https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenSanctuary dem land laws forbid their jurisdictions to cooperate with federal law, enacted back in 2002. Charged with RAPING A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL in Huntington June 6, we lodged a detainer asking sanctuary New York to not release Salvadoran illegal alien from jail. The girl was walking home when the accused foreign national allegedly approached her and asked for her phone number. After she refused, he allegedly forced her into an alley and sexually assaulted her. https://x.com/ICEgov/status/2070689877423714525?s=20Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:59:57 +0000OK we can all see where your political beliefs lay. The mentally ill should be put down. Then it is one step to putting down anybody that you dislike, probably starting with me.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:59:25 +00001.Russia 2. Israel 3. ChinaSat, 27 Jun 2026 15:58:04 +0000I don't like accusations. Some are made of me. I would only engage any IDF in conversation as far as they wanted to go. But I have clearly stated my opinions on Israel's wars to four young IDFers. One agreed with me that Israel had gone to far. The other three were noncommittal but glad it was over for them. 2 women, 2 men. Not everybody's got the syndrome, Yag. We can talk it out. It's called diplomacy. Finding out what people are really about. I care.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:57:36 +0000Yes, you're right -- the poster says The Bear -- The Final Season.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:56:15 +0000Age of consent in Thailand is 15.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:52:58 +0000Her body showed she had been subject to extreme violence.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:51:56 +0000There should be more name-calling reportrf. At the least, we can be civil.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:51:53 +0000Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:51:44 +0000It's true. But I'm a realist as well as an idealist.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:48:54 +0000I wasn't telling them for fun I was telling them for practical purposes to achieve peace and quiet in the place where I lived and spent my time. However it just turned out to be a great deal of fun. Time out, no need to respond to me and I won't respond to you, as we're just going in circles.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:46:05 +0000Changi is where the maximum security prisoners are held. It's harsh. Your friend went to one of the few minimum security facilities. This is ChangiSat, 27 Jun 2026 15:45:58 +0000Andy Burnham is facing renewed calls to outlaw private profit in social care, as Labour's sister Co-operative Party argues that Britain's struggling care system should be rebuilt around employee-owned providers instead of private equity-backed firms. The intervention comes as pressure mounts for sweeping reform of a sector plagued by rising costs, staffing shortages and growing demand from an ageing population. Co-ops Put Forward as the Alternative A new report from the Co-operative Party says employee-owned care providers should become central to the future of social care. Under the model, businesses are owned by staff, with any surplus reinvested into services rather than distributed to shareholders. The report argues this approach would improve care standards while ensuring money remains within frontline services instead of being extracted as profit. Private Equity in the Spotlight The proposal comes against a backdrop of growing concern over the role of private investors in the care sector. Around 80% of the UK's largest care home providers are owned or backed by private equity firms, according to the report. Its authors argue that commercial pressures have become increasingly difficult to reconcile with the long-term needs of vulnerable people, families and care workers. Burnham's Reform Agenda Under Scrutiny Burnham, widely expected by supporters to pursue major public service reforms, has long advocated overhauling social care. As Health Secretary in 2009, he proposed a National Care Service modelled on the NHS, with care free at the point of use for elderly and disabled people. More recently, he has backed accelerating Baroness Louise Casey's independent review into adult social care and has raised the prospect of a dedicated care levy to fund long-term reform. Pressure Builds for Radical Change The Co-operative Party says the current system requires more than additional funding, calling instead for structural reform that removes incentives for private profit. Baroness Casey has already signalled that her interim review will recommend significant changes later this year. With councils spending more than £23 billion annually on adult social care, expectations are growing that the next phase of reform could reshape one of Britain's most stretched public services. Whether Burnham embraces the co-operative model as a cornerstone of that agenda may become an early test of how far he is prepared to go in reshaping the care system. Andy Burnham urged to ban private companies making profit from social careSat, 27 Jun 2026 15:45:37 +0000There is no question about the fact of the democratic party needs to make a strong effort to distance itself from the progressive side, and the extreme left side of the party. The vast majority of American Democrats are Centrist.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:44:23 +0000The mentally ill and drug addicts are not missed by families when they die. The family is relieved when they no longer have to worry about what harm the individual was doing to innocent people, or being slain in their sleep by a delusional nutter who thinks mom is a gobblin and dad is a demon. If you've ever had one in your family or close circle of friends you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:44:16 +0000Final season.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:43:24 +0000Guys who kill Thai girls aren't, shall we say, well-liked.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:43:13 +0000Looks nice on paper. Unfortunately, it does not reflect the reality and is not currently possible. Putting aside the political activity related detentions, Thailand does not incarcerate on a whim. There are approx. 330,000 prisoners in a system built to hold 240,000. Approx. 1/3 of prisoners are not convicted, but are on remand because they are dangerous offenders, or in most cases are unable to meet bail conditions (financial guarantee, a place to stay, family support etc.) Most of the detainees are held for drug offences. Thailand has a drug problem, specifically yaba that is directly linked to mental health. And therein is the reason why all the wonderful notions of diversion, community service, home detention are not much use. If a person does not have family support or a place to stay, how do you expect them to be released into the community? long term yaba users tend to have burnt their family links and are unwanted in their communities because of their anti social behaviour. If they are poor and cannot raise even a minimum amount of bail, what do you expect to be done. Yaba users are irrational, unmanageable and are not easily treated. More often than not, they are mentally ill. Ankle monitors, home detention does not work, nor protect the community. In an ideal world, the drug law offenders would be treated at mental health facilities, and/or be sent to rehab and treated. In the real world, it does not and cannot work that way. Yaba requires isolation from other users and intensive therapy. It also requires a desire to change. In a country of 70 million, there will always be a small group who are incapable of change or too resistant to change. Thailand has a mental health problem The only viable option is to lock them up until they are too ill to continue as criminals or they grow out of their behaviour. The likelihood of an early death for methamphetamine users is increased, the longer the person uses the drug. There's rather grim Swedish study that looked at the health problems of methamphetamine users. They die off relatively quickly. There was a study done in Thailand (see below) that followed up on yaba users. These were patients who were in hospital, which suggests that they had the means and support for an intervention, so more likely to be helped. After just 5 years, 8% of the study subjects were dead due to suicide, HIV or accident. their likelihood of cancers, cardiovascular and kidney disease was significantly greater than their non drug using age group.mThe 1000+ patients were diagnosed with various mental illnesses: psychotic disorders (15.8%), alcohol use disorders (52.1%) and suicidality (22.3%). Sometimes the illness was a result of the drug use and at other times was a motivation for the drug use. The one obvious conclusion is that mental illness was a major factor. All this to say, that until Thailand has the thousands of mental health professionals, a change in its culture that sees mental illness as a taboo and billions of baht to spend on mental health, alternatives to detention will be unlikely. In the interim, execution of the yaba cartel leaders and an absolute crackdown on the manufacture, importation and distribution is the only thing that will reduce the likelihood of new prison detainees. Reference: Kittirattanapaiboon P, Mahatnirunkul S, Booncharoen H, Thummawomg P, Dumrongchai U, Chutha W. Long-term outcomes in methamphetamine psychosis patients after first hospitalisation. Drug Alcohol Rev. 2010;29:456–61. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00196.x.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:36:30 +0000Which regime did exactly that in the last century along with millions of others?Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:36:17 +0000GoSat, 27 Jun 2026 15:33:12 +0000I'm trying to figure out what brought most of the men (?) who commented in this thread to Pattaya in the first place. Most of us came to get away from the hand wringers and pearl clutchers who are ever seeking to restrict the lives of others in order to feel safe. Thank God you're as powerless here as you feel, lest you ruin things for the rest of us. Blow your ra pe whistles and carry pepper spray in your man purses laddies.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:30:24 +0000Joking aside, what are your thoughts about The Joy Luck Club, the book and not the film....? Once one leaves one's culture behind, then what does one have left....really? One cannot even understand one's parents. Roots are lost. BUT, what happens when your daughter brings back....TO DINNER..... Some Black Gang-Banger? Then what? Is the dream of the Joy Luck Club a total thing of the past? NOTE: Kodiak is DEFO an Ivy-League Man..... NOTE2: But this is only......JUSTICE....really....since China is raping Africa...and then, if the girls in China might get led astray, then is this not Tit-For-Tat, and no pun intended....????? NOTE3: Where is my TIME-MACHINE when I most need it? Back in the early 1970s, things were NOT like this. Chinese girls were Chinese, even in America, and we did not need to worry about guys like Kodiak Black singing stinking songs about women. What is really in the mind of Kodiak Black, and others of his ilk? No need to ask. Because, there really IS NO mind, worth thinking about. Welcome to the USA of Today, Folks. ============= Sorry, because I forgot to mention Chris Brown. Brown? Yes, because, he is DEFO Number Two. Brown is the word.....Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:23:32 +0000Yes I'm racist but youre the prick - defending a black man bullying an old white woman (racist as he'd never do that to an old black). What's your problem? Are u jewish or black or some other low caste? Should be ashamed of yourself. - Youre probably racist too (prefer people like yourself) but have been too brainwashed to be able to admit it. - The Thai hasve the right idea - they're racist but don't care - ONLY If you pay you can stay - that's why youre kept on a parole visa and have to check in with the Police every 3 months - and in your case who could blame them? - If you tried this nonsense with an old Thai woman you'd likely be beaten and deported. Go on - give it a go - but try and keep your camera rolling so we can see how you get on 555Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:22:00 +0000They could just give him the needle and his family dispose of the remains. Would work for a lot of the mentally ill as there's no cure. The family can have their cry and go on with their newly peaceful lives.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:19:22 +0000What tax? You are down biggieSat, 27 Jun 2026 15:16:22 +0000