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They could follow the norm in places such as Sri Lanka and India, where drugs such as cannabis and hemp are tolerated for traditional medicine (such as what you can buy in 7/Eleven in Thailand), and in some regions it's used in weak traditional foodstuffs.

I've always wondered why there isn't more cultural exchange on LGBTQ issues between Thailand and India. The two regions share the same concepts of homosexuality and transsexuality, and tourism between the two countries is very popular.

Ayurveda (found in places such as India and Sri Lanka) used/uses opium and other drugs such as cannabis in their medicines.

Songkran is a major festival in South East Asia and South Asia. It makes sense that there would be a large amount of tourism from the region and staggering it across three weeks is going to allow for hotels to keep full vacancy to cater for all the tourists and also keep flight/hotel prices lower.

If these teenagers were from Muslim background, they would never have used the word "terrorize" in the article to describe them even if it was a terrorist attack.

If you divide any opinion poll into rightwing and leftwing, it's always the rightwing that places lower levels of trust in the establishment institutions compared to the leftwing.

The bare fact is that mainstream media in the US and much of the western world (and India) is exceptionally leftwing to the point that the majority of the population are critical of it.

The population decrease is a phenomenon in virtually all of non-Muslim Asia Pacific. Hindus in India have birth rates similar to China/Korea/Japan whereas Muslims have a birthrate similar to Sub-Saharan Arab Africa.

So you're saying that Muslims aren't religion but an ethnicity and culture?

How? It's the left wing that's harping on about the "rights" of religious minorities (i.e. Muslims). The Ram Mandir is just Non-Muslim Indian culture.

The United States will not send troops into Yemen, in part because the Saudis are more than willing to do that if the situation ever arises. What I see in the Red Sea is more military involvement from the Indians and Chinese. The US will then focus on countries in the Iranian sphere such as Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan/Pakistan.

I never said the Ram Mandir was a left wing thing. I support it.

I think they were popular among backpackers originally as well. They've been popular in India for a long time as well. Because there is a labour shortage in Thailand as well. The problem is of being underemployed rather than unemployed. In fact there is a labour shortage throughout Thailand.

I wonder if it is more serious because Prince Harry is returning to the UK. We could see another succession this year too.

The Ram Mandir was a grassroots movement that began around the time the BJP was being formed. I find that the left wing communities tend to be more homophobic than right wing communities, in part because most of the people who would be considered "progressive" in western countries are on the right wing in India. The left wing has more negative associations such as religion, corruption, caste, etc... I'm not sure if a particular state is less homophobic than other states.

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I think it is acceptable to say Hamas equals Palestine in the context of the war. Hamas is trying to represent Palestine and most Palestinians support it, and furthermore all the reasons behind the war are about Palestine and not Hamas.

Well initially Europe would hire privateers to protect shipping and then moved onto using the navy directly in the 1700s which was when the US was founded. Remember that Europe was the main naval powers at the time of foundation and so the US could rely on European allies but now the tables have turned.

Hamas is representative of Gaza and supported by Palestine. Hamas equals Gaza and wants to equal Palestine.

I mean that the commercial ships being targeted by piracy and terrorism in those waters need protection from a military. If there are a US commercial ship then obviously it should be the US navy that protects them. The navy has been doing this since the foundation of the US.

Hamas is basically a front for Palestine. You would never have said "United Russia" and not "Russia", or whatever party that the president of Ukraine subscribes to vs "Ukraine".

It involves attacks on US shipping and other interests. The navy has been protecting US shipping since the foundation of the USA.

The US military has to be in the Middle East to defend shipping and other US interests against piracy and terrorism. The US has been fighting piracy on the seas since it was founded even throughout its isolationist era. And remember it was Palestine that struck Israel first and not the other way around.

Where does China even export these cars to? South East Asia is a very small market and they only have a small percentage of said market.

You may also be better off investing in wooden blinds similar to those found in southern Europe.