Starting Monday, Hong Kong residents can make payments capped at HK$10,000 ($1,280) per day in Thailand by scanning their digital wallets with Thailand’s PromptPay, as Hong Kong and Thailand have set up a cross-border QR payment linkage between Hong Kong’s Faster Payment System (FPS) and Thailand’s PromptPay.

What are we to make of the deputy premier’s belief that Islamic State terrorists are among foreigners overstaying their Thai visas?