https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenThis makes sense to me. My Dad lived to age 95, my Mom to 101. Both smoked most of their lives but quit in their 60s, Mom because she thought smoking made her look older as younger women weren't smoking as much. Both drank alcohol all their lives but in moderation. No special diets but Dad did eat sardines once a week after he retired.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:39:43 +0000Thats a solid budget, more than I transfer for a month. Our budget without travelling is about 30k for all expenses for 5 people, 6 animals, and two persons work 4 days at the farm a week.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:38:22 +0000No such thing on my FB, as stated looks like a scam .Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:36:24 +0000Phenomenal for 3M Thb, even in 2012.........................Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:35:43 +0000Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:34:52 +0000What is your budget?Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:34:32 +0000Sukhumvit generally means Lower Suk Nana to Asok, 2 stops on the BTS gets you to Thonglor with the Old English right there. Then down Soi 55/Thonglor a fair way to Soi 9 is Churchills a newish place. The Old English can get a bit busy and has a strange happy hour special on draught Leo. Never been to Churchills.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:33:08 +0000Really, Einstein? It was pretty obviously a joke… but thanks for the forensic fact-check anyway. 😂Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:32:42 +0000Yeah, I'd settle for a Tiger pint too. I guess the other reason imported draft isn't carried by many is because the keg is quite big and has to be used up within 5 days or so or it goes flat - so that's expensive if they get through only part of a keg (though Heineken is made locally)Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:31:37 +0000As I said before some of the consonants in German correspond to Thai more than English – however that is just one aspect part of vocabulary and pronunciation – syntax and grammar are different Technically Thai doesn't have tenses; it has time phrases instead (time words, aspect markers, and context) – English uses some of these too. In German, though, with vocabulary, you also have cases and case agreement; with tenses, the German language has six main verb tenses, which cover present, past, and future events. While English has 12 tense variations, this actually helps English to be very precise in space and time – something that learners of English often struggle with. German is considered a stress-timed language like English, which means that Germans, like EL speakers, tend to mess up tones and syllable lengths and involuntarily add stresses. Listening is a good way for some people to learn how to speak a language, but don't forget there are the 3 other aspects – listening, reading and writing. In fact, learning to read and write Thai helps amazingly with speaking, as the tones, etc., become apparent and many words are commonly misheard by foreigners – if you can see the letters, you know where they're coming from.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:30:57 +0000Yes, but it's run by the royal Saudi family and their head is the one who makes all the cash, so it is technically speaking a person. And he's been a trillionaire since forever. You just don't hear about it because he's not listed on the Forbes list. 1 trillion divided by 15 billion/month equals 66.67 months, divided by 12 equals 5.5 years, and they've been in business for how many decades now?! Musk will never even get close to them, there's just no way!Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:29:26 +0000Likely he makes investment income and his content business has no real income yet having just started. Would take a year or more to build a revenue stream.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:28:49 +0000Spoke like a true Trot. Once a Trot, always a Trot.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:25:47 +0000Bogans love Samui, Phuket and Bali. They don't use common sense. The hospitals would get daily patients from bike accidents. No cure for stupid.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:25:45 +0000So sad. With many couples unable to have children, i would like to think they could have given the newborn up in a safe way. I wonder if the visa overstay consequences may have had a part to play in their decision. RIP little one.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:25:31 +0000No, but in the basementSat, 13 Jun 2026 09:25:24 +0000The Thai tax department are coming down heavy on these content creators. Most of content creators are misaligned, unhinged, not normal. He'll be taxed.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:25:16 +0000“It is the reason why in English we have two words for the same thing, one being old English and the other Norman French.” I’ve explained that before English has multiple words for the same thing because it acts as a linguistic "hoarder," borrowing and blending vocabulary from invading forces, scholars, and global trade. Instead of discarding old words, English kept them, resulting in overlapping terms that now carry subtle differences in tone or formality e.g. - Couch,Sofa, Settee, Chesterfield, DavenportSat, 13 Jun 2026 09:24:02 +0000That should really be common knowledge for most folks that travel, as gets plenty of press, thankfully, when things do go wrong.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:23:15 +0000Yes he had a 4th medical assessment. Wonder why so many. It’s not the case that there were “no issues found “. It’s that no results were made public although Trump did brag about his mental acuity when he told the nation that he identified a picture of a horse. Jeez guys, just accept that Trump should be in a care home/prison.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:23:15 +0000Excellent and swift action by the Royal Thai Police.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:23:14 +0000I could easily live on 25000 Baht a month spending. Add on rent , and health insurance. All my working life I thought I would retire to Phuket. While I had the means, giving up my excellent health care which is free is a worry. Now I’m quite happy spending a few months as I did for nigh on 40 years.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:22:40 +0000I'm from Germany and my advantage is that the Thai alphabet for the most part sounds exactly like we would pronounce it in Germany. I did have problems in the beginning with remembering Thai words for the first 3 months, though, because Thai doesn't sound like any language I'm familiar with. I found the tones easy enough, though, once they were pointed out to me. My biggest issue was the "ng". I asked one of my Thai students once what the Thai word for snake is and he said what sounded to me like nu, so that's what I said. Then he said no it's ngu, so I said nu again This went on for a bit and then I told him to write it phonetically in English on the blackboard, and that's when I realized that it was the ng sound like in the English word ring. We don't have words in Germany that start with an ng sound, so it simply didn't register with me, just like the ng in dark blue, si namngoen, didn't register initially. But once you know, you know. Overall Thai is a fairly easy language in terms of the tenses because, as you know, they have only four and they always use the infinitive and then just ad an adverb of time. So, once you have the necessary vocabulary it's quite easy. Where it gets difficult is reading and writing because of the three class consonants and their tone system. So there's a lot of memorizing to be done, but at the end of rhe day, that's just practice. The only advice I can give anyone interested in learning Thai is to simply really listen to how Thais speak Thai. Ask them to say it slowly and pay attention to the pronunciation and the intonation and then just copy it. That's the way I did it. To be honest, my Thai is rudimentary at best, but a lot of Thais told me that my Thai sounds just like that of a local. My biggest regret is that I never bothered to really lean Thai to a degree where I could actually speak it fluently beyond the usual small talk and be able to watch a movie in Thai. It's lovely language and it sounds by far the best out of all the Asian languages at least in my book. To me it's the Italian of the Asian languages. So, you said you teach Thai? Where are you based and for how long have you been doing that? How long does it usually take one of your students who has a knack for it to become fluent in Thai?Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:21:53 +0000Insurance won't pay if no motorbike licence. Lonely Planet guides warned about Samui roads but nobody reads them anymore.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:21:19 +0000Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:21:19 +0000