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Thailand Live Friday 29 Sep 2017

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Eat well, stop smoking, get exercise to avoid heart attack: World Heart Day

By The Nation

 

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Heart disease now claims the lives of two people hourly in Thailand, leading the Medical Services Department to advise people to avoid risky factors, including high-fat food, smoking and excessive drinking.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004754-eat-well-stop-smoking-get-exercise-to-avoid-heart-attack-world-heart-day/

 

Police formally ask Foreign Affiars to revoke Yingluck’s passports

Breaking News September 29, 2017 15:51

By The Nation

 

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File photo: Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

 

Deputy Police Chief Pol General Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said on Friday that the police have contacted the Foreign Affairs Ministry asking it to revoke former premier Yingluck Shinawatra’s passports and to confirm with them her whereabouts.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004755-police-formally-ask-foreign-affiars-to-revoke-yingluck’s-passports/

 

Large Thai Banks have strong capital ratios to protect against failures: Fitch Ratings

By The Nation

 

Thailand’s large banks should all be able to comply with new capital requirements for domestic systemically important banks (D-SIB) deemed “too big to fail”, said Fitch Ratings.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004757-large-thai-banks-have-strong-capital-ratios-to-protect-against-failures-fitch-ratings/

 

 

Security warning: If you still use Internet Explorer, you had better read this

BY STAFF WRITER

 

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer contains a bug which leaks everything you type into the address bar, it has been revealed.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/security-warning-still-use-internet-explorer-better-read/24615/

New Netflix email scam wants to steal all your money

BY STAFF WRITER

 

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A new email scam that appears very convincing is affecting people with Netflix accounts.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/new-netflix-email-scam-wants-steal-money/24620/

Patong police, entertainment operators ‘discuss’ opening hours

Shela Riva

 

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Patong Police Chief Col Tassanai Orarigdech (with back to camera) chairs yesterday's meeting with Patong entertainment operators. Photo: Patong Police

 

PHUKET:-- Patong Police Chief Col Tassanai Orarigdech told The Phuket News today that the Patong Police meeting with entertainment operators yesterday afternoon (Sept 28) was focused on ‘discussing’ operating hours after entertainment operators have continually requested later closing times.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004761-patong-police-entertainment-operators-‘discuss’-opening-hours/

 

Fugitive ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra seeks asylum in UK

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

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Former PM Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled a court ruling for criminal negligence last month, is allegedly in London and seeking political asylum in the UK, a source from her Pheu Thai Party told CNN yesterday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004762-fugitive-ex-pm-yingluck-shinawatra-seeks-asylum-in-uk/

 

Confessions And Counter-Accusations In Pattani Terror Investigation

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen, Staff Reporter

 

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Investigators inspect the scene of a roadside bomb attack that killed four army rangers Sept. 22 in the southern province of Pattani.

 

PATTANI — Military and police said Friday one suspect had confessed to planting a roadside bomb that killed four army rangers in the Deep South last week.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1004767-confessions-and-counter-accusations-in-pattani-terror-investigation/

 

Latest Apple watch available countrywide

BY THE NATION

 

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TrueMove H has announced that it will offer the Apple Watch Series 3, which features health and fitness functions in addition to coaching features, water resistance and faster dual-core processor.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/latest-apple-watch-available-countrywide/24622/

Making a fortune from arranging private bitcoin transactions

BY REUTERS

 

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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Exchanges aren’t the only way to trade bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. Some websites help to arrange private transactions between buyers and sellers.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/making-fortune-arranging-private-bitcoin-transactions/24625/

Special Report: Chaos and hackers stalk investors on cryptocurrency exchanges

BY REUTERS

 

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LONDON, SHANGHAI, NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dan Wasyluk discovered the hard way that trading cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin happens in an online Wild West where sheriffs are largely absent.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/24628-2/24628/

Security firm finds some Macs vulnerable to ‘firmware’ attacks

BY REUTERS

 

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REUTERS – Since 2015, Apple Inc has tried to protect its Mac line of computers from a form of hacking that is extremely hard to detect, but it has not been entirely successful in getting the fixes to its customers, according to research released on Friday by Duo Security.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/security-firm-finds-macs-vulnerable-firmware-attacks/24632/

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