This is a deja-vu harking back to the more intimate three-per-room accommodation scheme implemented at the beginning of COVID quarantining.

Unless I have gone into another zone, I believe it was reported that one Thai returnee had a most shockingly unfortunate lunge at an open window in his room ... and succeeded ...

@Jesse *********

I left BKK roughly two weeks ago on Cathay Pacific (CX), transitting in HKG.

Not the tiniest inconvenience whatsoever in both airports.

No COVID-related info was asked of me ... let alone any need for document proof.

If your transit period is long and overnight, you can ask the soul-warmingly professional FAs for extra meals. (One FA offered me two extra Chinese-styled chicken buns pro-actively.)

I had Thai instant noodles and powdered coffee in my carry-on and simply *borrowed* a bowl from a shop counter that had closed for the night at the food court.

Hot water is available from three-temperature fountain machines at several locations on an upper departure floor. (The two at Gate #26 are the most popular & offer paper cups as well!)

If you wish to buy things, keep in mind that Hong Kong is an expensive city. (I saw one HSBC ATM & one Citibank ATM across from the food court.)

You can ask to your (dim-sum) heart's content at the 24-hour Information Desk marked by a big I.

PS: In BKK, I showed my brand-new, stamp-less passport (issued by my destination country) at the check-in counter. This baffled the CX agent, so I pulled out my useful US passport for her to confirm my entry stamp. From start to finish, she was professional, courteous and classy -- effortlessly drawing a smirk from the face of an ultra-discriminating Richard Barrow (no less), had he been in my shoes, of course. What was there not to like ... when I had the entire CX bank of counters to myself two hours before departure time?!

@Matt ******

I beg your pardon ... your girl Narumon always looked ghastly in every Bangkok Post photo. Is she trying to pass for a geisha with a PhD in statistics?

As if Prayuth did not make his most recent announcement at the last second.

Farang can play this game just as well.

I took you hypothesis literally.

Some people are really fascinated with dead people.

Clever way to call out the prime minister, despite all his efforts to get ahead.

You are right, as some people CAN'T RESIST NECROPHILIA.

Don't really know the answers, as individual preferences are just as many.

Nonetheless, here's food for thought: Blacks don't crack and Asians don't raisin. (Just sayin'.)

Who was that white American politician who once said in a most self-righteous tone: "You people kissed by the sun" ?

Because they want more color in their life.

And who would blame them.

"Chaiilllld, you need some collard greens!"

They were simply being themselves, always modest and gracious.

I mean, a quick glance at Charles, Philip and Elizabeth ... what else could Thai school children say but 'beautiful" before scurrying away ?!