entertainer Madonna, now 57, performs at Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani, as she makes her debut in Thailand Tuesday night. The "Queen of Pop" added a second show in Bangkok for her Rebel Heart world tour after the first sold out in under an hour.PHOTO BY BEC TERO
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No OMO still :biggrin: Done this old era couple of times, quite a blast:p

Pranom Chartyothin, a 72-year-old bus conductor, sells and collects bus tickets in downtown Bangkok. The World Bank estimates the working-age population will shrink by 11% by 2040, the fastest contraction among Southeast Asia's developing countries. Thailand's stage of economic development, the rising cost of living and education, and a population waiting longer to get married are among the reasons it is ageing more quickly than its neighbours. An effective contraception programme in the 1970s also played a part, said Sutayut Osornprasop, a human development specialist at the World Bank in Thailand.PHOTO BY REUTERS
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