https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenI hear you, but now you sideslipping and gets personalWed, 03 Jun 2026 01:52:44 +0000GatsbyWed, 03 Jun 2026 01:52:33 +0000Not so sure that they would. IMM would presumably still need to see original bank account confirmation letters and statements as duly stamped to verify their genuineness. Doubt whether they would be prepared to accept such letters and statements emailed to them at face value without some means of accessing individual bank accounts to check the figures quoted themselves. And that would raise privacy concerns as alluded to by @Old Croc . Playing devil's advocate here as I, for one, would most certainly welcome any attempt to digitise the annual extension of stay process with open arms.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:52:22 +0000Canada and the USA have always been good partners , until Dementia Don ,started saying that Canada should be the 51st state, maybe they canceled the plane order because they found out that they had a kill switch,and America could no longer be trusted ,with a megalomaniac in charge.maybe one day they can be friends again, regards WorgeordieWed, 03 Jun 2026 01:52:19 +0000I did invite a few women to travel with me, and I always said I would book two rooms, not one. None of them accepted that. Not one of them wanted to stay alone in a room while travelling together. Still, I thought it was nice and polite to ease the pressure on them. In the end, it was their decision. The same thing happened in China when I had a professional translator/guide working with me on a few projects.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:51:51 +0000How do you know that it's 'false' Baansgr ? Or is it simply, that a presumption that it's 'false', suits your prejudice about 'leftness' ?Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:51:44 +0000What you describe is not reality. It is opinion.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:51:34 +0000What is the age gap? There's 30 years between me and my wife and it works fine. I wouldn't focus on that, but focus on what YOU want. Are you looking for a serious relationship/marriage, or just sex?Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:51:26 +0000I'm sure nomads are the problem.. Back to reality the people who will cause problems are crooks (who will abuse visa regulations no matter) and people who come for a week or two to party and get smashed everyday. The typical mid-length stayer is probably the most chill visitor overall. I don't really care, but just giving the reality.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:51:07 +0000Except in a very few cases and except when in a foreigner’s Thai wife’s name, every property with a foreigner shareholder/director will be found to be illegal use of a Thai as a shareholder. It is easy to confirm by looking at the company’s bank account. Only if 51% of the funds used to purchase the land were transferred from the Thai shareholders and only if the Thai shareholders’ funds had been in that account with a reasonable period where expectation that they were actually their funds can be assumed - not deposited the day before the transaction - and only in this case are the Thai shareholders not nominees. So a quick search through a database or two can show every single illegal purchase of Thai land. I live near Mabrachan and every foreigner I have met here in the last 30 years are illegally holding Thai land. Only a few were smart enough to put the land in their wife’s name and register a proper mortgage at the land office, which prevents the sale without the loan being repaid. So it is confusing why the Thai government pretends to be addressing an issue, rather than actually addressing it.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:50:58 +0000I nearly fell of my chair reading the news, a pardon to a crook, and in Thailand? who would have thought?Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:50:35 +0000Agree. I often watch that guy (Cal) blogs. Canadian and his blogs on Thai related immigration etc are top notch as is the one you post link for THIMWed, 03 Jun 2026 01:50:11 +0000Yes, you can experience reality in different ways. That´s correct. However, it was not what I was talking about, and definitely not a human and a fish experience under water. A ballroom is being built for over 1bn usd. Some thinks that´s well invested taxpayer money, other don´t. What´s the reality? Does the reality tell you, there are many other things that could be higher on top of the list to do. Maybe reality tells you that it would be enough with 300 millions, and 700 could go to other things.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:49:56 +0000I did read the Judges remarks yesterday, including #27 and I was quoting directly from the OP. The judge’s attempt to absolve the officers reads like institutional damage control rather than an honest assessment of bodycam evidence. Henry Nowak — an unarmed 18-year-old who had just been stabbed in the heart and lungs — was bleeding, repeatedly telling officers “I’ve been stabbed” and “I can’t breathe” (reportedly nine times), yet police still rolled him over, handcuffed him behind his back, and treated him as the suspect based on the killer’s immediate “racist attack” lie. Dismissing a clearly injured, non-resisting victim’s desperate pleas by saying “sometimes people feign injury” or that the chest wound “wasn’t obvious” in the dark is grotesque. Officers are trained to assess threats and render first aid; visible blood, a facial slash, breathing distress, and explicit statements of being stabbed should have triggered immediate medical priority — not formal arrest. The “one minute” of handcuffing while he deteriorated was a direct result of misplaced priorities driven by fear of a racism complaint, not just “pressurised circumstances.” This sentencing passage perfectly illustrates the “two-tier” problem: even after the killer’s lies were exposed in court and a white teenager died without dignity, the judiciary still offers sympathetic excuses for officers who failed basic duty of care. Contrast this with how quickly and aggressively authorities act when the racial dynamics are reversed. Henry’s family rightly demands a full investigation — the public has seen the footage, and soft judicial language cannot erase the disturbing reality of what happened on that pavement. Did you watch the Body Cam footage??? Its horrific!!Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:49:32 +0000I alternate between a Braun S5 electric shaver (better than the S3's I used for years) and the Gillette razor. The Braun can get my face as smooth as a razor but takes longer. Both are used wet.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:48:50 +0000No need for the Crocodile Dundee test for this one!Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:48:15 +0000GreatWed, 03 Jun 2026 01:47:55 +0000Well, it's been almost non stop rain down south here for quite a while now. Definitely intensifying over the last years ...Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:47:55 +0000I'm sympathetic but VFS are just acting as agents for HMPO and are not supposed to give advice on things like the difference between your previous and current photos. That said, waiting 4 weeks to contact you is ridiculous.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:47:46 +0000Let us just admit that honesty and decency become a scares commodities, more and more people pride themselves on being able to cheat and bamboozle the system proudly telling their friends how they were 'smart and crafty' to get away with crimes, but this is the generation, in my time, we would never have thought to do such things, but now days, it became a thing of a dare and being proud of cheating, stealing and defrauding others.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:47:35 +0000The Beelink I got off Shopee 3 years ago came with Win11 Pro inc in price under 6K (probably cost more today) and has worked seamlessly ever since, esp for what the OP is needing a new PC for. No need to faff around getting Linux on a machine that boots out the box into a working Win11 system already. The Beelink came with secure boot setting default turned off in BIOS so other o/s like Linux can be installed, but I turned secure boot on to align with Win11 as it works fine.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:47:17 +0000I'm not disputing her age, never have. Yakking about Hadith as if it's your in daily reading regimen, while endorsing those that trot out the usual, straw-clutching tropes of the profoundly ignorant and narrow-minded such as Aisha's age, is evidence of being more knowledgeable of Islam? You lot were bad enough before the internet's AI-enhanced search/copy/paste made you all overnight experts and geniuses. On your bike, please. The lot of you.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:47:12 +0000He can be acting head for what, 90 days? The post 9/11 (or 11/9 for Euro types) specifically require head of DNI to have extensive intelligence experience... not this sycophant by any means The danger is appointments of clueless loyalists to positions of power is that it weakens structure of government. It leaves US wide open for terrorist attacks, worse than pre 9/11. And here comes the world cup, a perfect opportunity to wreak havoc. I have a gut feeling some attack will take place and the US will be caught with their drawers down.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:47:08 +0000I've seen the elephant, more than once. Still enjoying life, but content with what I've accomplished.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:46:44 +0000Rubbed it on desired location, but my Mrs says it burns, tried the someone else, still didnt work, now my gold chain's gone missing, those light fingered lady boys!!Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:46:22 +0000