Thailand's same-sex law has come into force, making the kingdom the first Southeast Asian country to allow equal marriage and the biggest place in Asia to recognize such unions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/23/asia-pacific/society/thailand-same-sex-marriage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #thailand #lgbtq #samesexmarriage
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#Thailand: #Cyberscam software pre-installed on #Oppo-branded phones from #China, cannot be removed by user. #Security #CyberSecurity #Technology #ThaiPBS https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb7NSc6oEFU
Suspected Thai hitman, a former Marine, has been extradited to #Thailand over his shooting of an opposition party politician from #Cambodia https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3294369/suspected-hitman-extradited-thailand-over-shooting-cambodian-lawmaker?utm_source=rss_feed
Cinema-goers receive packs of kleenex with their tickets.
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies film review – a tear-jerking Oscar contender from #Thailand
#CurrentlyWatching #MediaPulse from #Thailand's @ThaiPBSNews_bot, They're a government-owned broadcaster, comparable to #PBS and @VOANews. Thankfully they seem to report fairly and without bias, and are willing to hold the powerful accountable when appropriate. Let's hope that remains true. #ThaiPol #AsiaPol #Broadcasting #Journalism #Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWPRljF96-8
Kaito quoted Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer (Vintage departures)
Bangkok wasn't dealing only in the clear-cut trade of bodies; it was trafficking also in the altogether murkier exchange of hearts. The East, as Singapore Airlines knows full well, has always been a marketplace for romance. But Thailand was dispensing it on a personal scale, and in heavy doses. It offered love in a duty-free zone: a context in which boy meets girl without having to worry about commitments, obligations, even identities. Love, that is, or something like it.
— Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer (Vintage departures) (Page 301)
Kaito quoted Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer (Vintage departures)
For the girl, her Western suitor might prove the mature and sophisticated companion she had always lacked; for the man, his Eastern consort could be the attentive, demure and sumptuously compliant goddess of his dreams.
— Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer (Vintage departures) (Page 301)
"Massaged to death". Seriously. Y'all be careful out there. #Thailand #BangkokPost https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2916071/thai-singer-dies-after-3-massage-sessions
#Thailand temple abbot found hiding 73 corpses, to use for traditional training of monks to meditate in the face of death.
200 monkeys escape and run riot in #Thailand town, forcing police to barricade themselves in their own station
“#Thailand will grant citizenship to nearly 500,000 long-term residents, most of them members of ethnic minorities, with the aim of improving national security and the economy, officials said. While #immigration is a hot-button political issue in many countries, in Thailand, where its remote border lands have for centuries been populated by a patchwork of hill tribe communities, the plan has stirred little, if any, serious opposition.” #Asia #AsiaPol #Migration #Refugees https://www.rfa.org/english/myanmar/2024/11/15/myanmar-thai-citizenship/