Time Traveller

It's Thailand. Domestic violence, no problem at all. But he better have filed his foreigner address reporting or there's going to be serious trouble.

I don't know about that company, but new car sales in China (world largest car market) have collapsed. So likely demand for rubber is falling along with the oil prices which is a synthetic substitute for natural rubber.

This is simply a greedy money grab. There's no other reason why people from some countries get charged different rates from people from other countries and people with non-immigrant visas get charged different rates from tourists. How would they know? Because they are checking visas. It's a totalitarian big brother state when banks and hospitals become de facto immigration police by checking visas. My advice is don't pay the bill. Wait for them to discount it.