https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenWhen I open the door of my condo, the surveillance camera in the hall sees me (and the inside of my room). Then the camera in the elevator, after leaving the building the camera of the 7/11 next door, and on my way to BigC there are Hickvision cameras on the street, sending my pic to China. BigC has a sign asking not to wear a helmet or a mask so their AI can better identify me. Yesterday I went for s stroll in Benjakitti Park, surveillance cameras everywhere, every 20 meters, very conspicuous. In 1984, they had cameras in your room iirc.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:35:18 +0000Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:32:17 +0000Yesterday I got my MRT card refunded. Long queue. Need passport (I asked before, but this was not mentioned). Must sign that I receiver my money, but the slip doesn't say how much it was. I was told, foreigners can still use MRT, must use credit card or buy a token. We don't even need to show our passport to ride the MRT. I showed them my Kbank Visa debit card aka Atm card, she said i can use this one, too. I didn't try. Walking is healthier, anyway.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:25:06 +0000If she is just changing planes she won’t even pass immigration, just security and then onto shopping in the duty free area. Have her bring you some Yamazaki 12 whiskeyFri, 05 Jun 2026 17:23:45 +0000Whats the Topic again i forgot.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:22:28 +0000Bit of a Coincidence a labour member Ricky James was charged but pleaded not guilty and was not held in custody till his Crown Court appearence. Unlike a demonstrator a Mr Styler pleaded not guilty the same as Ricky james but was locked up probably till his Crown Court date.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:16:37 +0000Do you not follow the news Geoff914. You know when the murderer rang the cops and said iv'e been assaulted in a racist Assault did it not click that it could it could be a racially Aggravated incident as reported on the news.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:09:51 +0000Just watched the amended video released by Israeli state TV. The translation is, in fact, eliminate, not annihilate. Hehe, your translation is faulty, Jing. The background of Gaza's destruction leaves the meaning all too clear brainwashing these beautiful children with their innocent voices. Until they are taught to hate. Beginning at home, in the street from other children with military fanatic parents, all of whom have been IDF, and then in school. This includes public spaces. Anything presented in Hebrew in Israel is the determination of war.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:08:14 +0000And how are ordinary Americans benefitting from all this???Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:54:24 +0000Right, Mike, change. Change is never accomplished at the ballot box. Are you aware of ANY country who was turned away from disaster by voting? In the US, it's hard to imagine change without the violence of a civil war. But mostly what I'm seeing is apathy, despair, futility that any person really can make a difference in the outcome. Americans are so hyped up with overseas wars, it's not much of a stretch to see all those soldiers and gun owners blowing each other away. Anybody else have any ideas about how to change America? I'm fresh out of ideas. That is, unless we adopt the US as our 4th territory. Of course, just as in the US, Americans would not have any right to vote. On second thought, I don't think we want them!Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:50:51 +0000The same got a head kick to supress him when he stabbed the 2 jews in Golders Grren but it was a jewsish security officer who tackled him while waiting for the police to turn up.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:49:14 +0000And I didn't say that they did. I only mention Britain's previous role in colonisation and the stick that Britain now gets because of that. That in comparison to Britain's involvement in Palestine which was hailed as some sort of success. The fact that it lead to a civil war with the original inhabitants becoming stateless is hardly a success story.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:48:44 +0000With a British Thai OA visa for retirees, you can easily enter Thailand, open a bank account, transfer 800,000 THB, buy an apartment or rent a house, get a driver's license, etc. After eleven months, you leave Thailand without needing a re-entry stamp. The old OA visa is then no longer valid! After two to four weeks, you return on a tourist visa and apply for another Retirement-O visa for retirees. It's that simple. But why do Brits try to avoid health insurance? Travel health insurance is cheaper in most home countries than in Thailand and does not exclude pre-existing conditions. However, you can only purchase this insurance in your home country with a valid address. You must be able to prove that you were in your home country at the time of application. Furthermore, coverage may only apply to motorcyclists with engine displacements between 50 and 110 cc! Read the fine print.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:47:05 +0000I think one could also reverse the role and assume a scenario of a Muay Thai gym in the UK full of young kids boxing away without proper headgear and a professional Thai, Muay Thai fighter on tour goes into the gym with cameras and entourage and offers better head gear from someone who clearly knows better from a country which clearly knows best and offers the kids for free, this new headgear which will save lives. Would the kids in the gym, their dads, the trainers and owner of the gym feel that was patronising.?..I personally don't think so and in regards to losing face, boxing trainers are up there with their egos and don't take too kindly to being told what should be done......!Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:46:26 +000020 yrs old and has a 3 yr old daughter....... Seems like he doesn't make good life choices. a child at 17.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:46:11 +0000Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:39:15 +0000First of all, that is one UGLY vase!!! I was pleased to read that many long-term Palestinian refugees in Jordan have been given citizenship. I'm not sure if that is so in other countries to which they fled. US takes a deep interest in their plight. I vote for immediate citizenship just like the Boers.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:37:05 +0000Depending on who you ask, one will always get a different understanding and interpretation of the meaning of the word 'patronising'..... That's a given.............................I think that the only true way to ever know if Thais found it patronising, as after all, it's their opinion that really counts; would be to stop, 200 metres down the road, all the ones who were flagged down by the campaign, (whether accepted a helmet or not) and ask them if they found it patronising. The outcome will also show to some degree whether the foreigner who led the campaign understands Thai culture or not, as I think you doubt that............................Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:35:51 +0000Still needed:Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:34:22 +0000FlightFri, 05 Jun 2026 16:33:44 +0000Because its run by semi socialistss Some folks just arent gonna make it. Darwin rules.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:33:26 +0000Got it. English is clearly not your first language.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:32:30 +0000The Brits were creating the independence of Palestine. I'm not into DNA 'evidence' and all that. Every human is descended from apes (some more than others). I think we could set an arbitrary date, saying that all Arabs living in Palestine before 1909 (the start of the violence) belong there with the 1948 borders. Which means, of course, the colonists get back to their side of the yellow / green / whatever line they belong on. You mention the Brits "developed Palestine economically". Do you mean they didn't do that for their own benefit as they did everywhere else touched by Empire? IOW, what was in it for them?Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:31:14 +0000Whatever about disgusting, it's definitely a waste of time. Israel won't exist when they grow up. 🙂 PS. It would definitely be disgusting for anybody within phlegm-shot. Euwwwwwwwwwwwww.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:29:47 +0000would DaNang suffice,?Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:29:37 +0000