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Do You Avoid Other Foreigners You Meet in Thailand?
Yep, one of the first westerner I met in Pattaya bragged he had been in all the tabloids and European papers for fooling around with a rich bankers wife and the controlling husband did not take too kindly to the affair. Eye opening to say the least. -
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Do Foreign Men Often Move to Thailand Because They Can’t Get Women Back Home?
Never been to a girlie bar. Does not eat Thai or Isaan food. Never been to a muay thai gym or stadium. No Thai friends. Can't speak Thai. You really are a hermit -
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Do Foreign Men Often Move to Thailand Because They Can’t Get Women Back Home?
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Myanmar Junta Sends 70,000 Conscripts to Reclaim Lost Ground
People Militia Group Myanmar’s military junta has deployed nearly 70,000 conscripts—many barely trained—in a nationwide counteroffensive to retake territory lost to resistance forces and ethnic armed groups, according to defectors and local fighters. The surge in manpower follows the junta’s activation of its long-dormant conscription law in February 2024. Since then, 14 batches of recruits—each 5,000 strong—have been called up, with 11 batches already deployed after completing training at one of 18 military camps across the country. Resistance sources say many of these new recruits are being sent straight to the front lines, particularly in hotspots such as Mobye in southern Shan State, which the regime recently claimed to have recaptured from Karenni fighters after months of intense clashes. “Around half of the troops involved in the Mobye operation were conscripts,” said a local PDF fighter. Colonel Bhone Naing of the Karenni Army confirmed that draftees made up a significant portion of the junta’s forces in the area. The junta’s conscription drive has triggered a wave of fear and defiance. Thousands of young men and women have fled their homes to avoid being drafted. Some, like a 29-year-old who escaped from a military base after three months of training, have joined resistance groups, risking everything rather than fight for the regime. “Once you're in, they don’t care if you live or die,” said the former conscript, now part of a resistance unit in Bago Region. The law, which mandates two to five years of service for men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27, has become one of the junta’s most powerful tools for replenishing its ranks as territorial losses mount. But critics argue the policy is fuelling a humanitarian and moral crisis. “The junta is sacrificing Myanmar’s youth to hold on to power,” wrote a resistance member on social media. “If they live, they are used to fight their own people. If they die, there’s one less voice to resist.” Analysts warn that the law could extend the junta’s grip in the short term—but only by deepening national trauma. As the regime moves to retake more towns in Mandalay and northern Shan, the cost is increasingly being paid in young lives. -2025-07-11 -
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Mad as a Box of Frogs <> The Beautiful Chaos of Thai Women
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Report Cannabis Advocates Warn of Economic Damage from Policy Shift
I doubt many members on this forum who use cannabis do it whilst "hanging out in public puffing away" The same way that those who enjoy a drink do not end up either in a fight or comatose in a back alley soaked in their own urine and vomit.
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