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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>Bombs of Sweet Mercy: We Must Do The Needful In Iran</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395042-bombs-of-sweet-mercy-we-must-do-the-needful-in-iran/?do=findComment&comment=20516714]]></link><description>Because you're on the side of good right.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:56:14 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Brit Tourist Critical After Pattaya Truck Fall</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395004-brit-tourist-critical-after-pattaya-truck-fall/?do=findComment&comment=20516713]]></link><description>That happen when you little brain takes over from the big one.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:56:05 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Swedish National Assaults Indian Man in Phuket, Surrenders</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394960-swedish-national-assaults-indian-man-in-phuket-surrenders/?do=findComment&comment=20516712]]></link><description>Not necessarily....because....  Perhaps the INDIAN GUY will turn the other cheek.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:55:43 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombs of Sweet Mercy: We Must Do The Needful In Iran</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395042-bombs-of-sweet-mercy-we-must-do-the-needful-in-iran/?do=findComment&comment=20516711]]></link><description>Doing the needful is packing up, going home and ending this illegal Israeli/US war of agression.  Take the Marines home too, they&#x2019;re starving onboard ship.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:55:25 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Has the US Supreme Court sold out to the GOP?</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394696-has-the-us-supreme-court-sold-out-to-the-gop/?do=findComment&comment=20516710]]></link><description>Uh, Americans voted him out.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:55:18 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Pattaya Supports Thailand's Visa-Free Stay Reduction</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394967-pattaya-supports-thailands-visa-free-stay-reduction/?do=findComment&comment=20516709]]></link><description>Maybe they are just sick and tired of the trash that comes since the introduction. Anyone ole timer that lives there will tell you how Pattaya has disintegrated into drug ridden hell hole with half the world's rebrabates coming there</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:54:30 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Quality tourist chronicles: Four spoons, one ice cream edition</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395007-quality-tourist-chronicles-four-spoons-one-ice-cream-edition/?do=findComment&comment=20516708]]></link><description>One beer, four street poopers. One bargirl, four street poopers. They share everything to save a couple of Baht.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:54:17 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Jew hatred has become fashionable especially among young people</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394199-jew-hatred-has-become-fashionable-especially-among-young-people/?do=findComment&comment=20516707]]></link><description>I can be intense.  Yeah, enough for my own psychological well-being and that of your team.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:53:16 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Thailand Eyes Higher Tourist Tax for Foreign Visitors</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394989-thailand-eyes-higher-tourist-tax-for-foreign-visitors/?do=findComment&comment=20516706]]></link><description>They are looking to charge foreigners an increased entry fee. They are also looking to charge Thais an exit fee. Couldn't they simply combine their plan and increase the airline departure tax for all passengers and avoid the discriminatory practices that they are proposing?</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:52:33 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>USA immigration and customs  enforcement ,protecting the homeland&#x2026;News</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1366266-usa-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-protecting-the-homeland%E2%80%A6news/?do=findComment&comment=20516705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bipartisan Congress passed the Homeland Security Act in 2002 one of the key initiatives of its creation  was to guard against unlawful foreign actors attacking the USA. A result of that is the Homeland Security agency and partner agencies, one being  Immigration &amp; Custom  Enforcement.  Senate Vote: The Act passed the Senate with a 90–9 vote on November 19, 2002. House Vote: The Act passed the House of Representatives with a 295–132 vote on July 26, 2002. Homeland Security @DHSgov  "Every day, our @ICEgov  law enforcement officers are out on the street arresting criminal illegal aliens.  Yesterday, these brave men and women arrested murderers, child rapists, cocaine traffickers, and other despicable criminals". https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2057222863996768369?s=20]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:50:41 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Worst Joke Ever 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1071616-worst-joke-ever-2026/?do=findComment&comment=20516704]]></link><description/><enclosure url="https://assets.aseannow.com/forum/uploads/monthly_2026_05/image.png.0cbb98de5b0948770385a751cd425998.png" length="176995" type="image/png"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:50:14 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Long term expats who can't afford to move home?</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394916-long-term-expats-who-cant-afford-to-move-home/?do=findComment&comment=20516703]]></link><description>I'm watching those yields like a hawk too.  P.S.: it's the 30 year treasury that hit 5.2%.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:50:11 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel Public Relations takes a Huge Hit</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395003-israel-public-relations-takes-a-huge-hit/?do=findComment&comment=20516702]]></link><description>Israel did not indirectly  create Hamas either  Hamas was founded in 1987 by Palestinian Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his aide Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:48:25 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Perfect Husband, Top 5 Traits, Thai Girl Edition...</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394882-perfect-husband-top-5-traits-thai-girl-edition/?do=findComment&comment=20516701]]></link><description>Funny, I was just thinking if you ever were to cruise around the bars down in Pattaya, it would probably be a great T-shirt to wear. Sure to get lots of laughs from the girls down there, at least the ones that can read English.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:47:44 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Long term expats who can't afford to move home?</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394916-long-term-expats-who-cant-afford-to-move-home/?do=findComment&comment=20516700]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's gonna be a &lt;deleted&gt; storm and here's where I'm a bit envious of the rural expat. Food imo will always be plentiful and cheap for expats, but if you homestead you have everything, always and forever. Chicken, eggs, veggies, honey, weed ...  I've waited for 2008 for twenty years. It's coming a d in a very big way.  Ten year bond 5.2% we are approaching debt spiral levels. All bets off]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:46:33 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Trump's DOJ Forever Barred From Investigating Trump And Family</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394943-trumps-doj-forever-barred-from-investigating-trump-and-family/?do=findComment&comment=20516699]]></link><description>The Congressman is spot on. The only way the US can restore some form of credibility is if you do a Nuremberg type of trial, assuming you're able to dislodge this mob family from the WH.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:46:03 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Perfect Husband, Top 5 Traits, Thai Girl Edition...</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394882-perfect-husband-top-5-traits-thai-girl-edition/?do=findComment&comment=20516698]]></link><description>Tell her that she needs to reduce her expectations, become more realistic, and to stop comparing everyone to me.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:45:59 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Jew hatred has become fashionable especially among young people</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394199-jew-hatred-has-become-fashionable-especially-among-young-people/?do=findComment&comment=20516697]]></link><description>You really should . You seem to be getting manically obsessed with the topic .  Better for you personally if you give the topic a rest for a while . For your own personal well being</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:45:54 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Brit Tourist Critical After Pattaya Truck Fall</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395004-brit-tourist-critical-after-pattaya-truck-fall/?do=findComment&comment=20516696]]></link><description>Given AOT is a publicly listed company I doubt the share holders would be keen.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Jew hatred has become fashionable especially among young people</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394199-jew-hatred-has-become-fashionable-especially-among-young-people/?do=findComment&comment=20516695]]></link><description>good news. i'm taking a break from israel topics.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:42:32 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel Public Relations takes a Huge Hit</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395003-israel-public-relations-takes-a-huge-hit/?do=findComment&comment=20516694]]></link><description>Israel did not directly create Hamas, though Israeli authorities did adopt policies in the late 1970s and 1980s that inadvertently helped the group gain a foothold.  Countering the PLO: In the late 1970s and 1980s, Israel allowed Islamist charities and organizations, including Yassin's network, to operate legally in Gaza. The strategy was to foster an Islamist alternative to counterbalance Yasser Arafat's secular and left-wing Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was carrying out attacks against Israel. The Backfire: While Israel did not found the organization, this "divide and rule" policy and the decision to permit the rise of Islamist institutions are widely viewed today as a catastrophic strategic error   In more recent years, particularly under former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governments, Israel's strategy shifted toward containment. This involved permitting Qatar to transfer millions of dollars into Gaza. Officials often justified this flow of funds by arguing it was necessary to maintain stability and prevent humanitarian collapse, though critics and some former officials argued it was intended to keep the Palestinian territories politically splintered.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:42:18 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Long term expats who can't afford to move home?</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394916-long-term-expats-who-cant-afford-to-move-home/?do=findComment&comment=20516693]]></link><description>None of those are reasons a person chooses to go back, but rather forced to</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:41:58 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Labour leadership contest revives Brexit row</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394708-labour-leadership-contest-revives-brexit-row/?do=findComment&comment=20516692]]></link><description>You brought it up, I was just replying to your post.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:41:21 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Trump Steals Taxpayers' Money For Slush Fund</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1394849-trump-steals-taxpayers-money-for-slush-fund/?do=findComment&comment=20516691]]></link><description>I voted to help the Ontario Liberal Party regain party status. I also voted against Doug ford.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:40:28 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Brit Tourist Critical After Pattaya Truck Fall</title><link><![CDATA[https://aseannow.com/topic/1395004-brit-tourist-critical-after-pattaya-truck-fall/?do=findComment&comment=20516690]]></link><description>It isn't, if people drive properly, in a safe manner. You know, like not speeding, not emerging from side roads without looking, wear a helmet, that kind of thing. Like they do in other countries where they don't have many thousands of scooter deaths a year.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:40:23 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
