About this episode

The episode discusses a new immigration app, issues with the taxi mafia in Thailand, an influencer's flight incident, the upcoming Pride Parade, and legal protections for sex workers.

Today we'll be talking about a new digital immigration app rolling out aiming to shorten arrival lines, then, we'll do a deep dive on Thailand's alleged 'Taxi Mafia' as the killing of a driver on Koh Samui exposes deeper problems in the tourist transport industry, also, an Australian influencer was removed from a flight following concerns regarding his recent cosmetic surgery, a little later we'll give you the lowdown on the upcoming Pride Parade hitting the streets of Bangkok this weekend, and finally there's a new bid to create legal protections for sex workers, but will it find success in parliament?

Topics covered

• immigration app
• taxi mafia
• tourist transport industry
• Pride Parade
• sex work decriminalization

Keywords

• immigration app
• taxi mafia
• Koh Samui
• Pride Parade
• sex work
• Bangkok
• tourism
• cosmetic surgery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Thailand, parliament

Places: Koh Samui

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