https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenOR............ is it just the OPPOSITE ? perhaps it is DJT who is the puppet .... NOT the puppet master 🫠Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:42:13 +0000another australian sex tourist criminal, no surprise there. thankfully, now immigration has reduced the visa exempt stay from 60 to 30 days, criminals like this will no longer be able to enter thailand... apparently.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:39:29 +0000We will never know exactly what happened in the room... What we do know for sure is the girl is gone and this this guy has 4 or-5 very serious charges he could and likely will be charged with... Which means he might never leave prison or he will be pretty old if he ever gets out....He has no defence to speak of, so a very long sentence is a forgone conclusion...Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:36:58 +0000You're just a parrot. Imitating the noise made by the uneducated, inexperienced people who are just too lazy to pursue the truth about vaccines, virology and a wide swath of health topics. Like a parrot... you don't have a clue about the facts underlying your favorite noisy rant. The only basis for your opinion is that it is what you wish were true so that all the silly assumptions you have made wouldn't get swept away by the river of truth.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:36:39 +0000or ... Another Benidorm Brit nut job.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:35:07 +0000And Iran is legally entitled to charge fees. It can't charge tolls. There is a difference.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:29:10 +0000Regarding "International Law". International Law is not forever. UNCLOS was negotiated in the early 1980s. While the US and Iran signed, both countries refuse to ratify it. Republicans since the 1990s, argue that ratification would transfer elements of U.S. sovereignty to international bodies. They object to binding dispute resolution and to international institutions having any authority over American maritime activities. The Straits of Malacca was mentioned. No toll levied, or ever will be, but in April, Indonesia proposed collection transit fees. The justification is that the littoral countries do spend a lot of money maintaining navigational safety, operating traffic separation schemes, combating piracy, responding to pollution incidents, and maintaining aids to navigation. The Montreux Convention governs ships passing through the Bosphorous. Its not some ancient agreement; it dates back to the 1930s. Turkey doesn't charge a toll, but its Department of Transport does collect transit fees, to pay for health inspections, lighthouse services, and rescue/salvage services. It doesn't charge a flat fee per ship, but charges based on tonnage Currently they charge $6.70 per ton. Super tankers are 200-500,000 DWT, so the fee collected by Turkey is about $1.7m to $3.5m per big tanker. Its not really clear how Iran is determining the toll/fee its charging, but it seems to be charging $1.5-2.5m; remarkably similar to Turkey, but no one is getting butt hurt about how much Turkey is raking in. Does anyone seriously believe that the Turkish formula is seriously related to the actual costs incurred by Ankara? Turkey won't seize ships that don't pay; they can pursue through the courts, or, if the ship is already in the straits, not grant it transit. What that means it allows the Turkish Coastguard, under international law, to intervene, order ships to heave to and drop anchor. A ship not cleared for transit is a danger to other shipping. The Convention does not prevent freedom of passage, it does not exempt them from complying with reasonable navigation and safety regulations. There are strong arguments to say UNCLOS is no longer fit for purpose. The Straits of Mallacca cost an enormous amount to keep clear, in a way that wasn't envisaged then. Sea mining wasn;t a thing. No one had any expectation that the Northwest Passage will be come navigable (the real reason for tensions over Greenland). UNCLOS isn't etched in stone. It was an agreement from the Cold War, written by the then dominant trading states, with many of the 150+ littoral states not really able to object. Negotiators should have been trying to apply Game Theory; Iran wants to keep the straits open because Iran wants to earn lots of money doing so, rather than forcing it through very expensive bombing. Game theory is fundamentally about how rational actors make decisions when the outcome depends on what others do. The key question is not "Can Iran close the strait?" but "What payoff does Iran receive from opening versus closing it under different circumstances?" I've said before, a Straits Transit authority should be established, with the objective of collecting fees, ensuring the straits are clear for shipping, with proceeds to be shared with Iran and Oman. You have that authority run by a neutral party, or even the United States. It would encourage Iran to maintain good relations with the US, in order to receive its cut. The US (or other) would be responsible for establishing the bureaucracy and payment collection processes (as well as debt recovery), charging a percentage of the transit fee. The US could even subcontract out the actual physical services needed, such as shipping lane maintenance, oceanographics etc to Iran, or Oman. The US has more global litigious reach than Iran, and has bigger clout to seize shipping assets for companies who are delinquent. The US has a lot of lawyers, probably more lawyers than Iran and Oman put together, and lawyers who are particularly skilled at negotiating different legal systems, and also advanced capabilities, through financial instruments, to identify hidden company assets. In the May Senate Armed Service Committee meetings, much was said, how, as the US disengages, China, and to a lesser extent, Russia, are taking over, in a manner that the Committee described as "Coercion ". The scheme takes no coercion. Actually quite the contrary, it will be met with reward., Iran would be financially rewarded through cooperation (paraphrasing Oberst Hans Landa's famous monologue). It would retain the international nature of the waterway, while acknowledging the concerns of the two littoral states concerned. 0Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:28:07 +0000The world started seeing this through the lens of radical jihardist and their Marxist supporters types of anti colonialist movements ,radicals who created riots on college campuses with their Nazi tactics of intimidating Jews similar to the 30's Germany . The far left have pull out all the stops everything is out on the table. Communism /Socialism starts as Marx says The formation is taking place in the Dem party to a Communist party. *Karl Marx himself mapped out a progression where socialism serves as the mandatory transition phase into communism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_the_Gotha_ProgrammeSun, 28 Jun 2026 15:26:43 +0000I have just watched a movie, "Battle of Britain", which was made in 1969 and it was bloody fabulous, especially as I hadn't seen it before and there were real Spitfires and various other English and German aeroplanes in it, all doing their stuff! The cast was full of well-known British actors, plus others, and I thoroughly enjoyed it and to be honest it made me proud to be British by birth and also latterly, Kiwi by adoption. Having said that, the film did include Polish, Czech and Canadian pilots, amongst a few others, and I can highly recommend it. I streamed it from BBC iPlayer.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:22:02 +0000Yeah, she’s a bit weird, but not half as bad as the halfwit who wastes his whole life on a forum. In fact, I’m trying to figure out who is weirder: a girl who stares at her phone at the gym half the time, or a ninny who spends his whole day staring at his phone typing rubbish on a forum? Who do you think is weirder? I’m putting my money on the numpty bloke.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:20:37 +0000He needs to practice a bit more on his act, but to be honest, he seems to make some advances already.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:15:06 +0000Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:11:37 +0000Well what you expect, and now he's not gonna see your posts anymore either.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:09:41 +0000"Communists" will overtake "Terrorists" as the new American boogie-men. It's all psyops. Look - the OP swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. The MAGA 20%'ers will be jeering in unison about the "Commies are taking over the Democratic Party." Welcome to McCarthism 2.0 ala Trump. "Look out!!! The Commies are gonna get 'cha!!!"Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:09:05 +0000Let's hope they revoke his visa. Probably one of those DTVs.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:02:35 +0000Got nothing then writes 500 words about being a dork.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:02:20 +0000The loose way words are tossed around, like Marxist, Communist, Socialist and Fascist suggests most people have no idea what the words mean, they are just meant to denigrate others. Lies are spread prior to an election. Just before Clinton was voted in, people were crying, "They're coming for our guns!" But of course that never happened as Clinton was the preferred candidate. The fact Mamdani was elected is because he was preferred by the electorate. While Europe and Scandinavia are capitalist but care for the poor and disadvantaged, they are neither Marxist, Leninist or Communist (there are differences: Marxism is a foundational theoretical framework; Leninism is a practical adaptation of those theories designed to trigger a revolution; and Communism is the ultimate, stateless, and classless end-goal of both. There are no outright Socialist economies in Europe or Scandinavia, and the Democratic Party is definitely right wing in comparison. Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, not a Communist.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:01:39 +0000I think its time we part our ways , talking about members isn't nice or being respectful! take careSun, 28 Jun 2026 15:00:09 +0000Ünderstandable! Now you come out like a non-getting anything stodgeSun, 28 Jun 2026 14:57:30 +0000Part of the OP: This monster has now unleashed antisemitic candidates and a toxic Red/Green alliance that prioritizes victimhood and Jew hatred over traditional values. Just when you thought the Marxist party of far leftist couldn't go deeper in the abyss by electing Mr. Mamdani a member of the Dem Socialist party. The party elected to represent them another social justice warrior type in New Jersey who was linked to a "Al Qaeda-linked group in Bosnia". Just when you thought the Marxist party couldn't go any deeper in the abyss , the head of the BLM movement in the Minnesota area "wants dogs to P on White corpuses". "writing in a social media post that people should “leave indigenous land sacred and piss on the White corpses” instead". https://nypost.com/2026/06/27/us-news/minnesota-school-board-member-chauntyll-allen-calls-for-dogs-to-urinate-on-white-corpses/Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:53:21 +0000So, let´s just ask. What the heck does a bull do on Sukhumvit Road?Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:52:55 +0000youre demonstrably going to the cheapest possible resturants, but all is not lost, buy 1 fork of quality and carry it with you at all timesSun, 28 Jun 2026 14:52:09 +0000You truly are deluded! Thank you for confirmingSun, 28 Jun 2026 14:50:03 +0000Time for Donald to go biblical again, appeal to the religious side of the Iranian regime.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:46:40 +0000The op seems to be some kind of extremist bot with the word "monster" stuck in the main RAM and the cache hasn't yet cleared.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:43:18 +0000