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(Left) 23-year-old Bew or Ms Jirajariyawetch from police photographs which were taken in the aftermath of the horrific attack which she suffered in the early hours of Monday, November 22nd last after she was assaulted by a man at the 34th Street Herald Square subway station in New York. (Inset lower right) The attacker escaped by jumping over turnstiles at the station. (Top right) A picture of Ms Jirajariyawetch, a fashion model who emigrated to the United States this summer. Thai woman in New York appeals for tip offs to police on a mugger who sexually assaulted her by Carla Boonkong & Pranee O' Connor A lawyer for Ms Jirajariyawetch said his client was left traumatised by the incident which occurred in the early hours of November 22nd last and which has been linked to a 500% rise in attacks on Asian Americans in the United States this year. A young Thai woman has come forward in New York this week to encourage city residents to provide police with information about a man who robbed and sexually assaulted her in late November saying she feared someone else may become a victim of the same attacker. A young Thai woman who recently moved to New York was attacked and mugged in the early hours of Monday morning November 22nd in another violent incident in a growing pattern which has seen attacks on the Asian community across the United States rise by 500% since 2020. In New York City alone, the number of violent attacks on Asian people in the city has increased to 128 reported incidents compared to 28 in 2020. Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2021/12/16/thai-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-mugger-new-york/ -- © Copyright Thai Examiner 2021-12-17 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

Goral (Naemothedus) and serow (Caprycomis Sumatraensis), two endangered wildlife species, only seen on steep mountain cliffs, have recently been separately spotted by Thai park rangers on the Kew Mae Pan natural jungle trail in the Don Inthanon national park, in Chom Thong district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai. Mr. Kritsayam Kongsatri, director of national park affairs at the 16th conservation area management office, said today (Monday) that this was the first time that rangers were able to take pictures of a goral on a steep and narrow cliff, after claims of sightings of the rare animal by some villagers. He said that park rangers also managed to take pictures of a serow, foraging along the same jungle trail. -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-05-10 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

Thai tourism in trouble: And competitor Vietnam is "scary" for Pattaya File photo Reports from the government that Thai tourism is up were disputed today. By the government themselves! As one ministry appears to disagree with another a business leader says that tourism on the ground in Pattaya is much worse than the figures suggest. Whatever those figures are. In fact the outlook is terrible - with Vietnam presenting a "scary" proposition as a competitor for the tourism dollar. Earlier the Ministry of Tourism and Sports had said that tourism was up 0.89% in June year on year. Now the National Economics and Social Development Council - a ministerial body - has said that first quarter results in Thailand showed an across the board slowdown in tourism. From an increase of 4.3% in the last quarter this plummeted to 1.8%. Tourists from Oceania, Europe and the middle east were not coming as expected. Tourism from China was faring better but was still in decline from 10.5% down to 1.7%. Pattaya business and tourism leader Ekkasit Ngamphichet - who two weeks ago said that tourism in Pattaya was going down the pan - has not changed his mind in a new interview with the Thai media. If anything he is even more pessimistic than before. He said that from his analysis of local businesses it was hard to find any reason to be positive. He said there were few Europeans. Yes, the Russians had returned in some numbers but it was not a great deal. The Chinese tourism market was "rather quiet". Chinese New Year back in February had been a mere shadow of previous years and by April and May there were less and less Chinese - far fewer than could be expected on previous year's results. He suggested that the figures coming out of government spin doctors were not being shown on the ground. He described Vietnam as "naa glua" - meaning scary. He said that Vietnam was increasingly a rival of Thailand for tourist cash. Vietnam has lots of unexplored and new tourism locations and many people are choosing to go there instead of Pattaya in particular and Thailand in general. -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-07-23 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info

Trump to visit families of victims of Texas school shooting The memorial for victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting lays outside the school as students return on the first day of class since the mass shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, U.S., May 29, 2018. REUTERS/Pu Ying Huang WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will meet with the families of victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting on a visit to Texas on Thursday, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Wednesday. Eight students and two teachers were killed at the Santa Fe High School near Houston when a teenage student opened fire in a classroom on May 18. The president had been previously scheduled to attend campaign fundraisers in Houston and Dallas on Thursday. Sanders said that while in Houston, Trump will meet with victims' families "to personally offer his condolences and support." After the shootings, Trump said his administration "is determined to do everything in our power to protect our students, secure our schools and do everything we can to keep weapons out of the hands of those who pose a threat to themselves and to others." The White House reactivated a school-safety commission that was formed after the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February that left 17 dead. Sanders said that the commission is meeting again this week to determine "the best ways forward and how we can do every single thing within our power to protect kids in our schools and to make them feel safe and make their parents feel good about dropping them off." In March, the administration released a safety plan that, among other things, pledged to provide funds for firearms training for some school personnel. Trump supports a bill in Congress that would strengthen the federal system that checks the background of gun buyers, but the legislation remains stalled in the Senate. (Reporting by Steve Holland; writing by David Alexander and James Oliphant; editing by Eric Walsh and Tom Brown) -- © Copyright Reuters 2018-05-31

Thai "opportunists" following ambulances through traffic acting illegally Picture: TNews Following news of an ambulance being driven illegally Thai media have reminded motorists about their own responsibilities when they hear a siren or see flashing lights behind them. Tnews said that most people know that they should get out of the way by creating a path for the ambulance. But they commented that many Thai "opportunists" use the situation to get one up on their fellow drivers by following the emergency vehicle through heavy traffic. This they said is illegal as the law states that no one can follow within 50 meters of an emergency vehicle. A 500 baht fine exists under section 76 of the 1979 traffic law for not getting out of the way. Motorists can also be fined for following in the slipstream of an emergency vehicle, they said. An ambulance crew in Nonthaburi are in the news after being featured on Facebook going the wrong way down a road in a non-emergency situation. Source: TNews -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-11-28

High-rise buildings in Bangkok resistant to earthquake BANGKOK: -- High-rise buildings built after 2007 in Bangkok can withstand shaking from earthquake of 6.3 magnitude, according to the Building Control Division of the Department of Public Works of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. Assurance from the Building Control Division came as there is rising concern among people living in high-rise buildings after the devastating 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal last week. It said that it had collected information from over 70 high-rise buildings of which occupants reported feeling the shaking after the 6.3 earthquake struck Phan district of Chiang Rai on May 5, 2014. These tall buildings are not pronged to risk from earthquake but merely could feel shaking from the quake, It said after the 6.3 quake that hit Chiang Rai and high-rise buildings in Bangkok felt the shaking, preventive regulations were issued requiring all high-rise buildings must be designed to be earthquake resistant to such magnitude. This was to ensure that all high-rise buildings built after 2007 will meet international safety standard to cope with the quake. Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/high-rise-buildings-in-bangkok-resistant-to-earthquake -- Thai PBS 2015-04-30

Polish Girl Dies After Falling From Luxury Hotel A polish girl died after she accidentally fell out of a window which she was trying to open in a luxury hotel in Bangkok. She fell out of the window and landed on the awning on the first floor killing her instantly. BANGKOK – January 23,2014 [PDN]; at 05.00, Pol.Lt.Capt.Siwa Klabpan, detective officer, Payathai, was notified that there was a woman who had fallen from Bangkok Palace hotel building and died, in soi Petchburi 35, Makkasan, Rajtewee, so he went to check, with Ramathibodi hospital doctors, Po Tek Tueng rescuers. It was a 14 storey-building and on the awning above the first floor was the body of Miss Carolina Alexandra Boronisch, 21 years old from Poland. She had suffered many broken bones and she was surrounded by her crying relatives. From initially investigation, she was here on holiday with her family, she checked into the hotel with her sister in room 1051 and her parents stayed another room. They were checking out the following morning but the day before the deceased tried to open a window and accidentally fell out and landed on the awning on the ground floor killing her instantly. However the police will question all the related persons to find the real cause of death, and will send her body to her relatives. Source: http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2014/01/23/polish-girl-dies-after-falling-from-luxury-hotel/ -- Pattaya Daily News 2014-01-23

Aussie expat found hanged in Phuket Phuket Gazette An outside view of the Phuket home where the body of Australian Daniel Cruwys was found this morning. Photo: Thawit Bilabdullar PHUKET: -- An Australian expat took his life by hanging in a luxury home under construction in Phuket, it was discovered this morning. Thalang Police were notified of the apparent suicide at 10:30am by the wife of the victim, 38-year-old Australian Daniel Cruwys. When police and Kusoldharm Foundation workers arrived at the scene, an upscale home in Pa Khlok, they found the late Mr Cruwys hanged by the neck from a nylon rope tied to a ceiling fixture in the home’s CCTV monitoring room. A note written to the wife of the deceased indicated that they had a daughter together. A review of CCTV images showed Mr Cruwys entering the home at about 5pm yesterday and fashioning the noose he used to hang himself at about 6pm. Police believe he took his life at about 7pm When he failed to return home last night, his wife drove up from their other home in Chalong to investigate and found that he had taken his life. Mr Cruwys was employed by a well-known legal assistance firm and lived in Phuket for many years. In a handwritten note left at the scene, he professed his love for his wife and apologized for “being the one who lets the team down” and leaving their daughter without a father. Source: http://www.phuketgaz...ticle16485.html -- Phuket Gazette 2012-07-24