https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenMore likely 3. Bibi is terrified of entering elections in 4 months without any concrete wins or wars to distract the public from his failures. His voter base also is war-happy and want to see it continue. He is betting that he can torpedo the deal without Trump reacting (too badly). Whether he actually can or not is another question. My guess is he'll lose the elections, but who knows.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:46:15 +0000When a government minister writes this you know things are out of control.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:46:14 +0000Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:43:21 +0000Who?Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:41:38 +0000Fake AI slush. Contrary to what Flowers is putting out. Adam Howell defeated Flowers in a public libel case Flowers had brought against him. Flowers and three witnesses, his wife, vlogger Nick Dean Strickland, and Fernando Bauab, the Night Wish Group photographer who provides 'candid' shots for Pattaya-Addicts, all traipsed into the witness box ijn Pattaya court to say how they had seen a video which was on public view on Youtube alleging that Flowers was a sex trafficker and how badly it had damaged him Two members of Night Wish Group who could also have claimed defamation did not wish to get involved in the court case. They were C.O.O Scott Schulz, and GM Vagellis Poulios. Flowers posed an upstanding businessman mentioning the Pattaya News and Rage Fight Academy but he agreed that, with his wife, he was the boss of Night Wish which was named in the video, and even told the court he had to take his two sons out of school because they were being bullied. Lawyers for Howell completely destroyed them. Even the exhibit they had produced was used against them. This was a screenshot of the video but it was marked 'unlisted' which means they could not have seen the video unless they had the secret url, which Howell had given to Nick Dean. But the video had nearly 10,000 views - How could Howell account for that. Easy! Flowers had hired bot views, easy to find on the net for as little as US$5 per thousand. These views accounted for those thousands. They were shown to have come from Russia and all lasted under seven seconds. There is nothing libelous in the first 30 seconds of the video. The case was dismised but Howell was given a small fine on a second case, not for public libel, but for libelling Flowers to Nick Dean, who of couse said something like: " I was shocked. Deeply shocked!" The libel case was initiated before Drummond got involved. The case was not covered by the Pattaya News not because they could not find their way out of a paper bag to find the court, but the Pattaya News of course did not even cover the Flirt Bar raid and subsequent trafficking of under aged children being leveled against their boss Punippa Flowers for which she was on trial. Charges of fraud and perjury against Howell have been prepared but cannot be proceeded with until Adam Howell returns to Thailand. But I believe has countersued for making false allegations in the public libel case and does not have to attend juidgment. Flowers may be a nasty piece of work, but he's a dumb one. Continually posting and getting people to post ai smear videos is only damaging himself. I don't think Drummond will sue for the following reasons. (1) He can't prove he has been damaged in any way (2) Flowers hides his money (not worth the time and money spent on trials in Thailand which may only sit one day a month) and (3) he has better ways to deal with Flowers. However, he has collated all the hate stuff and sent it to the CCDH as a hate study example. Center for Countering Digital Hate - WikipediaFri, 19 Jun 2026 13:41:35 +0000A banking app??? Crazy A "reliable source", can you name it?Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:40:42 +0000You are talking to a computer screen. You are a weirdo and a coward. In real life you would never talk like that. You are a sad excuse for a human.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:39:56 +0000Switzerland like all of western Europe is obviously going to the dogs with excessive immigration, asylum seekers and illegals all pushing their way in to benefit from the highly generous Swiss Social System and public aids.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:39:21 +00004 IDF met summary justice in the badlands of Southern Lebanon - another fibre-optic fpv drone. They are getting pretty good at it now. They can't be jammed, they can fly under nets and various obstacles they are trying to use to defeat them and they cost a few hundred dollars against a $5 million Merkava Mark IV Israeli tank. https://www.timesofisrael.com/4-person-idf-tank-crew-including-battalion-chief-killed-by-hezbollah-in-south-lebanon/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:38:42 +0000Because it’s fun to slap around a would-be bully. But whatever, I’ll hang back and let him say something stupid like his candy bar in the vagina routine and then have a little fun with it, get bored, and then smack them around for the next retard thing he says. It’s great that he’s always here for me.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:38:14 +0000Of course they would be called off. Today's politics is about press coverage and exposure. The previously planned conference in Switzerland was in some remote mountain luxury resort belonging to Qatar...and was not planned in Geneva that has far better media exposure and hosts the office of the UN. Swiss authorities must have given in to Qatar wanting to have their hotel cronies in Switzerland make all the buzz. Next time America and Iran would be far better of in demanding the talks to be held in Geneva, under global prestige and home of the UN and the ICRC (Red Cross). Far better and more prestigious then some abstract luxury hotel retirement resort in a a Swiss Mountain in the midle of nowhere.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:38:09 +0000Yes, it's normal. They consolidate and send at the end of the day as the plan is to cap the charge at a daily limit. It works in a similar way in other countries too, nothing to worry about.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:37:37 +0000Or, can you let us have some shadow tanker loads of cheap crude oil ?. We can send you a few container loads of artillery shells in return* *Yes, Thailand does produce some artillery shells; they have a factory on army land in Lopburi.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:37:30 +0000I'm sure I'm not the only one having started off life as staunchly pro-Israel, but that have gradually been disillusioned over the years, and especially during the last decade. Back in the day, Israel was an easy country to root for and be sympathetic to, due to the horrors of the Holocaust and the fact that Israel was a democratic island in a sea of autocracies/theocracies. But Israel, under the rule of Benjamin Netanyahu, has become increasingly more violent, strident and nationalistic, increasingly more willing to bulldozer ahead no matter the body count. Everyone who's not a racist/psycho acknowledges that the Hamas-led 7. Oct terrorist attack was a sickening act of violence, but so too has Israel's reaction to it been. Wholesale slaughter of women children, civilians. Genocide. Jewish settlers are allowed to run rampant, killing Arabs/Palestinians for fun, and in Israeli prisons, systematic sexual abuse and torture has been well documented. And now, they've started attacking Lebanon again, possibly to derail the deal ending the Iran war. Yes, Israel is allowed to protect itself, but that's not what this is. This is wholesale slaughter. Netanyahu and his government must go. Hopefully the next election will take care of that. I'm linking to an article just written by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. It's free to read but requires you to register an e-mail address. 'Israel Is Conducting a Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in the West Bank' 'These are unprecedented and harsh accusations against an Israeli government and the defense establishment, especially from a former prime minister. But after years of restraint, I have no choice but to make them' https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israel-is-conducting-a-systematic-campaign-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-the-west-bank/0000019e-db02-d7a4-a99f-dfce00a20000 "The fight against Jewish terrorism in the West Bank must advance to the next stage and be waged with greater determination. The daily terrorism that is managed, directed, encouraged and supported by the Israeli government can no longer be tolerated. Today, it must be said that the State of Israel is conducting an organized, systematic, state-funded campaign of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Not in the Gaza Strip, not in southern Lebanon, not in Syria, but in areas of the West Bank that are under the exclusive security control of the state and its security and law enforcement apparatus."Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:37:27 +0000Because he is a weirdo.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:35:47 +0000More friendly than people on here.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:34:55 +0000Why are you discussing the member rather than the topic?Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:34:04 +0000Ridiculous. What evidence?Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:33:11 +0000When I lived in Phuket during Covid I tried as much as I could to use ride hailing apps - which were both cheaper and safer - but the drivers were scared of stopping anywhere near the tuktuk mafia. Sometimes I'd take 5 minutes to walk down the road, but usually it was easier to just negotiate with the tuktuk drivers (agree on price BEFORE you board). All of them drove at varying degrees of crazy, but some of them were so bad I was scared we might crash. There are a couple of times it was so bad that when stopped at a police checkpoint (they had them very often) I actually got off and paid the driver and told him the ride is done. Having the police right there they just took the money and sped away. But I totally believe it that it's possible for an intoxicated person to fall off with the way some of them drive. Having said that- this sounds more ominous like he jumped because he thought he was being abducted. (or he was already hit in the head previously)Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:32:59 +0000Bogan Boy will be here tomorrow dissing people who live in Nakorn nowhere. As he frequently does. Calling them hermits. But let’s enjoy his transitory love of salt of the Earth rice farmers. He doesn’t believe anything at all, except that we should listen raptly to the sound of his autistic ramblings. His love of imaginary and somehow pure and untouched Thai people would’ve been fresh news in 1975. I’m going to have fun taking his new cry baby whining about toxic people apart in the next couple of days. And then like his OCD demanding to know what people’s hobbbbbiiies are, and calling people gay, he will say it no more.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:32:30 +0000California has a huge economy, but that's not proof of good governance. A state can be rich and still have serious problems. And saying California "supports" the rest of the country is an exaggeration. California is a net federal tax contributor because it has a lot of wealthy taxpayers, but federal revenue comes from all 50 states. The question isn't whether California generates wealth. The question is why a state that rich still struggles with housing affordability, homelessness, high energy costs, and a high cost of living.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:31:49 +0000And he delivered. He never said it would be Iran.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:31:13 +0000Well the evidence clearly shows that the death penalty is no deterrent whatsoever.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:30:26 +0000There's a whole mouse click to navigate to do that, come on!Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:28:46 +0000I would say that out here in the sticks of Issan, a good 70% of the wives of Farangs were sex workers, some even go back after their husbands die, or stop coming back, and look for another husband. There are a couple of bad apples in the bunch, but most are very happy to be out of the business. The other thing we have to remember is that they were not raised Judeo-Christian, so they carry different moral baggage when it comes to sex.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:23:53 +0000