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.
149 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. Dates are shown by month and year: 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
- 155
Not the act, the claim
An earlier version used Article 37 to claim that remittance obligations already stretched Thai household budgets to their limits. Its research establishes no universal budget constraint or individual motive. The cost comparison is now conditional. A separate correction withdraws the claim that Thai wordplay proves how relationship norms are enforced. This targeted correction does not revalidate the vocabulary, relationship-norm, survey or legal account.
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- 139
The prawn is the random number
An earlier version treated the underground lottery as durably larger and inferred why people choose it. The revised comparison concerns when a bet is settled. The prawn-pond law and enforcement claims retain their existing review scope. An earlier version cited the underground lottery article as measuring who bears gambling harm. The studies do not establish that distribution or the harm from prawn betting. The penalty comparison now distinguishes organisers from customers and withdraws the claim that section 4 bis and its current fine were unchanged since 1935. The reported charges and other enforcement claims retain their existing review scope.
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- 138
You cannot buy it for yourself
An earlier version treated recording funeral gifts as universal. The example now describes a practice documented among some hosts. The reference to pet-loss language now describes a documented example of indirect expression. The wider account of gifts and provenance retains its separate review.
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- 134
Nobody hears you speed
An earlier version used a claim about the age and supposed deniability of Thai wordplay to explain drivers’ behaviour. That comparison is withdrawn. The article’s wider claims about traffic law, enforcement and driving behaviour retain their separate review.
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- 132
After the BTS clip went viral
Earlier versions gave a superseded section 397 penalty and treated the city notice as a cross-reference to the Criminal Code. The revision separates the notice, current law and reported fines. It corrects the description of the ฿2,000 total and limits the deletion claim to the parties’ agreement. Earlier versions overstated how quickly official complaints are resolved and what a public post can accomplish. The earlier correction withdrawing the wordplay analogy still applies.
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- 130
The joke in a Thai sound swap
An earlier version gave one mandatory rule for tone, claimed Thai swaps reliably produce words while English ones produce nonsense, dated the practice to the seventeenth century and asserted a history in communal harvest songs. It also assigned responsibility for a joke entirely to the listener. The revision gives documented sound patterns and a dated record of a literary copy. The earlier correction to the comparison with กลับดาว still applies.
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- 122
A star for a pet you’ve lost
Earlier versions treated น้อง as the only affectionate option and treated the origin and national use of กลับดาว as established. They drew unsupported conclusions about Buddhist rites and pet owners’ beliefs, gave a national starting price for cremation and used wider pet-market estimates to explain those practices. The revised article uses documented examples and itemised provider prices. The earlier correction distinguishing registered funeral aid from the language of bereavement still applies.
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- 71
Nobody else is called this
An earlier version directed readers to the housing article for the Thai ID number. The link now points to the ID-number explainer. This correction is limited to the cross-reference.
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- 66
Transfer first
In 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. An earlier version directed readers to the housing article for the Thai ID number. The link now points to the ID-number explainer. The related sentence distinguishes the existence of an ID number from the process of verifying a seller.
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- 64
The toll road to university
An earlier version repeated an unverified 11.8% international-school growth figure, compared it with a different year’s real GDP forecast and inferred that families were leaving the state system. The November follow-up removes the remaining growth and family-exit references. It also withdraws a comparison that used an unsupported national funeral-cost range. The examination fees and wider education account retain their separate review.
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- 59
The one crop young people come back for
An earlier version said Baan Mankong was delivering at roughly a hundredth of its target rate. CODI reports approvals, cumulative reach and different programme targets. These figures do not support that rate or the comparison with long-running agricultural support. This correction is limited to the housing reference.
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- 56
Thailand’s auspicious dates, calendar by calendar
Earlier versions overstated how widely people follow the same calendar and claimed that deliveries, handovers and weddings cluster as a result. Those claims are withdrawn. Bangkok condo stock figures do not record handover dates, and the earlier lottery research documents particular groups and publications. The revised article attributes the retail calendar to the ALL ONLINE blog and distinguishes its advice from the company registration figures.
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- 46
How Baan Mankong helps communities secure housing
An earlier version treated CODI’s wider housing target as Baan Mankong’s alone, compared counts for different periods and kinds of work, and used a cumulative figure as an annual target. The article withdraws the resulting delivery forecast and funding or political-priority attribution. It now separates approval, completion and occupancy, recognises relocation as one option, and removes unsupported maintenance and social-outcome claims. The earlier correction to the condo vacancy comparison still applies.
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- 29
How Thai funeral-aid associations pay families
An earlier version described these associations as life insurance and treated legal ceilings as typical charges. It implied a predictable payout, universal acceptance, prompt settlement and immunity from financial failure. Those claims are withdrawn. The earlier corrections distinguishing condolence gifts and withdrawing an unsupported national funeral-cost benchmark still apply.
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- 28
What goes into a Thai funeral bill
An earlier version presented ฿80,000–฿200,000 and a list of item prices as typical national costs, prescribed envelope amounts and treated gifts as a guaranteed reciprocal system that substantially offsets the bill. Those claims are withdrawn. The earlier inference about what families can afford from the national debt ratio remains withdrawn, and the revised article drops the ratio from this discussion.
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- 27
Where Bangkok puts its spirit houses
An earlier version presented directions, a minimum height and a shadow restriction as universal rules, then used the shadow claim to explain rooftop placement across Bangkok. The rewrite separates guidance from observed practice and corrects what the hand-span measurement refers to. It also removes the unsupported account of red soft drinks replacing blood offerings and the blanket claims about what moving a shrine requires.
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- 20
How Thailand’s underground lottery gets its numbers
Earlier versions treated local accounts of number choice as a nationwide practice, overstated the evidence about the publishing trade and shrine vendors, treated stock-index figures as a twice-daily random draw and asserted that harm fell disproportionately on lower-income underground bettors. The rewrite limits the claims to the evidence and explains the Gambling Act’s treatment of unauthorised wagers. Earlier corrections to market size, participation, variable payout terms and the inference from national debt to gambling as a savings strategy still apply.
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- 210
Three statutory deadlines in Thailand's Police Act
An earlier version assigned the section 166 review and section 167 extension recommendation to the Police Commission. Both provisions name the National Police Policy Committee. The full Government House briefing confirms the third extension, which the article previously attributed to a secondary copy.
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- 200
Worth more used than sold
An earlier version described the ten-year solar export offer as legacy material. The regulator's published 2026 invitation and model contract specify ten years. The later Council decision directs an extension to twenty years. The tax section now distinguishes the application and spending window from the tax year of successful connection.
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- 198
Whose roof it is
An earlier version treated the seasonal ฿5,000 and insurance ฿10,000 amounts for a home surrounded by floodwater as competing reports. They belong to separate schemes. The revised guide distinguishes the insurance trigger from direct building damage and describes the regulator's disaster-area check. The Finance Ministry criteria exclude rented homes from the repair item and provide a separate rent item for qualifying tenants whose homes are uninhabitable.
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- 193
A deposit, a ticket, and a bail bond
An earlier version repeated the withdrawn conclusion that N3 failed and treated the underground lottery as durably larger. The revised comparison distinguishes a lottery stake from a savings deposit with stated redemption terms. The issuer's terms and tax claims retain their existing review scope.
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- 190
Present at the counter
An earlier version presented the 1972 announcement as the sole immediate predecessor to the current alcohol-hours notices. The Prime Minister’s Office had separately set the hours under the 2008 Act in June 2025. The amended Act names the Control Committee as the issuing authority. The medicine classifications and licensing claims retain their separate review.
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- 183
Thailand’s alcohol sale hours and holy-day rules
An earlier version cited the superseded 2024 Buddhist holy-day rule and listed the airport as the sole exception. Five categories were already in the May 2025 notice and are carried forward by the November 2026 replacement. The June 2025 notice separately set the same hours as the 1972 announcement, and the May 2026 replacement took effect before the scheduled end of the 180-day trial. Earlier corrections to the intoxication rule, advertising fine ceilings and unsourced historical price comparison still apply. The claim that civil liability had no earlier basis is withdrawn.
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- 179
Thirty years at fifteen thousand
The full November 2026 review corrects the child allowance, sickness and unemployment comparisons, distinguishes the Section 33 wage ceiling from Section 39's fixed contribution base, and separates the current pension formula from the CARE draft. The ฿15,000 ceiling dates to March 1995. The replacement was signed on 11 December 2025 and published on 12 December. Earlier corrections withdrew the hospital cross-subsidy claim, unsupported wage comparisons, the reliance on a general protection theory, and assumptions about collectors' employment and eligibility. Section 40 eligibility concerns insurance status at application and the state also contributes.
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- 141
Nobody has sat it for twenty years
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. The November follow-up removes a school-revenue forecast presented as counted fees and an unsupported inference about money moving between markets. This targeted correction does not revalidate admissions, tutoring markets or applicant outcomes.
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- 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. An earlier version used a purported count of empty Bangkok condos to characterise Muang Thong Thani in 1997. The unsold-stock figures do not establish historical vacancy at that site. The venue and township history retain their separate review.
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- 137
Six if you have land
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's ordinance conditions, land/consent requirements and entitlement effects. An earlier version treated unsold condo stock as a vacancy count and used it to infer renters’ housing choices. That inference is withdrawn. The ordinance and its application retain their separate review.
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- 136
Two hundred plants per rai
An earlier version used unsold condo stock as a count of vacant homes and treated it as evidence of land-banking. The market figure does not record physical vacancy or an owner’s motive. The tax instruments and their interpretation retain their separate review.
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- 127
You still have to do it
An earlier version treated a 2025 international-school revenue forecast as a measured annual total of school fees. The reference now points to published fees. This targeted correction does not recheck event figures.
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- 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. An earlier version cited unsold condo stock as a count of empty homes and implied that it showed how many urban electric-car buyers live in condos. That inference and the claim that every driver without home charging depends permanently on a public queue are withdrawn. The vehicle, connector and co-owner approval claims retain their separate review.
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- 113
Thailand's firearms licence and the renewal proposals
An earlier version misstated the renewal and post-issue position. Section 23(3) ties the ordinary licence to ownership, and sections 62 and 66 provide for notice on moving and revocation for ineligibility. The September draft decree and the October bill's proposed five-year term are separate. The revised charts withdraw the unsupported welfare-transfer claim. Earlier corrections to the imitation-firearm licensing scope, the modelled unregistered estimate, incident and enforcement figures, and unsupported welfare claims still apply.
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- 111
Japan's 15-day visa waiver for Thai travellers
The full November 2026 review distinguishes Thailand's published listing from Japanese entry rules, corrects the 15-day count, adds the July 2026 overstay snapshot and uses the refusal table's own denominator. The annual-renewal, new-passport screening, Thai-overstay cause and per-trip JESTA claims are withdrawn. Earlier corrections to the misdated overstay series, purported withdrawal threat, general protection theory and Korean-route inferences still apply.
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- 92
The first toll
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. The November follow-up removes an unsupported 11.8% international-school revenue growth claim. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's education benefits, cost baskets and coverage.
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- 83
Red or black
An earlier version treated a 2025 international-school revenue forecast as a measured market total. The reference now describes Article 41's scope. This targeted correction does not recheck military selection or service rules.
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- 70
What Thailand's three-digit lottery changed
The earlier verdict that N3 failed was withdrawn. The full review also withdraws the claims that paying agents alone caused sales growth, that an informal seller reliably pays, that the underground market is several times larger, and that the printed-ticket price was enforced everywhere. The unrelated cybercrime percentage is removed. The article now distinguishes the rules, agent changes, dated sales and evidence needed to measure displacement. Earlier corrections to the rider, income, allowance and gold comparisons remain in effect.
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- 65
A capital with a country attached
An earlier version claimed urban fertility was lower everywhere in the world and treated a national fertility estimate as proof that Bangkok's concentration reduced births. That universal claim and causal inference are withdrawn. This targeted correction does not revalidate the metropolitan population, output, primacy comparisons or wider causal argument. An earlier version used the historical remittance share and migrant-child statistic as current national evidence that adult children were in Bangkok and metropolitan concentration explained family transfers. Those inferences and matching social/image claims are removed. This targeted correction does not revalidate population, output, primacy comparisons or the wider geographic argument. An earlier version repeated an unsupported nationwide unsold-condo total as evidence about Bangkok. The property figure is withdrawn from the primacy argument. The other metropolitan claims retain their separate review.
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- 58
The air-conditioned town square
In November 2026 the article removed the implication that comparing retail floor space with a national growth rate establishes mall performance, and corrected the attribution of Mahidol's 0.86 to the 2026 Gazette rather than a measured 2025 outcome. Macro figures were updated separately; retail measurements and property reporting were not re-audited. An earlier version used unsold condo stock to infer that malls and condos were built against the same growth and population expectations. That comparison is withdrawn. The retail measurements and occupancy claims retain their separate review.
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- 43
Counting Bangkok’s unsold condos
Earlier versions used an untraceable Bangkok valuation, described a wider housing estimate as nationwide and treated a press clipping hosted by REIC as a national condo count. The November 2026 review uses Cushman & Wakefield’s Q3 stock and completed subset and distinguishes them from the official REIC regional survey. The basis for matching Knight Frank’s wider estimate with annual transfers could not be established. The article now flags Knight Frank’s unreconciled Q1 reservation figures and withdraws inferences about vacancy, rents, foreign quotas and the causes of unsold stock. The earlier corrections to unsupported macroeconomic explanations still apply.
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- 41
More schools, fewer pupils per school
An earlier version treated the ฿95 billion forecast as measured 2025 revenue and derived an 11.8% growth rate from rounded endpoints. KResearch forecast 9.7%; its October 2026 release gives a later 2025 estimate of ฿116 billion. The rewrite withdraws the comparison with a different year's real GDP, the inferences about per-child spending and family moves, and the unverified fee figure and market-wide ranges. Two published fee schedules now supply the examples.
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- 24
฿45 million for a number plate: the state's numerology business
An earlier version treated the underground lottery as four to five times the size of the official one and attributed the difference to number choice. The revised comparison distinguishes conventional tickets, N3 digit selection and plate auctions. The auction and fund figures retain their existing review scope.
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- 08
The foreigner price: a Thai explanation
An earlier version gave the base national park entry range for foreign adults as ฿150–500 and applied a five-to-one comparison to every park. The four base pairs are five to one, while Khao Yai publishes ฿400 for foreign adults and ฿40 for Thai adults at its two gates. The old chart repeated unsupported resident and bargaining claims and has been replaced. Earlier corrections to the work-permit advice, appearance-based enforcement, budget arithmetic and general legal claims still apply. The revised levy section distinguishes the 2023 draft approved in principle from the current ฿450 proposal, which would defer land and sea collection for a year.
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- 173
The hospital budget and the donation appeal
An earlier version reported a combined deficit at nearly 1,000 hospitals and said capitation had reached them. The published figures did not establish either claim. Later versions withdrew the universal-versus-categorical verdict and the cross-subsidy and solvency inferences. The full review also withdraws the implication that the historical inpatient ratio measured reimbursement of hospital care as a whole, the use of that ratio to explain donation appeals, and the claimed preference for celebrity appeals over accounts. The gross fund amount includes public-provider salaries, and the new account separates budget, claims, actual payments and donor evidence.
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- 206
The second million
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's programme rounds, eligibility, need and outcomes.
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- 189
Called an honorarium
An earlier version treated a wage or honorarium label as decisive for employment status and used Article 89's general theory to establish the role's legal position and motives. Those inferences are withdrawn. Classification requires the applicable law and arrangements; the graphics are suppressed pending a full review of the regulations, benefits and legislative account.
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- 188
Five kinds of wealth
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's registration, property and distributional comparisons.
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- 185
Principal, then interest, then penalty
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's student-loan law, payroll and other collection routes.
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- 182
Where the post is empty
An earlier version claimed that every small school was under-enrolled because children were not born, excluding school choice, and described each incoming cohort as smaller. National birth totals establish neither claim; the checked five-year series also includes a rise in 2023. The school-level diagnosis and automatic stock-change claim are removed. This targeted correction does not revalidate the reported merger programme or its outcomes. An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's staffing categories, school data and teaching outcomes.
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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 in September 2026. An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's waste charges, funding, regressivity and political feasibility.
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- 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. An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's traffic restrictions, signs and familiarity effects.
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- 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. An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's venue law, safety provisions and implementation.
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- 158
Produced, not received
An earlier version used Article 37 to assert a current private-pension-scale flow from Bangkok and industrial provinces to the Northeast. The reviewed studies establish neither that national scale nor that origin/destination map. This targeted correction does not revalidate provincial-product figures, population denominators, household-income rankings or the wider accounting argument.
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- 147
The children pay, the parents go
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's tourism/care licensing, insurance and legal regime overlap.
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- 142
Somebody has to be in the chair
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's participants' circumstances, community rotas and benefit adequacy.
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- 129
Have parents when you're ready
An earlier version wrongly attributed 0.86 to 2025 civil registration and compared annual Gazette editions; earlier corrections removed that attribution and comparison. This full review also removes unsupported claims of campaign success and causation, a population-stock “reconciliation” and net-migration explanation, a childlessness inference and an unverified 75-year superlative. The Health Department's own notices give different totals; a separate counting basis has not been established. Blanket claims that all costs are private, that no relevant surveys exist and that the whole pension system runs through children are withdrawn. The FAQs and sharing material now agree with the article; mismatched international rankings are removed.
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- 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. In November 2026 the article also withdrew the claim that a scale alone verifies a scrap bargain and explains informal-market success. Weight does not establish grade, price or other transaction terms. An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's vehicle-intermediation claims and transaction outcomes.
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- 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 in September 2026 gave ฿500 as a current figure in five places, and it was removed from all of them.
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- 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. An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's concession terms, tolls and distributional effects.
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- 115
The polite person finishes last
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's language, social sanctions and power.
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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. An earlier version used Article 86 as an account of who counts as being in a workplace and described it as establishing workplace deaths. The companion now distinguishes heat measurements, the regulation and case-specific coverage; it does not establish deaths or individual rights on Rama II. This targeted correction does not revalidate the traffic and casualty series, construction history, causal argument or current motorway status.
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- 112
When luck is a service
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's spiritual-service participation, pricing, access and efficacy.
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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 as though it were flat rather than marginal, and ranked a pawnshop reservation against an education budget; that comparison was withdrawn. In November 2026 it also removed the universal lack of an employer assigned to collectors and the claim that a list of occupations proved bank exclusion and identical pawnshop treatment. An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's pawnshop conditions, eligibility, rates and access.
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- 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. Rechecked September 2026. An earlier version used Article 67 to turn family gratitude into a general account of Thailand's pension system. The introduction now limits the connection to the word; it does not equate household support and emergency response. This targeted correction does not revalidate foundation history, staffing, territorial arrangements, emergency-response percentages or transport permissions. An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's volunteer insurance, compensation and safety arrangements. An earlier version projected a historical heat index onto responders' roads, treated crash totals as identifying who attended and stated an insurance payment without its conditions. Those inferences are withdrawn. Stale sharing copy repeating the already-corrected family-pension and national-response claims is also removed. This targeted repair does not revalidate foundation operations, funding, staffing, transport permissions or the reported Bangkok response percentage.
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- 103
Little ghosts
An earlier version confused E-8 seasonal applicants with EPS, extrapolated rural household transfers to Korea and asserted no country-specific remittance evidence, used Article 89 to deny complaint, compensation and testimony routes, and used Article 84 to infer informed choices and absent alternatives. Those corrections remain. The full review replaces the old worker/legal split and overstay comparison with dated residence statistics, corrects the annual-decline claim, and withdraws the universal tourist-only/no-agent/no-trafficking account, unsupported quota/demand and death figures, fatality-risk inference, collective blame and the claim that the skilled route was newly available or proved the cause of decline. The absence-of-English-coverage and unavailable-data claims were not established and are withdrawn. The original Thai/Korean wage comparison is not reinstated. Official guidance recognises a compensation route; this does not guarantee an award or immunity from immigration action.
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- 100
Borrowing to eat
The earlier article equated personal-consumption lending with daily necessities, implied that co-operative and pawnshop borrowing left the official statistics, misdefined Stage 2 as under-90-day arrears, and combined debt measures without adequate dates or definitions. In November 2026 those claims were corrected. Unsupported causal, income-ranking and moral-hazard claims, the archive-to-national-total calculation, the mistaken reference to 71 million households, and the assertion that no settlement count had been published were withdrawn. Relief eligibility and conditional waivers were clarified; verified principal-reduction offers remain. The earlier correction to the repair cross-reference's income-gain ranking is retained. Moving to Q2 data and incorporating revised earlier quarters are series updates, distinct from those errors.
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- 98
When the market stopped watching
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's fisheries law, trade measures, representation and workplace access.
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- 97
Cheaper than mending
An earlier version treated a labour/price ratio as a universal explanation and used factory counts and unsupported market/location claims as evidence of a national repair decline. Its permanent skill-loss, cheap-training and closing legislative-window claims were not established. The November 2026 rework also narrows the low-value exemption account, separates duty from the earlier VAT timeline and removes the untraced flat November 2025 duty, revenue forecast and import-decline claim. Body, FAQ, metadata and social copy agree, and the inherited factory chart is suppressed. The earlier correction to unestablished collector counts, recovery shares, employment claims and an unmeasured repair-to-collector workload/income transfer remains in effect. The selected device-shop study does not establish national trends or causal effects.
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- 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. An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's sector forecasts, labour entitlements and delivered compensation.
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- 93
Marriage of the Poor
An earlier version claimed Monkaen had never featured in English coverage, described an unverified three-year winning streak, treated a reported rolling-window total as a calendar-year fact and overstated genre dominance, distribution shares, unchanged popularity and independence from Bangkok labels. The November 2026 rework removes or qualifies these claims and suppresses the inherited chart across the body, FAQ, metadata and social copy. The earlier correction to Article 91's unestablished worker count, recovery share, universal lack of employment and the claim that three unrelated measures proved one failure remains in effect. The headline's title interpretation is not a lyric translation.
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- 90
Feed to till
An earlier version described a vendor's table as being in 51.9°C, confusing a reported heat index with air temperature, and used Article 86 to support a prediction of street-food decline. Those claims and matching sharing copy are withdrawn. This targeted correction does not revalidate company disclosures, market shares, price comparisons or the wider competition analysis. The earlier replacement of a first-half revenue figure with a newly published full year remains a data update, separate from these errors.
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- 89
The wrong way round
An earlier version treated universal schemes as invariably successful and categorical schemes as failures, ranked protection inversely to exposure without comparable measurements, and inferred legal coverage from occupation or a contract label. Those claims and the automatic policy/cost/protest predictions are withdrawn. Healthcare's three-scheme structure, occupational-safety definitions, motor-benefit conditions and the gold-board limitation are now explicit. Unsupported income/affordability, staffing, tariff, conscription, payment-protection and equal-gold-price claims are removed. The earlier correction to a historical transfer median used nationally, a single allowance band and fertility-to-household-burden inferences remains in effect. The two misleading matrices remain suppressed; sharing copy and source notes now agree with the revised argument.
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- 87
Replaced by boxing
An earlier version used Article 84 to claim that nobody revisited rider classification and treated television as the sole exception to a general state failure to notice. The ministry's rider records contradict that comparison. The no-attention, sole-exception and uniquely-fast-response conclusions and matching sharing/image claims are withdrawn. This targeted correction does not revalidate schedules, ratings, industry shares, revenues, rebates, production counts, diplomacy or the capability-transfer argument.
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Working in the heat
An earlier version inferred statutory exclusion from outdoors or partner, workplace deaths from an age/sex profile and household tariff effects from occupation. Those inferences were withdrawn and the headline changed to Working in the heat. The full review also corrects the claim that the heat thresholds prescribe no response, scopes 55% to selected workers observed in 2016 and withdraws the claim that Thai mortality modelling could not be found. It removes unsupported assertions about the size and mechanism of a Thai undercount, universal worker conditions and a cheapest remedy. A reported Bangkok heat index of 51.9°C is omitted because its original measurement record was not obtained; the report is not declared false. Heat index, air temperature and WBGT are now distinguished, and cooling-centre provision is dated.
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Partners
An earlier version promised same-night earnings, inferred a fixed family bill and treated partner as establishing lawful exclusion from every labour and safety protection. Those claims remain withdrawn. The full review also corrects the portrayal of riders collectively rejecting protection, the account of a settled scheme, worker-only or predominantly rider funding, and the claim that pay information is unpublished. It withdraws unsupported motives and a formal-versus-informal income comparison, removes a mixed-vintage market comparison and corrects a baht/US-dollar mismatch by removing the figure. Official accounts, proposals, existing scheme guidance and individual rights are now kept distinct. The 2021 survey cannot establish current national pay or the 2026 petitioners' views.
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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. An earlier version used family-transfer figures and Article 67's broad obligation claim to make a family relationship non-optional in its explanation of Songkran travel. That inference and the unvalidated numeric cross-reference are removed. This targeted correction does not revalidate road-death or passenger statistics, travel motives or enforcement claims. An earlier version's remaining body and social copy still treated old remittance and migrant-child figures as an explanation of Songkran travel and universal allowance top-ups. Those claims are removed. This targeted follow-up does not revalidate the travel, passenger, road-safety or enforcement evidence.
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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. An earlier version dated 0.86 to 2025 and repeated Article 67's unsupported conversion of a period fertility estimate into family-support arithmetic. The demographic example is corrected. This targeted change does not revalidate the constitutional counts, referendum account or wider institutional argument.
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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 September 2026, as article 108 had asked. An earlier version used Article 67 to present family obligation as an automatic lifelong financial debt and as evidence that family support, social seniority and employment rights share one mechanism. That dependency is removed and the comparison labelled as interpretation. This targeted correction does not revalidate labour-law entitlements, wage figures, income comparisons or enforcement claims. The inherited four-systems graphic is also removed from publication.
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Bound to maintain
An earlier version labelled Mahidol's 0.86 estimate as a 2025 rate and used it to assert current sibling numbers and a fourfold support burden; that correction remains in effect. The full review also withdraws a limited 2009 study presented as current national support, a misreading of transfer categories and a constructed typical ฿80-a-day income and family/state split. Unsupported court-use, co-residence, universal family-behaviour and allowance-setting explanations are removed. Maintenance conditions and the allowance transition are now explicit; FAQs, sharing copy and assets agree.
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You are not buying dinner
In November 2026 the article removed the inference from national growth and debt figures to a universal customer response at ฿349 and a claim that every operator's margin comes from drinks. This targeted correction does not revalidate restaurant costs, prices or the business model.
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The price of milk and rice
An earlier version called sin sot compensation for a lost pension, using family-transfer measures and one allowance band that did not establish that purpose. It also shortened the older Thai expression, treated the custom as having one settled purpose, guaranteed a request and normal negotiation, claimed frequent returns and auspicious pricing, and attributed views or marriage outcomes to whole groups without adequate evidence. Those claims are corrected or withdrawn. The revised guide distinguishes dictionary language, the amended statutory categories, registration and a family's actual agreement. Neither a cultural label nor a request settles individual motives, rights or affordability. The inherited pension-transfer graphic remains suppressed.
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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. In November 2026 it withdrew the social brief's claim that Thailand was the slowest in ASEAN, since the cited IMF October table includes lower forecasts for Brunei and Myanmar. Macro references were updated; industry claims, rankings and exports were not re-audited.
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Thailand skipped credit cards
An earlier version ran two measures together: transactions per head of population and per registered user. They are now separated. It also treated a banking article as proof that no major bank would open an account for any DTV holder; that universal claim was withdrawn. In November 2026 it removed the undefined non-productive-debt claim and the inference from payment labels to household borrowing behaviour or financial improvement. The debt ratio was separately updated; payment volumes, system history and formalisation claims were not re-audited.
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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. An earlier version used an undated fertility estimate, an unverified 75-year birth superlative and inconsistent projection years to infer a demographic mitigation strategy and rank ageing as the central economic problem. Those claims are removed. Mahidol's 0.86 is a midyear-2026 estimate, separate from registered births. This targeted correction does not revalidate the migrant counts, regularisation claims or sector estimates. An earlier version treated domestic family transfers and international worker remittances as the same measured mechanism and retirement support. Article 37's historical samples do not establish those cross-border flows or their uses. This targeted correction does not revalidate migrant totals, regularisation, sectors or international remittance estimates.
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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 September 2026.
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When money goes home
An earlier version mislabelled a midyear-2026 fertility estimate as a 2025 rate and inferred current sibling numbers and inevitable support failure; the unverified 75-year birth superlative and conflicting ageing projections remain removed. This full review also corrects the national/current use of the rural remittance share and the conflation of a migrant child's location with dependency. It removes the unsupported 10% salary guideline, universal payment/shame claims, automatic work-stopping and drought-insurance accounts, blanket cross-cultural comparison, hierarchy of informal systems and verdicts about individual requests. The pension headline, charts, FAQs and sharing material are revised accordingly. Family transfers are one part of household and retirement resources.
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Thirteen digits: what a Thai ID number actually tells you
An earlier version relied on Article 89's universal-versus-categorical or inverse-protection theory as an established finding. That reliance is withdrawn; eligibility, benefit scope, delivery and outcomes require separate evidence. This targeted correction does not revalidate this article's identity-number categories and entitlements.
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Len chae: the bank made of friends
In November 2026 the article removed the undefined claim that much household debt is non-productive. The dated debt ratio is separately updated from the primary BOT table. This targeted correction does not revalidate the legal or savings-circle account.
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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 September 2026.
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Growing older, growing slowly
Earlier versions used an unsupported fertility attribution, described an interpolated working-age share as observed, treated household debt as fixed, ruled out growth or effective stimulus, and presented a proposed arrival levy as existing. The later correction distinguishing draft air and land/sea timing remains on record. In November 2026 the article also removed the unverified 1.0 attribution to the 2025 Gazette, an automatic generation-halving inference, an undefined non-productive-debt claim, and unsupported policy-motive and funding conclusions. The original 1.18 claim lacked an adequate source; it is not declared impossible under every method. New forecasts and revised debt vintages are data updates, distinct from those errors.
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Ownership passes last
An earlier version put all Article 91 collectors on motorcycles and used a vehicle-rate comparison to identify the poorest borrower. The research establishes neither claim. Different transport and the absence of borrower-income evidence were made explicit in November 2026.
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Taking turns
An earlier version treated GSB's 2005–2015 eligibility range as proof that every covered guarantee pre-dated the February 2015 reform. That range spans the statutory cut-off and does not identify any individual guarantee date, so the claim was removed.
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The tax worked on the bottle
An earlier version printed four bands, labelled sugar figures per litre rather than per 100 millilitres, and gave ฿1 where the schedule says ฿0.10. In November 2026 it also removed the inference that Article 99's packaging explanation established default sweetness or a national drinking pattern; the container supplies no such measurement.
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How Thailand's 2024 Senate selection worked
An earlier version mixed a live Senate case, press reporting and structural argument while admitting that key legal claims had not been checked against the controlling materials. It has been replaced by a neutral primary-source explainer and the live-case claims were removed.
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Thailand's treatment-anywhere scheme: more access, not a blank cheque
An earlier version said the referral requirement had been abolished nationally, reduced referral documents to a payment mechanism and relied on live Bangkok policy claims beyond the current primary record. The rebuild removes those assertions and keeps only the checked national guidance.
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A price on a fish
Earlier versions mixed funding and rates and repeated unestablished collector, waste-bank and recovery claims, universal lack of employment and a shared-workforce theory. The November 2026 rework also removes unsupported catch comparisons, loss and claimant totals, the price-discrepancy account, a universal gold-price analogy and claims that purchases proved price-responsive effort, population control or a buying-pause resurgence. The permanent-price remedy and no-predator account were withdrawn. The documented ฿20 package was not all paid to fishers, and ฿97.8 million covered several activities. Current-sounding province counts and an all-catches-to-fish-meal claim were replaced with dated, bounded records across the body, FAQ, metadata and social copy.
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Weighed, not counted
An earlier version used unsupported annual tonnage and national-share figures, assigned a broader carbon claim to waste banks and treated dated local-authority coverage as a current bank count. It also overstated cash access and welfare, said scrap prices were unpublished, claimed banks remedied collectors' information disadvantage, and declared thin plastic bags worthless. Those claims were corrected or withdrawn in November 2026; the net income effect on collectors remains unestablished.
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A red box is a check, not a witness
An earlier version gave a national red-box count and cost without a direct source, treated a book entry as proof of physical presence, and reported remote QR scanning, GPS replacement and an installation charge without a sufficient source trail. In November 2026 those claims were removed; the article now describes only the documented paper and QR patrol-check procedure and its limits.
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The lunch rate has four numbers
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. In November 2026, the article also corrected its claim that no primary-school per-head rate was established: the official FY2025 record gives ฿22–36 size bands and a pupil distribution from which ฿23.99 is calculated. Its retail-price comparison, rate-to-fraud theory, unsupported nutrition figures and claim of a Supreme Court-confirmed 20-year-six-month term were removed.
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The bottle stays
Earlier versions used an unestablished collector count and recovery share, universal film-worthlessness claims, automatic recovery and unmeasured import-income promises, mixed plastic measures and unreconciled bag counts. Those were corrected or removed in November 2026. The full recheck also removed the unsupported 1950s origin, universal bottle ownership and value claims, and presentation of the one-finger phrase as an established rule. It distinguished the named retail campaign's 81,531 tonnes over 2020–2022 from the broader 148,699-tonne/43% result. Immediate adaptation, a blanket prohibition and a proven policy effect were not established.
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Paid by weight
An earlier version treated an attributed workforce estimate as a headcount, overstated recovery share and universal lack of employment, protection and social-security access, and mixed waste measures. The 95% Asia-wide plastic claim was not established. The World Bank's 88.8% figure is a combined measure for studied areas, not a national recycling rate or merely collection. E-waste findings do not describe every collector; import-income effects and guaranteed sorting benefits were not established. The earlier price correction remains: buyer quotes exist, but the proposed remedy's cost and income effect were not measured. Corrected in November 2026.
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The fine nobody paid
An earlier version said police and transport systems were not connected and that the 2026 agreement created the first ticket-to-tax-renewal mechanism. The law and earlier implementations already provided that route; the 2026 arrangement is a revised, court-aware process with a fuller evidence trail. The 6.2-million/15-per-cent payment claim could not be reconciled with a primary record and was withdrawn, as was the claim that the new arrangement had already proved a deterrent.
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Money you can wear: Thailand’s gold price board
An earlier version gave the baht weight as 15.244 grams throughout; that is the figure for bar gold, while jewellery is 15.16 grams. It also said every shop quoted an identical price, that any accredited shop would buy standard jewellery at the published price with only minor variation, and that gold outperformed a savings account for households with limited banking access. The primary sources establish a reference price and a same-shop buy-back rule, not those wider claims.
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Bangkok motorcycle taxi ranks: rules, records and limits
An earlier version asserted vest-price bands, calculated them against a rider-income survey, claimed a daily passenger total and treated a vest as the equivalent of a taxi medallion. The primary public record does not establish those claims, so the numbers, price map, comparison and debt-risk argument were removed.
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Thailand’s informal safety nets, unbundled
An earlier version forced unlike arrangements into one “parallel economy”, assigned them shared motives and enforcement, and made causal and demographic predictions its sources did not establish. It is now a bounded guide to their different legal positions and evidential limits.
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Thai workplace hierarchy: what พี่ and น้อง actually signal
The earlier version said Thai grammar put every colleague in a fixed hierarchy, then used that claim to explain promotion, overtime, employee voice, patronage and SOTUS. The linguistic evidence supports a contextual address system, not those causal claims; they were removed.
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Thai gold savings: selling jewellery back
An earlier version said any shop would buy any piece of Thai gold jewellery at a nationally checkable price, called the resale spread narrow and consistent, and described a necklace as a savings account without qualifying its price and contract risk. The rebuilt page keeps the reference price, label rules and same-shop protection, and removes the promises.
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Songkran road deaths: what the 2026 count records
An earlier version printed a daily Songkran series that did not reconcile with its final total, and treated partial cause and vehicle figures as though they covered the full campaign. The unreconciled series and those claims were removed.
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Thai conscription from abroad: the paperwork timeline
An earlier version duplicated the lottery explanation in Article 83, used changing 2026 quota and volunteer figures, and made broad claims about social class, work and exemptions that its sources did not establish. It is now a narrower official paperwork guide for Thai nationals abroad.
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Bangkok motorcycle taxis: a passenger’s practical guide
The previous version duplicated Article 69's informal-vest-market framing and repeated price bands that this passenger guide does not need to establish. It is now a source-led guide to rank information, fares, helmets and the complaint route.
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How Thai police promotion rules use seniority
An earlier version turned the published promotion framework into a much broader argument, placed criminal-law and complaint-route material beside it, and treated the absence of numerical weights as categorical. It now explains only the verified 33% seniority minimum, the stated factors and the limits of the public record.
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Thailand's sex worker protection bill: what the public record shows
An earlier version used an unverified petition count, a single customer account, dated risk and earnings material, and a claimed current endorsement status as the basis for wider conclusions. Those claims have been removed; this version is limited to the public legislative record and says where that record is incomplete.
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Thailand's Por Ror Bor sticker: important cover, incomplete protection
An earlier version treated preliminary and final compulsory-insurance benefits as one rule, used an unverified funeral-cost comparison and made generic claims about voluntary policies stacking above compulsory cover. Those claims were removed in the primary-policy rebuild.
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Thailand's universal healthcare: a public system, not a visitor benefit
An earlier version gave a board budget request as the budget itself, compared the scheme with unsourced private-insurance prices, and made an absolute infant-mortality claim. The primary-source rebuild removed those claims rather than softening them.
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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.
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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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Bangkok's air: what to check, and why one-cause answers fail
An earlier version presented a fixed calendar and one-source explanation, and used specific historic readings from secondary reporting; those claims were withdrawn rather than repackaged as a forecast.
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Can foreigners buy property in Thailand? The rules to check before you pay
An earlier version said foreign-condominium purchase funds had to arrive only as foreign currency and stated a universal court outcome on lease renewals. The Condominium Act recognises other qualifying evidence paths; the court claim was withdrawn until a judgment-level review is completed.
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Bangkok scams: use a verification habit, not a paranoia habit
An earlier version told readers that nobody who approaches them is friendly, then spent a section arguing the opposite. It also made categorical claims about every classic scam, attraction closures, tuk-tuk commissions and the severity of different fraud types; those claims were withdrawn where the recheck did not establish them.
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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. In 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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Expat health insurance in Thailand: questions your quote must answer
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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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.
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Your bill is not broken
Correction, October 2026: the article had treated ฿4.88 as a universal flat cap on a landlord's electricity charge. The source rule applies to a residential-letting business with three or more homes and limits a covered business to the electricity cost the utility charges it. The 9 September correction to the residential tariff bands remains in force.
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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.
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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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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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The average Thai farmer is 58
An earlier version used 2003–2013 figures with different age cut-offs. They were replaced with census figures in September 2026.
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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 September 2026.
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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 September 2026.
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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 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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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 in 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.
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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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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 in September 2026; the citation was removed.
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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.
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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.
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The standard they set for themselves
Rewritten in 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.
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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.
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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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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).
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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.
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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 September 2026.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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