THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Monday 11 Sep 2017

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Thai student apologizes for 160 million baht losses after Ponzi scheme got out of hand

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- A Thai woman studying at university ripped off her friends and others to the tune of 160 million baht - then started crying at police HQ saying it all got out of hand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001570-thai-student-apologizes-for-160-million-baht-losses-after-ponzi-scheme got-out-of-hand/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Maid injured as Prachuap hotel lift tumbles to ground from fourth floor

 

Image: Sanook

 

A maid at a downtown Prachuap Khiri Khan hotel was left injured after a service lift plunged to the ground yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001573-maid-injured-as-prachuap-hotel-lift-tumbles-to-ground-from-fourth-floor/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Soi dog saved after teens suspected of "having a bit of fun"

 

Image: Thairath

 

Rescue workers were called to a north eastern village after locals found a female dog with deep wounds around its neck.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001574-soi-dog-saved-after-teens-suspected-of-having-a-bit-of-fun/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Round the world UK cyclist, 21, is not worried about accidents in Thailand

 

Image: Krobkruakao.com

 

A young female cyclist pedaling around the world told Thai media she is not worried about having an accident in the kingdom.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001575-round-the-world-uk-cyclist-21-is-not-worried-about-accidents-in-thailand/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Man’s charred body found in fire-gutted Pathum Thani house, police question son-in-law

 

A 56-year-old prawn farmer died late Sunday night when a fire engulfed his house in Pathum Thani’s Nong Sua district.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001576-man’s-charred-body-found-in-fire-gutted-pathum-thani-house-police-question-son-in-law/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Two men arrested for drug possession in Nong Khai

 

 

Nong Khai police arrested two men early Monday morning after police searched them and allegedly found 97 methamphetmine pills in two pens and a cigarette packet.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001577-two-men-arrested-for-drug-possession-in-nong-khai/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Another mild quake hits in Lamphun

 

 

A 1.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded in Lamphun’s Muang district Monday morning, the Seismological Bureau of the Meteorological Department reported.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001578-another-mild-quake-hits-in-lamphun/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Video: What amulet was she wearing?! Thai woman in miraculous escape 

 

Image: Sanook

 

A Thai woman crossing the road in Korat had a miracle escape after a car ploughed into two vehicles making a U-Turn.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001579-video-what-amulet-was-she-wearing-thai-woman-in-miraculous-escape /

 

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Two injured in Phuket five-vehicle accident

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Rescue workers attended the scene to find a grey Isuzu pickup truck on its side on the southbound side of the road with the front of the vehicle resting on the central reservation. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- Two people were injured yesterday in an accident involving five vehicles on Phuket’s main artery, Thepkrasattri Rd.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001583-two-injured-in-phuket-five-vehicle-accident/

 

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Songkhla police boost security over traffic-cone bomb fears 

By The Nation

 

The chief of Songkhla police has instructed all units in the southern border province to step up security over concerns insurgents will plant bombs in stolen traffic cones, a police source said.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001584-songkhla-police-boost-security-over-traffic-cone-bomb-fears /

 

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Norwegians to vote in final day of cliffhanger election for parliament

 

Norway's Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Store casts his vote to the Norwegian parliamentary election in Oslo, Norway September 10, 2017. NTB scanpix/Terje Pedersen/via REUTERS

 

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegians will go to the polls for a final day of voting on Monday in a parliamentary election that remains too close to call between Prime Minister Erna Solberg's centre-right block and the centre-left opposition headed by the Labour Party.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001585-norwegians-to-vote-in-final-day-of-cliffhanger-election-for-parliament/

 

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Speeding pickup crashes into Chaiyaphun shop, sparks fire

By The Nation

 

About 10 shoppers escaped injury when a speeding pickup truck with an alleged drunk at the wheel crashed into a Chaiyaphum grocery store, sparking a fire that burned the building to the ground.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001586-speeding-pickup-crashes-into-chaiyaphun-shop-sparks-fire/

 

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Government to promote innovations in 5 areas in achieving Thailand 4.0

 

BANGKOK, 11th September 2017 (NNT) – A Deputy Prime Minister has indicated that the government will be pushing five innovations as part of its Thailand 4.0 aspirations. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001588-government-to-promote-innovations-in-5-areas-in-achieving-thailand-40/

 

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SEPO member explains need for new act on state enterprises

 

BANGKOK, 11th September 2017 (NNT) – A State Enterprise Policy (SEPO) Office member has explained the need to reform the nation’s state enterprises. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001594-sepo-member-explains-need-for-new-act-on-state-enterprises/

 

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UPDATE:

 

5 Men Held In Phang Nga Gang Rape Case

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

Five suspects in the rape case of a 14-year-old are led out of Khokkhoi Police Station Saturday.

 

PHANG NGA — Five suspects accused of participating in serial gang rapes of a teen girl in the southern province of Phang Nga were behind bars Monday as police said some of her attackers may have paid to participate.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001534-positive-drug-test-for-phang-nga-gang-rape-case-suspects/?do=findComment&comment=12259982

 

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The new iPhone will be called iPhone X, “biggest ever leak” reveals

BY JONATHAN FAIRFIELD 

 

REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

 

Details of the next generation of Apple’s iPhone and other products have been revealed in an apparent leak.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/new-iphone-will-called-iphone-x-biggest-ever-leak-reveals/24170/

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Deadly bomb blast won’t affect reregulation plans, says Phetchabun governor 

By The Nation

 

File photo

 

Phetchabun governor Pibul Hattakitkosol has insisted the fatal explosion at the entrance of tourist attraction Phu Tab Berk village on Sunday will not affect authorities' plan to re-regulate Phu Tab Berk and so far there had been no affect on tourism.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001595-deadly-bomb-blast-won’t-affect-reregulation-plans-says-phetchabun-governor /

 

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Supreme Court orders lead mine firm to pay 36 million baht to Karen people in lower Klity creek community

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Supreme Court today upheld the sentence of the Appeals Court to order Lead Concentrate (Thailand) Co Ltd to pay 151 residents of lower Klity Karen community in Kanchanaburi province for guilty in contaminating their water supply stream that caused severe threat to environment and health.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001606-supreme-court-orders-lead-mine-firm-to-pay-36-million-baht-to-karen-people-in-lower-klity-creek-community/

 

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Chula Walks Back Condemnation Of Lecturer Who Assaulted Student

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

  

Chulalongkorn University professor Ruengwit Bunjongrat holds fourth-year student Supalak Damrongjit in a headlock on Aug. 4, 2017, at a university initiation ceremony held on campus. Photo: Netiwit Chotiphatchaisal

 

BANGKOK — Chulalongkorn University on Monday acknowledged toning down a statement which had previously condemned a lecturer for putting a student in a headlock last month.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001607-chula-walks-back-condemnation-of-lecturer-who-assaulted-student/

 

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Medical Council says Mahidol has to handle fraud claim in dog’s death

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Mahidol University’s Faculty of Medicine at Siriraj Hospital is responsible for investigating an allegation that one of its students poisoned his pet dog in a bid to gain compensation from another party, the Thai Medical Council said on Monday. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001608-medical-council-says-mahidol-has-to-handle-fraud-claim-in-dog’s-death/

 

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Suspected MERS cases all cleared in Narathiwat

By The Nation

 

 

All 10 Narathiwat residents suspected of contracting Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) while making the pilgrimage to the hajj in Saudi Arabia have tested negative.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001612-suspected-mers-cases-all-cleared-in-narathiwat/

 

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Why you shouldn’t bother doing sit ups and crunches , according to science

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

 

The way to get a flat, ripped stomach and the seemingly ever elusive 6 pack abs are to do lots and lots of crunches and situps, right?

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/alternatives-to-situps-crunches/24175/

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Republicans could lose U.S. House in 2018 over immigration fight - Bannon

 

FILE PHOTO: Former White House Senior Counselor Steve Bannon arrives at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, U.S., after a day trip to Lynchburg, Virginia with President Donald Trump, May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/Files

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican infighting over the fate of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children could be so vitriolic that the party loses control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, said in an interview airing on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001616-republicans-could-lose-us-house-in-2018-over-immigration-fight-bannon/

 

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UPDATE:

 

Double Pomicide? Med Student Accused Of Killing 2nd Puppy

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

  

BANGKOK — A sixth-year student from a top university medical school was summoned by police Monday to hear charges related to allegations he killed not one but two Pomeranian puppies as part of a compensation scam.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001608-medical-council-says-mahidol-has-to-handle-fraud-claim-in-dog’s-death/?do=findComment&comment=12260349

 

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Phuket family dodges brunt of Hurricane Irma

Chris Husted

 

ALL SAFE: Muzza Nordstrand and Chantal Fernandes with their children Chiara and Kyle. Photo: Muzza Nordstrand / Facebook

 

PHUKET: -- Well-known Phuket expats Muzza Nordstrand and Chantal Fernandes and their children are safe and sound after narrowly avoiding the brunt of Hurricane Irma at their temporary “home away from home” in the Dominican Republic.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001619-phuket-family-dodges-brunt-of-hurricane-irma/

 

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Nakhon Ratchasima hospital opens first one-day surgery centre

By Kasem Chanathinart 
The Nation

 

Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital has become the first medical facility in Health Area 9 to establish a one-day surgery centre.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001620-nakhon-ratchasima-hospital-opens-first-one-day-surgery-centre/

 

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Ex-inmate sets fire to school, hoping for free meals in jail

By The Nation

 

SATTAHIP: -- An ex-inmate kept his word by setting fire to a school, saying he felt more comfortable in jail than outside where he finds it hard to get enough to eat.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001623-ex-inmate-sets-fire-to-school-hoping-for-free-meals-in-jail/

 

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Video: Trouble at the "Monkey House" - foreign hoods launch attack at Surin bar

 

Picture source: Facebook

 

SURIN: -- Facebook was abuzz with news that a gang of "mafia wannabes" had launched an attack at a Surin bar on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001629-video-trouble-at-the-monkey-house-foreign-hoods-launch-attack-at-surin-bar/

 

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Deadly tourist attraction blast ‘aimed a demolition officials’

By The Nation

 

 

The fatal explosion at Phetchabun tourist attraction Phu Tab Berk village on Sunday was designed to target officials tasked with overseeing the demolition of illegally built resorts on forestland this week, Royal Forestry Department deputy chief Atthapol Charoenchansa said on Monday. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001631-deadly-tourist-attraction-blast-‘aimed-a-demolition-officials’/

 

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Justice is for all, rich or poor, says Prayut

By The Nation

 

File photo: Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has stressed that justice is a crucial part of human rights protection, saying that everyone must go through the process equally and face the consequences if they are found guilty of wrongdoing, regardless of their social status.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001632-justice-is-for-all-rich-or-poor-says-prayut/