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Visa Enforcement Tightens for Thailand’s Expats

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Jul 18, 2014
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Since the days of the Vietnam War, Bangkok, with its louche hotspots like Soi Cowboy and Patpong, has been a haven for lonely ex-GI’s, drunks and others looking for love in all the wrong places, as the song goes.

But it appears that the days when a middle-aged male could wash up on Thailand’s shores to find romance and cheap housing and excellent food on…

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