Midweek rant: Thai culture is one thing – politeness quite another

 

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If I walked up to one of those dolly bird university girls in the street and snapped her picture or started making a video there would be trouble.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004308-midweek-rant-thai-culture-is-one-thing-–-politeness-quite-another/

 

Buriram man has high hopes of getting first prize in lottery back after tickets were stolen

 

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A Buriram man who had his two first prize tickets for the national lottery stolen from his house before he could claim the money still hopes to get his hands on the 12 million baht.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004310-buriram-man-has-high-hopes-of-getting-first-prize-in-lottery-back after-tickets-were-stolen/

 

Locals step up to help after Phitsanulok school suffers staff crisis!

 

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A small school in Phitsanulok in northern Thailand has lost nearly all its teaching staff because of compulsory retirement.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004311-locals-step-up-to-help-after-phitsanulok-school-suffers-staff-crisis/

She's welcome to punch our ticket anytime! Social media in meltdown over sexy conductress

 

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Thai social media - and especially Thai guys - went into collective meltdown when pictures emerged of a stunning bus conductress.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004312-shes-welcome-to-punch-our-ticket-anytime-social-media-in-meltdown over-sexy-conductress/

 

"Smart Zebra Crossing" coming to Hua Hin - but will drivers be smart enough to stop?

 

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HUA HIN: -- What is billed as a first of its kind in Thailand is soon to make its debut in front of a downtown Hua Hin market.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004313-smart-zebra-crossing-coming-to-hua-hin-but-will-drivers-be-smart enough-to-stop/

 

Yingluck’s location ‘known’

By WASAMON AUDJARINT 
THE NATION

 

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Prayut promises details revealed after verdict reading, but doubts extradition

PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday said he knew the whereabouts of fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra although there was a slim chance she could be extradited.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004315-yingluck’s-location-‘known’/

 

Premier’s US itinerary confirmed amid human-rights concerns affecting Thailand

By WASAMON AUDJARINT 
THE NATION

 

 

PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha’s visit to the United States from next Monday to Wednesday will be carried out to accomplish bilateral goals amid high tension in the Korean peninsula as well as concerns among human rights activists that the visit will indicate US support for Thailand’s undemocratic junta regime.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004316-premier’s-us-itinerary-confirmed-amid-human-rights-concerns-affecting-thailand/

 

Pongporn returns as NBO head after row

By THE NATION

 

Pol Lt-Colonel Pongporn Pramsneh

 

Chief reinstated to Buddhism office as temple corruption probe continues.

AFTER WEEKS of resistance and widespread rumours, Pol Lt-Colonel Pongporn Pramsneh has been reinstalled as chief of the National Buddhism Office (NBO).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004317-pongporn-returns-as-nbo-head-after-row/

 

Minister firm on tax waiver 

By   THE NATION 

 

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FINANCE MINISTER Apisak Tantivorawong has insisted on waiving withholding tax levied on interest-based income in an excess of Bt20,000 on concerns over the possible impact on depositors, according to Revenue Department director-general Prasong Poontaneat.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004319-thai-finance-minister-firm on-tax-waiver /

 

PM chairs inaugural meeting of national strategy committee

By The Nation 

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha called and chaired the first meeting of the national strategy committee on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004320-pm-prayut-chairs-inaugural-meeting-of-national-strategy-committee/

 

OPINION

Advice to Prayut for US trip: Walk tall

By Tulsathit Taptim 
The Nation

 

Barring a last-minute cancellation, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will be going to Washington. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004321-advice-to-prayut-for-us-trip-walk-tall/

 

EDITORIAL

A hate-filled monk silenced, not the hate

By The Nation

 

Apichart claims to be a changed man, but the intolerance he represented is deep-rooted

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004322-a-hate-filled-monk-silenced-not-the-hate/

 

New police vehicles found with defects

By Chalarntorn Yothasmutra

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda, the police chief, has ordered concerned authorities to check 7,000 newly-acquired patrol cars for use in the police service after several defects and mistakes have been found on them.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004324-new-police-vehicles-found-with-defects/

 

Split opinions on whether helpers of Yingluck’s escape are criminally liable

By Chalarntorn Yothasmutra

 

 

BANGKOK: -- With former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s judgement day due tomorrow (Wednesday), the question about whether the policemen who helped arrange for her escape are criminally liable or not remains hotly debated with opinions split into two camps.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004325-split-opinions-on-whether-helpers-of-yingluck’s-escape-are-criminally-liable/

 

Bangkok Named Most Popular City For International Tourists In 2017

Alexandra Talty , CONTRIBUTOR

 

For the second year in a row, Bangkok is ready to be the world's top tourism destination.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004326-bangkok-named-most-popular-city-for-international-tourists-in-2017/

 

Coronation Street icon Liz Dawn, best known as Vera Duckworth, dies aged 77

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Coronation Street legend Liz Dawn, best known for playing the iconic Vera Duckworth, has died aged 77, it has been confirmed by her family.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004327-coronation-street-icon-liz-dawn-best-known-as-vera-duckworth-dies-aged 77/

 

Trump: military option for North Korea not preferred, but would be 'devastating'

By Steve Holland and Idrees Ali

 

A combination photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump in New York, U.S. September 21, 2017 and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, September 4, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque, KCNA/Handout via REUTERS/Files

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump warned North Korea on Tuesday that any U.S. military option would be "devastating" for Pyongyang, but said the use of force was not Washington's first option to deal with the country's ballistic and nuclear weapons programme.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004328-trump-military-option-for-north-korea-not-preferred-but-would-be-devastating/

 

Iraqi Kurdish leader says 'yes' vote won independence referendum

By Maher Chmaytelli and Ahmed Rasheed

 

Iraqi Kurdish president Masoud Barzani speaks during a news conference in Erbil, Iraq September 24, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

 

BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said on Tuesday that Kurds had voted "yes" to independence in a referendum held in defiance of the government in Baghdad and which had angered their neighbours and their U.S. allies.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004329-iraqi-kurdish-leader-says-yes-vote-won-independence-referendum/

 

Republicans fail again to kill off Obamacare in U.S. Senate

By Susan Cornwell

 

Another Republican attempt to dismantle Obamacare collapsed in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday as the party was unable to win enough support from its own senators for a bill to repeal the healthcare reform law.

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans on Tuesday fell short yet again in their seven-year drive to repeal Obamacare, in a bitter defeat that raises more questions about their ability to enact President Donald Trump's agenda.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004330-republicans-fail-again-to-kill-off-obamacare-in-us-senate/

 

Singaporean blogger released after winning U.S. ruling for asylum

By Chris Kenning

 

FILE PHOTO: Teen blogger Amos Yee arrives at the State Courts in Singapore September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

 

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A young Singaporean blogger who says he was persecuted for his political opinions in the Southeast Asian country was released on Tuesday from U.S. detention in Chicago after a federal immigration panel ruled in his favour.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004331-singaporean-blogger-released-after-winning-us-ruling-for-asylum/

 

Saudi king decrees women be allowed to drive

By Stephen Kalin and Yara Bayoumy

 

Saudi women wait for a car to arrive in Riyadh in this June 9, 2005 file photo. REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim/Files

 

RIYADH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi King Salman on Tuesday ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, ending a conservative tradition seen by rights activists as an emblem of the Islamic kingdom's repression of women.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004332-saudi-king-decrees-women-be-allowed-to-drive/

 

Temple teacher denies everything despite plenty of evidence

 

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LAMPHUN: -- An angry parent went to the police to complain that a temple school teacher abused her child and others by whacking them on the bottom.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004337-temple-teacher-denies-everything-despite-plenty-of-evidence/

 

Tragedy as maid's four year old daughter falls six floors to her death in Songkhla

 

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SONGKHLA: -- A maid who left her four year daughter to sleep in a storage room on the sixth floor must face a lifetime of regret after her child fell to her death yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004338-tragedy-as-maids-four-year-old-daughter-falls-six-floors-to-her-death-in-songkhla/

 

 

Samui braces for Chinese tourist invasion for National Day this weekend

 

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SAMUI: -- Tourism officials in Koh Samui said that Chinese people would be visiting the island in droves over the next seven days around the National Day of October 1st.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004339-samui-braces-for-chinese-tourist-invasion-for-national-day-this-weekend/

 

UPDATE:

 

World champ boxer made to do push up punishment on his first day as a cop!

 

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SISAKET: -- The Thai World Champion boxer who has joined the police force was made to do ten push ups as punishment for an infringement of the rules on his first day as a cop.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004164-boxing-world-champ-turns-cop-in-sisaket/?do=findComment&comment=12307391

 

Brexit negotiations not ready for next stage yet - EU's Tusk

 

Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, speaks to journalists outside 10 Downing Street after meeting Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, in London, September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Sufficient progress has not yet been made in Brexit talks to allow negotiations to move to the next phase of discussing the future relationship including trade, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004341-brexit-negotiations-not-ready-for-next-stage-yet-eus-tusk/

 

Pattaya mayor upbeat as improvements to Bali Hai port expected to be ready on time for show

 

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Pattaya Mayor Anan Charoenchasri was all smiles yesterday as he announced that landscaping and building for the marine park and other infrastructure at Bali Hai in South Pattaya was on schedule.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004342-pattaya-mayor-upbeat-as-improvements-to-bali-hai-port-expected-to-be ready-on-time-for-show/

 

North Korea's bark may be worse than bite in threat to shoot down U.S. bombers

By Christine Kim and David Brunnstrom

 

FILE PHOTO - Japan's Self-Defense Forces F-15 fighter jets (top and bottom) conduct an air exercise with U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flying from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in the skies above the East China Sea, Japan, in this photo released by the Air Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan September 9, 2017. Air Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan/HANDOUT via REUTERS

 

SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has threatened to shoot down U.S. bombers flying near the Korean peninsula, but it would have difficulty matching its words with action given aging air defence systems mostly dating to the Cold War, military experts said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004343-north-koreas-bark-may-be-worse-than-bite-in-threat-to-shoot-down-us-bombers/

 

Verdict due in trial of Thailand's missing ex-PM Yingluck

By Aukkarapon Niyomyat

 

FILE PHOTO: Ousted former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra greets supporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, August 1, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Supreme Court is expected to deliver a verdict on Wednesday in a negligence trial involving former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled abroad last month fearing that the military government would seek a harsh sentence.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004345-verdict-due-in-trial-of-thailands-missing-ex-pm-yingluck/

 

Brother of Democrat ex-MP found dead in car

By The Nation

 

An elder brother of former Democrat MP Charnchai Isarasenarak was found dead in his car at a petrol station in Pathum Thani province on Tuesday night, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004346-brother-of-democrat-ex-mp-found-dead-in-car-at-a-petrol-station-in-pathum-thani/