Living in Thailand's age of impunityListen to this articleThere's no place like Thailand. For tourists, Thailand is full of life, a land of tropical joie de vivre. Our culture of impunity is world-famous, rivalling our beaches and nightlife, but back-to-back crane collapses, plus the State Audit Office building fiasco, represent the apogee of shamelessness. There's no place like Thailand, where joyscrolling can abruptly turn into doomscrolling. It can't be that bad here, I tell myself, when there is war, genocide, uprisings, and Trump elsewhere.

Source: Bangkok Post January 16, 2026 23:34 UTC