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The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) will be asked to investigate the conduct of the Election Commission (EC) over its rejection of Srisuwan Janya’s petition, seeking a ruling from the Constitutional Court over the term in office of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Political activist Srisuwan Janya said today (Tuesday) that he does not understand why the EC dragged its feet, taking 15 days to make its decision and only doing so after a similar petition was submitted to House Speaker Chuan Leekpai by the opposition parties. The EC claimed that, since the opposition had submitted a similar petition to the House Speaker, there was no need for it to consider Srisuwan’s. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/nacc-will-be-asked-to-probe-the-conduct-of-thailands-election-commission/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-08-23 - 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!

Committee set up to investigate claims highway cop used police vehicles for his wedding shoot Picture: INN The highway police have announced the setting up of an investigative committee after a TikTok post showed an officer posing with his bride to be at a pre-wedding photo shoot. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269709-committee-set-up-to-investigate-claims-highway-cop-used-police-vehicles-for-his-wedding-shoot/

Picture: INN The highway police have announced the setting up of an investigative committee after a TikTok post showed an officer posing with his bride to be at a pre-wedding photo shoot. Police vehicles were part of the shoot that was made back in June but has only recently been reported. Highway police commander Pol Maj-Gen Ekkarat Limsangkat confirmed that the policeman was attached to Region 4, reported INN. If found guilty of using official vehicles for a private purpose he would be disciplined according to the police rules. -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2022-08-23 - 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! Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information

A "dead body" by a shrine causes consternation - but there's a happy explanation 77kaoded Thai Caption: Hairs on the neck stand up - thought it was a corpse 77kaoded reported that people in a soi in Nikhom Pattana, Rayong, east/central Thailand were scared to go about their business. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269708-a-dead-body-by-a-shrine-causes-consternation-but-theres-a-happy-explanation/

77kaoded Thai Caption: Hairs on the neck stand up - thought it was a corpse 77kaoded reported that people in a soi in Nikhom Pattana, Rayong, east/central Thailand were scared to go about their business. Someone had seen what they thought was a dead body dressed in white by a roadside spirit house. Picture: 77kaoded Undaunted by what the media called "hairs on the back of the neck going up time" senior police sergeant Natthachai Wanna responded to the drama in Soi 8 in Makham Khu sub-district. There near a rise in the road in an area devoid of properties he had a jolly good belly laugh. It was just a ceramic mannikin with it's wig off and arms detached. Someone had clearly just dumped it at the shrine. -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2022-08-23 - 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! Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information

Big Joke in Trat? Rumors that poster boy cop was in town led to rip-off lottery sellers shutting up shop Picture: Siam Rath Siam Rath reported that rumors that Thailand's poster boy cop Lt-Gen Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn was in town led to a whole load of lottery sellers selling tickets at rip-off prices shutting up shop. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269707-big-joke-in-trat-rumors-that-poster-boy-cop-was-in-town-led-to-rip-off-lottery-sellers-shutting-up-shop/

Picture: Siam Rath Siam Rath reported that rumors that Thailand's poster boy cop Lt-Gen Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn was in town led to a whole load of lottery sellers selling tickets at rip-off prices shutting up shop. Ten vendors at a downtown market had closed after the rumors circulated. They had been selling tickets well above the 80 baht face value. Trat's biggest seller said they were not daring to sell tickets for 95 baht. One seller said that Surachate had been busting a Ponzi scheme in Surat Thani, so he couldn't have been in Trat. The police themselves confirmed that the Lt-Gen had not been in town. Only a group of police training school teachers from Region 2 had visited. They would have been told if he'd been visiting. ASEAN NOW notes that the ability for Big Joke to be in two places at once - like particles in quantum physics - is yet to be confirmed as one of his many talents. Though he is known to be able to make lightning visits to bust crime at the drop of a policeman's hat.... -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2022-08-23 - 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! Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information

'Dead body' found on Thai beach turns out to be £470 'ultra-realistic' sex doll after police investigate By ELEANOR DYE FOR MAILONLINE Horrified beachgoers came across the 'naked corpse' on Bang Saen beach in the Thai Province of Chonburi, about 100km east of Bangkok Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269705-dead-body-found-on-thai-beach-turns-out-to-be-£470-ultra-realistic-sex-doll-after-police-investigate/

Horrified beachgoers came across the 'naked corpse' on Bang Saen beach in the Thai Province of Chonburi, about 100km east of Bangkok -- Beachgoers found a 'dead body' on Bang Saen beach in Thailand on August 18 -- Police were called and it turned out to be an 'AV Idol' sex doll worth £469 -- Photos show the doll washed up on the beach with a naked leg clearly visible -- The doll is being kept by police in case the owner wants to reclaim it By ELEANOR DYE FOR MAILONLINE A 'dead body' found on a beach in Thailand turned out to be an ultra-realistic sex doll worth £469. Horrified beachgoers came across the 'naked corpse' on Bang Saen beach in the Thai Province of Chonburi, about 100km east of Bangkok, on August 18. It looked like a naked woman was lying dead on the shore with only a t-shirt over her head. Paramedics and police rushed to the scene after receiving panicked calls, expecting to be met with a dead body. Full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11135453/Dead-body-Thai-beach-turns-470-ultra-realistic-sex-doll.html -- © Copyright DAILY MAIL 2022-08-23 - 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!

ECD arrest man who fled case after 15 years - just ONE day before statute of limitations ran out! Picture: Siam Rath Siam Rath reported that a contingent of officers from the Economic Crime Division arrested Permsak, 48, on a Nonthaburi court warrant issued in November 2008 on a charge of causing grievous bodily Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269699-ecd-arrest-man-who-fled-case-after-15-years-just-one-day-before-statute-of-limitations-ran-out/

Picture: Siam Rath Siam Rath reported that a contingent of officers from the Economic Crime Division arrested Permsak, 48, on a Nonthaburi court warrant issued in November 2008 on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm. He was arrested in Nong Bua sub-district of Samut Sakhon in central Thailand. Back in 2017 the suspect had a violent argument with another man causing a grievous injury then later attacked him again with a beer bottle after which a report was filed with the Rattanathibet, Nonthaburi police. The arrest was notable because the suspect was arrested just one day before the statute of limitations on the offence ran out. The ECD took him into custody. -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2022-08-23 - 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! Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information

Video: Appalling parking at shopping center - "Did they even take a driving test?" ASEAN NOW caption: Thai red plate parking! Sanook reported on a TikTok post by chakit_j who posted a short video of some appalling parking at a department store lot. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269698-video-appalling-parking-at-shopping-center-did-they-even-take-a-driving-test/

ASEAN NOW caption: Thai red plate parking! Sanook reported on a TikTok post by chakit_j who posted a short video of some appalling parking at a department store lot. The white car had a red plate meaning it was brand new and perhaps indicating that the driver was a novice. The car's rear end was sticking out making it hard for other drivers to get past while the front occupied just part of the allotted space. Netizens commented in droves with many thinking that the new driver had abandoned their car until later having no clue how to extricate it from that position next to a pillar. Others just wondered out loud if the driver had ever passed a Thai driving test. -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2022-08-23 - 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! Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information

Tim Newton Today - Aug 23: Are Chinese tourists heading back to Thailand? New BKK observation tower https://aseannow.com/topic/1269697-tim-newton-today-aug-23 are-chinese-tourists-heading-back-to-thailand-new-bkk-observation-tower/

Thailand's biggest company telling the country to 'prepare' for the big return of Chinese tourists and spending... we don't see it. There's a new Observation Tower in Samut Prakan, electric buses for Bangkok, and good and bad news for Singapore's GLBTI community.

Netizens go ape! Teachers living it up on "staff development trip" while the kids have 20 baht lunch budget Daily News Thai Caption: Teachers living it up! Daily News reported on what is known in Thailand as an online drama - outrage expressed by netizens after a post on social media. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269696-netizens-go-ape-teachers-living-it-up-on-staff-development-trip-while-the-kids-have-20-baht-lunch-budget/

Daily News Thai Caption: Teachers living it up! Daily News reported on what is known in Thailand as an online drama - outrage expressed by netizens after a post on social media. This one involved a seven day/six night "staff development" trip by a group of teachers from a school in Nakhon Sri Thammarat in the south. Picture: Daily News The post appeared to have been made by a person determined to expose teachers having a jolly good time when students get very little, notes ASEAN NOW. The post on a site that translates as "Watchdog Operation" might have been made by a parent. The trip started with a stay in a hotel in Bangkok then a couple of lightning visits to schools in Bang Sue in the Thai capital then one in Phetchabun. Picture: Daily News Then the "staff development" really began with pictures at a beauty spot, chilling at a coffee shop, a visit to a temple to make merit, time in Chiang Khan in Loei to see the "sea of fog" followed by relaxation at a "walking street club" at a resort on the banks of the Mekong. Picture: Daily News Then came a trip to the "sky walk" where the teachers posted that they preferred mountains to beaches anytime. There was till time for some clubbing in Lopburi, a visit to a dam then some more dancing. The first comment summed up the drama. Picture: Daily News A poster got 135 likes for observing that while the teachers were "living the life of Riley" on their junket the kids back at school had a 20 baht daily budget for their lunch. -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2022-08-23 - 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! Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information

Who're you looking at? Men nabbed after coming off bike following sword attack on Grab rider Daily News Thai Caption: Caused by...looking someone in the face Daily News reported that the Pak Kret police in Nonthaburi were called after a sword weilding attack on a Grab rider. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269692-whore-you-looking-at-men-nabbed-after-coming-off-bike-following-sword-attack-on-grab-rider/

Daily News Thai Caption: Caused by...looking someone in the face Daily News reported that the Pak Kret police in Nonthaburi were called after a sword weilding attack on a Grab rider. It appeared that the sole cause was looking at each other. Weerayuth, 26, a Grab rider on the way to see his daughter, was chased by two men on another bike from the Suan Somdej intersection to the end of Soi Tiwanon- Pak Kret 24. The men responsible were Natheethorn, 24, the rider and Nampetch, 19, who was wielding a 30 cm long weapon. Picture: Daily News Weerayuth said that he had been stopped at the lights and thereafter the two men had pulled alongside him and looked at him and he had looked at them thinking he might know them. Without saying anything the sword was wielded at him once then aimed again at his waist. He avoided injury because it hit the belt of his bag breaking it. They all then came off their bikes with the assailants hitting the back of a pick-up before police took them into custody. -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2022-08-23 - 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! Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information

Police brace for protesters near Government House on Tuesday Thai police are using cargo containers, razor wire and steel barricades to block traffic at Chamaimaruchet and Makkhawan Rangsan bridges today (Tuesday) to prevent protesters from getting close to Government House. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269690-police-brace-for-protesters-near-government-house-on-tuesday/

Thai police are using cargo containers, razor wire and steel barricades to block traffic at Chamaimaruchet and Makkhawan Rangsan bridges today (Tuesday) to prevent protesters from getting close to Government House. The protesters, led by Jatuporn Prompan and Nittitorn Lumlua, are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, contending that his eight-year term in office is due to end by August 24th. Protesters started gathering this morning at the Lan Khon Mueang (town square), in front of the old City Hall. A stage has been set up and sound system installed for protest leaders to address the crowd. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/police-brace-for-protesters-near-government-house-on-tuesday/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-08-23 - 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!

To write off or not to write off: Two sides of student loan repayment battle The Student Loan Fund (SLF) is dismissing calls for it to write off 337 billion baht of loans taken by students to fund their education. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269689-to-write-off-or-not-to-write-off-two-sides-of-student-loan-repayment-battle/

The Student Loan Fund (SLF) is dismissing calls for it to write off 337 billion baht of loans taken by students to fund their education. Over the past few weeks, thousands of people have been pushing for their student debt to be forgiven. The campaign, run under the hashtag #SLFdebtforgiveness, claims that canceling their debt would combat social inequality and support people’s efforts to improve their lives. However, not everyone is convinced by this argument. “Forgiving loans will not improve people’s access to education,” SLF manager Chainarong Katchapanan said. “On the contrary, it will deprive the younger generation of opportunities that SLF can provide.” Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/to-write-off-or-not-to-write-off-two-sides-of-student-loan-repayment-battle/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-08-23 - 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!

Singer attacked by fellow employee appeals for justice after ambush attack at restaurant in Nonthaburi Daily News Thai Caption: Call for justice A singer who was ambushed and beaten by a fellow employee at a Bang Bua Thong restaurant and whose friend was also assaulted has gone to the media for help in getting justice after the case went cold. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269687-singer-attacked-by-fellow-employee-appeals-for-justice-after-ambush-attack-at-restaurant-in-nonthaburi/

Daily News Thai Caption: Call for justice A singer who was ambushed and beaten by a fellow employee at a Bang Bua Thong restaurant and whose friend was also assaulted has gone to the media for help in getting justice after the case went cold. "A", 22, the singer said she was ambushed by a man called King who got his group to attack her. She was covered in bruises after a club was used. The attack happened on July 18th and she needed two weeks off work. In addition a friend named only as "B" was kicked in the crotch by a woman. "A", fearing further attacks, filed a complaint with the Bang Bua Thong police but everything has gone quiet. She provided CCTV footage. Daily News said that their sources suggested that the assault stemmed from disagreements among employees of the restaurant over stealing customers. Police have already spoken to both sides in the dispute, reported the media. -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2022-08-23 - 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! Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information