Swiss man rolled by lady boy after Walking Street romp

 

 

A Swiss man who took a lady boy to his Walking Street room lost his credit card and more than 50,000 baht.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002832-swiss-man-rolled-by-lady-boy-after-walking-street-romp/

Police search for foreigners caught having ‘sex’ on Rayong bridge

By The Nation

 

 

Police are hunting for a foreign couple after it is believed they had sex on a pedestrian bridge in Rayong’s Wang Chan district on Sunday afternoon.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002810-police-search-for-foreigners-caught-having-‘sex’-on-rayong-bridge/

Bangkok cops promise to go after foul mouthed mother and son for insulting the police

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- The head of the Thung Mahamek Station in Bangkok has promised to go after a foul mouthed mother and her son for insulting his men.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002860-bangkok-cops-promise-to-go-after-foul-mouthed-mother-and-son for-insulting-the-police/

 

Fake 1000 baht notes: Pattaya police arrest three eastern Europeans

 

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

PATTAYA: -- Pattaya's chief of police yesterday announced the arrest of three eastern European men.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002861-fake-1000-baht-notes-pattaya-police-arrest-three-eastern-europeans/

 

Car transport on boats across the Gulf set to become a reality

 

Picture: TNews

 

SATTAHIP: -- The new ferry terminal to be built at Juk Samet port in Sattahip will be able to handle boats that can transport cars across the Gulf of Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002862-car-transport-on-boats-across-the-gulf-set-to-become-a-reality/

 

NACC urged to reopen case against Abhisit and Suthep

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Relatives of some of the people killed in the 2010 red-shirt crackdown submitted a complaint letter on Monday to the Office of the Attorney-General, urging the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to investigate the case of malfeasance against former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy Suthep Thaugsuban in connection with the incident.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002863-nacc-urged-to-reopen-case-against-abhisit-and-suthep/

 

UPDATE:

 

Auditor-General sets deadline for Bt350m airship investigation

By The Nation

 

Photo from Srisuwan Janya's facebook

 

The Office of the Auditor-General will take 30 days to investigate a complaint, which asked the agency to investigate the purchase of a Bt350-million airship, Auditor-General Pisit Leelavachiropas said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002814-call-for-inquiry-into-bt30m-blimp/?do=findComment&comment=12283426

 

Prayut reaches out to Central residents

By THE NATION

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha rides a tractor planting rice during his visit to the Thailand Rice Science Institute in Suphan Buri yesterday.

 

PM makes first visit to local politicians during trip to provinces.

 

FROM PLANTING RICE and meditating to lecturing citizens about elections, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha kept busy during the first day of his field visit to Suphan Buri and Ayutthaya yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002864-prayut-reaches-out-to-central-residents/

 

DSI criticised over suspects linked to Panthongtae case

By THE NATION

 

 

Activist Veera claims discriminatory prosecution, with 200 recipients in money-laundering scandal.

 

AN ANTI-GRAFT network has petitioned the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to take legal action against everyone involved in money-laundering cases in connection with the state-owned Krungthai Bank’s multi-billion-baht fraudulent loans, in which Panthongtae Shinawatra is a high-profile suspect.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002865-dsi-criticised-over-suspects-linked-to-panthongtae-case/

 

Schoolgirl, 9, sent for rehabilitation as two motorcycle taxi drivers arrested on repeated sexual assault charges

By SURACHAI PIRAKSA 
THE NATION

 

 

BURI RAM: -- A NINE-YEAR-OLD Buri Ram schoolgirl, who allegedly was sexually molested for nearly two years by two motorcycle taxi drivers, was admitted to a rehabilitation programme yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002866-schoolgirl-9-sent-for-rehabilitation-as-two-motorcycle-taxi-drivers-arrested-on-repeated-sexual-assault-charges/

 

Warnings about past mistakes amid lack of detail in Chao Phraya Basin water plan

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE GOVERNMENT should carefully study water-management plans and allow local people to get involved in projects’ review and planning processes, academics have said, warning that otherwise the projects would result in the same problems that troubled previous governments.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002867-warnings-about-past-mistakes-amid-lack-of-detail-in-chao-phraya-basin-water-plan/

 

Forum seeks ways to help nation’s ‘lost’ children

By CHULEEPORN ARAMNET 
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- MORE THAN 3 million vulnerable children in Thailand are waiting for help and support.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002869-forum-seeks-ways-to-help-nation’s-‘lost’-children/

 

Majority want to see election by Sept 2018: Super Poll

By Thai PBS

 

 

PATTAYA: -- A majority of people want the next election to be held in not later than September next year and the Democrat Party is for the time-being their favourite, according to the result of an opinion survey by the Super Poll research centre.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002870-majority-of-people-want-to-see-election-by-sept-2018-super-poll/

Rice Department pushes for complete rice monitoring project

 

 

SUPHAN BURI, 19 September 2017, (NNT) - The Rice Department has revealed its key projects ahead of the mobile cabinet meeting, showcasing a system to supervise the entire process of rice production, the development of rice strains that suit agriculturalists' needs and the construction of rice fields to be featured at the Royal Funeral of His Majesty the Late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. 

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002873-rice-department-pushes-for-complete-rice-monitoring-project/

 

'Disaster looms,' says head of UK's anti-Brexit party

By William James

 

Vince Cable, the leader of Britain's Liberal Democrat Party, appears on the BBC's Marr Show in London, September 17, 2017. Jeff Overs/BBC handout via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Liberal Democrats are to set out on Tuesday their plan to stop Brexit, with party leader Vince Cable appealing to opponents in all parties to put aside "tribal differences" and fight a divorce from the European Union.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002875-disaster-looms-says-head-of-uks-anti-brexit-party/

 

Mattis hints at military options on North Korea but offers no details

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

 

U.S. Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis gives a news conference after a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Vidal

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hinted on Monday about the existence of military options on North Korea that might spare Seoul from a brutal counterattack but declined to say what kind of options he was talking about or whether they involved the use of lethal force.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002876-mattis-hints-at-military-options-on-north-korea-but-offers-no-details/

 

Putin watches as Russia intensifies war games that have rattled West

By Andrew Osborn

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd L) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) watch the Zapad-2017 war games, held by Russian and Belarussian servicemen, at a military training ground in the Leningrad region, Russia September 18, 2017. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin observed Russia's biggest war games in years on Monday, watching as his forces successfully repelled an imaginary enemy and launched a tank-led counter offensive, part of an exercise that has rattled the West.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002877-putin-watches-as-russia-intensifies-war-games-that-have-rattled-west/

 

Bangkok named Best Asia-Pacific Leisure Destination

Travel log 

 

Photo: Tourism Authority of Thailand

 

Bangkok wins big at the Business Traveller Awards once again

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002878-bangkok-named-best-asia-pacific-leisure-destination/

 

Trump praises Macron, considers July 4 military parade like one he saw in Paris

 

U.S. President Donald Trump meets French President Emmanuel Macron in New York, U.S., September 18, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, offering more words of praise for French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, said on Monday he was considering staging a July 4 U.S. military parade in Washington inspired by the one he saw as Macron's guest in Paris.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002879-trump-praises-macron-considers-july-4-military-parade-like-one-he-saw-in-paris/

 

U.S. lawmaker wants North Korea out of the U.N

By Patricia Zengerle

 

Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate's East Asia subcommittee is asking China and 20 other nations on Monday to clamp down on North Korea by cutting ties, closing down diplomatic facilities and working to oust the country from the United Nations.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002881-us-lawmaker-wants-north-korea-out-of-the-un/

 

British expats face 'cliff edge' in pensions and insurance after Brexit

 

Minister calls for urgent action to ensure British pensioners in EU do not find payments stopped after Brexit

 

Julia Kollewe

 

LONDON: -- The chair of an influential parliamentary committee is calling for urgent action to ensure that British pensioners living in Spain or other EU countries do not find their payments stopped after Britain leaves the EU in 2019.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002886-british-expats-face-cliff-edge-in-pensions-and-insurance-after-brexit/

 

U.S. Senate backs massive increase in military spending

By Patricia Zengerle

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis leaves a news conference after a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Vidal/File Phot

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed its version of a $700 billion defence policy bill on Monday, backing President Donald Trump's call for a bigger, stronger military but setting the stage for a battle over government spending levels later this year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002888-us-senate-backs-massive-increase-in-military-spending/

 

U.S. Democrats urge full review before Senate vote on latest Obamacare attack

By Susan Cornwell

 

(L-R) U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA); Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Dean Heller (R-NV), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and former Senator Rick Santorum hold a joint news conference on "the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson proposal to reform healthcare" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress on Monday demanded that lawmakers wait to find out the budgetary and healthcare impacts of a new, last-ditch legislative effort by Republicans to repeal Obamacare before voting on it.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002889-us-democrats-urge-full-review-before-senate-vote-on-latest-obamacare-attack/

 

NACC must conclude probes within two years under draft bill: Meechai

By The Nation

 

Meechai Ruchuphan

 

BANGKOK: -- The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) will be required to complete its investigations within two years under the coming anti-graft bill, Constitution Drafting Commission chairman Meechai Ruchuphan said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002890-nacc-must-conclude-probes-within-two-years-under-draft-bill-meechai/

 

Flip-flops on aircraft? If foreigners can why can't we, moans Thai passenger

 

Image: video screenshot

 

BANGKOK: -- A Thai passenger went online to complain that they had to change their footwear after being denied boarding on Thai Airways.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002893-flip-flops-on-aircraft-if-foreigners-can-why-cant-we-moans-thai-passenger/

 

Banks mull AI interaction with clients within 3 years

By SPECIAL TO THE NATION

 

Nontawat Poomchusri, country managing director of Accenture in Thailand.

 

IN THE NEXT stage of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, banks will use AI to help understand the intentions and emotions of customers and enable better interactions.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002897-banks-mull-ai-interaction-with-clients-within-3-years/

 

UPDATE:

 

Foul-mouthed mother and son facing insult charges say a big sorry to Bangkok cops

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- The mother and son caught on tape swearing at police yesterday went to apologize in the evening to Thung Mahamek cops.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002860-bangkok-cops-promise-to-go-after-foul-mouthed-mother-and-son for-insulting-the-police/?do=findComment&comment=12283954

Phuket’s monkeys being moved to their own island

 

Phuket's monkey populations have suffered from human interaction as tourism and population growth have merged with their previous habitats.

 

By Nattha Thepbamrung and Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

  

PHUKET: -- A meeting yesterday (September 18) between Phuket’s Governor and wildlife officials discussed the management of Phuket’s monkeys.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002903-phuket’s-monkeys-being-moved-to-their-own-island/

Irresponsible Thai parents slammed: Why have kids if you can't teach them right from wrong?

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- The online community turned on a mother and father who refused to take responsibility for the actions of their little kid.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002905-irresponsible-thai-parents-slammed-why-have-kids-if-you-cant-teach them-right-from-wrong/

Mob murders man at Bangkok housing estate

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- A man was hacked and stabbed to death by a mob at a Bangkok housing estate early Tuesday morning following a long feud, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1002907-mob-murders-man-at-bangkok-housing-estate/