https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenSix days into your holiday and you manage to rent a big and total everything... a cautionary tale if ever there was one. Check your insurance before you do anything as it's likely that it's not covered.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:27:05 +0000Life is good Good view, good food, good lifeSat, 16 May 2026 07:26:42 +0000Hey, Jude..... This great song goes out to you. This song talks about fools on a bike, and provides a bit of comfort. A word of advice: If one is at all uncertain about insurance coverage, then the last thing one should be doing is riding a motorbike in Thailand, and especially in cities. In addition: These days, one should never travel internationally unless one has a pile of cash on-hand, to cover emergencies. If parents don't have, then also don't go.. If no have.... No have... Then keep your life real. Do not take the risk that others might need to pay for. This is what we call an EXTERNALITY.... YOU, Jude, take the risk. OTHERS, pay for the risk you took. Not a good look.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:24:22 +0000David Sanger Trump unleashed a furious rant against New York Times reporter David Sanger during the recent trip to China. He branded Sanger “treasonous” over reporting on Iran and boasted about what he called a “total military victory.” “I actually think it’s sort of treasonous what you write,” Trump said. “You should be ashamed of yourself.” The outburst followed another online tirade before Trump even departed for China. In a storm of 55 Truth Social posts, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of being a “traitor” who should be arrested. He also accused Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey of “treason.” Meanwhile, social media users in China mocked Trump with viral memes using the nickname “Chuan Jianguo,” meaning “nation builder,” a sarcastic jab suggesting Trump’s policies strengthen China rather than the United States. Behind the lavish ceremony, the real tension quickly surfaced. Despite Trump's high-powered entourage, no major breakthrough emerged on AI, Taiwan or Iran. Reports described Trump entering the talks weakened by the ongoing Iran conflict, while Xi dominated the summit’s tone and messaging. Trump later said the two countries had struck “fantastic trade deals,” though few details were released publicly. However, one detail from the trip appeared to capture Trump’s imagination more than any policy agreement. As he departed China, Trump posted enthusiastically about China’s grand ballroom facilities, writing: “China has a Ballroom, and so should the U.S.A.!” Critics seized on the remark as another sign the summit delivered more symbolism than substance. With mid-term elections looming and global tensions rising, the fallout from the China trip is likely to intensify in the weeks ahead. Tiny Trump just got smaller — and weaker | OpinionSat, 16 May 2026 07:24:06 +0000Congratulations Keir' you've found your first far right neo nazi now start on the neo Allah's you will find it far easier 🤔Sat, 16 May 2026 07:23:51 +0000Sat, 16 May 2026 07:22:42 +0000Go play coy with someone else. Spare me your moral outrage.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:22:05 +0000Nothing newish.... but yeah plenty of 50cc scoots around.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:21:54 +0000I've also read QDenga only has 61% effectiveness. I've had dengue three times, waiting for that fourth strain!Sat, 16 May 2026 07:21:15 +0000I recall similar objections to that factual report being discussed too. Is the issue ‘glee’ or an eagerness to avoid discussing rightwing extremism?Sat, 16 May 2026 07:19:05 +0000Beheading Hamas leadership is the right strategy. However, huge missile strikes kill innocent bystanders. What's wrong with Mossad or the IDF?Sat, 16 May 2026 07:18:12 +0000Yes but 98% of the Swiss population wish the scum couldn'tSat, 16 May 2026 07:17:31 +0000Just telling it as it is, with links to a credible source. Convicted rightwing Neo Nazi would be terrorist murderer is an accurate description. No need to be offended, it’s not an accusation against you personally.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:16:50 +0000How many of those were consensual "rapes" in order to get good parts in movies. Frankly, I don't think that's corruption. Sort of like sleeping with a student in order to give her a passing grade.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:15:55 +0000Well, here it's not about residents but visitors.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:15:51 +0000Yes, and that's well underway, still, by 2050 - China will have the infrastructure and technology and the most competitive economic and industrial capacity on earth, requiring less labour, and a lower working-age segment of the population, not more as in the past. They already have built more high-speed rail in the past 10 years than in the rest of the world combined. The US, with all due respect, will have a decimated domestic infrastructure, middle class, education and approach at that point $60 trillion dollars in debt, with high-cost, run-down industrial capacity unable to compete in a global market place and a petrochemical business long past its prime with other technologies having replaced it. Russia has vast resources, as does Africa as a whole, where countries are taking control over from simply shipping raw resources to have value added in the US or Europe, to vertical integration where value added, and profit, is kept domestically. 'Belt and Road' has extended that infrastructure globally, whilst the US remains bizarrely focused on protracted foreign wars and military hegemony in the Middle East, and addicted co-dependency with Israel. The capacity of the American electorate to, against all logic, believe that foreign companies and governments, not the American people, pay for tariffs lays testament that only the billionaire oligarchs will get out on top, while the American people will reap the long term consequences of having saddled future generations with incalculable debt. The future will not be democratic, that's already a lost cause. The billionaire won't have it. Its only too easy to buy popular sentiment with consumer goods and propaganda to spur nationalism, blame and hatred, directed where and when told to do so. China's control over Taiwan will inevitably transition in much the same way as Hong Kong, albeit with lessons learned, but the aggressive barking is mostly meant to push back the Americans, no overt attack on Taiwan would benefit anyone, as the interruption, let alone the crippling, of the semiconductor business would decimate the global economy ten thousand times more than the American blockage of the Straits of Hormuz is doing now. Like it or not, the century ahead clearly belongs to China, not said as a Sinophile, or intended in anyway as anti-American, as I am an American, simply stating what has already been building, not just trending, for many decades. Just the facts. The inherent absurdity of the so-called "Pax Americana", with well over 200 "undeclared" wars since WWII, and the Cold War that killed millions needlessly, is over. Trumpism is just the latest in long line of self-destructive American policy, and MAGA a pathetic 'Hail Mary', decades too late, which would be laughable, except for the millions of lives lost, the human potential, the genocides, and war crimes, inhumanity and unspeakable cruelty, and the complete insanity of a nuclear policy based on a ‘balance of terror’Sat, 16 May 2026 07:15:48 +0000D'uh. Obviously. The US should have been smart enough not to let Israel drag them into war and then abandon them. But...Trump.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:12:51 +0000Iran thought this through whearas Trump didn't. That was Bibi's best chance and it has been literally blown and Trump has caused economic chaos around the world with his folly. Idiot.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:11:16 +0000Irrelevant. Taking someone's property with the intent to permanently deprive them of is theft. Pure and simple.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:11:11 +0000This is nomads Insurance, I'm on 75 days yearly travel Insurance from Norway, my credit card got 90 days, and so far everythime I stay longer I do nomads Insurance. But next year I do not plan to travel frequently back and forth and nomads insurances can be signed while traveling and are monthly based, no matter how long you stay. You pay by month, and when you reach 365 days you have to renew the contract, and every new condition is going to be preexisting condition, and that can be a problem If you do not have a back up as me with health care in NorwaySat, 16 May 2026 07:10:30 +0000The op wouldnt dare miss a chance. Similar glee in a thread a few weeks ago about another right wing person.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:10:04 +0000Under water for 30 minutes - the child would be dead.Sat, 16 May 2026 07:09:13 +0000Poor kids, Richard, never have such opportunities. Thai 'education' is designed to fail due to its hierarchical structure which relies on rote memorisation. This is particularly apparent with languages. In your school, are kids allowed to use their tech at lunch or are they banned to encourage human interaction and...ya know, bullying! Ideally, the kids would put their phones in a teacher's lock box to be collected at end-of-day. It's unfortunate the AI genie can't be put back in Pandora's box. (Mixed metaphor, I know.)Sat, 16 May 2026 07:08:38 +0000do you have learning difficulties? I did not ask about citizenship, I asked another member for his opinion on the matter. Exactly how difficult can that be to understand? You thought you would try and be clever , butting in , but ended up looking stupid and now , hilariously trying to blame predictive text , just go awaySat, 16 May 2026 07:08:26 +0000Where does it say it happened in Pattaya?Sat, 16 May 2026 07:07:31 +0000