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Extradition documents ready to return Vorayuth to Thailand

By THE NATION

 

File photo : Vorayuth

 

THE FORMAL documents to extradite fugitive Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya have been completed and the process to return him to Thailand to face charges of reckless driving causing death will begin immediately after he is found, a senior official said yesterday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002029-extradition-documents-ready-to-return-vorayuth-to-thailand/

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Farmer Recounts How Serial Bride Made Off With His Money, Truck and Heart

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

Jariyaporn ‘Nammon’ Buayai on Friday is led to a police news conference.

 

PHETCHABUN — Looking back, farmer Pairat Pungsook realized something wasn’t quite right with his wedding.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002036-farmer-recounts-how-serial-bride-made-off-with-his-money-truck-and-heart/

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"Toothless cowards who attack women" - British bar owner hits out at bike gang who hurt his wife and trashed his bar in Surin

 

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SURIN: -- The British bar owner in Surin who was intimidated by a biker gang has called the men thugs and toothless cowards who attack women.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002064-toothless-cowards-who-attack-women-british-bar-owner-hits-out-at bike-gang-who-hurt-his-wife-and-trashed-his-bar-in-surin/

 

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Dolphins saved - Pattaya decides to keep iconic "landmark" roundabout

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

PATTAYA: -- In a dramatic U-turn the Pattaya authorities have decided to save the dolphins!

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002065-dolphins-saved-pattaya-decides-to-keep-iconic-landmark-roundabout/

 

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Man wanted for murder in Japan ten years ago turns out to be local government official in Chiang Rai

 

Picture: Sanook

 

CHIANG RAI: -- A man wanted for the robbery/murder of a Thai man and woman in Japan has been located in Thailand after hiding out for ten years.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002067-man-wanted-for-murder-in-japan-ten-years-ago-turns-out-to-be-local government-official-in-chiang-rai/

 

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Forex fraudster responsible for 4 million baht con rounded up in Bangkok

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- Officers from the Crime Suppression Division swooped in Bangkok yesterday arresting an alleged internet fraudster who conned Forex hopefuls out of 4 million baht.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002068-forex-fraudster-responsible-for-4-million-baht-con-rounded-up-in-bangkok/

 

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What price safety? Thai government in dangerous U-turn on passenger safety

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- In a move that is bound to anger the travelling public the communications ministry has done what amounts to a dangerous U-turn on safety.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002069-what-price-safety-thai-government-in-dangerous-u-turn-on-passenger-safety/

 

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Panthongtae faces legal action

By THE NATION

 

File photo: Thaksin and Panthongtae

 

BANGKOK: -- AMLO files complaint against Thaksin’s son over Bt10m money-laundering case, despite official claiming lack of evidence.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002071-panthongtae-shinawatra-faces-legal-action/

 

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Yingluck cleared over 2011 flooding

By The Nation

 

File photo: Bangkok flooding in 2011

 

BANGKOK: -- THE National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) yesterday has dropped a dereliction of duty charge against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra over her handling of the major flooding in 2011, NACC president Pol General Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002072-yingluck-cleared-over-2011-flooding/

 

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Consumers are key to end trafficking in wildlife, says Surasak

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION

 

A file photo shows the confiscated |carcasses of tigers and leopards seized during an operation against wildlife trafficking. // Photo Credit: Ryan Moehring / USFWS

 

BANGKOK: -- International collaboration and public support was needed to defeat wildlife trafficking, Natural Resources and Environment Minister General Surasak Kanjanarat said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002074-consumers-are-key-to-end-trafficking-in-wildlife-says-surasak/

 

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Khon Kaen ‘water war’ fear

By JITIMA JANPROM 
THE NATION

 

Concern as factory owned by Red Bull moves to lease more land.

KHON KAEN: -- CONCERNS ARE growing that a dispute over water will erupt in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen after a factory owned by Red Bull becomes operational. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002075-khon-kaen-‘water-war’-fear/

 

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Ex-engineer convicted for possessing bomb materials

By Kesinee Tangkhieo 
The Nation

 

File photo: Wattana Pummares

 

BANGKOK: -- The Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced a former engineer, who is also an accused in the Phramongkutklao Hospital bomb attack case, to four years in jail for assembling and possessing explosives and bomb-making materials without permission.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002076-ex-engineer-convicted-for-possessing-bomb-materials/

 

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Bt300,000 stolen as ATM blown up in an ‘unprecedented’ attack

By THE NATION

 

Explosive Ordnance Disposal officials inspect the damage to an ATM after an explosion near a Lotus Express convenience store in Soi Krungthep Kreetha 35, Saphan Sung district, in the early hours of yesterday.

 

BANGKOK: -- A THIEF who blasted open an ATM in Bangkok’s Saphan Sung district in the early hours of yesterday made off with Bt314,100 in cash, Metropolitan Police chief Pol Lt-General Sanit Mahathavorn said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1001942-thief-blasts-open-atm-machine-in-bangkok-to-rob-cash/?do=findComment&comment=12268857

 

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Govt expects Bt500bn Japanese investment in EEC

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Industry Minister Uttama Savanayana said on Wednesday that he expects new investment from Japanese investors in the first five years of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) development project to be at least Bt500 billion.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002077-thai-govt-expects-bt500bn-japanese-investment-in-eec/

 

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King Rama IX Grand Royal crematorium to finish in time

By PHATARAWADEE PHATARANAWIK 
THE NATION

 

The construction of the elaborate Royal Crematorium for His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej are now nearly complete. The Royal Cremation Ceremonies will be held from October 25 to October 29.

 

THE grandest-ever Royal crematorium for the late HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej will be finished by September 30 in time for HM King Maha Vajiralongkorn to install the top of the nine-spired funeral pyre on October 18, marking the official end of construction.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980183-royal-cremation-of-the-late-king-bhumibol-adulyadej-is-set-on-october-26/?do=findComment&comment=12268885

 

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Phitsanulok official faints and dies after presenting report to governor

By Thai PBS

 

 

Dozens of officials attending a meeting on garbage management chaired by the Phitsanulok governor were shocked when one of them fainted after delivering a briefing to the governor and eventually died.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002079-phitsanulok-official-faints-and-dies-after-presenting-report-to-governor/

 

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Criminal probe opens into 8 deaths at Florida nursing home after Irma

By Andrew Innerarity

 

Eight people are dead at a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida after Hurricane Irma knocked out power at the facility.

 

HOLLYWOOD, Fla./SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Police on Wednesday opened a criminal investigation into the deaths of eight elderly patients inside a stifling South Florida nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Irma.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002080-criminal-probe-opens-into-8-deaths-at-florida-nursing-home-after-irma/

 

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Nein danke! Merkel spurns challenger's TV duel re-run offer

By Paul Carrel

 

FILE PHOTO: A screen that shows the TV debate between German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and her challenger Germany's Social Democratic Party SPD candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz in Berlin, Germany, September 3, 2017. Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland (MG RTL D)/Handout via REUTERS

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Firmly on course for re-election, Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday spurned her rival's request for a re-run of a head-to-head television debate in which he failed to dent her opinion poll lead.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002081-nein-danke-merkel-spurns-challengers-tv-duel-re-run-offer/

 

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Fearing Russia, Sweden holds biggest war games in 20 years

By Johan Ahlander

 

Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, Micael Byden, talks with U.S. soldiers during the joint NATO exercise 'Aurora 17' at Save airfield in Goteborg, Sweden September 13, 2017. Henrik Brunnsgard/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

 

GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) - Neutral Sweden has launched its biggest war games in two decades with support from NATO countries, drilling 19,000 troops after years of spending cuts that have left the country fearful of Russia's growing military strength.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002082-fearing-russia-sweden-holds-biggest-war-games-in-20-years/

 

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U.S. will not issue some visas in four nations in deportation crackdown

By Arshad Mohammed and Yeganeh Torbati

 

FILE PHOTO: International passengers arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport after the U.S. Supreme Court granted parts of the Trump administration's emergency request to put its travel ban into effect later in the week pending further judicial review, in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., June 26, 2017. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan/Files

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday will stop issuing certain kinds of visas to some citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone because the nations are not taking back their citizens the United States wants to deport.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002083-us-will-not-issue-some-visas-in-four-nations-in-deportation-crackdown/

 

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U.N. chief, Security Council call on Myanmar to end violence

By Michelle Nichols

 

U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he would not support a resolution targeting Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the treatment of the country's Rohingya Muslims.

 

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar authorities to end violence against the majority-Buddhist country's Rohingya Muslims that has forced some 400,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002084-un-chief-security-council-call-on-myanmar-to-end-violence/

 

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Student opens fire at Washington state school, killing classmate

By Dan Whitcomb

 

(Reuters) - A student carrying two guns opened fire at his high school near Spokane, Washington on Wednesday, killing one classmate and injuring three others before he was apprehended by a staff member, the local sheriff said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002085-student-opens-fire-at-washington-state-school-killing-classmate/

 

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EDITORIAL

Let’s see the junta’s exit strategy

By The Nation

 

Bhichai is in a sharing mood, but Thailand will make no progress until democratic institutions are restored

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002086-let’s-see-the-junta’s-exit-strategy/

 

 

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Top Thai mobile operator to buy Internet provider

BY REUTERS

 

Image: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s largest telecommunications Advanced Info Service Pcl (AIS) plans to spend 2.6 billion baht ($78.57 million) to buy 56 percent of Internet service provider CS Loxinfo, further advancing its Internet broadband coverage.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/top-thai-mobile-operator-buy-internet-provider/24253/

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Trump administration orders purge of Kaspersky products from U.S. government

BY REUTERS 

 

REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Wednesday told U.S. government agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab products from their networks, saying it was concerned the Moscow-based cyber security firm was vulnerable to Kremlin influence and that using its anti-virus software could jeopardise national security.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/trump-administration-orders-purge-kaspersky-products-u-s-government/24251/

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'Sopranos' and 'Casino' actor Frank Vincent dead at 78

By Rebecca Rubin Variety

 

Actors Vincent Pastore, left, and Frank Vincent point at the photographers as they arrive for the fifth season premiere of the HBO series "The Sopranos," in New York March 2, 2004. Frank Vincent has died at age 78, Pastore announced Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (Reuters)

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002093-sopranos-actor-frank-vincent-dead-at-78/

 

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Rape cases fuel anti-migrant angst in Italy ahead of election

By Crispian Balmer

 

Northern League's leader Matteo Salvini answers journalists questions during a news conference in Milan, Italy, June 26, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

 

ROME (Reuters) - Rape allegations levelled against foreigners are fuelling anti-immigrant sentiment in Italy ahead of elections due early next year, when migration is likely to top the political agenda.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002096-rape-cases-fuel-anti-migrant-angst-in-italy-ahead-of-election/

 

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BREAKING

Fire kills at least 25 at religious school in Malaysian capital

 

Police and fire department work at the religious school Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah after a fire broke out in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia September 14, 2017. REUTERS/A. Ananthalakshmi

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A fire at an Islamic boarding school killed at least 25 people, most of them students, in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur after breaking out in a dormitory early on Thursday morning, officials said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002099-fire-kills-at-least-25-at-religious-school-in malaysian-capital-officials/

 

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Stiebel Eltron launches new strategy from Phuket

The Phuket News

 

Stiebel Eltron Asia Managing Director Roland Hoehn (left) and Sales and Marketing Director Panlob Chieocharnwittayawet (right).

 

PHUKET: -- Stiebel Eltron, the country’s leading manufacturer of water heaters, water filters and hand dryers, yesterday (Sept 13) in Phuket launched a campaign looking to increase new sales channels throughout Southern Thailand.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002102-stiebel-eltron-launches-new-strategy-from-phuket/

 

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Trump says rich might pay more in taxes, talks with Democrats

By Steve Holland and David Morgan

 

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with a bipartisan group of members of Congress, including U.S. Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) (L) and Representative Tom Reed (R-NY) (R), at the White House in Washington, U.S. September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that taxes on rich Americans might rise, as he pursues a tax code overhaul and reaches out to both Democrats and Republicans in a push to win support for a plan still far from complete.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002104-trump-says-rich-might-pay-more-in-taxes-talks-with-democrats/