Corrections
What earlier versions got wrong.
When an article here turns out to be wrong, it is corrected in place and says so: what the earlier version said, and what replaced it. This page collects those notes.
77 articles carry a correction. Most came out of re-checking the archive against its Thai sources in August and September 2026, one article at a time: the statute rather than a summary of it, the ministry's own table rather than a report of it. Where a claim could not be sourced, it was removed rather than softened, and the article says so.
Each summary below is short. The article carries the full note, in its text or in its sourcing note. The dates are the article's own: when it was written, and when it was last updated.
An update that is not a correction, such as a newer quarter's figures replacing the last one's, is not listed here; the article's Updated date shows it.
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The corrections
- 113
The gun was legal
An earlier draft said imitation firearms are unlicensed; ordering, importing or trading them needs a licence under section 52. A claim that holders must present themselves every five to ten years could not be found in any instrument and was withdrawn.
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- 74
Four hundred days
An earlier version presented the 400-day severance ladder as protection without the enforcement behind it. Withholding severance carries a maximum fine of ฿100,000 under section 144, whatever the sum, so the argument now says the law protects the job on paper. Corrected 27 September 2026, as article 108 had asked.
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- 09
One point oh
An earlier version gave a working-age share of "around 61%" that was an interpolation, not a published figure, and it was removed. It also quoted household debt at 88.2% of GDP, undated, as though the ratio were fixed (it has been falling), said stimulus cannot work (weakened is not zero), and stated a proposed tourist arrival fee as fact. On 27 September 2026 it corrected its own account of that proposal, which it had called a flat ฿450 however a visitor enters: the draft charges land and sea crossings a year after air arrivals.
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- 08
The foreigner price: a Thai explanation
An earlier version gave the national park fee for foreign adults as ฿150–500 and the gap with Thai adults as "a fifth to a tenth". Both were wrong; corrected 20 September 2026. The standfirst went on saying foreigners pay "five to ten times" the local rate until 27 September 2026; it is five times in every band. The same day the article corrected the proposed arrival fee, which it had called a flat ฿450 however a visitor enters: the draft charges land and sea crossings a year after air arrivals.
Written Updated
- 179
Thirty years at fifteen thousand
An earlier draft said the wage ceiling had stood since 1990. It dates from 30 March 1995, and the title was corrected.
Written
- 151
Thai words for wealth are not one family
A previous version claimed that Thai had no current native word for wealth and had borrowed every word it uses. That was withdrawn in September 2026 as unsupported, and the article was rewritten on the dictionary alone.
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- 66
Transfer first
On 20 September 2026 the article corrected ฿115.3 billion, which it had called reported losses: it is a survey-based estimate. An earlier version also described a consumer lawsuit as brought against one platform; it names several platforms and banks.
Written Updated
- 50
Thailand skipped credit cards
An earlier version ran two measures together: transactions per head of population and per registered user. They are now separated.
Written Updated
- 43
Empty by the hundred thousand
An earlier version led with "more than 60,000 unsold units worth over ฿200 billion", which could not be traced to any research house and was withdrawn, and called a Bangkok-and-vicinity figure of 350,000 national. Corrected and retitled 20 September 2026.
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- 39
It was never about hair
An earlier version referred to "the ministerial regulations" in the plural, merging two instruments with different fates: the 2020 regulation was cancelled in February 2023 and the 1975 one was revoked in March 2025.
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- 38
Six hundred baht a month
An earlier version called the allowance "not universal" because of a means test, without noting that the test has never been set and that, until it is, the older age-based rules apply (clause 18). Corrected 20 September 2026.
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- 36
฿4,298 a year: how Thailand covered everyone
An earlier version gave the budget the board had requested for 2026 as the budget itself. Corrected 20 September 2026.
Written Updated
- 34
A hundred per nationality: Thailand's permanent residence, explained
An earlier version gave the application window as October to December and the visa-history requirement as unspecified. Corrected 20 September 2026.
Written Updated
- 33
The average Thai farmer is 58
An earlier version used 2003–2013 figures with different age cut-offs. They were replaced with census figures on 20 September 2026.
Written Updated
- 32
The yellow book: Thailand's house registration, explained
An earlier version said the head of a house (เจ้าบ้าน) must be a Thai national. The Civil Registration Act's definition contains no nationality condition.
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- 31
Where the ฿50 plate actually comes from
An earlier version said both markets were run by the same company. They are run by two companies of the same family. Corrected 20 September 2026.
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- 18
Why Thai addresses make no sense (and why they actually do)
An earlier version attributed house numbering to the Land Department. The numbering belongs to the house register, not the land title. Corrected 20 September 2026.
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- 13
What a Bangkok street food cart actually earns
An earlier version ran findings from 2006 and 2016 together, gave the education figure as two-thirds without high school, and attributed to vendors a 70% earnings loss that the research attributes to nearby shops. Corrected 20 September 2026.
Written Updated
- 12
Bangkok scams: the pattern behind all of them
An earlier version told readers that nobody who approaches them is friendly, then spent a section arguing the opposite. The advice now matches the argument: treat an unprompted approach about your plans as a sales pitch until it proves otherwise.
Written Updated
- 11
111 dissolved parties: how Thailand made disbanding politics routine
An earlier version said no breakdown by ground existed; it did, and the article has used it since 20 September 2026. Earlier versions also quoted 111 as though every dissolution were political. On the published breakdown, 82 of the first 110 were for membership numbers or unfiled reports.
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- 10
How Thai politics actually works: a guide for the permanently confused
An earlier version said no breakdown of the 111 dissolved parties by ground existed. One does, in Thai, and it was added on 20 September 2026. The article had also turned the total into a rate, which invited reading it as 111 political suppressions; three in four were for paperwork.
Written Updated
- 03
How the romance scam industry actually works — and who is actually in the compounds
An earlier version said 74% of the scam workforce was in the Mekong region; the UN figure counts compounds, not people. It also misdated a 66-country figure and stated the top of a contested range for Cambodia's scam revenue as a finding. On 20 September 2026 it corrected ฿115.3 billion, which it had called losses reported to the police: it is a survey-based estimate by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance.
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- 02
Expat health insurance in Thailand: what your policy won't cover
Earlier versions carried a table of annual premiums that was not sourced to any policy schedule; it was withdrawn. The article also gave the insurance requirement as 40,000 baht outpatient and 400,000 baht inpatient, a rule that was superseded on 1 September 2022.
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- 01
Thailand long-stay visas compared: what each route really costs
An earlier version carried a range of insurance premiums built on the old 400,000-baht requirement. It was withdrawn rather than rescaled, because a guessed premium is worse than none.
Written Updated
- 174
Ten per cent, until the thirtieth
The version published on 8 September said a ฿20 flat fare had been charged on every line since 1 October 2025. It had not. An earlier version also treated common-ticketing legislation as pending; it is law.
Written Updated
- 131
The rule was abolished
The article now says the emergency-care scheme (UCEP) applies to critical emergencies specifically, which the earlier version did not.
Written Updated
- 117
Paid in years
Three claims were withdrawn: that no published rule explains the holiday toll waiver (one does), an original concession term the operator does not publish, and a quoted reason for declining a further extension.
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- 70
The part the state couldn't copy
An earlier version concluded that the state had lost. That conclusion was withdrawn.
Written Updated
- 173
It arrived, and it was not enough
An earlier version reported that nearly 1,000 hospitals ran a combined ฿18 billion deficit, and that the payment had reached them. Neither was established.
Written
- 132
The phone is the confrontation
Correction, 9 September 2026: the penalties given for causing someone to be startled, frightened, ashamed or annoyed were the pre-2015 figures. Two claims, that the formal complaint route loses on speed to filming and that a filmed objection cannot be called off, did not survive the outcome of the case.
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- 106
It asks about the object
An earlier version presented one pawnshop ladder as the government structure (there are two), stated the legal cap in a way that could be read as a flat rate (it is marginal), and ranked a pawnshop reservation against an education budget. That comparison was withdrawn.
Written Updated
- 72
Your bill is not broken
Correction, 9 September 2026: a re-check on 4 September confirmed the Ft charge for September to December and missed that the residential bands themselves had been restructured from the September bill.
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- 175
The pole is capital, the light is a bill
An earlier draft offered, as its own recommendation, a change the Interior Ministry had already made in 2023.
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- 171
Nobody can check your Pali
An earlier version paraphrased a published conclusion into something stronger than its author wrote, and went further than a Thai study allows on two points. It also cited a finding from another article on this site that was withdrawn on 8 September 2026; the citation was removed.
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- 114
It cannot be closed
Press-compiled totals of incidents, deaths and injuries were replaced with the Department of Highways' own record. An earlier version also said the main carriageway was closed for four months from February 2026; it was two lanes over 1.2 kilometres, with the parallel carriageway open.
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- 169
Twenty baht was never the price
An earlier version said nobody had worked out what the fee covers. The city had, and published it. It also, like most coverage, quoted the larger of two household counts as though it were the smaller one. Rewritten on primary sources on 7 September 2026.
Written Updated
- 135
You are renting footfall
An earlier version said the price of the floor space a machine stands on is not published anywhere. It is: Thai institutions let floor space by public notice, and the notice states the price.
Written Updated
- 133
Conduct is not risk
An earlier version said the Thai system does not appear to run a structured risk assessment of prisoners. The Department of Corrections does, and set it out in December 2023.
Written Updated
- 128
You can see the gearbox
An earlier version said the legal side of the used-parts trade could not be stated. The Department of Foreign Trade publishes it, and the article now does.
Written Updated
- 126
The standard they set for themselves
Rewritten on 31 August 2026. The earlier version said the city had not hired the Department of Corrections for the drain clearance, and built its argument on the workers having no employer; Thai reporting at the time shows the hiring. It also mixed up a 530-kilometre programme figure with the prisoners' share of the work, and cited a compliance manual that could not be found.
Written Updated
- 125
No need to leave the device
An earlier version said reported rates were "roughly a hundred and sixty times the legal rate". Against the 15% annual ceiling they are sixteen to twenty times in simple terms.
Written Updated
- 123
Nobody brought a ticket machine
An earlier version said battery-electric cars were "approaching half a million". That figure includes motorcycles; the car total is 317,268. It also said a condominium's manager or committee could approve a charger; the Condominium Act requires a resolution of the co-owners.
Written Updated
- 121
The loud ones are not the problem
An earlier version said 82% of everyone killed on Thai roads was on a motorbike. 82% is the share of deaths where a vehicle is recorded, and no vehicle is recorded for 44% of them. It also gave full-year 2023 figures from an extract that covers January to September only.
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- 119
You can only see the car
An earlier version said pickups are heavily represented in road deaths largely because of open-bed seating; the dataset has no pickup category, so neither that nor the stereotype can be tested against it. It also attributed the demerit-points system to a 2022 amendment and described the points as per licence (they are per person).
Written Updated
- 118
No lawful version
An earlier version said pedestrians may not be in a roadway except at a crossing, which is not what the Act says; the article now rests on section 110. A version published on 5 September 2026 gave ฿500 as a current figure in five places, and it was removed from all of them.
Written Updated
- 129
Have parents when you're ready
An earlier version said the 0.86 fertility rate came from the civil-registration series. It is a Mahidol University estimate, and a comparison with an earlier year, which its publisher warns against, was removed.
Written Updated
- 111
Renewed every June
An earlier version labelled the overstay figures a year early and included one that is not in the series; the count peaked on 1 January 2024 and has fallen since. A claim about how Japan would review the waiver was removed because no Japanese government source for it could be found.
Written Updated
- 109
Announced to the satang
An earlier version gave temple donation and deposit figures without two qualifications: the ฿120 billion a year is an estimate, and the ฿410 billion is deposits, not wealth.
Written Updated
- 107
A price on a fish
An earlier version gave ฿50 million and ฿12 million as the whole of the funding (the Department of Fisheries' allocation was about ฿97.8 million), did not distinguish private buyers, and claimed that a pause in state purchasing made the fish spread. That causal claim was withdrawn.
Written Updated
- 105
Shared gratitude
An earlier version presented a 65% figure as national. It is a Bangkok figure, and whether anything comparable holds nationally is not established. Re-checked 4 September 2026.
Written Updated
- 103
Little ghosts
An earlier version described those affected as applicants to Korea's Employment Permit System. They are seasonal agricultural and fisheries workers on a different scheme.
Written Updated
- 102
Somebody photographed the QR code
An earlier version stated as fact, from forum discussion, that money changes hands to get a box put on a wall. The article now describes what the evidence is and says it does not establish that such a charge exists.
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- 101
Nobody to borrow from
An earlier version described the Cabinet's ฿2,955 million as the national school lunch budget. It is a specific allocation for lower-secondary pupils at 7,344 opportunity-expansion schools.
Written Updated
- 96
Fewer parts
An earlier version gave a bank research unit's estimate of auto-parts jobs at risk without saying it is a modelled estimate of exposure, not a count of jobs lost.
Written Updated
- 80
Money you can wear
An earlier version gave the baht weight as 15.244 grams throughout. That is the figure for bar gold; for jewellery, the gold people wear, it is 15.16 grams.
Written Updated
- 79
What the temple used to do
An earlier version called ฿410 billion the temples' "total funds". It is bank deposits and excludes land and buildings. Re-checked 4 September 2026.
Written Updated
- 78
The seven dangerous days
An earlier version said that under a different settlement pattern a large share of the 242 deaths would not have occurred. Nothing supports that counterfactual, and it was withdrawn.
Written Updated
- 76
Nothing lasts long enough to build
An earlier version gave the number of Thailand's constitutions and their average lifespan without saying that the twenty include short interim charters issued after coups. It now classifies them.
Written Updated
- 55
The tenth-largest car producer on earth
An earlier version said Thailand "builds over two million vehicles a year". That is capacity, not output, and output has not reached it since 2019.
Written Updated
- 47
Commission-only, and the product is attention
An earlier version stated as fact that earnings follow a power law. No earnings data for the sector has been published, so it is now labelled as inference.
Written Updated
- 172
Ownership stops at the fence
An earlier version said section 55 of the Land Traffic Act makes it an offence to park across a driveway. That was wrong twice over; the section number had come from secondary explainers.
Written
- 170
The card is not the licence
An earlier version said the seller of a fake licence carries almost no liability. That was wrong. It also described the pattern differently from the Department of Land Transport's own account.
Written
- 165
The rule is about the road
An earlier version attributed the airport height limits to the wrong instrument. They are set by a 2004 ministerial regulation under the Building Control Act.
Written
- 164
Nobody built the connections
An earlier version of the sourcing note implied that the traffic law provides for one-way orders "with specified times". It does not; section 139 has since been read directly.
Written
- 161
None of them is about the building
An earlier version listed four criteria. The Act sets out five, and the missing one was closing after midnight.
Written
- 156
None of it is visible at the roadside
An earlier version gave the permitted hours as 06:00 to 20:00, which is not what the Act says, and attached the ฿10,000 penalty to driving outside those hours; section 59 attaches it to the unregistered-vehicle offence.
Written
- 154
It's on the seat because it works
An earlier version gave "around one in five" products as a current finding, with no date or sample. It is the top of a range ending in 2008, and no later sampling was found.
Written
- 153
The tax worked on the bottle
An earlier version printed four bands, labelled the sugar figures per litre when they are per 100 millilitres, and gave ฿1 where the schedule says ฿0.10.
Written
- 152
The instrument is the truck
Two booking fees in an earlier draft, ฿80,000–100,000 and ฿45,000, could not be sourced to anything datable and were removed.
Written
- 150
The lawful range
An earlier draft reported the penalty as "up to ฿1 million" from press coverage, missing the ฿100,000 floor, the unwinding order, the daily fine, and that the consenting foreigner faces the same penalty.
Written
- 148
The loudest junction
An earlier version said no junction appears both on the city's traffic counts and on the complaints list; one does, though that proves nothing. Earlier versions also named one junction as Bangkok's busiest, which the data cannot support, and that was removed.
Written
- 146
The person holding the bag
Two unattributed claims about how other countries' laws treat possession and knowledge were removed rather than hedged. The article states that what any particular country requires is not answered here.
Written
- 144
The channel is the collateral
An earlier version ran together the Food Act's prohibition (section 40) and its penalty (section 70), and blurred how the ฿1.8 million direct-marketing threshold applies.
Written
- 140
Nobody builds their own station
An earlier draft described one central convention centre as a smaller venue competing on access. Since reopening in September 2022 it competes on both scale and access.
Written
- 57
Thailand's parallel economy
An earlier version treated the informal institutions it describes as one legal category. They are not, and the article now says which are regulated and under what law.
Written
- 41
฿95 billion buying out
An earlier version derived an 11.8% growth rate from two rounded figures; the source's own rate is 9.7%. It also set a revenue forecast against a real-GDP forecast, and gave a single fee attributed to one named school, which was withdrawn because it could not be matched to a published fee line.
Written
- 40
The other foreigners
An earlier version attached "close to five million" migrant workers to March 2025. March 2025 belongs to a permit count, and no dated five-million figure could be found.
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