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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Thailand news</title><link>https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/</link><description>National and regional news from all around Thailand</description><language>en</language><item><title>Foreign Tourist Flees After Jomtien Shop Clash</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395241-foreign-tourist-flees-after-jomtien-shop-clash/?do=findComment&comment=20522019]]></link><description>Personally, I will await police viewing the store video before making a judgement. 16 years+ never had or read about 7-11 store clerks accusing a customer with taking/drinking energy drinks without paying without basis.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:32:37 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Pickup Crash Kills Six on Chumphon Road</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395243-pickup-crash-kills-six-on-chumphon-road/?do=findComment&comment=20522018]]></link><description>I'd like a look at the tires. Many people drive on Thai roads with very worn tires that have almost no traction on a wet road.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:32:02 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreigners Held in Koh Phangan Nominee Probe</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395293-foreigners-held-in-koh-phangan-nominee-probe/?do=findComment&comment=20522017]]></link><description>The whole Thai Anti-corruption Act (2018) mechanism whether officials at large or specifically police is based upon a formal complaint system --   This is reflected in anti-bribery (official) announcement at the Immigration level but with detailed conditions and manner of filing a complaint.  It is mostly not a matter of when will THEY look into it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:30:59 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Tourist Flees After Jomtien Shop Clash</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395241-foreign-tourist-flees-after-jomtien-shop-clash/?do=findComment&comment=20522016]]></link><description>Has there ever been any other instances of  Thai guys attacking another Thai for alleged shoplifting ?</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:30:55 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>US Dollar death watch</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1386069-us-dollar-death-watch/?do=findComment&comment=20522015]]></link><description>The death of the US Dollar is greatly exaggerated, I think.  As of a few minutes ago, $1 =32.45 THB.   Surely the dollar will decline over the long term. That's been the trend since 1913.  But the decline will probably be gradual, at least that' how the British Pound eventually faded away.   Presently, the world still needs the US Dollar. China's banking system is not yet up to snuff, and the BRICS thing is still in its infancy.    We'll have to see what kind of nonsense ensues with the CBDCs that are in development.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:29:45 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>400 migrants crossed the Channel Friday, French police look on.</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395244-400-migrants-crossed-the-channel-friday-french-police-look-on/?do=findComment&comment=20522014]]></link><description>A post with a link to a Conspiracy-Pseudoscience site and the replies have been removed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:29:44 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Worst Joke Ever 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1071616-worst-joke-ever-2026/?do=findComment&comment=20522013]]></link><description/><enclosure url="https://assets.aseannow.com/forum/uploads/monthly_2026_05/main-qimg-4761ca607d3b1f987bf7950e228b15cc.jpg.cdfaf8a4e0f61585042366246ddb1482.jpg" length="23170" type="image/jpeg"/><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:29:15 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Worst Joke Ever 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1071616-worst-joke-ever-2026/?do=findComment&comment=20522012]]></link><description/><enclosure url="https://assets.aseannow.com/forum/uploads/monthly_2026_05/main-qimg-9f52ca5ada7da59d29d815980ca6847a.jpg.7bfa2601d2fcc2a8e32cfaaa8dbbbb3b.jpg" length="15754" type="image/jpeg"/><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:28:59 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>The Quiet Frustration of Being Called &#x201C;Farang&#x201D;</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395237-the-quiet-frustration-of-being-called-farang/?do=findComment&comment=20522011]]></link><description>Excuse me? They speak Issan in Southern  Thailand?? In the South the "lingua franca" is Pak Thai. I lived in the South the first 4 years of my stay in Thailand. Issan is the lingua franca of North East Thailand.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:28:46 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Worst Joke Ever 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1071616-worst-joke-ever-2026/?do=findComment&comment=20522010]]></link><description/><enclosure url="https://assets.aseannow.com/forum/uploads/monthly_2026_05/main-qimg-6f699a88e2849ca5c9cdcb0c49ce45b3.jpg.41041671f824d09df08f907a785f293d.jpg" length="22858" type="image/jpeg"/><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:28:43 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Pickup Crash Kills Six on Chumphon Road</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395243-pickup-crash-kills-six-on-chumphon-road/?do=findComment&comment=20522009]]></link><description>There is provision for seat belts in the beds of pickups?</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:27:20 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>The Quiet Frustration of Being Called &#x201C;Farang&#x201D;</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395237-the-quiet-frustration-of-being-called-farang/?do=findComment&comment=20522008]]></link><description>We farangs living in Thailand will always be farangs, simply because we are farangs. This don't need to be negative &#x2014; it's ancient tradition &#x2014; and actually, the gate keepers at Wat Pho-temple in Bangkok are farangs...    I've been living permanently here for 21 years. For Thais that know me and remembers my name, I'm "khun Per". For those not knowing my name I'm "farang"; but when talking to me, they often address me "papa", in a polite meaning, if am older than the person talking to me. "Farang" is not different than if we Westerners talk about someone and call the person "the Asian", if we don't know or remember the name, or which Asian country that person originates from. Thailand's Royal Institute Dictionary describes farang as "a person of white race".  If the meaning is negative, the word farang would rprobably be said together with some other expression, like "farang khi nok".  "Farang" in a positive way, here is an example from my life: An elder Thai woman considered to sell her land plot in the village where I stay, Her neighbourg was interested, but she didn't like the neighbourgh and therefore would not sell it to the neighbourgh. As normally in Thailand a third part is used as messenger, who one day showed up where I lived and said that the old lady would sell her land, but not to her neighbourgh, instead to the kind "farang" that politely wai her, when he pass her. I had made it a habbit to wai the elder Thai people in the village first time I met them during the day, to show that I'm a guest and appreciate that you let me stay here. The kind farang &#x2014; me &#x2014; could buy the land for same price, as her nighbourgh had recently bout another plot of same size for.</description><enclosure url="https://assets.aseannow.com/forum/uploads/monthly_2026_05/IMG_6062_Farang_1024.jpg.8f2a03f94a9968db47963b8e45d5f923.jpg" length="47186" type="image/jpeg"/><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:26:35 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Electric Vehicles in Thailand</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1257405-electric-vehicles-in-thailand/?do=findComment&comment=20522007]]></link><description>Doesn&#x2019;t mean you shouldn&#x2019;t do it, maybe byd has spyware on the car and If something goes wrong they can blame you for driving&#x2019;s in sport mode and didn&#x2019;t flow the break in instructions. lol.  I&#x2019;ll do too on my new EV but I&#x2019;ll do 200km only. And gradually go to sport mode an after another 100-200km. And that&#x2019;s it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:25:41 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>What Did You Have For Lunch</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394745-what-did-you-have-for-lunch/?do=findComment&comment=20522005]]></link><description>You're killing yourself.   Unless you are working out, burning calories endlessly no need for so many meals.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:24:47 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Air Frier.</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395264-air-frier/?do=findComment&comment=20522004]]></link><description>I bought something small from them (200 THB) 10 days ago. I never got a confirmation or order number, but they did manage to charge my credit card for the amount. My wife scolded me and told me everyone knows to pay cash on arrival with Lazada. I guess I can tell the credit card company about it - but then they'll charge me for their 'investigation' - seems easier/cheaper to just drop it</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:24:25 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>White House tells Pompeo to 'shut his stupid mouth' on Iran</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395279-white-house-tells-pompeo-to-shut-his-stupid-mouth-on-iran/?do=findComment&comment=20522002]]></link><description>From what I&#x2019;ve read so far this is really &#x201C;Art of the Deal&#x201D; negotiating by The Mad King.  The White House telling Pompeo to shut his stupid mouth? That&#x2019;s rich. Maybe they should tell their boss to stop posting on Truth Social in the middle of the night.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:24:15 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>The Quiet Frustration of Being Called &#x201C;Farang&#x201D;</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395237-the-quiet-frustration-of-being-called-farang/?do=findComment&comment=20522003]]></link><description>So you have a horse face? Should call you Mr Ed&#x1F434;</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:24:15 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Travel for 2 weeks</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395267-travel-for-2-weeks/?do=findComment&comment=20522001]]></link><description>Or his wife can pay for everything with her $65/hour wage.  Did you hear that!?!?  SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS&#x2026;&#x2026;per hour!!!!!  His wife makes $65 dollars per hour.  One hour.    Sixty five Australian Dollars.  Don&#x2019;t  you forget it.  &#x1F4AA;&#x1F3FB;</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:24:06 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel is Losing America</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395303-israel-is-losing-america/?do=findComment&comment=20522000]]></link><description>Politicians on both sides answer to their donors.  (And to Mossad, who have 8x10 glossies of that party last Friday)  Not to the American people.    In a similar vein, the Dems gave it away when they don't support voter ID in spite of over 3/4 of their own voters supporting it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:23:46 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Ben-Gvir fury exposes the hard-line face of modern Israel</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395154-ben-gvir-fury-exposes-the-hard-line-face-of-modern-israel/?do=findComment&comment=20521999]]></link><description>The part that pro-Zionist Western media conveniently leaves out is that the flotilla was intercepted and the boat's crews and passengers where kidnapped in INTERNATIONAL WATERS south of Cyprus.    Israel is taking a page out of the United State's piracy playbook by intercepting boats in international waters, abducting people, and then taking them back to Israel to publicly abuse.  The entire West has scraped all semblance of international laws.  Then Western media is confused as to why the majority of the world considers Israel, as well as the US, rogue states.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:23:22 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Chinese Theft Suspect Arrested in Bangkok</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395284-chinese-theft-suspect-arrested-in-bangkok/?do=findComment&comment=20521998]]></link><description>What the heck is that, specifically A Chinese database detailing specifics of people wanted in connection with crimes for whom arrest warrants had been issued.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:23:12 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Rider Held After Hit & Run on Phangan]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395294-british-rider-held-after-hit-run-on-phangan/?do=findComment&comment=20521997]]></link><description>How much do British miscreants cost the Thai taxpayer?  The Thai government should set up a gofundme for the burden the British put on their legal and medical systems.  Why are so Many Brits other people's problem. Normal people, like this doctor, just living their life until some Brit on booze or drugs plows right through it.  The Muslims can't reproduce fast enough to clean out that once great nation.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:20:49 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Former F1 Driver Mika Salo Stabbed in Bangkok</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395226-former-f1-driver-mika-salo-stabbed-in-bangkok/?do=findComment&comment=20521996]]></link><description>Maybe they installed blades on their wheels like Mad Max?</description><enclosure url="https://assets.aseannow.com/forum/uploads/monthly_2026_05/Screenshot2026-05-25at11_20_47AM.png.b275467133b38f32fbe7b4fba20f7a89.png" length="943509" type="image/png"/><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:20:21 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Does Trump care one iota about rising inflation?</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395286-does-trump-care-one-iota-about-rising-inflation/?do=findComment&comment=20521995]]></link><description>A personal attack and reply have been removed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:20:06 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Electric Vehicles in Thailand</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1257405-electric-vehicles-in-thailand/?do=findComment&comment=20521994]]></link><description>dude, that's even worse non sense. What hallucinating add on did you add you your Gemini? &#x1F923; Your Gemini must have been hallucinating.   The only reason BYD puts that in the manual: Fleet Risk Mitigation. They deliver deliver 500,000 EVs a year, forcing owners to drive slowly in ECO mode for the first month drastically reduces the statistical likelihood of accidents, tire blowouts from unscrubbed/waxy rubber, or early-stage assembly defects manifesting at 120 km/h on a highway.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:18:15 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
