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Australia kicks off weeks-long same-sex marriage ballot

By Colin Packham

 

People participate in a march for marriage equality of same-sex couples in Sydney, Australia, September 10, 2017. REUTERS/Steven Saphore

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Tuesday launched a postal vote on whether to legalise same-sex marriage as a widely watched poll indicated the country would be overwhelmingly in support.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001786-australia-kicks-off-weeks-long-same-sex-marriage-ballot/

 

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Alleged drug boss arrested 

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Police have seized 100,000 methamphetamine pills from an alleged drug boss.
 

Metropolitan Police Bureau Commissioner Lt-General Sanit Mahathavorn told a press conference on Tuesday that the seizure of the meth pills and 23 grams of marijuana as well as Bt800,000 made the case against Kessaya Thepmorya, 30, stronger.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001788-alleged-drug-boss-arrested in-bangkok/

 

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Tip-off leads to arrest of Thai driver, four undocumented Cambodians

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- A 38-year-old man was arrested in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district on Tuesday morning for transporting four undocumented workers from Cambodia towards Bangkok. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001789-tip-off-leads-to-arrest-of-thai-driver-four-undocumented-cambodians/

 

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Thai tourists warned of Dutch ban on Ya Hom powder 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Foreign Ministry has warned Thais travelling to Netherlands not to carry a traditional Chinese medicinal powder with them as it has ingredients banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001790-thai-tourists-warned-of-dutch-ban-on-ya-hom-powder /

 

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Anupong vows to scrap approval of land use and punish responsible officials 

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Interior Minister Anupong Paochinda assured on Tuesday  (Sept 12) he was ready to scrap a ministry’s order allowing a private company to utilise a community forest for the production of drinking water, and non-alcoholic drinks in Khon Kaen province if there is even one villager protesting  the project.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001791-anupong-vows-to-scrap-approval-of-land-use-and-punish-responsible-officials/

 

 

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UPDATE:

 

Ministry: No One Opposed Granting Public Land To Red Bull

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen, Staff Reporter

 

  

The disputed area where a Red Bull plant can be seen under construction Monday in Khon Kaen province.

 

BANGKOK — The Interior Ministry said Tuesday it would revoke a public land concession granted last year to energy drink maker Red Bull – provided a single local resident could be found who had opposed it.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001791-anupong-vows-to-scrap-approval-of-land-use-and-punish-responsible-officials/?do=findComment&comment=12263873

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17 year old using BB gun to rob locals and tourists

 

The 17 years old confessed that he had robbed people in Phuket town and Kathu area 4-5 times after taking Alprazolam (Xanax).

 

By Nattha Thepbamrung and Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

  

PHUKET: -- Last night (September 11), Phuket police arrested a 17 year old from Had Yai, Songkhla, in Soi Hongyok-Utit, Phuket Town. He’d already committed 4 or 5 robberies and claimed that he robbed people after taking drugs.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001793-17-year-old-using-bb-gun-to-rob-locals-and-tourists-in-phuket/

 

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Yingluck’s whereabouts still unknown: Don 

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Nearly three weeks after Yingluck Shinawatra failed to show up in court to hear the verdict in the malfeasance case against her, authorities remain uncertain as to where the fugitive former premier might be.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001794-yingluck’s-whereabouts-still-unknown-don /

 

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Google has made it easier to see all the stuff it knows about you

BY JONATHAN FAIRFIELD 

 

 

Google is updating its Dashboard feature, making it easier for you to see all the data and information it knows about you.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/google-made-easier-see-stuff-knows/24208/

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Bizarre story of the day: Sex robot dolls could be programmed to kill you, expert warns

BY STAFF WRITER

 

REUTERS/Albert Gea

 

Is this how you’re going to die?

 

Sex robot dolls could be programmed to kill their owners if they are hacked, a cyber security expert has warned.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/bizarre-story-day-sex-robot-dolls-programmed-kill-experts-warn/24212/

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BMA prepares area beneath Phong Phraram Tollway for street vendors

 

BANGKOK, 12th September 2017 (NNT) - The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is setting up free vendor space beneath Phong Phraram Tollway in Pathum Wan district, to assist street hawkers displaced by the capital's cleanup program. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001796-bma-prepares-area-beneath-phong-phraram-tollway-for-street-vendors/

 

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Quest continues for details of Yingluck’s escape 

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Further information has to be sought about who facilitated Yingluck Shinawatra’s escape from justice and how many people assisted her, the National Security Council’s secretary-general General Thaweep Netniyom said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001797-quest-continues-for-details-of-yingluck’s-escape/

 

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Pets rescued from locked car in Lampang

By Pratheep Nanthaparp 
The Nation

 

 

Lampang rescue workers released a Siberian dog and 13 cats that were trapped in a locked car for about 10 hours on Tuesday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001798-pets-rescued-from-locked-car-in-lampang/

 

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Air Berlin cancels flights as pilots call in sick

 

 

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Insolvent Air Berlin <AB1.DE> said it has cancelled around 70 flights so far on Tuesday, affecting both its own operations and flights it carries out for Lufthansa's <LHAG.DE> Eurowings, after pilots called in sick in unusually high numbers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001803-air-berlin-cancels-flights-as-pilots-call-in-sick/

 

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China facing intensified threat of religious infiltration, extremism - official

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is facing heightened threats from foreign infiltration via religion and from the spread of extremism, a top official for religious affairs said on Tuesday, after strict new rules were passed to manage religious practice in the country.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001805-china-facing-intensified-threat-of-religious-infiltration-extremism-official/

 

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Carmakers face electric reality as combustion engine outlook dims

By Laurence Frost and Edward Taylor

 

 

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European car bosses gathering for the Frankfurt auto show are beginning to address the realities of mass vehicle electrification, and its consequences for jobs and profit, their minds focused by government pledges to outlaw the combustion engine.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001806-carmakers-face-electric-reality-as-combustion-engine-outlook-dims/

 

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U.N. says 370,000 flee Myanmar, exodus continuing

 

 

GENEVA (Reuters) - Violence in Myanmar has prompted 370,000 people belonging to the Muslim Rohingya minority to flee to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, up from a previous estimate of 313,000, the U.N. International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001807-un-says-370000-flee-myanmar-exodus-continuing/

 

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Macau's unused billions: booming casino taxes sit in government coffers

By Farah Master

 

 

MACAU (Reuters) - Over the past five years, Macau has raked in $70 billion in taxes from the casinos that have made the territory the largest gambling center in the world.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001808-macaus-unused-billions-booming-casino-taxes-sit-in-government-coffers/

 

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Interpol publishes Red Notice for arrest of Red Bull heir

 

 

The Interpol has published a Red Notice for the arrest of Red Bull scion Vorayuth Yoovidhya, a suspect in a hit-and-run case, at the request of the Royal Thai Police’s Foreign Affairs Division.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001775-latest-int’l-sighting-of-fugitive-red-bull-heir-is-on-interpol-wanted-notice…finally/?tab=comments#comment-12264097

 

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Bewildering Wild Mushrooms are Available in the Markets

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – Bewildering wild mushrooms and bamboo shoots continue to be sold in the local markets due to the recent continuous rains, increasing daily income for local vendors up to a thousand baht.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001828-bewildering-wild-mushrooms-are-available-in-the-markets/

 

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Burmese Man Dies Attempting to Trespass onto a Farm

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – A Burmese man died after being electrocuted when was trying to sneak onto a farm for fishing.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001830-burmese-man-dies-attempting-to-trespass-onto-a-farm/

 

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Army medical team gives free artificial limbs to disabled in deep South

By The Nation

 

A 13-member team from the Royal Thai Army Medical Department's Phramongkutklao Hospital is preparing to provide free artificial limbs to 100 disabled persons and has repaired another 99 artificial limbs in the deep South, as a merit for HM the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001832-army-medical-team-gives-free-artificial-limbs-to-disabled-in-deep-south/

 

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Good Samaritan returns lost wallet containing Bt31,000

By The Nation

 

A farmer and scavenger in Maha Sarakham's Muang district has returned a wallet containing Bt31,000 to a PhD student who lost it on a night out with friends and who needs the money to pay his tuition. 

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001833-good-samaritan-returns-lost-wallet-containing-bt31000/

 

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Student activists put Abhisit on the spot over 2010 crackdown

By The Nation 

 

 

Former PM and Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva was confronted on Tuesday by student activists questioning him about the deadly crackdown in 2010, as he was giving a lecture at Thammasat University.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001834-student-activists-put-abhisit-on-the-spot-over-2010-crackdown/

 

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Seven tour companies hit in Tourist Police Bureau crackdown

By Khanathit Srihirandej 
The Nation

 

 

The newly-appointed deputy chief of the Tourist Police Bureau (TPB), Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpan, has led a crackdown on seven tour companies that allegedly used unlicensed tour guides and red licence plate vehicles on their commercial services.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001837-seven-tour-companies-hit-in-tourist-police-bureau-crackdown/

 

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Apple set to unveil anniversary iPhone in major product launch

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

 

CUPERTINO, Calif. (Reuters) – A decade after then-CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, Apple Inc on Tuesday is set to introduce a completely redesigned top-of-the-line iPhone along with two other new phones, as well as a big upgrade to the Apple Watch and a higher-definition Apple TV.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/apple-set-unveil-anniversary-iphone-major-product-launch/24214/

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Dell ramps up sales push with new products

BY THE NATION

 

Dell Inspiron 7000 Series

 

DELL CORPORATION (Thailand) yesterday announced a plan to further expand its sales channel network coverage nationwide, boost online sales growth, and tap more provincial markets as part of its consumer business group’s growth strategy in the second half of this year.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/dell-ramps-sales-push-new-products/24217/

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Sorrayuth makes bail pending appeal

By The Nation

 

File photo: Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda

 

The Supreme Court approved bail requests for former famous TV news host Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda and his employee on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001840-sorrayuth-makes-bail-pending-appeal/

 

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PM urged to stop Temple of Dawn renovation

By Chakkawan Salethu 
The Nation

 

 

A petition has been presented to Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha urging him to halt the renovation of the stupa of the Temple of Dawn, also known as Phra Prang Wat Arun.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001841-pm-urged-to-stop-temple-of-dawn-renovation/