https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenWas the exchange in English or Thai ?Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:38:31 +0000Just goes in circles.... If you don't live in your country why should you receive a pension. I highly doubt at its inception they ever thought so many people would want to live outside of the country. They planned for the pension money to remain in the country. Being distributed throughout the community the pensioner lived in.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:38:30 +0000I can only speak for myself. I don't have a problem if more conservative localities choose to ban Pride flags in public places just as I think it's fine if they are displayed in more tolerant places during Pride Month. I do have a problem with countries that make such symbols illegal for everyone to display in public. Some might say it's a slippery slope towards that to ban at all.. Possibly. Sometimes.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:37:49 +0000A Turkish tattooed individual flies from Brazil to Thailand with 12kgs of cocaine in his luggage? StupidTue, 30 Jun 2026 23:37:47 +0000I have seen young kids with T shirts saying 'Go eff yourself' or pictures of Cannabis. Simply uneducated, sad! How did the guy get down to video the inside of the woman's ankle??Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:37:42 +0000As I've always said and sadly I'm hated by a few here for saying it, but the only bad thing about Thailand, the worst thing, are some of the foreigners.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:36:31 +0000Entitled fatiguer. I wonder if he would be so 'brave' if it was a fit Thai man wearing the tat. My guess is no.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:36:30 +0000Who wins ? China ?Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:35:57 +0000Yeah, that´s more fitting. However, I am not pro Hamas either, so it´s a bit of dilemma.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:33:28 +0000BallTue, 30 Jun 2026 23:33:12 +0000WTF has polite or not got to do with right to wear any tattoo?? Really strange idea that is.!Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:32:25 +0000Not for those who are executed I guess, For the rest of us...... maybe.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:31:46 +0000Do you really need to ask that? It´s very easy, as they come to a culture that don´t accept their degrading view of women. They can´t adjust and just need to be the big shot man they always been. In their culture they only take the woman they want, and they should just be happy, never refuse what the man wants. Let´s me ask you, how many rapes in Pakistan have you read about? Exactly, because their culture does not recognize rape.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:31:03 +0000CricketTue, 30 Jun 2026 23:30:09 +0000Perhaps a better name -- People Against Israel ExistingTue, 30 Jun 2026 23:30:04 +0000At least 1000 baht 4+ times a day, one girl on Pattaya beach road used to make easy 10,000+ a day years agoTue, 30 Jun 2026 23:29:23 +0000Starmer the war monger ? Doesn't fit somehow .Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:27:09 +0000I agree that foreigners (black, white, or purple) here should leave such stuff alone. It's not our country. On the other hand the behavior of this particular Thai woman in question with her aggressiveness and potty mouth possibly suggests a not so innocent person. Not exactly a poster child of Thai politeness.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:26:45 +0000BatTue, 30 Jun 2026 23:24:31 +0000When a 101-year-old hero who put himself In harm's way and could have easily lost his life in World War II speaks out about the draft dodger Trump, and his cowardice and hubris, one has to pay attention. Hilliard, a Purple Heart recipient, began by saying, "Well, as you just heard, next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944, when I was 18 years old, I was inducted into the Army, and they sent me for basic training to Camp Blanding, which is near Jacksonville, Florida." "And what they taught me to do there was to kill people who had set up detention camps in Germany," he continued. "Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same Camp Blanding in Florida? What remarkable irony." "We in this country have seen a remarkable change. And in Washington right now — and forgive me, I’m gonna use the 'f' word — we have a fascist, a fascist government that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated." "We have been lied to over and over and over again about these camps. Our president said these detention camps were being put up to put in immigrants who had criminal records. We now have about 65–70,000 people incarcerated in these camps." "29% have criminal records. 71% of the people in these camps, even with our country's and our government's statements about why they set up the camps, don’t belong there! 71% of the people in camps don’t belong there, according to the government, and yet they are put there." He closed by saying, "We’ve got to fight. We’ve got to keep fighting. We’ve got to reach people all over this country and tell them, 'Don't look away. See what’s happening.'" People in the comments were incredibly supportive of Hilliard's words. "If a 101-yr-old Veteran who was trained to spot and kill fascists in the Second World War says that we have fascists running our country, who has the knowledge to step up and call him wrong? Nobody," said one person. 'Forgive Me, I'm Gonna Use The F-Word': A Century-Old Veteran Just Delivered The Most Brutally Honest Take On Donald Trump, And He Did NOT Mince Words https://www.huffpost.com/entry/101-year-old-veteran-blasts-trump_n_6a442e9ce4b039eff60646f5.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:23:48 +0000I didn't see the actual tattoo pictured. Did I miss it somehow? So assuming you didn't either, how do you know if this particular tattoo is not a Nazi one? You seem to assume it isn't without knowing.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:23:35 +0000I understand that you are embarrassed at being caught red-handed and I do sympathise. However, the cold hard facts are that @Patong2021 made a comment, and rather than reply to his entire comment, you deliberately highlighted one sentence to reply to which said: “Had the judge given a sentence of 7 years in custody when other similar cases are given 2 years, the case would have been appealed and the sentence either quashed or discharged” You then replied “correct” to this, you actually replied “correct” to someone suggesting he could have received a 7 year sentence; but of course, had you known anything about the UK judicial system, you would have known that a 7 year sentence could not have been given for the offence for which he was convicted. So, not utter unsubstantiated nonsense at all; you are just embarrassed at having displayed your lack of knowledge of the UK’s judicial system once again. So you then obfuscate, deflect and sneer, but you have form for doing that, don’t you cupcake.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:21:36 +0000Wow! Very intelligent answers above. So, you think that they do nothing, right? Sure, I agree to that they take a piece of the cake for themselves. However, you guys are out of order. You should try and see what happens to a country without any governmental control. That would be very suitable for you.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:14:22 +0000Trump's extreme level of disdain for the average American who is not wealthy continues to rear its ugly head. And that includes a large percentage of his supporters, which is seemingly unbeknownst to them. Just another hazard involved in electing a multi-billionaire grifter as leader of the nation. A major finger to the Americans in the most disadvantaged positions. The street pig cares not one iota for the middle class or poor Americans. Mr. Trump has been openly sabotaging the housing bill since Wednesday, when he abruptly pulled out of a much-anticipated signing ceremony that was set up for him on Capitol Hill. The president threw down an ultimatum instead: He would sign the bill only if Congress would first pass another bill, the SAVE America Act, which would impose stricter voter ID rules that would make it harder to vote. The day after Mr. Trump pulled his own rug out from under himself at the signing ceremony, Speaker Mike Johnson said he still planned to send the housing bill to the president to sign. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, Mr. Trump said that he had yet to receive it and that he was not sure he would sign it once it hit his desk. “I think it’s so unimportant,” he said. Later, he added, “To me, compared to the SAVE America Act, just about everything is a big yawn.” The disdainful remarks for a bill meant to alleviate Americans’ economic struggles are the latest in a series of similar comments that have an ever growing number of Republicans freaking out ahead of the midterms. “It’s a yawn” follows such observations as “I don’t care about the midterms,” “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” and “I love the inflation.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/us/politics/trump-housing-bill.html?smid=nytcore-android-shareTue, 30 Jun 2026 23:13:10 +0000Tax evasion, so just for the record how many Thais evading tax in their own country. The mind boggles.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:12:02 +0000