THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Friday 8 Sep 2017

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Abbot's "remedies" at rehab center were just Class 1 drugs

Picture: Sanook

 

An abbot and his accomplice who ran a drug rehab center in Nakon Nayok have been busted for peddling drugs.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001052-abbots-remedies-at-nakon nayok-rehab-center-were-just-class-1-drugs/

 

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Phuket road deaths keep on rolling

Shela Riva

 

Phuket Governor Norraphat Plodthong (2nd from left) led the meeting on road safety yesterday (Sept 6). Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET:-- A total of 68 people died on Phuket’s roads from January through April this year, with more statistics to be tabled indicating that Phuket is on track to match – or even exceed – last year’s road death toll of 174.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001008-phuket-road-deaths-keep-on-rolling/

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University wants special press treatment in discipline case

By The Nation 

 

File Photo: Netiwit and colleagues walk out of the ceremony and were stopped by two lecturers.

 

Chulalongkorn University (CU) on Wednesday issued another statement calling for international media to be fair in the coverage of the incident regarding the dismissal of student activists from the student council over their activism against the school’s oath-taking ceremony.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001011-university-wants-special-press-treatment-in-discipline-case/

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Tourist operators in gang rape village wonder where all the visitors have gone

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported that tourism has dried up in a small southern village where there is an ongoing case of a 14 year old who claims to have been gang raped by 40 men.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001054-tourist-operators-in-gang-rape-village-wonder-where-all-the-visitors-have-gone/

 

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What was he thinking? Thai media pose question of driver who went the wrong way round a bend and killed a baby

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

SUPHANBURI: -- Thai Rath tried to get to the bottom of the horrific accident that saw a small baby die instantly and five others suffer severe injuries.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001055-what-was-he-thinking-thai-media-pose-question-of-driver-who-went-the wrong-way-round-a-bend-and-killed-a-baby/

 

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Asean must balance between US and North Korea: academics

By Wasamon Audjarint 
The Nation

 

This photo taken on September 6, 2017 shows participants of a mass celebration in Pyongyang for scientists involved in carrying out North Korea's largest nuclear blast to date. // AFP PHOTO

 

BANGKOK: -- Although Asean is in an “awkward” situation between the US and North Korea in dealing with the latter’s weapon development, it is still wise for Thailand to utilise Asean mechanisms to express its stance regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, a panel heard yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001056-asean-must-balance-between-us-and-north-korea-academics/

 

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Silence on suspended dam deal as Prayut and Hun Sen agree to stronger bilateral ties

By THE NATION

 

 

ONLY DAYS after Thailand halted the Bt40-billion Stung Nam hydropower project, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen yesterday agreed to enhance economic ties and connectivity.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001057-silence-on-suspended-dam-deal-as-prayut-and-hun-sen-agree-to-stronger-bilateral-ties/

 

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Police chief calls for sympathy for ‘gang rape’ victim

By Anothai Ngarndee 
The Nation

 

 

Police have called for the public to show sympathy for a girl who was allegedly gang-raped several times last year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001059-phang-nga’s-police-chief-calls-for-sympathy-for-gang-rape-victim/

 

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NBO chief defiant after transfer amid religious row

By THE NATION 

 

Pongporn Parmsneh

 

Pongporn’s reforms said to have upset senior monks, who pressured cabinet for change.

BANGKOK: -- NATIONAL BUDDHISM Office (NBO) director Pongporn Parmsneh is fighting his transfer order in a very unusual move under the government of Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001060-nbo-chief-defiant-after-transfer-amid-religious-row/

 

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Nasa scholarship gives Thai students opportunity to attend US space camp

By WICHIT CHAITRONG 
THE NATION

 

Chayanis Opassereepadung, second from left, attends an event to encourage other Thai students to apply for a chance to win a scholarship from the US space agency Nasa yesterday. Chayanis, 17, won a grant through the same programme last year.

 

BANGKOK: -- The US space agency Nasa is offering two Thai students a chance to win an astronauts scholarship – and the dream of a flight to Mars in the future.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001061-nasa-scholarship-gives-thai-students-opportunity-to-attend-us-space-camp/

 

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Drastic plan to close technical schools to end student violence not viable: academics

By THE NATION

 

File photo

 

BANGKOK: -- A DRASTIC proposal to close Bangkok’s Pathumwan Institute of Technology and Rajamangala University of Technology’s Uthen Thawai to end decades of violence between students was not a viable solution, academics have said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001063-drastic-plan-to-close-technical-schools-in-bangkok-to-end-student-violence-not-viable-academics/

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Thailand joins SE Asia effort on climate change

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION 
MALE, MALDIVES

 

 

Maldives talks focus on knock-on effects such as diseases.

THAILAND is one of 10 countries preparing for the new challenges to health that will inevitably be brought on by climate change.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001064-thailand-joins-se-asia-effort-on-climate-change/

 

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OPINION

Ample reason to put Stung Nam plans on hold

By The Nation

 

Questions of transparency and economic viability need to be resolved before Thailand finalises the deal with Cambodia

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001065-ample-reason-to-put-stung-nam-plans-on-hold/

 

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Thailand can be the Asean headquarters of Belt and Road plan 

By Feng Da Hsuan, Liang Hai Ming 
Special to The Nation

 

Technological know-how, financial sophistication and solid higher education put Kingdom on track for central role   

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001066-thailand-can-be-the-asean-headquarters-of-belt-and-road-plan /

 

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Meechai says election date cannot be set yet until the election law is enacted

By Thai PBS

 

 

The general election date will be set once the organic law regarding the election bill has become effective, Constitution Drafting Committee chairman Meechai Ruchupan said on Thursday (Sept 7).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001067-meechai-says-election-date-cannot-be-set-yet-until-the-election-law-is-enacted/

 

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Trump - 'Sad day' for North Korea if U.S. takes military action

By James Oliphant and Christian Shepherd

 

South Korean marines take part in a military exercise on South Korea's Baengnyeong Island, near the disputed sea border with the north, September 7, 2017. Choi Jae-gu/Yonhap via REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would prefer not to use military action against North Korea to counter its nuclear and missile threat but that if he did it would be a “very sad day” for the leadership in Pyongyang.

 

Source: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001069-trump-sad-day-for-north-korea-if-us-takes-military-action/

 

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U.S. appeals court rules against broad interpretation of Trump's travel ban

 

FILE PHOTO - An Iceland Air flight crew arrives on the day that U.S. President Donald Trump's limited travel ban, approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, goes into effect, at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled against President Donald Trump's effort to broadly enforce a temporary travel and refugee ban on people from certain Muslim-majority countries that the Republican president said was necessary for national security.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001070-us-appeals-court-rules-against-broad-interpretation-of-trumps-travel-ban/

 

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Category 5 Hurricane Irma kills 10 in Caribbean, heads for Florida

By Makini Brice

 

Waves crash against the shore and a stranded boat as Hurricane Irma moves off from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

 

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (Reuters) - The "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Irma raged offshore vulnerable Haiti on Thursday after devastating a string of Caribbean islands and killing at least 10 people as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at the Turks and Caicos islands and Florida.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001071-category-5-hurricane-irma-kills-10-in-caribbean-heads-for-florida/

 

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Israel hits Syrian site said to be linked to chemical weapons

By Sarah Dadouch and Jeffrey Heller

 

FILE PHOTO: A United Nations (U.N.) chemical weapons expert, wearing a gas mask, holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria August 29, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Abdullah/File Photo

 

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel attacked a military site in Syria's Hama province early on Thursday, the Syrian army said, and a war monitoring group said the target could be linked to chemical weapons production.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001072-israel-hits-syrian-site-said-to-be-linked-to-chemical-weapons/

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FBI chief sees no evidence of White House interference in Russia probe

By Sarah N. Lynch

 

Christopher Wray is sworn in prior to testifying before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be the next FBI director on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 12, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos

 

BarriaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday he has "not detected any whiff of interference" by the White House into the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001073-fbi-chief-sees-no-evidence-of-white-house-interference-in-russia-probe/

 

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EU's Barnier worried by UK's post-Brexit plan for Irish border

By Francesco Guarascio

 

European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier addresses a news conference in Brussels, Belgium September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator said on Thursday he was worried by Britain's plans for the border arrangement with Ireland after it leaves the EU and urged London to come up with "creative proposals".

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001074-eus-barnier-worried-by-uks-post-brexit-plan-for-irish-border/

 

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US man in Chiang Mai arrested after indecent images of children found on computer

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

CHIANG MAI: -- Child protection agency officials and police arrested a 66 year old American yesterday on charges of having indecent images of children on a computer.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001083-us-man-in-chiang-mai-arrested-after-indecent-images-of-children-found on-computer/

 

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Porn nailed! Woman who conned men for dowries arrested in Nakon Pathom

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The Thai woman at the center of a much talked about marriage fraud case was arrested in Nakon Pathom last night.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001088-porn-nailed-woman-who-conned-men-for-dowries-arrested-in-nakon-pathom/

 

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Two year old fights for her life after "falling down stairs"

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- A two year old girl is fighting for her life after her mother said she fell down the stairs at their rented home.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001089-two-year-old-fights-for-her-life-after-falling-down-stairs/

 

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Husband and wife's life in ruins because of family of boy, 15, who reversed into them

 

Picture: TNews

 

A stricken husband and wife have gone online to talk about their lives that have been ruined following a road accident.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001093-husband-and-wifes-life-in-ruins-because-of-family-of-boy-15-who reversed-into-them/

 

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Old Chiang Rai woman dies after the front gate falls on her

 

 

An 82 year old Chiang Rai woman died yesterday after her front gate fell on her.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001097-old-chiang-rai-woman-dies-after-the-front-gate-falls-on-her/

 

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Video: How an Indian man lost his necklace to a team of Pattaya lady boys

 

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

PATTAYA: -- A video produced for Facebook shows how a team of lady boys relieved an Indian man of his gold necklace.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001102-video-how-an-indian-man-lost-his-necklace-to-a-team-of-pattaya-lady-boys/

 

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Law banning baby formula marketing takes effect today

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Control of Marketing of Infant and Young Child Food Act of 2017, which bans all advertising for infant formula milk as well as other food products for infants and young children, will take effect today (Sept 8).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001105-law-banning-baby-formula-marketing-takes-effect-today/

 

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Russian Nuclear Tech For Thailand

By The Nation

 

Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) and Kinetics Corporation Ltd (Thailand) will supply a cyclotron complex with radiochemical laboratories to the Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (TINT). 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001112-russian-nuclear-tech-for-thailand/

 

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Phuket Poll: Where should Phuket croc ‘Leypang’ go?

The Phuket News

 

Since Leypang was caught on Phuket's west coast last Friday (Sept 8), experts have debated what should be done with the the 200-kilo saltwater crocodile. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: -- The debate among marine wildlife and conservation experts is afoot about what should be done with “Leypang”, the saltwater crocodile caught on Phuket’s west coast last week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001113-phuket-poll-where-should-phuket-croc-‘leypang’-go/