With the current single-entry 30-day eVisa, you have to tell them where you arrive when you apply. Hopefully they'll have the good sense to make the upcoming multi-entry visa more flexible, and allow you to arrive anywhere at least for subsequent entries. I have never understood the need to say whe...

BBC has a running live thread. Lots happening.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-66006142

Set your mental timers for Aug. 15. The Vietnam National Assembly has approved the 3-month multiple-entry e-visa. However, it is still unknown whether the number of nationalities has been expanded for the e-visa service or what the fee will be. I expect more details will be forthcoming, as the VN Ex...

Shock move by Indonesia. Bye bye free 30-day entry visa. As of today! Perhaps officially, but Visa free entry hasn't been available for the vast majority of countries since Indonesia re-opened after COVID. As an Australian I've had to pay $AUD50 for a visa on arrival the last two times I've entered...

Shock move by Indonesia. Bye bye free 30-day entry visa. As of today! Sure has been a lot of stories of foreigners behaving badly. Guess they've had enough. From Jakarta Globe: Bogor. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Wednesday the abrupt decision to repeal the visa-free entry policy has been p...

KfH, this is the most important question I'm going to ask you: Do toilets have bum guns in Indonesia?

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Finally, a speck of light shines on the visa amendments. This week is the last working week for the current National Assembly. The original sked said the visa amendments will be approved next Saturday, June 24. Today's sked confirms the visa plan (hopes?). But nothing else was detailed. Hanoi (VNA) ...

There have just been recent stories in the VN press that Vietnam has one of the world's heaviest smoking populations, although it's been declining slowly. So it wouldn't be long before the sudden interest in smoking would turn into local action. Came much faster than I expected. At least they kept t...

If you want to peruse this fresh BBC story from inside N Korea, what an astonishingly filthy hopeless life for most of the population. Many depended on pre-pandemic "open" borders to build up a minuscule side hustle merely to survive to the next day. The borders are still closed and almos...