https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenThey said that about Canada, too. Now I'm being served by Canadian teens at drive throughs instead of Indian brain surgeons and tech wizzards. Kids finally get an opportunity to gain work experience and some pocket money after having entry level jobs taken by filthy migrants with dodgy paperwork for a generation. A female friend in Prachuap owns a couple of fishing vessels and hires only Cambodians. I went to a government office with her to submit the stack of paperwork required to legally employ those Cambodians. If Thailand has a free market the wages will rise until the positions are filled. More likely is that corruption will win the day.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:40:15 +0000@richard_smith237 I believe this to be quite right "My point is simply this: there are many situations where the word farang is perfectly acceptable and harmless. Equally, there are times when it can be used lazily, dismissively, or downright rudely. Like most labels, a lot depends on the context, the tone, and the intent behind it." Experienced a Thai woman cutting in front of me in a Supercheap supermarket line that was long and she turned to me and sort of nastily said "Farang", like it was her right to cut in as I was a foreigner in a Thai market. Other side of the coin some Thai kids sort of playfully saying "Farang" to me and I joked back "mai, phom chop saparot!" and they all laughed. Overall don't think too much about it and let it go.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:39:22 +0000Of course, prostitution is the main cause for STD's, I just want to counter the hidden agenda in the post of our resident racist member.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:36:56 +0000I certainly haven't. The way I see it is that it is a tool immigration can activate to send 'undesirables' packing, i.e. those who are milking the system through indefinite visa runs and the like.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:34:02 +0000Japan? As for the turtle bit of a nothing burger IMO.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:33:59 +0000I actually like most of his policies -- it's his implementation, his dishonesty, and his buffoonery that I dislike. I just hope we can find another Reagan for 2028.......Mon, 25 May 2026 17:33:07 +0000But those orders have not been given . Woman and children have been killed because Hamas hide behind them in schools and hospitals etc .Mon, 25 May 2026 17:32:29 +0000Prostitution is openly and widely available in Spain.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:28:55 +0000Where are you? I have just received mine, having applied in the UK less than 2 weeks ago. A very straightforward online process (the ONLY option in the UK), after 3 days I had a request for 3 months bank statements, which I duly uploaded and that was it.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:28:16 +0000Plenty of Indians discharge into the sea and nothing is done about it, so I see your point. Thailand is a childhood trauma factory. It's amazing that the people have turned out to be as lovely as they are. Maybe it's Buddhism because other countries like this have horrendous rates of violent crime.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:25:49 +0000FrigateMon, 25 May 2026 17:24:31 +0000It's astonishing that you actually think this kind of s*** happens. When you enter the IDF one of the first lessons you get is that you MUST refuse an order if it appears to be illegal or against human rights. There is not a single Israeli soldier who would actually obey a command to deliberately mass-murder civilians. Yes- there are situations where it is unavoidable because Hamas love using human shields - but to say the IDF deliberately kills civilians means you know nothing about the IDF and just spewing fictional drivel without any basis in reality.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:24:18 +0000Russia doesn't need a cause. Your name wouldn't be Eric B J Quisling by any chance would it.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:20:53 +0000He's not just an ordinary run-of-the-troll baiter; he's a master baiter.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:20:23 +0000Look at the kid and tell me his IQ is above 70. Take that into account and the pieces fall into place.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:20:22 +0000He was a man under the thumb, she wore the trousers. Of course she knew and found the ideal patsy to take the fall.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:18:51 +0000Na, he came out as gay. Then toned it down. Then changed the demeanor of his posts and gradually dropped the floor mopping bit and is now a landed gentleman of means. Best troll this board has ever had, and I've been reading it for 20 years.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:17:45 +0000Anybody who isn't biased already can see these people were NOT abused by Israeli forces - they were literally completely healthy and fine protesting in Spain just hours later. Spanish police did give them fresh new well deserved wounds, though!Mon, 25 May 2026 17:17:30 +0000Hundreds of Thai 'Saul Goodmans' securing property for foreign interests. Perhaps people in that occupation are born, not made.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:15:28 +0000Even this man supports the cause. Rumour has it he tried to stow away on one of the vessels.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:12:59 +0000Sounds like you have another blockage to keep you busy.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:12:18 +0000Lol! Trump is pretending that the "no rush" is his own decision while it's actually Iran which is the master of time! 🤣Mon, 25 May 2026 17:12:14 +0000Deliberate killing of 21 Ukranian teenagers and the wounding of 42 more in the Starobelsk College dormitory in Lugansk. Many children with Ukrainian names. Successive drone strikes on the one building. No accident. Why the absence of mention in western media? Because carried out by the Armed Forces of the Ukraine? And because this explains the massive Russian strike on military targets in the Kiev region? What purpose the U.A.F. night-time strike on the college dormitory? The suspected reason: to provoke reprisals in support of calls for more western aid. The Russian reprisals have been strongly denounced by western leaders without mention of the cause.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:09:56 +0000There is no point in firing him - they are already in the process of dissolving the government towards the elections in September or October. It is highly unlikely that Ben Gvir will serve in the next government - or any future government for that matter. Sounds like YOU are unhinged if you believe it actually happened. The same "wounded" flotilla people blocked passenger gates at Bilbao airport just hours later and were given a proper beatdown by Spanish police dragging them away. NOW they are actually wounded... P.S. I wish to see both Bibi and Ben Gvir gone for good from Israeli politics - but that doesn't change the fact that these flotillas are there as agitators exactly to create headlines and bad press. Israel treated them a lot better than Spanish police did. And yes- Ben Gvir's stupid stunt was wrong and he's an idiot, but that's all it was - a stunt.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:08:28 +0000Did they make the wrong drink for her? The place is empty so there's no excuse for that. A couple of years ago there was an air head waitress at my usual breakfast place. I asked her to get a pen and piece of paper to write my order down but she dismissed that idea and got the order wrong, bringing bacon instead of sausage. I pointed out the error so she brought a side order of sausages and added it to my bill. A word with the cashier after breakfast put an end to that idea (no, I didn't eat the bacon as I wasn't going to pay for it). All of the waitresses gave me the stink eye and it took over a year for the air head to serve me again. No problems since then and she's even friendly now that Pattaya is dead.Mon, 25 May 2026 17:06:00 +0000