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26 Mar 2014
Yes, are very likely to commit by male foreigners, because Thai girls are especially lovely and pretty. The offences may be as follows:Rape is committed by having a sexual intercourse with another person without the person’s consent. The person may be cither a man or a woman. One important thing to be noted is that previously the husband could force his wife for sexuality. Though the wife did not allow, the husband was not guilty. But now the situation has changed because our law was amended in 2007. So a foreigner should be more careful about this.
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26 Mar 2014
Yes, are likely to be committed by foreigners as Thais because they are connected with humans’ benefit. These offences consist of quite a number of things’ ranging from having or making a bad measuring machine to take advantage in trading over other persons, cheating buyers of goods, using other’s trade marks, patents, copyrights and so on. The Thai court imposes rather severe punishments on offenders with on mercy or probation. Nevertheless these offences are compoundable by which the offender may pay compensation and compromise with the damaged person to end the offence.
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26 Mar 2014
Yes, imprisonment from one year to ten years and fine from twenty thousand to a hundred thousand baht or both. Usually the court tends to inflict an imprisonment term rather than for a case of two choices of punishment like this. The holder of the forged passport is liable for the same punishment as the person forging it. A person having faked passports for sale shall be punished with very high imprisonment from three years to twenty years. Moreover, a person having two or more faked passports is deemed by law to have them for sale.
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26 Mar 2014
A falsified thing is bad in nature. It may benefit the offender but it injures others, particularly the innocent one. At a time a number of uneducated labors from Bangladesh were arrested in Thailand for holding fake passports. They were prosecuted and detained during judicial process. Knowing it, I stepped in to help them because I thought they did not know of the forgery. The court handed them over to their consular to send them back home. Though they were freed in the end, they suffered a lot of injuries. One could not walk while others suffered bad health. So every foreigner is advised to be careful of everything, particularly travel documents because forgery of a document under Thai law can be done in any manner likely to injure others or the public.
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26 Mar 2014
Yes, is a big offence with imprisonment for life or imprisonment from ten to twenty years. Possessing counterfeited money for use is also guilty with imprisonment of one to 15 years. Someone may not know it is faked when he/she gets it. But once he/she knows it, he/she must not use it because if he/she uses it as money he/she with be guilty with punishment of imprisonment as high as 10 years or fine not more than 20.000 baht or both. If it is foreign money, the punishment is half of Thai money.
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26 Mar 2014
These offences are part of capital crime which, I don’t think, will be committed by any foreigner. However a person whom you meet here might do it. That may affect your peaceful living here also. Note that now the value of Thai money has decreased a lot. To mention punishment with a fine looks very small, being not proportionate with the imprisonment. Usually the court tends to inflict imprisonment rather than fine. The offences of public danger are as follows
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26 Mar 2014
A foreign visitor should be careful about becoming a member of a society in Thailand because the society may be an illegal one with illegal or secret objectives. Being its member, you will be guilty of being an ung-yee(3) punishable with imprisonment not more than seven years and fine not exceeding fourteen thousand baht or both. Even though you do not commit any crime, you may become a criminal like them for the offence they have committed.
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26 Mar 2014
Buddhism has statues of Buddha as the objects of worship. Some years ago, a tourist climbed up to sit on the shoulder of a big statue of Buddha for photographing. He was arrested but was later acquitted because the investigating officer found that he had no intent to look down upon Buddhism. And the person extended his apology to the public.Media throughout the Kingdom published the event denouncing the action. The embassy of the state of the man in Bangkok expressed its apology to all Buddhists. Some images of Buddha seem to me to be very sacred because when I was a young boy, I was so naughty that I climbed up on a statue of Buddha at the altar of my home temple. People said that I had committed a sinful act that caused a skin disease all over my head. The abbot of the temple healed it for me by using his spit from his spit tool to rub on the disease, and I was healed in the end.
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26 Mar 2014
Yes, Thai government officials are, unlike those of some other countries, not immune from being sued if they commit a wrongful act against a private individual. However, they are protected by law in performing their official duty. So a foreigner visiting Thailand may do something being an offence against them such as :
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26 Mar 2014
CRIMINAL OFFENCES : Yes, An international offence of terrorism was added to The Thai Penal Code very recently , defining the offence as an act of violence that may cause a serious danger to any state or person or public transportation or communication with the purpose to threat or to force the Thai government or any other country’ s government or an international organization to do or to refrain from doing anything, from which it may cause a fatal danger or damages or fears to the public. The punishment provided for the offence is death or imprisonment for life or imprisonment from three years to 20 Yes, An international offence of terrorism was added to The Thai Penal Code very recently , defining the offence as an act of violence that may cause a serious danger to any state or person or public transportation or communication with the purpose to threat or to force the Thai government or any other country’ s government or an international organization to do or to refrain from doing anything, from which it may cause a fatal danger or damages or fears to the public. The punishment provided for the offence is death or imprisonment for life or imprisonment from three years to 20 years depending upon the seriousness of the act. years depending upon the seriousness of the act.
