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Tourism Neglected Waterfall in Uttaradit Shocks Visitors with Derelict State
Picture courtesy of Khaosod. A once-celebrated tourist attraction in the heart of Lap Lae district has left visitors dismayed after discovering its current state of disrepair and abandonment. Mae Phlu Waterfall, previously promoted as a must-see destination in Uttaradit province, now lies in a ghostly, derelict condition, with decaying facilities and overgrown paths rendering it unfit for public use. On 23 May, a group of domestic tourists who travelled to Mae Phlu Waterfall to admire its famed rainy season beauty were shocked to find the site completely neglected. Reporters who followed up on the complaint confirmed the dismal state of the area. Located in Moo 4, Mae Phlu subdistrict, the site requires visitors to walk 500 metres from the main car park to reach the waterfall. Along this path, overgrown weeds and dilapidated infrastructure paint a stark contrast to the idyllic images seen in promotional materials. Visitor benches lie broken, shops and rest areas are unsafe due to collapsing roofs and ceilings and the public toilets emit a foul odour, suggesting a prolonged lack of maintenance. Once a vibrant location, the waterfall area featured tiered concrete formations designed to mimic a natural cascade, blending harmoniously with the surrounding environment. It attracted both locals and tourists, who came to relax, swim and support small businesses offering food, drinks and souvenirs. Mae Phlu was also a source of community income and served as a valuable water resource during both the dry and rainy seasons. Despite this, the site has evidently suffered from long-term neglect by the authorities. Lap Lae district chief Mr Surawut Janngam, who recently assumed his position two months ago, admitted he had visited the site and found the conditions consistent with tourist complaints. He acknowledged the lack of public access and said the province’s governor has issued a directive to rehabilitate the area. Mr Surawut explained that while many of the structures were built over a decade ago using provincial development funds, the waterfall itself lies within the jurisdiction of the Royal Forest Department. This has created administrative hurdles in implementing repairs. However, plans are now being discussed to officially designate the area as forest land for educational and recreational use, which would allow Mae Phlu Subdistrict Administrative Organisation to allocate a dedicated budget for its restoration. Local officials and community leaders hope to revitalise the site, turning it once more into a scenic, safe and economically valuable destination for both visitors and residents. Adapted by Asean Now from Khaosod 2025-05-24. -
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What would you do?
If you're up for just being friends and lovers and willing to ignore the fact that she is sleeping around and doing other guys, then it's all good. If you think that it's something more than you need to cut her loose, it's really that simple. She is what she is. At least now you know. -
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Thirteen Pupils Injured After Wasp Nest Disturbed at School Picture courtesy of Khaosod. Thirteen primary school children were injured, three seriously, after a swarm of wasps attacked them at Wat Mukthara School in Pak Nakhon subdistrict, Nakhon Si Thammarat. Full story:https://aseannow.com/topic/1361605-thirteen-pupils-injured-after-wasp-nest-disturbed-at-school/ -
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Accident Thirteen Pupils Injured After Wasp Nest Disturbed at School
Picture courtesy of Khaosod. Thirteen primary school children were injured, three seriously, after a swarm of wasps attacked them at Wat Mukthara School in Pak Nakhon subdistrict, Nakhon Si Thammarat. The incident occurred around 16:00 on 22 May, shortly after school had finished for the day. According to initial reports, a male student threw a rock at a wasp nest lodged beneath the eaves of a classroom building. The impact shattered the nest, provoking an aggressive response from the Asian hornets (commonly known in Thai as “tor hua suea”). The children, both boys and girls, were caught near the nest and quickly overwhelmed by the swarm. Panic ensued as students ran in all directions, some colliding with one another in the confusion. Emergency responders from the Pracharuamjai Foundation rushed to the scene, where they provided first aid and transported the injured pupils to a nearby subdistrict hospital. Of the 13 children stung, three exhibited severe allergic reactions and were urgently transferred to Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat Hospital for further treatment. The remaining ten children continued to receive care locally but will also be moved if their conditions worsen. Teachers and parents described the situation as chaotic, with many adults frantically trying to help the children to safety. Authorities are now reviewing school safety protocols to prevent similar incidents in the future. The school has yet to confirm what actions will be taken regarding the damaged nest or the student believed to have provoked the swarm. Adapted by Asean Now from Khaosod 2025-05-24. -
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Donald, you gonna regret upsetting those nice Canadians
The head Goombah is going to regret upsetting most countries of the world, as he's making America less relevant by the day, and decimating the US economy in the process. Mr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. His tariffs are endangering U.S. companies’ access to global markets and supply chains. He is slashing public research funding and gutting our universities, pushing talented researchers to consider leaving for other countries. He wants to roll back programs for technologies like clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing and is wiping out American soft power in large swaths of the globe. China’s trajectory couldn’t be more different. It already leads global production in multiple industries — steel, aluminum, shipbuilding, batteries, solar power, electric vehicles, wind turbines, drones, 5G equipment, consumer electronics, active pharmaceutical ingredients and bullet trains. It is projected to account for 45 percent — nearly half — of global manufacturing by 2030. Beijing is also laser-focused on winning the future: In March it announced a $138 billion national venture capital fund that will make long-term investments in cutting-edge technologies such as quantum computing and robotics, and increased its budget for public research and development. The Chinese electric carmaker BYD, which Mr. Trump’s political ally Elon Musk once laughed off as a joke, overtook Tesla last year in global sales, is building new factories around the world and in March reached a market value greater than that of Ford, GM and Volkswagen combined. China is charging ahead in drug discoveries, especially cancer treatments, and installed more industrial robots in 2023 than the rest of the world combined. In semiconductors, the vital commodity of this century and a longtime weak point for China, it is building a self-reliant supply chain led by recent breakthroughs by Huawei. Critically, Chinese strength across these and other overlapping technologies is creating a virtuous cycle in which advances in multiple interlocking sectors reinforce and elevate one another. Yet Mr. Trump remains fixated on tariffs. He doesn’t even seem to grasp the scale of the threat posed by China. Before the two countries’ announcement last Monday that they had agreed to slash trade tariffs, Mr. Trump dismissed concerns that his previous sky-high tariffs on Chinese goods would leave shelves empty in American stores. He said Americans could just get by with buying fewer dolls for their children — a characterization of China as a factory for toys and other cheap junk that is wildly out of date. The United States needs to realize that neither tariffs nor other trade pressure will get China to abandon the state-driven economic playbook that has worked so well for it and suddenly adopt industrial and trade policies that Americans consider fair. If anything, Beijing is doubling down on its state-led approach, bringing a Manhattan Project-style focus to achieving dominance in high-tech industries. Mr. Trump’s blinkered obsession with short-term Band-Aids like tariffs, while actively undermining what makes America strong, will only hasten the onset of a Chinese-dominated world. If each nation’s current trajectory holds, China will likely end up completely dominating high-end manufacturing, from cars and chips to M.R.I. machines and commercial jets. The battle for A.I. supremacy will be fought not between the United States and China but between high-tech Chinese cities like Shenzhen and Hangzhou. Chinese factories around the world will reconfigure supply chains with China at the center, as the world’s pre-eminent technological and economic superpower. America, by contrast, may end up as a profoundly diminished nation. Sheltered behind tariff walls, its companies will sell almost exclusively to domestic consumers. The loss of international sales will degrade corporate earnings, leaving companies with less money to invest in their businesses. American consumers will be stuck with U.S.-made goods that are of middling quality but more expensive than global products, owing to higher U.S. manufacturing costs. Working families will face rising inflation and stagnant incomes. Traditional high-value industries such as car manufacturing and pharmaceuticals are already being lost to China; the important industries of the future will follow. Imagine Detroit or Cleveland on a national scale. Avoiding that grim scenario means making policy choices — today — that should be obvious and already have bipartisan support: investing in research and development; supporting academic, scientific and corporate innovation; forging economic ties with countries around the world; and creating a welcoming and attractive climate for international talent and capital. Yet the Trump administration is doing the opposite in each of those areas. Whether this century will be Chinese or American is up to us. But the time to change course is quickly running out. -
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Murder-Suicide in Phitsanulok: Police Officer Fatally Shoots Woman Before Taking Own Life Picture courtesy of Khaosod. A police officer fatally shot a 40-year-old woman before turning the gun on himself in an incident that has shocked the local community. Full story:https://aseannow.com/topic/1361604-murder-suicide-in-phitsanulok-police-officer-fatally-shoots-woman-before-taking-own-life/
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