Editorial Standards

Last updated: April 30, 2026

Editor

All content on Expats Thailand is edited by Alexy G., the site's founder. Alexy is Thai, bilingual, and writes from the experience of helping expats with the practical realities of settling in Thailand.

Source attribution

Every news article on this site has at least one external source link.

• News stories must link to an external publication, government website, or company announcement.
• If a story has no external source we can verify, we don't run it.
• If our only result is on our own site, we don't run it — that's an unverified rumour, not a story.
• Government policy claims are cross-checked against the relevant ministry website where possible.
• Visa and immigration claims are checked against the most recent Royal Thai Embassy or Immigration Bureau wording before publishing.

Events

Every event listing has a working website or ticket URL pointing to the organiser, ticketing platform, or venue. We don't list events we can't verify on an external source, and we don't pad the calendar with placeholder dates.

Geography and venue checks

Venue name, address and city must be consistent. If a press release says “Long Beach, Koh Lanta” and the venue is on the east coast, we check it before publishing. Conflicts get the event pulled.

How news is researched

Daily news research scans Thai and international press: Bangkok Post, The Nation Thailand, Thai PBS World, Coconuts Bangkok, Thaiger, Reuters, AP, plus official government sites (immigration.go.th, mfa.go.th, bot.or.th and others) and reputable independent commentators such as Richard Barrow Thailand. Stories are selected for direct relevance to expats — visa, banking, money transfers, cost of living, safety, infrastructure, healthcare.

Each story is summarised in our own words, with the “what this means for you” framing aimed specifically at people living in Thailand. The original source is always linked at the foot of the article and in the article's structured data.

AI assistance disclosure

We use AI tools to help research, draft and translate at scale — specifically, to summarise long policy documents and to surface relevant sources faster than a human could alone. Every article is then reviewed and edited by Alexy before it's published. We don't publish unedited AI output.

We make this disclosure proactively because we think readers deserve to know how the sausage is made. If you spot something that reads like a machine wrote it, please tell us — that's a content bug we want to fix.

Corrections

If you find a factual error, please email us via the contact page. Confirmed corrections are made promptly and the article's updated date is bumped. For substantive corrections we add a brief note at the foot of the piece explaining what changed.

Funding and conflicts of interest

Expats Thailand is funded by display advertising and a small number of affiliate partnerships (clearly labelled). We don't accept paid placements in editorial content. Affiliate links never affect which stories run or how they're framed. Our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy disclose the third parties we work with.

What we don't do

• We don't fabricate events, venues, prices or quotes.
• We don't republish another publication's article verbatim.
• We don't run sponsored news pieces dressed up as editorial.
• We don't publish stories without at least one external source we can verify.

Questions about how something on the site was reported? Use the contact page. We answer.