https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenShe's a perfect subject for forced female circumcision. Bring in the African priest. There must be a couple of them in custody with the Nigerian princes at IDC.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:27:18 +0000Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:27:09 +0000That's a pretty big statement there. Tell me how you know this to be the case. It's not just foreigners that buy imported booze off the shelves from Big C etc. Again apart from that there seems to be zero reason for it. Bringing it forward can only result in increased revenue.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:27:04 +0000I'm curious how anyone thinks you can get away with stealing an iPhone, with their tracking features.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:26:16 +0000Just rename it Brawling streetMon, 01 Jun 2026 02:25:22 +0000Regarding the new arrangements Wise has officiated with the Thai banking sector and quite publicized via Facebook, I tried to update my 5 years old account to the Thai version which will allow users to not only receive monies to one's Thai bank account but also send THB out of Thailand. Great enhancement. Along my quest to do the update, it was revealed that one must have a Thailand residence and so the user address needs to be changed accordingly. Upon uploading a scan of my Thai driver license, I was expecting a confirmation email within 2-3 days. Nothing came so I contacted support and was told that my data was received but Wise would contact me sometime in August to finalize the operation. It seems that Wise is either not well prepared for the change or they are facing endless difficulties with the Thai banking sector, which would not surprise me. Anybody else tried to convert a foreign Wise account into a Thai Wise account ?Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:25:21 +0000DTAC has wireless to homes, while AIS has fibre cables. True and 3BB also have fibre, but none will come to my house for anything, which is why I and a few past my house use a hotspot. I can possibly get wireless with DTAC as I've recently asked them, but the hotspot is fine and cheaper anyway.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:24:13 +0000Might have been a baht bus but definately was not a baht baht.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:23:45 +0000Absurd to even go there Agree. That's (some) Thai-bashing AN posters for you!Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:22:43 +0000Thank you. Travelling around Rayong and the neighbouring districts and provinces the last few years, and seeing the growing Chinese influence with factories, EV plants, batteries, auto parts, electronics, motorbikes and infrastructure, it becomes clear Thailand will need more skilled workers and engineers if they are not going to be overrun by foreign workers. And this is, as you say, a much more reliable future than continuing the destructive tourism we have seen over the last decades. It is not Laos or Cambodia yet, because Thailand has not sold itself out completely yet. That is why they should structure and build their own workforce. Thailand is still on another industrial level, but Chinese investment is becoming very visible, especially around the EEC. You also have the Thai-Chinese high-speed railway, planned to connect Bangkok to Nong Khai and further through Laos toward China. Then there is the Land Bridge plan, not the old Kra Canal, but a planned port-road-rail link from the Gulf of Thailand to the Andaman Sea. Thailand is clearly being positioned as a production and logistics hub. If that is the plan, they need skilled people, not only cheap labour.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:21:28 +0000I don't suppose it has anything to do with the risk weighted cost of raising a profoundly autistic kid? When I was a kid, I didn't even know what that was. Probably because the odds were about 1 in 1500. Nowadays, in some areas of the USA, those odds are more like 1 in 25. What's 1/25 of a buttload of healthcare and special needs money? That sounds like a big risk to family finances. A lot more than the 1/1500 odds I was born into. Maybe it's completely unrelated to overprocessed food and/or the ever expanding vaccine schedule, but I'd sure like to know what's causing it.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:21:17 +0000I can introduce you to a couple of ladies who would change your mind on thatMon, 01 Jun 2026 02:21:04 +0000Awesome. I could never understand why they keep doing things over and over and get the same bad result. This is the most helpful comment I’ve read on here. The part about the critical thinking and gov loosing control. I never looked at that way, but 100 percent gov. Thank you.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:20:57 +0000What! Worse than LBJ?Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:20:55 +0000Yes. This war will go down in history as the war that changed the battlefield. Basically the current versions of tanks have been pretty much made redundant on the battlefield because of drones. Armored personnel carriers (APC)? No thanks. Too easy to target and takes out half a dozen soldiers plus at once. The motorcycle is the new mode of battlefield transportation. Six on bikes compared to six within a single target. I remember people on here laughing and making stupid comments when the Russians were spotted using motorcycles. Well, now both sides use them.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:20:47 +0000Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:20:39 +0000Well, education is for me the most essential obstacle. To maintain power the powerful in Thailand won't want to have better or high education. Simply speaking it's easier to rule stupid but educated. Education is a danger for the whole system/quasi democracy. Dare not to go further.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:20:37 +0000So your point was that it made sense for Netanyahu/Israel (the good guys) to support one of Iran's terrorist proxies Hamas (the bad guys) at one time, just as it made sense for the US (the good guys) to support Stalin in WWII, got it.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:20:11 +0000Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:20:08 +0000You were referring to Fibre, no? DTAC doesn't run Fibre cables. That would be TRUE. DTAC is a mobile communications company that has merged with TRUE.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:19:23 +0000Most of the iconic luxury brand cars now all look the same. It’s sad when you can’t tell what brand it is by the shape and details that made them special. And yes the Jaguar really screwed up and should pay the price for loss of sales, but it certainly isn’t the only one anymore. Bring me back to the 50’s where style was a big factor for the car industry. Now you can’t tell a luxury car from an EV or even a gas/diesel car. Sad times we live in. Luxury is only in the price tag for most. I applaud the ones who still stand by their original designs, only slightly modified.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:18:47 +0000Pretty sexy little body on the lady boy running down the streetMon, 01 Jun 2026 02:18:42 +0000Update - Visited MedPark (most convenient location) and met Prof. Sittiporn Srilunuad (PSS). He performed the digital rectal examination which was quite uncomfortable to say the least and on completing it I was surprised when he stated I had cancer. He seemed pretty confident and so I "quizzed" that with him and he just looked at me without saying anything else. Then as I left I said I hoped the results of the MP-MRI and no doubt biopsy that has to follow would prove it is benign and he said "me too". So, not sure how anyone, even with great experience can be apparently so confident (AI searches would indicate nobody can be without the MRI and biopsys), so I guess I just have to go through the next steps and hope the news is good. For those interested, an MRI at MedPark is just under 45,000 Baht. PSS also recommended contacting Chulabhorn Hospital for a lower MRI cost when I asked for options, and he was correct with a total including hospital add-ons (MedPark price does NOT include these) of 15,600 Baht. The catch? I have to wait till September to get an appointment! So will just have to take the hit and pay the MedPark bill as waiting more is probably not a good idea.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:18:25 +0000I certainly could, and would still buy beer at 4 in the afternoon. Its not an issue. Can't see the law changing until Thailand decides it needs changing. May or may not happen and is a non event as far as I'm concerned.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:16:25 +0000Not my experience over the last sixteen plus years generally excellent service perhaps my approach differs from yours.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:16:22 +0000