https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenIran's learned their lesson. Control of the Strait of Hormuz is a deterrent but it's not permanent. In a decade or so the GCC countries will have developed export pipelines away from the Strait. At that time the only defense Iran will have against the maniacal Israelis and their client/benefactor superpower will be nuclear weapons. And the Iranians have proved over the past couple of months that they are a pretty capable lot so they'll get them. And it will be good for the world and, particularly, the ME for the only nation in that part of the world willing to stand up to Israel to finally have power parity with them.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:44:12 +0000Same MO as last time, then. Put civilians in the middle of their military agressions in the hopes of them getting killed in Thailand's retaliation.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:43:03 +0000Yep. Start the shooting.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:39:33 +0000They are not breaking the law. It's no one's business and you don't have the right to spy on them and report it. It's an infringement of privacy. It's sleazy under-handed journalism. It's your OPINION that frequenting prostitutes is a sin that warrants people be damned to hell for eternity. It's not an illegal activity. It's not only sleazy journalism, but western puritanicals imposing their morality in Thailand.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:36:19 +0000Yes. He will not have any authority to do this. You need to arrange to send it back, then when received they should give you a refund. But returns are normally for the whole order, not half, so I think you (or a Thai speaking friend) should phone them.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:36:09 +0000Not going to happen.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:35:46 +0000If they renamed the IDF as the JDF, would that make you feel better?Sun, 24 May 2026 13:35:36 +0000Yes they are bigger but you're overestimating the fallout.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:35:29 +0000The income does not need to be taxable or need to appear on a tax return to qualify for LTR. Some people on this thread were approved based on non-taxable income such as certain pensions or other recurring payments. They showed the source documents from where the income originated and were approved. In your case, you need to show the original official document from the financial institution at which the gain was generated which clearly shows the amount of the gain and the year it was generated. As far as types of income, I believe they prefer pensions, U.S. social security or equivalent social insurance in other countries, dividends, interest, and rental income but some people have been approved based on capital gains (or at least part of their income was capital gains). I would ask BOI how much capital gain is acceptable.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:32:32 +0000That person needs some serious anger management therapy....probably also needs some anger management medications...then throw the person in jail!!!Sun, 24 May 2026 13:31:52 +0000Again: Todays "bombs" are a hundred times more devastating than the Hiroshima bomb. It's the radioactive nuclear "fallout" that will make Europe "uninhabitable".Sun, 24 May 2026 13:31:45 +0000You have made a claim, and are unable to support the claim. Instead you demand that we should take your claim as an established fact. You are blaming Mr. Drummond because your friend was hanging about with "Nanaplaza guys" and "indulging in nightlife" and was caught. What part of an employment code of conduct and security regulations do you not comprehend? US consular staff who are stationed in areas where they can easily be compromised are subject to the code of conduct to protect both themselves and their country's national security. One must be oblivious to reality to argue that hanging about in Nana plaza and cavorting with prostitutes is acceptable behavior for an official of the US government. Well, it is not. It is how people are blackmailed into spying for hostile forces or who leak secrets to foreign intelligence services or get into trouble. If Mr. Drummond exposed the individual, then he did the US government a public service and should be thanked. If your story is accurate, your US friend should have been reprimanded, and if not terminated, demoted to a supervised junior posting. It is unacceptable for consular officials to hang about in high risk areas chatting up transvestites,and/or transgenders and/or prostitutes.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:31:28 +0000If the order can't be canceled, return one after delivery. I order dozens of items a month from Lazada and my experience has been good with the occasional return. And their help over the phone is excellent.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:30:37 +0000Until I turned 50, I found some women who objectified me.. Spent 33 years married to one, 15 and going, to another .. I pay for boomboom every now and then. Do I objectify women? Definitely not. After bonking a prostitute I always enjoy some social time after the explosion.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:29:40 +0000Inflammatory posts and replies have been removed: Be polite and respectful to other users. You will not post vulgarities, obscenities or profanities. Avoid flaming, trolling, or stalking other members.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:29:33 +0000Amazing how anyone can give a thumbs down to this. I highlighted unconfirmed because it is and agreed with the OP on the regime (now controlled by the IRGC?) not engaging in direct communications. Jeez there some sour old buggers on here.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:27:20 +0000Regarding my BYD Sealion 7 AWD I got less than a week ago, today the wife and I did a 432km roundtrip from our western Bangkok home to Laem Chabang seaport area in Chonburi, Pattaya/Jomtiem Beach, Sattahip, Utapao, and Bang Chang. I'm following the BYD "break-in" recommendation to not drive the car above 90kmh for the first 2,000km and drive in ECO mode during this period. During this trip I was interested in what "real world" mileage I would get. My SL7 AWD with 82.5Kwh battery has a 542Km NEDC rating and a 456km WLTP rating. About 75% of the drive was on expressways/motorways where I maintained an 85 to 90Kmh speed....around 20% on smaller highways at around 60 to 90Kmh...and then 5% doing around 25 to 50kmh on small sois. A/C set to 24C. I left home with 100% SOC and returned with 18% SOC remaining. So I used 82% of my charge to drive 432km....extrapolating that to 0% SOC remaining gives a 527Km "real world" mileage on this particular trip where I kept the speed at/below 90kmh in ECO mode....conservative driving. And the SL7 drove just fine...smooth....I be happy.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:26:38 +0000I don't think 1 is enough to turn all of Europe into a wasteland. It will decimate a small area and cause untold damage though. Talking about only physical damage. Not economic.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:25:55 +0000There are perhaps two major obstacles to anything serious being done to correct the financial situation: 1. Public expectations of being able to draw benefits from an economy that cannot support them; and 2. Career politicians with no concern for what produces revenue, only of what milks off revenue already produced, and what sham promises can be made to garner the necessary votes. In my youth, if I recall correctly, politicians were mostly older folk who had made their mark in industry, commerce, labour (shop-floor then unions), or military. Doubtlessly there was a desire for personal prestige. Incompetence and corruption (think of Horatio Bottomley) existed in some measure. John Profumo's career was destroyed because he lied to parliament (not because of his relations with Cristine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davis). But there was also broad experience. There was dedication to national interests and, divisively, class interests. National crises helped to bring classes closer together. Churchill on return to power did not destroy what the Atlee government had created. Macmillan criticised Thatcher for "selling off the family silver". M.P.s' salaries were 600 GBP, worth a lot more in today's money but surely less than the 80,000 plus in total emoluments they are said to receive nowadays. Now, young people study politics with a view to making it a career, and perhaps a stepping-stone to more remunerative positions. Voters have a paucity of choice in the candidates they can vote for. But they get the ones they, as a majority, choose. Public attitudes need to change and perhaps the gathering storm may help in that, if combined with perspicacious grassroots movements. When the storm finally clears we may end up with a new breed of politicians, and hopefully a few statesmen. If I were in Britain today, I would put my money on Restore U.K. of Rupert Lowe and/or Advance U.K. of Ben Habib. Not on Nidel Farage's Reform U.K. When Nigel Farage was an M.E.P, I was impressed by his outspoken criticism of the Brussels bureaucracy. But when Brexit had been voted for, he withdrew entirely from the scene, saying Brexit had been achieved. It had not. Wanting something is not the same as getting it. After Reform UK had been born, Farage joined and took it over as if it were his personal property. He criticised and alienated some who were fighting for what he claimed to want, changed his policies, and has now started hastily recruiting Conservative politicians who had been strongly anti-Brexit. In the 1994 Eastleigh by-election Nigel Farage, standing for the newly formed United Kingdom Independence Party, had sought the endorsement of Enoch Powell. The latter declined, reportedly because he felt him to be 'an opportunist'. UKIP was founded in 1993 by Alan Sked, a Scottish Eurosceptic and Professor Emeritus of International History at the London School of Economics. Sked resigned from the party he founded in 1997, claiming growing far-right radicalism.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:25:53 +0000That was a woman?Sun, 24 May 2026 13:24:15 +0000Go to my orders and find the return button, and if not sent yet, look for the cancel order buttonSun, 24 May 2026 13:18:06 +0000Great idea.Sun, 24 May 2026 13:17:19 +0000Working as a bar manager on an education visa. Two laws broken. Apparently the Thai Government care - but not perhaps the local authorities in Pattaya. You don't have to worry about litte old ladies in Aberdeen. And if some foreigners did the same in your outback home town, would the residents have anything to say? You seem to have a dog in this race 555Sun, 24 May 2026 13:16:20 +0000I am not the one shouting out about it will definitely be sunny tomorrowSun, 24 May 2026 13:15:26 +0000Threathening Europe with such a weapon alone, might put the Iranians into a position of becoming a "untouchable rogue nation".Sun, 24 May 2026 13:14:15 +0000