https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenOk, well I understand him to mean a video after the collapse of the trial which - let's not forget - is for the lesser charge of assault on the male policemen. I mean that's when he started the thread with the title "something's wrong". So his inference is clear to me. The initing violence videos after it looked like police brutality are hardly secret, everyone has seen them - they were on the BBC. Mohammed Fahir Amaaz has already been convicted for assaulting the two female officers. Once the full story came out I don't believe there were any more protests against the police.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:28:30 +0000No, it's not me that got wound up in a tizzy! I'm 100% at ease and tranquil.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:26:53 +0000I've been using 2 Orico H727Rk-U2 USB powered hubs working great good price ( second hand product) ORICO H727RK-U2 7Ports HUB usb มือ2 | Lazada.co.thORICO H727RK-U2 7Ports HUB usb มือ2Sat, 23 May 2026 11:26:49 +0000Was it actually legalised, or was it given the ok by the then Minister For Health Anutin as he an enormous interest in the business.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:25:59 +0000Sat, 23 May 2026 11:23:44 +0000I took advantage of the 60 day exempt this trip since it was available, but booked only 30 days for this November trip given the advance talk that it was going to reduce. 30 days twice a year is enough for me moving forward since I relocated next door, grateful I can still do that without the need for a visa. Not sure there is anyone in power with the bandwidth to improve the actual product, changing visa length, type or conditions every few years seems to be the limit of their abilities. The major negatives I see are institutional problems affecting locals just as much as tourists. Reading that foreigners are a problem all the time is a deflection and frankly tiresome.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:23:42 +0000Yonks ago in Phuket, I was called upon (as a Tourist Police Volunteer) to come quickly to Naithon beach where a foreign female had 'stripped naked and was running up and down the beach making sexual proposals to everyone". Naturally, I jumped into my truck and broke the speed limit to get to the beach, where I witnessed said female indeed making particularly suggestive comments, and was being 'fended off' by some sort of long spear by a local Thai woman. Unfortunately, the woman was not my type! She was about 70 years old and clearly had forgotten to take her medication lol! I learnt later that I was called upon to help because it was common knowledge in the local community that my Thai wife was equally as mad as this foreign woman, and therefore I probably knew how to calm her down. An ambulance arrived, with a female nurse and 4 strong guys. I tried to calm the naked woman down, but she wasn't 'on this planet'. So I gave up and the 4 strong guys literally jumped on her, tied her to the stretcher and off she went with her husband in tow... :) Great memories lolSat, 23 May 2026 11:21:55 +0000Lots of things are possible :) But meth was in his system and he admitted to being a meth user. DO you think it is a good idea to have meth in your system and be the driver of a train? Most meth users are casual weekend parties :)Sat, 23 May 2026 11:21:51 +0000Why do people keep saying how easy it is to get a 60 day visa. I could not submit my application due to the stupid size limit on files. In then end the only way I get the bank statements submitted was to scan each relevant page leaving out the pages of guff from the bank. Then merge 3 scans from one bank statement. Then compress the file. Then repeat for months 2 and 3. As you say, so easy. In the end I decided not to travel but for other reasons.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:21:43 +0000Thanks for the correction as I'm only a common former old plumber who went to a tech school not some posh university.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:21:30 +0000DivideSat, 23 May 2026 11:21:22 +0000An answer that was wrong!Sat, 23 May 2026 11:21:15 +0000Sat, 23 May 2026 11:20:36 +0000You don't have to use a phone. If you are posting on aseannow from a desktop or laptop, all you need to do is go to gmail.com and open a Gmail account. That e-mail address becomes your YouTube username. I did this only today for someone who wanted to download apps to their smart tv, not just YouTube.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:20:29 +0000But back on topic: Since I got a girlfriend, I definitely cut back on going to stupid Meetupcom meet ups. I mean, obviously. Who do you meet at Meetup’s? People who need to go to meet ups to meet people. Yes it was a brutal case of mirror meet self. But I popped into one a couple of days ago and saw what I call the fat baldies. They are in possession of possibly unacceptable arms. They are plainly bald. They don’t have a lot of money to socialize; that’s why they’re at Koffee and Konversation at Kbank. They often live at the Nana hotel -which I understand is a “value” hotel. Gym? I don’t think they’ve been up for a look. These guys can’t get girlfriends. I was swiping through some of their phones and looking at the very average middle-aged woman who didn’t wanna deal with them. Unless you are a sexual deity like me or the Reagan-haired Will I Am, it’s hard to reach beyond a 12 year age gap, and these guys are typically shooting for double that. These guys would kill to be in an exploitative relationship just to get laid, but they can’t even get to that level. When I was working Tinder hard, it was a bit of work to lineup a single reasonable date with a woman over 50 a week. Thailand, as a teaming supermarket of desperate women who have never seen a 1000 baht bill is a fantasy for dimwits that is at least a generation out of date. One beloved poster here says he just stands near the Aunt Anne pretzel stand at the mall and tells passing very youngThai women jokes. Sadly but predictably, he could not recall a single joke. Even with pristine oral hygiene, another frequent and baffling boast, most broke old fat bald guys shouldn’t even bother to get out of bed these days. The law of attraction have not been repealed, just as the law of gravity has not been repealed -as one elder 55 year old “value” tourist is slowly coming to painful grip with, much to our collective amusement. Is the sick buffalo trope now an out of the joke that marks somebody as clueless to the current Socio-dating reality of modern Thailand? Have too many old white dudes crowded into the Thailand girlfriend life boat in 2026?Sat, 23 May 2026 11:20:12 +0000Hey Torrentday is my site....did I give you an invite ? 😆 ive been on it since 2009. No need to use anything else everything is all there in one spot. Do you want an invite to torrentday. Private tracker with 0 bs. I'm me your email and ill send you one.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:20:00 +0000The homosexual activites would rife.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:17:06 +0000Every flat I have had in the last forty years has been some kind of road hazard.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:16:01 +0000Sandwich ham? Lol. Gotta admit, I am all in for a bit of kink at times, but haven't tried that one. Can you use salami as a stand in if you're running short on the honey glazed? I heard Dolf Bignok likes a bit of sausage up the bungholio. Ran into him at the deli counter at Foodland the other day. He was buying a half meter long pepperoni. The deli guy asked him politely if he also wanted it sliced into thick wedges. Rocks immediately got cheesed off. He said to the guy "what, do you reckon my arse hole is a piggy bank or something?"Sat, 23 May 2026 11:15:51 +0000poor old Dick always getting the wrong end of the stickSat, 23 May 2026 11:15:13 +0000No talent, poor ratings, I know of another guy like that.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:15:10 +0000Why would authorities want to see passport stamps while knowing you can now leave the country without having your passport stamped? Immigration could want to see the stamps from other countries (for instance in order to ascertain whether you were not expelled from some other country, or to check whether you spend much time in an "enemy" country like Cambodia). But the TRD? Doesn't make much sense. Maybe TRD simply want to see what kind of visa you are on. In vague English, visas are also "stamps".Sat, 23 May 2026 11:13:49 +0000I look at every tire that comes of and goes on pretty closely. Manufacturers put date (and plant) codes on tires so they can track defects back to the plant and the batch to isolate liability.Sat, 23 May 2026 11:13:09 +0000More than 20,000 sailors are now stranded aboard roughly 2,000 ships across the Gulf as Iran intensifies its effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, deepening a humanitarian and economic crisis at the heart of global energy markets. The worsening blockade has left crews stuck in dangerous waters for months, cut off from families, facing dwindling supplies and living under the constant threat of missile and drone attacks. ‘We Pray We Don’t Get Hit’ For many trapped mariners, daily life has collapsed into survival mode. Crews remain confined to blistering decks and cramped cabins while diplomatic efforts to reopen the strategic waterway continue to stall. “The only thing we do here is plan how to spend the night and pray to God that we do not get hit during an attack,” Indian sailor Salman Siddiqui said from his stranded vessel. Sailors describe shortened meals, mounting fear and collapsing morale as the conflict drags deeper into its fourth month. Iran Tightens Control of the Gulf Tehran escalated tensions further this week by publishing a new map asserting wider control over the Strait of Hormuz, reinforcing its claim over one of the world’s most critical oil chokepoints. The move signals Iran is hardening its position rather than preparing to compromise. Shipowners trying to move vessels through the strait now face a complex system of permits, payments and approvals overseen by Iranian authorities. The closure followed US-Israeli strikes on Iran earlier this year and has already crippled commercial shipping flows through the Gulf. Supply Chains Under Pressure The human cost is now colliding with economic fallout. Some sailors reportedly survive on a single meal a day, while others have gone unpaid for months and remain unable to leave their ships. The International Transport Workers’ Federation says it has received more than 2,000 distress requests from seafarers since the crisis began. Cases include abandoned crews, lack of medicine and shipowners refusing repatriation unless workers surrender unpaid wages. Meanwhile, Gulf ports are scrambling to prevent a total breakdown. Saudi authorities say they have helped hundreds of ships resupply with food, water and medicine while assisting more than 500 sailors to transfer off stranded vessels. A Crisis With No Clear Exit Despite limited humanitarian efforts, the broader deadlock remains unresolved. Iran shows no sign of reopening Hormuz without concessions, while Western pressure continues to mount. For the thousands trapped at sea, the geopolitical standoff has become brutally personal. As oil markets brace for further shocks, entire crews remain stranded in a war zone with no certainty over when — or if — they will get home. Iran's intensified closure of Strait of Hormuz piles misery on stranded sailors | ReutersSat, 23 May 2026 11:12:35 +0000How likely or otherwise would it be to get denied a METV after spending 6 months in Thailand? By then my history would be 90 days- 60 day exempt + 30; 17-20 outside Thailand (Laos) 90- days - 60 day SETV + 30; returning to home country (Aust). application would be probably no less than a month after departing Thai (depends on how long processing takes). Would that pass muster, or too many red-flags?Sat, 23 May 2026 11:08:54 +0000