https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenWhy are western women feel insulted if males display visual singhns that a certain female walking by, they classify as "attractive". Following her with their eyes longer than usual, sending a admirable whistle after her or even a "cat call". Heaven forbid. The feminists have declared such behaivor as a criminal offence. To the western women of this world: Live is short, but even shorter for females. By the age of 35 admirable whistless and "cat calls" will have become a rarity. By the age of 45 all of those outrageous insults will have come to an end. Again, to the western women of this world: The time window you enjoy the attention of males is extremly short. Why condem natural behavior of males instead of enjoying it, knowing that your "attractiveness" in the eyes of males lasts only a short time. Strangled between pre-puberty and meno pause, your increasing wrinkles in your face tell the tale. Irreversible. So, western women of this world: Enjoy it while it lasts, you will be botherd by such horrible displays of male simpathy only for a short time during your lifetime. Most of your life, you will not be botherd by outrageous demands by testosterone driven apes.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:22:02 +0000He got it for a few quid paying someone off, while you suckers spend years paying taxes while being put on the waiting list Are you jealous? สงสัยมาก_เขา🇬🇧ได้__ThaiPassport_มาได...0hphivrjDE_https___t.co_JRDcW5gVGn.mp4Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:20:50 +0000This is what the calculators came to when you have assets and the government contributes zero to your aged care costs. From 2025 the rules are changed and there are multiple cost components, when you add them up it comes to nearly $400 per day.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:16:09 +0000got it. regardless you are an eliminationist anti semite. therefore, the very fact that you exist is a threat, even though your threat is based on fear, envy, cowardice and mental illness. carry on. you will reap what you sowSun, 05 Jul 2026 17:15:22 +0000Overall agree with your post apart from this quoted bit. VIP fast track is available at many airports in countries other than Thailand. eg common place in my stomping ground of Vietnam and other countries. Personally see it akin to flying business class and those folk use designated check in preferenceSun, 05 Jul 2026 17:09:26 +0000seems there were just 100s of Hezbollah supporters protesting against the agreement , that's NOT a massive protest and it doesn't show that the Lebanese people want Hezbollah to stay . Seems like its just Hezbollah who oppose the peace agreementSun, 05 Jul 2026 17:08:41 +0000Info from PEA: 📣 Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Provincial Electricity Authority, Koh Samui Branch 🏝️ ❌ will temporarily interrupt the power supply ❌ 💡 for the purpose of upgrading the distribution system ❌⚡️ 🗓️ Date: July 8, 2026 🕘 Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 🚧 Affected areas: *Several areas* 📍 Areas affected by the power outage: See the map 🚨🚨 Please note that if the work is completed before the scheduled time, power will be restored earlier. Therefore, please refrain from performing any work on high-voltage transmission lines. 🚨🚨 🚗🚗 We request the cooperation of motorists to please avoid parking in the work area to ensure the work can be carried out smoothly, quickly, and safely. 🚗🚗 🙏🙏 We apologize for any inconvenience. 🙏🙏 PS: Unexpected power cuts can be very annoying, which I why I share them. However, I only share info about power cuts in areas where foreigners and expats might be staying, and I may not be informed about all power cuts in advance.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:08:07 +0000Didn't you also have a rather long wait for PR or I am remembering someone else?Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:07:56 +0000Again as usual, insults, baseless allegations and pathetic insinuations. I have just listed 7 different crimes committed by Israel and provided the appropriate evidence for them and the only thing you can counter with are further insinuations, baseless accusations, and insults. Any half-intelligent person by now would ask themselves whether their lack of counterarguments might be because they are on the wrong side—but not you. What makes the whole thing even worse is the fact that you don't even realize how you are betraying your own country, because after the Palestinians and the people in the surrounding countries, the citizens of the United States suffer the most from Israel's never-ending war crimes and human rights violations. Not only do they take billions of dollars away from you every year and return only a fraction of it to your governing politicians, for which these politicians, in return, are only allowed to make policies for Israel even if it is against American interests, not to mention that this money is much more urgently needed in the fields of education and healthcare. No, they regularly convince your governments to sacrifice your sons and daughters in illegal wars to eliminate threats that are none, at least not for the United States, and to destabilize or destroy countries from which solely and exclusively Israel profits. Your term “based on fear, envy, cowardice and mental illness” perfectly describes Israel's policy, and what describes you best is the term useful idiot.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:07:39 +0000Thanks guys, but I am looking for somebody with experience using TorFX...Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:05:20 +0000Info from PEA: 📣 Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Provincial Electricity Authority, Koh Samui Branch 🏝️ ❌ will temporarily interrupt the power supply ❌ 💡 for the purpose of upgrading the distribution system ❌⚡️ 🗓️ Date: July 7, 2026 🕘 Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 🚧 Affected areas: *Several areas* 📍 Areas affected by the power outage: See the map 🚨🚨 Please note that if the work is completed before the scheduled time, power will be restored earlier. Therefore, please refrain from performing any work on high-voltage transmission lines. 🚨🚨 🚗🚗 We request the cooperation of motorists to please avoid parking in the work area to ensure the work can be carried out smoothly, quickly, and safely. 🚗🚗 🙏🙏 We apologize for any inconvenience. 🙏🙏 PS: Unexpected power cuts can be very annoying, which I why I share them. However, I only share info about power cuts in areas where foreigners and expats might be staying, and I may not be informed about all power cuts in advance.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:02:58 +0000I quote you: "Actually, it's not only about being busy in Ukraine. It's about Ukraine having a strong army, mastering "modern" warfare technology and tactics, and also its people being ready to die in a war (which most Western Europeans are likely not ready to do). Western European yougsters are interested in "panem et circenses" and internet games. We have no "worriers" left.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:01:40 +0000Tell me about the rabbits, George. Is this the face of a man who sees a better day? Looks pretty uncomfortable, what with the puppeteer's hand up his sat-upon. Will it ever get to the point where select SCOTUS justices have to leave the country and live in exile?Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:16 +0000cream wasnt too good a apart from eric ,the drummer was a nutter. ,his half hour drum solos used to clear a venue ,when i saw em live in small dives around londonSun, 05 Jul 2026 16:55:48 +0000Since we are possibly on the eve of ground breaking amendments to the Nationality Act, I thought it might be worth taking a look back at previous amendments to the current 1965 Nationality Act that have had significant impacts. 1971 Revolutionary Decree 337. Cancelled automatic jus soli. Those born within the Kingdom were no longer automatically Thai regardless of alien parents’ immigration status. Currently, as a result of this decree, both alien parents need to have PR for their Thai born children to get Thai citizenship automatically. A complication of the decree was that, since jus sanguis was only patrilineal, children born in the Kingdom to Thai mothers and foreign fathers, who didn’t have PR were designated as non-Thai in their birth certificates and could only take their father’s nationality and, failing that, were stateless. Unusually for Thai law, the revolutionary Decree was retroactive, stripping nationality from thousands of Thais and rendering most of them stateless. There was a provision to allow those stripped of nationality to appeal for reinstatement to the minister at his discretion and discretion was granted in many cases, including to children of expats. Unfortunately many of those affected didn’t know about this or had no idea how to go about it and remained stateless with serious implications for their descendants. Later amendments allowed those born in the Kingdom prior to the Revolutionary Decree and thus designated as Thai on their birth certificates to reclaim Thai nationality, including those fortunate to have another nationality. . 1992 Amendments. Righted some of wrongs of the 1971 Revolutionary Decree. Nationality now passes through Thai mothers as well as fathers. Children born to a Thai and a foreign parent now have the option to renounce Thai nationality in the year following their 20th birthday but there is no obligation to do so, if they wish to retain their foreign nationality. This ostensibly legalizes dual nationality for half Thai children, whereas in other instances, the legality remains somewhat ambiguous, neither specifically permitted or prohibited. Some half Thais do take the option to renounce Thai nationality but this is usually only in cases where they live in a foreign country that does not allow dual nationality and requires evidence of renunciation of their other nationality. Consequently this type of renunciation is rather rare. The initial 1992 amendment allowed the ministry to automatically revoke Thai nationality from half Thais, if they didn't show proof of renunciation of their other nationality before their 21st birthdays. However, this unpleasant provision was thankfully repealed in a new amendment three weeks later. 2008 Amendments. These included a highly significant provision to allow foreign husbands of Thai women to apply for citizenship without having PR first and without the need for knowledge of the Thai language. 2012 Amendments. These are significant for stateless minorities born in Thailand after 1971. Previously there were many piece meal cabinet resolutions covering various minority groups separately. The 2012 amendments coalesced many of these provisions and brought them formally into the Act making things a bit easier for the stateless unfortunates to obtain Thai citizenship. However, local district offices still often decide make things difficult for them. 2026 or later. Amendments to implement the provisions of the Marriage Equality Act eliminating gender biases. Watch this space!Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:55:17 +0000Thanks for your atten and suggestion. However, the reason I don't make one thread is that then every ASEAN NOW member on Samui should open the thread to read the last post, when something new added, to check if it is in that specific member's area, PEA is now going to work and when. Using new threads gives easy readable headlines with dates and location. It would be great, if an admin could delete old outdated threads. It is temporary work. PEA is replacing the high power lines. When the island is done, I presume it ends. It seems like both crane-lifts and workers are borrowed from other provinces to do the job, something like 30-40 lifts working at the same time...Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:55:07 +0000a smear campaign from lefties who are running scaredSun, 05 Jul 2026 16:51:04 +0000I'd say your experience is pretty much par for the course, especially at airports where the rulebook appears to be less a document than a challenge to circumnavigate. Thailand is particularly adept at this, but it's hardly alone. I've entered the UK with my Thai wife and, depending on which official happened to be on duty, been given completely contradictory instructions about whether she could accompany me through the UK/EU lane or had to join the "everyone else" queue. I've even pointed out that we'd done the exact opposite at the same airport a month earlier, only to be told, in effect, "Well... today it's different" I've been told it's my right as a British citizen to bring my wife through with me. I've been told I have no such right whatsoever. Same country. Same airports. Same circumstances. Entirely different interpretations. My conclusion? Don't overthink it. These are rules that many frontline officers don't seem entirely certain about themselves, so they're often applied according to individual interpretation, local practice, or whoever happened to brief the morning shift. That's true in both the UK and Thailand. Thailand, in particular, has been "reviewing" immigration procedures after the rather creative fast-track schemes where enterprising middlemen, allegedly with a friendly immigration contact or two, discovered that queue-jumping could become quite a profitable cottage industry. If there's one country where someone will spot an opportunity for a harmless little side hustle before the ink on the regulations has dried, Thailand is certainly in the running. Then, inevitably, someone gets caught, a scandal hits the headlines, a crackdown follows, everyone suddenly becomes a model civil servant... ... at least until everyone's forgotten about it again a few weeks later - lets see what happens on your next trip - besides - someone will be along shortly to tell you that you had to wait for your baggage anyway, so its all moot !!!!!Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:47:18 +0000Back in the day Bill Maher did a great parody of The Silver Hedgehog (as some in the media would refer to him) with the chalkboard, would be worth the search to dig it up. Fox supposedly dumped him for a calling then-President Obama a Nazi, but that didn't make sense at the time because he had already been doing so for quite a while -- I think it was triggered by that thing with a country singer saying the same thing on their channel. A biography of him should be titled "Fear+Hatred = $$$$"Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:45:20 +0000Some people think that paying money to avoid suffering the full penalty for a crime doesn't happen in the developed world. Of course it does. Maybe not for murder, but it does happen for other crimes. This can be a fine, 'damages', or a negotiated sum with the authorities. My brother was a VAT fraud investigator and in one particular case involving an ethnic minority (a rich minority) the chaps lawyers turned up and just kept offering more money for the case to be dropped - 5 million GBP was the final figure I think. My brother wasn't happy to see the case dropped, but Treasury agreed it.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:30:59 +0000Implications of the 2025 Marriage Equality Act on the Nationality Act We are now at an interesting juncture in the history of Thai nationality law due to the fact that the 2025 Marriage Equality Act prescribes a review of all existing legislation to eliminate all gender-specific terms and replace them with gender-neutral language, granting same-sex couples full equal rights. The MOI has had to conduct a review of the Nationality Act in this respect and recently called for public comments. No proposed drafts have been disclosed as yet by the MOI or politicians. The amendments will likely require an act of parliament involving three readings in the lower chamber. In all amendments to the Nationality Act the legal section of the MOI plays an important role in making recommendations and historically has placed a high priority on national security concerns in considering proposed amendments to the Act. Since we are in the AI age, I decided to ask AI to do a round-up of the various options available for amending the Act to remove gender bias. The results are as follows. As AI itself points out, it can make mistakes. Also it tends to base some nuances inferences on the way the question is framed and information provided by the questioner. Nevertheless it raises some very valid points. The Imminent Legislative Collision The Marriage Equality Act uses gender-neutral language, replacing terms like "husband" and "wife" with "spouse" across the Civil and Commercial Code. By law, government agencies were mandated to align their auxiliary regulations. The Nationality Act of 1965 remains a major battleground. Parliamentary committees and legal advocates have already submitted petitions to amend Section 9 to eliminate gender bias. This leaves the Interior Ministry’s bureaucratic guardians of "national security" backed entirely into a corner, facing three possible paths: Path 1: The Spousal Exclusion (The "Foreign Husband" Rule for All Same-Sex Spouses) If the Ministry of Interior gets its way, they will attempt to draft an amendment or a ministerial regulation that restricts Section 9 strictly to the biological reality of cisgender foreign women married to cisgender Thai men based on historical precedent. · The Argument: They will claim that foreign men (in male-male marriages) or foreign women married to Thai women do not fit the "assimilation and family unity" doctrine originally intended to protect Thai households. · Why it will fail: The Constitutional Court and LGBT activism have massive momentum. The Marriage Equality Act states that a spouse is a spouse. Trying to argue that a foreign woman married to a Thai woman is a "national security threat," while a foreign woman married to a Thai man is not, will be virtually impossible to defend in court or parliament. It would be a glaring, indefensible violation of the equal protection clauses. [ Path 2: Universal Spousal Inclusion (Opening Section 9 to Everyone) This is the path human rights advocates are pushing for: changing the text of Section 9 from "An alien woman who marries a person of Thai nationality..." to "An alien spouse who marries a person of Thai nationality...". · The Bureaucratic Nightmare: For the security apparatus, this is a doomsday scenario. If Section 9 opens to all spouses, thousands of foreign husbands (both heterosexual and same-sex) would instantly gain access to a fast-track to citizenship that completely bypasses the 5-year PR requirement, the strict employment/tax thresholds, and the high-level Thai language test. The Ministry views this as opening the floodgates to sham marriages used purely to gain passports and land-ownership rights. Path 3: The Nuclear Option (Abolishing Section 9 Entirely) The easiest way for the Ministry of Interior to eliminate gender bias, avoid a constitutional crisis, and completely secure national security is to repeal Section 9 entirely. · How it would work: Parliament would abolish the special marriage track. Moving forward, all foreign spouses—regardless of gender or sexual orientation—would be funneled into a newly modified Section 10 naturalization framework. They would likely create a standardized "Spousal Naturalization" category under Section 10 that requires a basic work history, a standardized language test, and a uniform processing timeline, erasing the anachronistic distinction between husbands and wives. The Structural Irony Section 9 is a relic of the era when a woman’s nationality was entirely dependent on her husband. When Thailand stopped stripping Thai women of their citizenship for marrying foreigners, they left Section 9 intact as a patriarchal reward for foreign women "joining the Thai tribe," while punishing foreign men for "encroaching" on it. Today’s bureaucrats are likely blind to this historical context, viewing Section 9 purely as an immigration control valve. Because expanding it to all spouses is a bridge too far for the security apparatus, the complete abolition of Section 9 in favor of a unified, stricter spousal naturalization framework under Section 10 is the most legally tidy and probable outcome. If they do decide to go with the "nuclear option" and abolish Section 9 entirely, will they grandfather in the foreign wives who are currently trapped in the years-long application backlog, or will they force everyone to transition over to the stricter adult naturalization requirements, thereby jettisoning the majority of the backlog of foreign wives waiting for approval to adopt their husbands’ Thai nationality under Section 9, since most would probably not make the work permit and salary requirements to apply under Section 10? Surely this would create a bit of a backlash? So it would be advisable to grandfather in Section 9 applications made before the effective date of the amendment. But Thai bureaucrats and legislators are not always known for making intuitive decisions.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:27:52 +0000A screenshot of the girl's tattoo was posted earlier in this thread. It is an Asian "good luck" swastika. Thais are generally unaware of the meaning of the Nazi hakenkruez, but some associate it with Germany. The hakenkruez is seen by young Thais more as a fashion statement than a symbol for an ideology. The Thai school system doesn't teach much about WW2 and nothing about the Holocaust. Very few Thais are aware of Jews and Judaism, even those in daily contact with Israeli tourists. Thais know Israelis come from a country in the Middle East, but are vague about the religion there.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:24:56 +0000you are an eliminationist anti semite. the very fact that you exist is a threat, even though your threat is based on fear, envy, cowardice and mental illness.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:23:54 +0000Awww.. its ok... Tolerate them as entertainment in the "Off the Beaten Path" sub-forum. There is a place for contrarian voices. Questioning accepted ideas isn't stupid. Quite the opposite. Science advances because people challenge assumptions, test evidence, and occasionally prove everyone else wrong. That's precisely why dissent should never be silenced. In fact, it's important that those of us who accept established evidence are reminded that society contains everyone, from the merely eccentric to the gloriously detached from reality. Knowing they're out there is part of understanding the world as it really is. And, to be fair, they occasionally perform a valuable service. Every now and then, a fringe argument uncovers a genuine flaw in accepted thinking, exposes bad science, or highlights a question that deserves proper investigation. History has shown that consensus isn't infallible. The problem is that the truly committed cranks never know when they've been beaten by the evidence. When every fact becomes part of the conspiracy, every expert is corrupt, every contradiction is ignored, and every goalpost is wheeled off into the distance, debate ceases to exist. What's left is dogma masquerading as scepticism. We need sceptics. We even need the occasional eccentric. What we don't need are people so intellectually bankrupt that they mistake obstinacy for critical thinking and delusion for open-mindedness. That's the irony. Their original cause may have been the pursuit of truth. Somewhere along the way, it became far more important than the truth itself.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:18:58 +0000yep. trump renders folks insane.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:14:22 +0000