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Phuket police investigate ‘reservoir dogs’ killings

Shela Riva

 

 

PHUKET:-- Police are investigating the deaths of four dogs whose scorched remains were found near Ban Bang Niew Dam reservoir in Srisoonthorn last week.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000411-phuket-police-investigate-‘reservoir-dogs’-killings/

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Phuket police warn of traffic mayhem ahead of underpass-site roadworks

The Phuket News

 

The roadworks will have a dramatic effect on one of Phuket's heaviest traffic blackspots. Image: Google Maps

 

PHUKET:-- Roadworks carried out over two days this week are likely to cause major traffic disruptions on Phuket’s busiest road north of Phuket Town, Phuket City Traffic Police warned today (Sept 5).

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000412-phuket-police-warn-of-traffic-mayhem-ahead-of-underpass-site-roadworks/

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Midweek rant: Thailand - what is there to rant about?

 

 

I had just got back from my summer holiday in the UK.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000430-midweek-rant-thailand-what-is-there-to-rant-about/

 

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Gunman wanted for murder arrested in Kanchanaburi - but it took the cops 16 years to find him

 

Picture: Sanook

 

KANCHANABURI: -- A man wanted for murder at a Bang Pakong karaoke lounge in 2001 was finally apprehended yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000431-gunman-wanted-for-murder-arrested-in-kanchanaburi-but-it-took-the cops-16-years-to-find-him/

 

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Massive police anti-drugs operation on Samui nets man in his underpants chasing the dragon

 

Picture: Daily News

 

SAMUI: -- More than 150 police and soldiers led by the provincial chief swung into action on Koh Samui yesterday under orders to rid the holiday island of the scourge of hard drugs.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000432-massive-police-anti-drugs-operation-on-samui-nets-man-in-his underpants-chasing-the-dragon/

 

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"Who's been sleeping in my bed?" US guy wants revenge as Mr. Penguin is no Goldilocks!

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: -- A US man went to his local police after suffering five break-ins at his house in Bang Saphan Noi, Prachuap Khiri Khan.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000433-whos-been-sleeping-in-my-bed-us-guy-wants-revenge-as-mr-penguin is-no-goldilocks/

 

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"Look out for this lying, cheating foreign scumbag": man goes on Facebook to warn locals

 

Picture: Sanook

 

BANGKOK: -- A Thai man has posted a video on a popular fan page to warn the Thai public about a foreigner preying on the gullibility of office workers in the Rachada/ Rama 9 area of Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000434-look-out-for-this-lying-cheating-foreign-scumbag-man-goes-on facebook-to-warn-locals/

 

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Monthly mobile Cabinet meetings will now be the norm

By Wasamon Audjarint 
The Nation

 

PM Prayut at the recent mobile Cabinet meeting in Nakhon Ratchasima.

 

BANGKOK: -- From now on, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha will hold a mobile Cabinet meeting in the provinces at least once a month with the aim of covering all six regions of the country, Government Spokesperson Lt-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000436-monthly-mobile-cabinet-meetings-will-now-be-the-norm/

 

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No need to reinvestigate 2010 crackdown-related cases: Prawit

By Wasamon Audjarint 
The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- There is no need to reinvestigate cases related to the 2010 crackdown against red-shirt protestors, which resulted in 99 people being killed, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000437-no-need-to-reinvestigate-2010-crackdown-related-cases-prawit/

 

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Appeal process begins in yellow-shirt crackdown case

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders is set to give former metropolitan police chief Pol Lt-General Suchart Muankaew 15 days’ notice to object to an appeal lodged by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000438-appeal-process-begins-in-yellow-shirt-crackdown-case/

 

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Prayut suspends Bt40-bn Cambodian dam project

By THE NATION

 

PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

PM orders reassessment of water demand related to Stung Nam deal.

BANGKOK: -- PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha, who is scheduled to visit Cambodia tomorrow, has ordered a suspension of the Bt40-billion project to buy electricity and fresh water from Cambodia’s Stung Nam hydropower scheme.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000439-prayut-suspends-bt40-bn-cambodian-dam-project/

 

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PM’s China visit boosts One Belt One Road

By THE NATION

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday at a sideline meeting during the 9th BRICS summit in Xiamen, China.

 

PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday wrapped up his visit to China for the BRICS summit and to sign contracts for a high-speed train line that will help fulfil China’s One Belt One Road Initiative.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000440-pm-prayut’s-china-visit-boosts-one-belt-one-road/

 

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Ombudsman heads can stay in jobs, court rules

By THE NATION

 

CDC spokesman Chartchai Na Chiangmai

 

BANGKOK: -- THE NEW ORGANIC law governing the Office of the Ombudsman, which allows the current president and Ombudsman to continue their tenures in office, is not unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court ruled yesterday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000441-ombudsman-heads-can-stay-in-jobs-thai-court-rules/

 

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Yingluck probe 80% complete, say officials in hunt for fugitive

By Wasamon Audjarint 
The Nation

 

File photo

 

Investigation techniques are similar to methods used in hospital bombing: Prawit

 

BANGKOK: -- SECURITY officers are tracking fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra using the same methods employed in locating the suspect in the bomb attack on Phramongkutklao Hospital in May, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000442-yingluck-probe-80-complete-say-officials-in-hunt-for-fugitive/

 

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Plea for protection of girl in gang-rape case

By THE NATION

 

 

THE FAMILY of a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by more than 40 perpetrators on different occasions in Phang Nga’s Takua Thung district has reportedly faced harassment and threats from members of the local community.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000443-plea-for-protection-of-girl-in-phang-nga-gang-rape-case/

 

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Health risks of civil servants exposed in Chulalongkorn study

By THE NATION

 

ThaiHealth executive Suwannee Khamman.

 

BANGKOK: -- CIVIL SERVANTS are suffering in various fronts including health, money and work, according to a recent survey by the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000444-health-risks-of-civil-servants-exposed-in-chulalongkorn-study/

 

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OPINION

How the political divide boosts Thailand’s biggest scourge

By Tulsathit Taptim 
The Nation

 

Thais opposed to the planned purchase of submarines are not necessarily against the proposal for a prime ministerial aircraft, our own version of Air Force One.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000446-how-the-political-divide-boosts-thailand’s-biggest-scourge/

 

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EDITORIAL

Noble ideas usurped for ignoble causes

By The Nation

 

Virtually at gunpoint, the people are being asked to sign not a social contract but a blank cheque

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000447-noble-ideas-usurped-for-ignoble-causes/

 

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UDD won’t leave Pheu Thai alone: Nattawut

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will continue to support and conduct activities alongside the Pheu Thai Party as long as it adheres to the democratic principle, regardless of who will be its next leader, UDD secretary-general Nattawut Saikuar said on Tuesday (Sept 5).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000448-udd-won’t-leave-pheu-thai-alone-nattawut/

 

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Trump ends 'Dreamer' immigration programme, places onus on Congress

By Steve Holland and Yeganeh Torbati

 

Protestors gather outside the Trump Hotel to protest President Donald Trump's plan to repeal DACA in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped an Obama-era programme that protects from deportation immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children, delaying implementation until March and giving a gridlocked Congress six months to decide the fate of almost 800,000 young people.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000450-trump-ends-dreamer-immigration-programme-places-onus-on-congress/

 

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U.S. states, immigrant groups to fight Trump's Dreamer decision

By Lawrence Hurley

 

Demonstrators gather outside the White House to protest President Donald Trump's plan to repeal DACA in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. states and immigrant advocacy groups vowed on Tuesday to fight President Donald Trump's decision to end a programme that protects people brought illegally to the United States as children from deportation. But legal experts said the challenges will face an uphill battle.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000451-us-states-immigrant-groups-to-fight-trumps-dreamer-decision/

 

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Myanmar's Suu Kyi under pressure as almost 125,000 Rohingya flee violence

By Simon Lewis and Krishna N. Das

 

Rohingya refugees get off to the boat as they arrive in Bangladesh by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 5, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

 

SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh/DHAKA (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi came under more pressure on Tuesday to halt violence against Rohingya Muslims that has sent nearly 125,000 of them fleeing over the border to Bangladesh in just over 10 days.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000452-myanmars-suu-kyi-under-pressure-as-almost-125000-rohingya-flee-violence/

 

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Top EU court seen denying eastern states' refusal to host refugees

By Gabriela Baczynska

 

Migrants and refugees are seen aboard the Phoenix vessel of the Maltese NGO MOAS in central Mediterranean Sea August 17, 2017. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU's top court is expected on Wednesday to dismiss a challenge by eastern European countries against taking in refugees coming from Africa and the Middle East, a dispute that has divided the bloc.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000453-top-eu-court-seen-denying-eastern-states-refusal-to-host-refugees/

 

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Men victims in false marriage case swells to 13 - woman and fake "mum and dad" face arrest

 

Picture: Sanook

 

PATHUM THANI: -- The number of victims in a fake dowries case has risen to 13 with a total of four people set to be arrested.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000461-men-victims-in-false-marriage-case-swells-to-13-woman-and-fake-mum and-dad-face-arrest/

 

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Thai police deny they offered "scapegoat" money to man jailed for rape of Danish woman

 

Picture: Sanook

 

CHONBURI: -- Police in Chonburi have denied that they offered money to a man wrongfully imprisoned over the rape of a Danish woman three years ago.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000462-thai-police-deny-they-offered-scapegoat-money-to-man-jailed-for-rape of-danish-woman/

 

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Duh! Woman's car goes up in smoke after she lights candles and incense on the license plate

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

KAMPHAENG PHET: -- A Thai woman praying to Chinese ancestors tied incense and candles to the front license plate of her Toyota Vios.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000463-duh-womans-car-goes-up-in-smoke-after-she-lights-candles-and-incense on-the-license-plate/

 

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Watching THAI’s new Airbus come to life from the ground up

By  JINTANA PANYAARVUDH 
THE NATION 
TOULOUSE 

 

An A350900 aircraft of THAI Airways International is worked on at the Final Assembly Line of Airbus in Toulouse.

 

A TRIP to Toulouse would never be complete without a visit to the Final Assembly Line (FAL) of the home of aircraft manufacturer Airbus.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000464-watching-thai’s-new-airbus-come-to-life-from-the-ground-up/

 

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Monk drops charges against Thai police in sensational drugging and blackmail case

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

It is a case straight out of a cautionary fable, said Thai Rath, and certainly falls into the "only in Thailand" bracket.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000465-monk-drops-charges-against-thai-police-in-sensational-drugging-and-blackmail-case/

 

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Germans content with national direction ahead of vote - survey

 

Supporters of German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) hold banners which read "May the better win" before a TV debate with her challenger Germany's Social Democratic Party SPD candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz in Berlin, Germany, September 3, 2017. German voters will take to the polls in a general election on September 24. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans are far more satisfied with the direction of their country and less politically polarised than other European nations, a survey showed on Wednesday, underscoring why Angela Merkel is expected to win a new term as chancellor this month.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000468-germans-content-with-national-direction-ahead-of-vote-survey/

 

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Chiang Mai souvenir shop raided for selling illegal substances to Chinese tours

 

Picture: Daily News

 

CHIANG MAI: -- Pharmaceutical experts and police raided a recently opened souvenir shop in Chiang Mai yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1000469-chiang-mai-souvenir-shop-raided-for-selling-illegal-substances-to-chinese-tours/