https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around Thailandensafari bar was the best of soi around the 90s periodFri, 26 Jun 2026 17:00:10 +0000We all know what it means: unchecked crap from SM posts and Youtubers. 🤣Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:58:35 +0000I think he has been taking a break. His pathetic voting record and parliamentary debate attendance is a disgrace Couple with no surgeries in his constituency. The man does sod all that could be considered "work".Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:58:15 +0000Suuure! Oh wait! They already did! 🤣Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:55:28 +0000Personal attack and replies has been removed.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:51:50 +0000Growing up we all used to jump off the railway bridge into the river when the sun came out. Great times. Of course the lib doomsday cult wants to ban these things and if anyone gets hurt it's because of global warming. What a bunch of starmers.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:50:30 +0000Three years to the next election, plus tactical voting means Reform will never gain power unless proportional representation is brought in. And that's not in the interest of either Labour or the Tories though Andy Burnham says he is committed to it, lol.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:48:50 +0000Yeah, and please notice: You are not the first with such a crazy commentFri, 26 Jun 2026 16:48:46 +0000vegans are walking compost heaps that generate lots of gas and fartsFri, 26 Jun 2026 16:45:08 +0000An 80-year-old woman was left blocked on a London Tube station staircase after a man refused to move out of her way while filming the confrontation for social media. The shocking encounter has sparked a wave of outrage online, with viewers branding the man's behaviour "extremely rude" and "completely unacceptable". The incident, believed to have happened at Harrow and Wealdstone station in north London on Wednesday, shows the elderly woman gripping the handrail as she slowly attempts to make her way up the stairs. Instead of stepping aside, the man stands his ground, telling her not to touch him and repeatedly reminding her that he is recording the exchange. The footage, filmed by the man himself, quickly spread across social media, prompting widespread criticism. What began as a simple request to pass turned into a tense confrontation that has left many questioning how basic courtesy could break down so publicly. In the clip, the woman calmly tells the man: "I want to come up the stairs." Rather than making space, he responds: "Don't touch me," before insisting that he is filming the encounter. The woman politely asks him again to move so she can continue up the stairs. Instead, he tells her he is "here relaxing" and suggests she should simply "go round" instead. When she explains that she cannot get past another way, his response only fuels the confrontation. "You can, you've got legs," he tells her. The woman then explains that she is 80 years old, hoping he might reconsider. Instead, he bluntly replies: "So?" As the exchange continues, the man repeats for a third time that he is recording everything. Losing patience, the woman tells him exactly what she thinks, saying: "I don't give a damn what you're doing. You're extremely rude and arrogant." The clip ends as she appeals to another man wearing high-visibility clothing who is walking up the stairs, asking for help because the man filming refuses to let her pass. The confrontation has triggered a fierce reaction online, with many people expressing disbelief that someone would block an elderly person who appeared to rely on the handrail for support. One Facebook user urged: "Move and help her up the stairs, show some respect!" Another added: "He should not be blocking the stairs. The rail is there for a reason and all she wants to do is get past. Whatever happened to having respect for your elders?" A further commenter pointed out that the woman appeared to need the handrail for stability, writing: "Poor woman. She needs to hold on to the handrail for stability and doesn't want to let go. It would have taken him two seconds to move to one side and let her pass. He has zero respect for others." The criticism continued on X, formerly Twitter, where one user wrote: "Looks like she needed the handrail to help her. Totally unnecessary aggravation just for social media!" Another described the incident as pointless, adding: "She needed that handrail. This pointless person agitated her for his pathetic content." Transport for London also condemned the behaviour after the footage went viral. Mark Evers, TfL's lead for Customer Insight, Strategy and Experience, described what happened as "extremely disappointing and completely unacceptable." He said TfL expects customers travelling across its network to treat one another with respect at all times. He also stressed that the incident does not reflect the behaviour seen across the millions of journeys made on London's transport network every day. The video continues to circulate widely online, with many calling it a stark reminder of the importance of showing consideration to others, particularly elderly passengers using public transport. Outrage as woman, 80, blocked from going up stairs at London tube station - 'you've got legs'Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:43:33 +0000I realize you can't admit you were wrong at this point. It would be too much to bear. So good luck defending the carnage over the next couple of decades until you leave your liberal #bekind mess to the younger generations. My conscience is clear.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:42:01 +0000no problem nationallyFri, 26 Jun 2026 16:38:25 +0000These days in order to avoid the dozen questions that inevitably come after I tell people I'm an American, I often times say I'm Canadian and I come out of Regina. People often respond by saying Regina? That sounds really familiar.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:37:00 +0000Of course they should question this as the US has likely become the least reliable ally, any nation could have with the circus clown presiding right now. He has done his best to trash allies and support despots and dictators whom he seems to adore. Any nation should stay as far away as possible and be as free of dependency as they possibly can, from the ever unreliable America these days.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:35:28 +0000This is a classic story. The old retired Cheap Charly didn't have the money to renovate his apartment. So he took it upon himself to do it at his own risk. RIPFri, 26 Jun 2026 16:34:48 +0000Sometimes I sit and think about all the incredible technology and innovation we now have, and then I look around and wonder whether we have actually made as much progress as the world would like us to believe. We can track our phones, wallets watches, cars, bicycles, pets, and even our luggage with little electronic tags that can tell us where something is within a few meters. Our smart phones are now powerful enough to replace personal computers and traditional cameras. Warehouses can scan millions of barcodes every day. Courier companies know when a parcel has entered a depot, left a depot, gone onto a truck, and been delivered. Airports have automated baggage handling systems processing thousands of bags every hour. Yet airlines still somehow manage to lose your suitcase. Courier companies still deliver parcels to the wrong address. Packages still arrive looking as though somebody used them for forklift practice or even run them through a compactor. Software updates still break things that were working perfectly yesterday. Spam calls somehow still find their way through despite AI supposedly being clever enough to write essays, generate videos, and beat grandmasters at chess. Sometimes it feels like we have built unbelievably sophisticated systems that still manage to fail at surprisingly basic tasks, which is actually where we need them to deliver the most. It also makes me wonder whether technology has genuinely solved most of our problems, or whether it has simply given us far more sophisticated ways of making exactly the same mistakes. There are even moments where the things that fail leave you feeling like things are starting to move backwards instead of forward. We can track a parcel travelling halfway around the world to within a few metres. We can locate our car, our phone, our watch, and even our dog. Yet somehow an airline can still lose a suitcase that never once leaves its own system. The irony is that fifty years ago we accepted these sorts of problems because the technology simply did not exist. Today the technology exists, but the problems often seem exactly the same. We have just become much better at explaining why they happened. Perhaps that is the real lesson. Technology does not eliminate human error. It just gives human error a much more expensive operating system. Or maybe I am being unfair. It just seems strange that in a world capable of landing rockets back onto the launch pad, my suitcase can still disappear somewhere between checking it in and putting it on the same aircraft that I am sitting on.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:34:09 +0000I realize that I did help to coerce many underage women into doing sexual favors for very rich men on behalf of my client/boyfriend, but I just didn't think that I was doing such a bad thing, and the world should have more compassion for me. I am being unfairly persecuted!Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:32:29 +0000Reform UK’s former chairman has suggested Nigel Farage should take “a break” from politics, after a bruising week for his party leader over a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire. Dr David Bull, who was in post until May this year, said he was speaking as a “friend and a colleague”, days after Mr Farage was tackled about the donation in his first major interview in weeks. "Politics is a ruthless business, and I think also one of the other things I would say to [Farage] as a friend and a colleague is he needs to take some time out and have a bit of a break, really,” he added, in comments reported by MailOnline. Farage told to take a ‘break’ from politics by ex-Reform chairman The Conservatives seized on the reports to tweet: “BREAKING: The Reform Party.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:29:06 +0000I guess if you're looking for a wide selection of five star resorts Samui might fit the bill, it also has an airport with direct flights, alot of dining options, and some nice beaches, so that probably tilts it in its favor. In my personal opinion it's 15 years past the sell-by date. When I used to live there a long time ago it was like a paradise, and by about 2012 it started getting overdeveloped, the traffic started getting horrendous, and the island started feeling like a dish rag that had been ringed out 500 too many times at an old diner. The primary issue was the lack of local pride as many native Samui people had left decades ago, and nearly everyone there was imported for work and just simply did not care about the island. In addition the mayor was too cheap to spend the money required to keep the island clean, spend the very small amount to keep the beaches free of debris, and it felt like a very overpriced resort island that just wasn't being looked after. And then you have the local mafia's, the taxi mafia's, the police who refused to do real police work, and the premiums that people charged because of that 20 km ferry ride, and for us it just became obnoxious.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:27:34 +00001976 heatwave would be even more brutal today! The legendary summer of 1976 is still remembered as one of Britain's greatest heatwaves. But what if the exact same weather pattern struck today? Scientists say the answer is alarming. Researchers argue that a repeat of the famous 1976 heatwave would be dramatically hotter in today's climate, bringing far greater risks to health, infrastructure and everyday life. They say global temperatures have risen by about 1°C since 1976, transforming the conditions in which extreme heat now unfolds. The original summer of 1976 was extraordinary for its time. Britain endured 15 consecutive days with temperatures above 32°C after a year-long drought. The prolonged heat triggered severe water shortages, widespread wildfires and was eventually followed by flash floods. Yet today's climate tells a very different story. Although summer 2025 surpassed 1976 as the UK's hottest summer on record, it achieved that through three shorter heatwaves rather than one prolonged spell. On a global scale, researchers say the contrast is even more striking. In 1976, north-west Europe stood out as an isolated hotspot while much of the world remained cooler. By summer 2025, extreme heat had spread across much of the globe, with record-breaking temperatures reported in numerous regions. Scientists say greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, have already made every summer and every heatwave hotter than they would otherwise have been. But they warn the changes are even more dramatic than the average rise in global temperature suggests. Since the 1960s, heatwaves in southern England have become between 3°C and 4°C hotter in both urban and rural areas. Researchers estimate that if the weather patterns of 1976 occurred today, peak temperatures would likely reach between 38°C and 39°C. That would not surpass the UK's all-time record of 40°C, recorded on 19 July 2022, but it would match temperatures forecast during the late June 2026 heatwave. Even more striking is the duration. The famous run of 15 straight days above 32°C in 1976 would now become 15 consecutive days exceeding 35°C. Britain has only previously experienced three consecutive days above 35°C, highlighting just how exceptional such a prolonged event would be. Researchers conclude that choices made now remain crucial. They say rapidly reducing reliance on fossil fuels, reversing deforestation, restoring nature and stabilising greenhouse gas emissions could help avoid the most severe future impacts, even though further adaptation to hotter summers will still be unavoidable. We recreated the legendary heatwave summer of 1976 in today’s climate – here’s what we foundFri, 26 Jun 2026 16:22:18 +0000The owner of the property that at leased is an incredibly powerful man and nobody would have dared touch him nor any friend of his.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:21:49 +0000Trump is the most corrupt president in American history by an exponetial factor. He doesn't even try to hide it. He brags about it! That any American still supports this horror show is a poor reflection of the American educational system.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:21:33 +0000Once again the world is waking up to the way of the Jewry. 0.1% of the global population are Jewry living in the UN created abomination. Less and less funding. No friends. Fighting age Jewry cowardly fleeing like rats. 2,000 million Muslims. We all know the outcome. 🙂Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:20:52 +0000No they won't. It goes to Trump after his presidency. Do you not follow news?!?Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:20:11 +0000Does any other city in the world have a higher FFC (fall from condo) rate, than Pattaya?Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:19:38 +0000