New organic act requires fugitive ex-PM to show up and risk arrest to appeal verdict

By KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION 

 

 

NEW LEGAL procedures for political office holders that come into effect today could reduce the chance that fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will launch an appeal.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004637-new-organic-act-requires-fugitive-ex-pm-to-show-up-and-risk-arrest-to-appeal-verdict/

Cambodian Court Convicts British Murder Suspect (in Pattaya) of Fraud

 

 

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced a British man suspected of involvement in the gangland-style slaying of another Briton in the Thai resort town of Pattaya to eight months in prison for fraud.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004625-cambodian-court-convicts-british-murder-suspect-in-pattaya-of-fraud/

Paetongtarn breaks silence after Yingluck’s sentence

By The Nation

 

 

A member of the Shinawatra clan on Thursday broke her silence via an Instagram message, saying: “If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth – politics.”

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004634-paetongtarn-breaks-silence-after-yingluck’s-sentence/

 

More media jumps on the filthy Pattaya beach bandwagon

 

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PATTAYA: -- Yet more Thai media is joining the growing chorus of voices to have something done about the filthy state of the beaches in Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004652-more-media-jumps-on-the-filthy-pattaya-beach-bandwagon/

 

Whopping dowry as six year old twins tie the knot in Trang

 

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A pair of six year old twins married in Trang yesterday according to ancient customs.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004653-whopping-dowry-as-six-year-old-twins-tie-the-knot-in-trang/

 

Phi Phi's iconic Maya Bay ordered off limits to tourists from June next year

 

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KRABI: -- Park officials have decided to close Phi Phi island's famous Maya Bay from June to September inclusive next year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004654-phi-phis-iconic-maya-bay-ordered-off-limits-to-tourists-from-june-next-year/

 

UPDATE:

 

Panthongtae’s lawyer again asks why Meechai not charged with money laundering

By The Nation

 

 

Panthongtae’s lawyer cites Meechai’s name in defence against money-laundering charge.

 

BANGKOK: -- The lawyer for Panthongtae Shinawatra, son of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, on Thursday renewed his call for the Department of Special Investigation to drop a money-laundering probe against his client by citing the name of Meechai Ruchuphan.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004586-panthongtae’s-lawyer-petitions-dsi-over-money-launcher-charges/?do=findComment&comment=12313731

 

Police search Yingluck’s house, seize belongings

By THE NATION

 

 

JUNTA SAYS FUGITIVE EX-PM IN DUBAI AND UAE HAS ASSURED SHE’LL BE ASKED TO AVOID POLITICS

POLICE YESTERDAY searched the residence of convicted former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra who, junta leaders claimed, was in Dubai where she would keep a low profile.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004656-police-search-yingluck’s-house-seize-belongings/

 

NBTC awards Bt13 billion contracts to narrow digital divide

By SIRIVISH TOOMGUM 
THE NATION

 

 

THE National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) yesterday signed eight contracts worth Bt12.989 billion with five winners of its recent e-auction to provide a low-fee fixed broadband Internet service, as well as a cellular service, to 3,920 border villages.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004657-nbtc-awards-bt13-billion-contracts-to-narrow-digital-divide/

 

Cannibal couple sold human meat pies

BY BRAD HUNTER, TORONTO SUN

 

Image: source Internet 

 

MOSCOW: -- The Russian cannibal couple accused of murdering — then eating — 30 people served up some of their victims in human meat pies.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004658-russian-cannibal-couple-sold-human-meat-pies/

 

EDITORIAL

Coming fintech law will carry us forward

By The Nation

 

Embracing digital banking and other online transactions is the key to unlocking Thailand 4.0

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004659-thailand-40-coming-fintech-law-will-carry-us-forward/

 

UPDATE:

 

Probe into old artillery shells found in recycling factory

By Jittraporn Saenwong 
Surasit Sinprasert 
The Nation

 

 

An investigation is under way into the origins of old artillery shells, sold to a recycling factory in Nonthaburi province, which exploded leaving one factory worker seriously injured.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004543-a-worker-was-injured-by-a-bomb-explosion-at-an-iron-scrap-factory/?do=findComment&comment=12313787

 

Private sector forecasts higher economic growth than last year

 

BANGKOK, 29th September 2017 (NNT) - The Economic Intelligence Center of the Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) has predicted that the Thai economy will grow better this year than last and the private sector will likely invest more in 2018. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004660-private-sector-forecasts-higher-economic-growth-than-last-year/

 

Thailand declares readiness to tighten cooperation with US

 

BANGKOK, 29th September 2017 (NNT) - The government has declared its readiness to tighten cooperation with the US. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004661-thailand-declares-readiness-to-tighten-cooperation-with-us/

 

PM issues reassurance that nation's banks are stable

 

 

BANGKOK, 29th September 2017 (NNT) – The Prime Minister has given an assurance that the five banks offered special risk managment measures are still stable and only received the measures to ensure stringent control. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004663-pm-prayut-issues-reassurance-that-nations-banks-are-stable/

 

Islamic State's Baghdadi, in undated audio, urges militants to keep fighting

By Nadine Awadalla and Eric Knecht

 

A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi making what would have been his first public appearance, at a mosque in the centre of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV/File Photo

 

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has exhorted followers across the world to wage attacks against the West and to keep fighting in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004664-islamic-states-baghdadi-in-undated-audio-urges-militants-to-keep-fighting/

 

China support for North Korea clampdown growing: U.S. official

By Patricia Zengerle and David Brunnstrom

 

FILE PHOTO: Flags of China and North Korea are seen outside the closed Ryugyong Korean Restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, in this April 12, 2016 file photo. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China is making progress in enforcing sanctions imposed on North Korea, a U.S. State Department official said on Thursday, and urged sceptical members of Congress not to rush to enact new ones before giving Beijing's efforts a chance to take effect.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004665-china-support-for-north-korea-clampdown-growing-us-official/

 

Toddler shoots two children at Michigan home

 

(Reuters) - A toddler shot and wounded two 3-year-old children with a handgun at a Michigan home where a woman was babysitting several youngsters, police and local media said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004666-toddler-shoots-two-children-at-michigan-home/

 

Brexit talks warmer after May's speech, but no closure

By Alastair Macdonald and Jan Strupczewski

 

Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union David Davis and European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier hold a joint news conference on progress in this week's latest round of negotiations on Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, Belgium September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Britain made progress in the latest round of divorce talks, but not enough to move to the next phase of discussions on a transition period after Brexit or a future trade deal, top negotiators said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004668-brexit-talks-warmer-after-mays-speech-but-no-closure/

 

Macron's EU vision will bolster Franco-German axis - Merkel

By Philip Blenkinsop and Julia Fioretti

 

French President Emmanuel Macron and Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite (R) attend a dinner in Tallinn ahead of an informal European Union leaders summit, Estonia September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Virginia Mayo/Pool

 

TALLINN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised French President Emmanuel Macron's ambitions for the European Union on Thursday and said his ideas could be the foundation for "intense" Franco-German cooperation on the future of Europe.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004669-macrons-eu-vision-will-bolster-franco-german-axis-merkel/

 

Turkey raises oil threat after Iraqi Kurds back independence

By Maher Chmaytelli and Ece Toksabay

 

FILE PHOTO - Kurds celebrate to show their support for the independence referendum in Duhok, Iraq, September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Ari Jalal

 

ERBIL, Iraq/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey threatened potentially crippling restrictions on oil trading with Iraqi Kurds on Thursday after they backed independence from Baghdad in a referendum that has alarmed Ankara as it faces a separatist insurgency from its own Kurdish minority.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004670-turkey-raises-oil-threat-after-iraqi-kurds-back-independence/

 

Puerto Ricans say Trump's disaster response was too slow, too clumsy

By Dave Graham

 

A Royal Caribbean cruise ship is docked in the harbour to take refugees as people wait to board, in San Juan, Puerto Rico September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Dave Graham

 

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Residents of Puerto Rico accused President Donald Trump of being slow to dispatch aid after Hurricane Maria and clumsy in his public remarks once it was clear the U.S. territory had been devastated by the storm.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004671-puerto-ricans-say-trumps-disaster-response-was-too-slow-too-clumsy/

 

New version of Microsoft Office to be released next year

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

 

Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Office 2019 will be released towards the end of 2018.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/new-version-microsoft-office-released-next-year/24610/

Trump congratulates Merkel on election win, discusses Iran - White House

 

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives aboard Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S. September 27, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her election victory in a telephone conversation on Thursday in which they also discussed the Iran nuclear deal, the White House said.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004678-trump-congratulates-merkel-on-election-win-discusses-iran-white-house/

 

White House launches internal probe of private email use by senior aides - Politico

 

FILE PHOTO: Senior advisor Jared Kushner waits for a joint news conference by U.S. President Donald Trump and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has launched an internal investigation into the use of private email by senior aides, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from their private accounts, Politico reported on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004679-white-house-launches-internal-probe-of-private-email-use-by-senior-aides-politico/

 

Promoters of pop concerts, other events may ditch Malaysia as hard-line Islam gets a grip

By Tavleen Tarrant and Praveen Menon

 

FILE PHOTO: Girls make their way home after school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/File Photo

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Organisers of pop concerts and some other big events are increasingly wary of including Malaysia on their itineraries, as the cancellation of a beer festival due to take place next month highlighted growing intolerance towards activities regarded as insulting to Islam by some Muslim groups.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004680-promoters-of-pop-concerts-other-events-may-ditch-malaysia-as-hard-line-islam-gets-a-grip/

 

Big dawn raids target foreign scammers and skimmers in Pattaya

 

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PATTAYA: -- A series of dawn raids yesterday targeted foreigners using Thailand as a base for illegal activity.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004681-big-dawn-raids-target-dark-skinned-scammers-and-skimmers-in-pattaya/

 

IAEA says North Korea's rapid weapons progress poses new, global threat

 

A North Korean flag flutters on top of a tower at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korea, September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - The United Nations nuclear watchdog's chief said on Friday North Korea's sixth nuclear test conducted on Sept. 3 showed the isolated country has made rapid progress on weapons development that posed a new, global threat.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004683-iaea-says-north-koreas-rapid-weapons-progress-poses-new-global-threat/

 

Police chief shows off his new "bargain" toy as 150,000 guns set to flood Thailand

 

Picture: TNews

 

National police chief Jakthip Chaijinda was pictured holding a new US gun that is set to become standard for police in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004684-police-chief-shows-off-his-new-bargain-toy-as-150000-guns-set-to flood-thailand/

 

DSI says controversial Krathing Cape land title likely to be illegal

Suthicha Sirirat

 

Officials inspect the controversial Krathing Cape property. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- A team from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) arrived in Phuket yesterday to investigate the controversial Cape Krathing property development and have said that it is likely that the Chanote issued for the land is likely to be illegal.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004691-dsi-says-controversial-krathing-cape-land-title-likely-to-be-illegal/