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By Goongnang Suksawat Phuket – An unidentified foreign man has been rescued after suffering from decompression sickness while he was diving near an island in Chalong. Emergency responders were notified of the incident yesterday (October 26th). The foreign man was on a boat near the Tue Island, east of the Racha Island. Full story: https://thephuketexpress.com/2022/10/27/foreign-man-rescued-after-struggling-while-diving-off-phuket/ -- © Copyright The Phuket Express 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Thief steals 200,000 baht from local grocery store in Chonburi By Tanakorn Panyadee PHOTO: PattayaupdateNews Chonburi — A security camera caught a man stealing money roughly worth 200,000 baht from a local grocery store in Chonburi. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276055-thief-steals-200000-baht-from-local-grocery-store-in-chonburi/

PHOTO: PattayaupdateNews By Tanakorn Panyadee Chonburi — A security camera caught a man stealing money roughly worth 200,000 baht from a local grocery store in Chonburi. The female victim, Ms. Pranee Rakchat, 35, told local media that a male thief walked into her grocery shop in the Ban Kao subdistrict of Phan Thong district in Chonburi and grabbed around 200,000 baht from her money box. The victim did not see the suspect, but he wore long trousers, a black facial mask, a black fanny pack, and a brown long-sleeved shirt, according to CCTV footage. Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/10/27/thief-steals-200000-baht-from-local-grocery-store-in-chonburi/ -- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

World Sports News - Friday 28 October by Chili Radio Listen to the news: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276053-world-sports-news-friday-28-october-by-chili-radio/

Listen to the news: Football - Highlights from last night's European action, in the Europa league Arsenal were beaten 2-0 in Holland at PSV Eindhoven, Roma won 2-1 in Finland at HJK Helsinki and Cristiano Ronaldo scored on his return to the Manchester United side in their 3-0 win over Sheriff Tiraspol at Old Trafford. Real Sociedad won 2-0 at Omonia Nicosia in Cyprus. In the Europa Conference there were good wins for Fiorentina, West Ham United and Nice. In the Women's Champions League matches played last night Arsenal, Barcelona and FC Bayern Munich all won. All of last night's scores can be found at bbc.com/football. Cricket - Virat Kohli scored a brilliant unbeaten 62 as India cruised to a 56-run win over Netherlands in the Men's T20 World Cup in Sydney. The Netherlands scored 123-9 India scored 179-2 off their twenty overs.Rilee Rossouw smashed the first hundred of this year's tournament as South Africa completed a 104-run win over Bangladesh also in Sydney. The final match of the day was a thriller as Zimbabwe beat Pakistan by 1 run. Pakistan scored 129 - 8 against Zimbabwe's score of 130 - 8. Download the Chili Radio app : https://chiliradio.app for Chili Pop and Chili Classics. -- © Copyright Chili RADIO 2022-10-28 Chili Radio: https://chiliradiothailand.com Listen Live: https://chiliradio.asia - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Officials remove encroaching signs on Lay Phang Beach in Thalang By Goongnang Suksawat Thalang – Officials removed encroaching signs on Lay Phang Beach in Thalang after all encroached structures were ordered by relevant agencies to be demolished. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276048-officials-remove-encroaching-signs-on-lay-phang-beach-in-thalang/

By Goongnang Suksawat Thalang – Officials removed encroaching signs on Lay Phang Beach in Thalang after all encroached structures were ordered by relevant agencies to be demolished. Wednesday (October 26th) a team of officials from the Phuket Legal Execution Office and the Cherng Talay Police inspected the area of interest on Lay Phang Beach – Layan Beach in the Cherng Talay sub-district. Full story: https://thephuketexpress.com/2022/10/27/officials-remove-encroaching-signs-on-lay-phang-beach-in-thalang/ -- © Copyright The Phuket Express 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Gen Prawit confirms Thais Can Watch World Cup BANGKOK, (TNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has ordered the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) to coordinate with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to guarantee that Thai people can watch live matches of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276047-gen-prawit-confirms-thais-can-watch-world-cup/

BANGKOK, (TNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has ordered the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) to coordinate with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to guarantee that Thai people can watch live matches of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Gen Prawit chaired two consecutive meetings of the boards of the National Sports Development Fund and the SAT. The meetings approved budgets for 2023 and a four-year action plan to be implemented from 2023 to 2026. The boards also endorsed financial welfare for injured and retired boxers and rewards for the athletes who built up the national reputation. They also approved sponsorship for the 1st World Mountain & Trail Running Championships in Chiang Mai province on Nov 3-6, 2022. Full story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-1045792 -- © Copyright Thai News Agency 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Chinese links to nightlife underworld and police collusion being investigated in drugs crackdown y Joseph O' Connor Police led by Police Major General Theeradet Thamsuthee raided an illegal nightclub premises on Charoen Rat Road on Wednesday morning. (Inset left) A white Rolls Royce was among 34 luxury cars seized. (Inset right). Police seized ฿1.3 million in cash from two safes while they failed to open four others at a completely unlicensed Chinese-run high-end nightlife complex. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276046-chinese-links-to-nightlife-underworld-and-police-collusion-being-investigated-in-drugs-crackdown/

Police led by Police Major General Theeradet Thamsuthee raided an illegal nightclub premises on Charoen Rat Road on Wednesday morning. (Inset left) A white Rolls Royce was among 34 luxury cars seized. (Inset right). by Joseph O' Connor Police seized ฿1.3 million in cash from two safes while they failed to open four others at a completely unlicensed Chinese-run high-end nightlife complex in Sathorn which had a drug warehouse at the back, where sachets of drugs in different colours sold for between ฿10,000 to ฿25,000 each to over 200 nearly exclusively high-end Chinese customers, after Wednesday morning’s raid, which saw the local police chief transferred. A nationwide police crackdown on illegal drug distribution has shone a spotlight on illegal practices in the nightlife industry linked to Chinese nationals and the underworld where huge amounts of drugs and illicit money are moved across Thailand, particularly in Bangkok and Pattaya. In Bangkok, on Wednesday morning, following a raid on a completely illegal and off-the-radar high-end nightlife complex in Sathorn, the police chief of Yannawa Police Station was removed from his post while in Pattaya, a high-level task force led by ‘Big Joke’ has vowed to charge any officers colluding with the operators of the now closed Pattaya One nightclub in the city. That venue was shut down on Sunday morning and is believed to be linked to illegal drug funds and a Chinese kingpin owner. A senior police officer, the police chief of the Yannawa sub-district of Bangkok, was removed from his duties on Wednesday after a raid on three buildings situated on the Charoen Rat Road in the commercial Sathorn district of the capital, revealed an extraordinary illegal nightclub catering entirely to a well-heeled Chinese clientele where large quantities of expensive and illicit drugs were being consumed by wealthy punters. Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/10/27/chinese-links-to-nightlife-underworld-probed/ -- © Copyright Thai Examiner 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Pheu Thai Party’s Landslide Win ‘Very Unlikely’: Academic By Thai Newsroom Reporters IT WILL BE VERY UNLIKELY for the Pheu Thai Party to score a landslide victory in the next general election because the largest opposition camp will undeniably see the likes of the Move Forward Party contesting as their archrivals, according to a noted political scientist. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276045-pheu-thai-party’s-landslide-win-‘very-unlikely’-academic/

Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat, left, and Paetongtarn “Oong-ing” Shinawatra, head of Pheu Thai Family, right. By Thai Newsroom Reporters IT WILL BE VERY UNLIKELY for the Pheu Thai Party to score a landslide victory in the next general election because the largest opposition camp will undeniably see the likes of the Move Forward Party contesting as their archrivals, according to a noted political scientist. Thanaporn Sriyakul, president of Kasetsart University’s Political Science Association, forecast that the Pheu Thai Party, “practically owned” by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, will find it very unlikely to get as many as 250 MPs or more in the next general election to meet his landslide target since their bases of support among constituents nationwide will be quantitatively shared by the Move Forward Party. Given common bases of popular support, especially among young voters in the 2019 general election, the Future Forward Party, earlier legally dissolved by court and practically renamed as the Move Forward Party, managed to get 80 MPs in their first-ever electoral campaigns, compared to 136 MPs secured by the Pheu Thai Party, resurrected from the dissolved People’s Power Party and Thai Rak Thai Party. The speculated tug of war over votes in both constituency-based and party-listed modes between the Pheu Thai Party and Move Forward Party will make it unlikely for the former to score landslide triumphs as had been the case in the 2011 general election which landed Thaksin’s sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, the premiership only to be overthrown in the 2014 coup orchestrated by army chief-turned-premier Prayut Chan-o-cha, according to the Kasetsart academic. Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/10/27/pheu-thai-partys-landslide-win-very-unlikely-academic/ -- © Copyright THAI NEWSROOM 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Bride Dies, Groom Badly Injured In Car Crash by TNR Staff JUST 10 days before their wedding a young couple driving a pick-up van back home in Suphan Buri crashed into a tree after slipping off the road in heavy rain seriously injuring both of them but bride later died in the hospital, Sanook.com said Thursday afternoon (Oct. 27). Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276044-bride-dies-groom-badly-injured-in-car-crash/

by TNR Staff JUST 10 days before their wedding a young couple driving a pick-up van back home in Suphan Buri crashed into a tree after slipping off the road in heavy rain seriously injuring both of them but bride later died in the hospital, Sanook.com said Thursday afternoon (Oct. 27). Pol. Capt. Ritpong Mapakhe, an investigating officer at Bang Pla Ma police station, was alerted of the accident on Bang Bua Thong – Suphan Buri road inbound to Suphan Buri at 5 a.m. this morning. He quickly rushed there after coordinating with Suphan Buri Rescue Foundation to also send a team to help out. At the scene they found that the passenger cabin of the white pick-up van, licence plate number 7629, had collapsed with two persons seated within injured. Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/10/27/bride-dies-groom-badly-injured-in-car-crash/ -- © Copyright THAI NEWSROOM 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Thai F-16 Fighters In Recon Mission Along Border With Myanmar By Thai Newsroom Reporters The Thai air force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon jets. Photo: Thai Rath A COUPLE OF the Thai air force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon jets are currently exercising a reconnaissance mission over Thai airspace in northwestern border areas following Myanmar’s airborne attacks on a Kachin rebel base in northernmost Myanmar. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276043-thai-f-16-fighters-in-recon-mission-along-border-with-myanmar/

The Thai air force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon jets. Photo: Thai Rath By Thai Newsroom Reporters A COUPLE OF the Thai air force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon jets are currently exercising a reconnaissance mission over Thai airspace in northwestern border areas following Myanmar’s airborne attacks on a Kachin rebel base in northernmost Myanmar. Air force spokesman VM Prapat Sonjaidee confirmed today (Oct. 27) the F-16 fighters from Wing 4 in Takhli are conducting their recon mission exercise over Thai airspace in Mae Hong Son and Tak in northern and western Thailand which share borders with Kayah and Kayin states of Myanmar and in Kamphaengphet, Uthai Thani and Nakhon Sawan in upper central Thailand. Thai villagers in those border areas were assured of safety and advised to remain calm as the F-16s were conducting their recon exercise twice a day, according to the air force spokesman. Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/10/27/thai-f-16-fighters-in-recon-mission-along-border-with-myanmar/ -- © Copyright THAI NEWSROOM 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Palang Pracharath Admits Man Likely Linked To Illegal Nightclub Donated Cash by TNR Staff The mainly Chinese customers rounded up during the police raid and the drugs found there. Photos: Thai Rath JUSTICE Minister Somsak Thepsuthin admitted today (Oct. 27) that a man rumoured to possibly be linked to an illegal nightclub in Yanawa district raided by police yesterday had donated 3 million baht to Palang Pracharath Party last year, Thai Post newspaper said. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276042-palang-pracharath-admits-man-likely-linked-to-illegal-nightclub-donated-cash/

The mainly Chinese customers rounded up during the police raid and the drugs found there. Photos: Thai Rath by TNR Staff JUSTICE Minister Somsak Thepsuthin admitted today (Oct. 27) that a man rumoured to possibly be linked to an illegal nightclub in Yanawa district raided by police yesterday had donated 3 million baht to Palang Pracharath Party last year, Thai Post newspaper said. Somsak, who is the head of the Palang Pracharath strategic campaign team, said it was true that Mr. Chainat Kornchayanan, who according to rumours could be linked to the illegal nightclub raided by police yesterday, made the donation but explained that the party was unable to investigate the details of every donor. Palang Prachat verifies if the donations are in accordance with the Election Commission’s regulations and in this case it was so, he said, adding that further details about the donors is for government officials to check. Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/10/27/palang-pracharath-admits-man-likely-linked-to-illegal-nightclub-donated-cash/ -- © Copyright THAI NEWSROOM 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Singaporean man arrested in Thailand in possession of “Happy Water” drug Thai police have arrested an elderly Singaporean male for allegedly dealing the “Happy Water” drug among Chinese tourists at night entertainment establishments in Bangkok’s Yan Nawa district. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276041-singaporean-man-arrested-in-thailand-in-possession-of-“happy-water”-drug/

Thai police have arrested an elderly Singaporean male for allegedly dealing the “Happy Water” drug among Chinese tourists at night entertainment establishments in Bangkok’s Yan Nawa district. Pol Gen Chinnaphat Sarasin, the deputy national police chief, said Thursday that the arrest of the follows a recent raid on a pub in the district, during which several illegal narcotics found, including “Happy Water”. The illegal pub, which caters only to foreign tourists, mostly Chinese, was allegedly owned and operated by Chinese businessmen. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/singaporean-man-arrested-in-thailand-in-possession-of-happy-water-drug/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-10-28 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

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Yannawa District Superintendent removed from his position PHOTO: Matichon Police Colonel Thanachot Rerkdee was removed from his position as the Yannawa police chief for reportedly accepting bribery and allowing the operation of an illegal entertainment venue in the Yannawa district of Bangkok. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276005-yannawa-district-superintendent-removed-from-his-position/

Thai banks to consult AMLO about postponing requirement for IDs for CDM deposits The Thai Bankers Association (TBA) is set to hold talks with the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), seeking the postponement of the enforcement of a new rule, which will require everyone depositing cash via cash deposit machines (CDMs) to identify themselves, by using a credit or debit card plus their PIN number. Full ztory: https://aseannow.com/topic/1276000-thai-banks-to-consult-amlo-about-postponing-requirement-for-ids-for-cdm-deposits/

Forgetful trucker forgets 100,000 baht on the footplate - luckily good Samaritan Thais saved the day Sanook Thai Caption: 1,000's all over the road A woman called Suphonthip told Sanook how she had given her truck driver in a ten wheeler 100,000 baht to buy cassava in Khon Kaen. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1275986-forgetful-trucker-forgets-100000-baht-on-the-footplate-luckily-good-samaritan-thais-saved-the-day/