https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenSangad was her name. Husband called her Sand-Gad. She told me it was Sa-nguht which sounds like sungaht.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:47:39 +0000That's a false choice. Why does it have to be one or the other? You continue to approach this as though it's a binary problem. We can address gangs, repeat offenders, drugs, mental health issues and social dysfunction while also implementing sensible firearm regulation. In fact, that's exactly what many developed countries attempt to do. The flaw in your argument is the assumption that because guns are not the sole cause of violence, that the focus ought to be on solving society issues - without addressing gun control because of 'rights' (the Second Amendment). To borrow one of your favourite forms of argument; equivalence: seatbelts don't prevent reckless driving, but we still require them because they reduce the consequences when things go wrong. Firearm regulation can be viewed in much the same way. Address the root causes by all means. Tackle gangs, drugs, repeat offenders, mental health and social breakdown. But also address firearm regulation and the extraordinary number of guns in circulation. The two approaches are complementary, not contradictory. One seeks to reduce the causes of violence. The other seeks to reduce the lethality of the outcome. Given the scale of firearm deaths in the United States, it is difficult to argue that both don't deserve serious attention.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:46:18 +0000Thank you! But how can it be chanote when its government land is the q? Could someone have the owner paper(chanote) and just try ty get cash by saying there is no documents? How to check the correct land title when its no documents?Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:45:30 +0000It would be nice if you could search your orders to reorder. Finding a vendor a second time is hard, and they clear wishlists occasionally.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:44:20 +0000Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:42:10 +0000What would happen if you asked for more milk? Luxury MilkThu, 11 Jun 2026 07:42:07 +0000The AI Chat app is useless.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:41:54 +0000This forum is called 'What the papers are saying'! It is not supposed to be 'Breaking news' which can be found HERE 🙂Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:40:13 +0000The challenge is you will have weeks of visitors crossing back and forth from Canada and Mexico. The first challenge is the comms between healthcare systems, and what surveillance is occurring.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:40:04 +0000That's native to the accents in the South-East part of England (includes London = Lannan). In these USA-type pronunciations, "t" or "tt" is mapped to "d" rather than being omitted. Why is that? daughter = daugh-der computer = com-pu-der water = wa-der heater = hea-der letter = le-der settle = se-dle bottle = bo-dle Maybe off topic, but when did the common USA intonation that makes so many sentences sound - to the British ear - like a question start, and where did it originate? I have a personal, untested theory that most of an accent can be described by analysing vowel sounds. London Fields - Martin AmisThu, 11 Jun 2026 07:39:28 +0000It came from dogs. Its actually a fusion of a canine and feline version. Its a Coronavirus, but its not COVID-19. Classification of viruses can be not really the same as bacteria; they are a "family" of RNA viruses with a distinctive shape, but that doesn't mean they are all actually related to each other. Viruses essentially evolve from "us" (animals), and they are, in effect, a record of all the animals their line has infected. For a virus to replicate (its not reproducing in the sense that life reproduces), it hijacks the cell machinery that replicates DNA or RNA, and it ends up stealing little snippets of RNA/DNA along the way. When viruses get into bats, then this can sometimes be worrisome. Bats, while a mammal, have a unique, almost supercharged immune system, I suspect because of the environment in which they live, in these huge colonies, often in humid, warm conditions.They live essentially constantly infected, constantly generating inflammatory factors, but they aren't killed or sick. Their immune systems essentially train viruses to be very virulent. COVID-19 was one of these. You always want to detect these new infections as early as possible. COVID-19 was first seen in December 2019, but diagnostic tests not developed until Jan-Feb 2020. But it was probably in circulation a lot longer than that. Partly as a result of the Pandemic, we hope there are better tools to spot these "emerging infectious diseases" (EIDs) earlier. The latest Ebola outbreak shows we are not there yet; its a new strain, and the labs were only looking for older strains, and essentially the outbreak went undetected for a while (people were sick, dying, but the lab tests ran said it wasn't Zaire Ebola etc). With the Canine Coronavirus, the reports indicate because cases in humans have now been seen in Haiti and South East Asia, then its likely in global circulation. At least we have tests for it. We don't really know why SARS erupted; the issue is, for equally mysterious reasons, it just disappeared, and with it, any impetus to study it more. MERS is another coronavirus, at one time described as having a 90% fatality rate (might be toned down). Its come from camels, but bats have become involved. Killed mostly old Arabs with camel farms, racing camels in their retirement. So far, the numbers have stayed low. Mass events like the annual Haj haven't caused an explosion of cases (yet). So, is the FIFA World Cup a mass event that could give this virus legs? Maybe. In the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, there was an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Virus, which put 50,000 people in hospital, really unusual. The Chinese were on the ball monitoring visitors, but nothing further happened. COVID19 hit the US in two ways. West coast infections seem to have arisen mostly because of direct contacts with China; in effect, exposure to a wild type, comparatively less serious. East coast, via New York, it was exposure to cases coming from Europe, particularly Italy. Northern Italy has close trade connections to Wuhan, through the textile trade, but also car parts. It looks like a strain had been in circulation, undetected, for a while, a recombination event, and suddenly a distinctly more robust, virulent strain, that caused really serious illness emerged, and then ended up in New York. Going back a long way, Spanish Flu in 1918, killed millions. Where did it come from. It didn't come from Spain. It was first seen in refugee camps in Spain, in 1918, hence the name. We know there were earlier cases in Kansas City, so for a while, epidemiologists reckoned it came from the US, via GIs shipped to Europe for the end of the Great War. But now this has been revised; it likely came from China, where there was a flu outbreak in 1916-177, not a particularly remarkable one. Chinese coolies were recruited to go to France, and traveled across Canada, into Kansas/Missouri, and them picked up trains to East coast ports. It might still have been a "normal" flu at that point, but for the fact it got to Europe just as a war was ending in Winter 1918. Infections occurred among troops in trenches, but it was the hospitals with wounded men that were cleared first, because everyone wanted to go home, but also I guess there was a bit of uncertainty if the war was really over. The virus circulated among relatively fit men, who's bodies fought off the virus, but they probably had repeat infections because of the conditions in the field. Leading to emergence of a virulent strain (we saw the same in COVID-19, the later variants likely came from a cancer patient in Kent, and HIV patients in Botswana. Every pandemic and epidemic in history can be traced to some change in human behaviour. 60% of infectious diseases have crossed the species barrier at sometime, and present in different species very differently. eg Canine Distemper versus Human Measles. Closely related viruses, different diseases.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:38:23 +0000Yeah me too. I'm curious to see if I still hate it. People on here rave about it like it's paradise. I remember awful traffic, dirty streets, ugly bargirls, ugly beach. After I went to Samet and Chang and they were paradise.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:37:44 +0000My confidence level that Trump knows what the flippin' heck he is doing is nonexistent. My confidence level in anyone that thinks Trump knows what the flippin' heck he is doing is also nonexistent.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:35:45 +0000That’s how the Thais pronounce it.. at least the ones that I know. Not once did ever any of them pronounce it Pattaya.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:35:19 +0000Really curious if I'd have the same negative opinion afterwards. Enjoyed 1 stay there, other 2 or 3 times was like, couldn't wait to leave.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:35:18 +0000Slowly but surely it's coming out. JD Vance wanted to publish all of the files at once - rip the bad aid off as it were. He was voted down and now we get this. Drip, drip, drip.....Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:34:34 +0000Somalian referee back in Somalia to a hero's welcome and a game in his honour.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:34:04 +0000EquationThu, 11 Jun 2026 07:30:31 +0000Searching back 20 months is a bit much.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:30:19 +0000Please show the post you are quoting. Thanks.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:28:30 +0000How long before countries, with Iran's blessing, send naval vessels to escort their own tankers through the strait as protection against US attacks? Would the US navy attack (say) an Indian naval ship?Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:28:29 +0000Yeah please do. Report back.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:27:58 +0000And he has the audacity to put an Agree emoji on his warning.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:27:33 +0000Clever little buggers - they piggy-back until they can reach the elevator buttons. In reality, they're exploratory little blighters and can climb - it's just nature at work. A few years ago we went away for over a month and returned to find ants had somehow got into our apartment and chewed through an unopened packet of Ritz crackers. There was a trail leading from the kitchen, through the living room, out the front door and about 30 metres up the corridor towards the lift shaft. Easy fix – vacuumed them up, cleaned away the scent trail with a Dettol-type cleaner, sprayed the area, and they never returned. We've never had ants in our current house, nor rats before in any house or apt, but a nearby field has recently been cleared for construction. The local wildlife has had to move somewhere, and it seems our house made the shortlist - for the hi-so clean looking ones !!... One rat caught already; no idea how they got in.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:27:26 +0000It used to be written off as the "bad boy" influence, last seen in public in the movie "Grease". Nowadays, there's more to it Some women confuse stalking with love, especially in the early stages of a relationship. By the time they realise it's really about control, it's sometimes too late to leave quietly. Some men play on the woman's emotions to make the woman dependent on them, making any relationship conditional on his conditions, putting him in control. Same ending as above. Not just in Thailand either.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:27:17 +0000