Video: Bus stops or even fishbowls - welcome to Thailand's beach smoking areas

 

video screenshot

 

A Facebook video showed what the smoking areas at Thailand's beaches will look like - and no one could make up their mind if they looked like bus stops or even the infamous "fish bowls" of yesteryear.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007535-video-bus-stops-or-even-fishbowls-welcome-to-thailands-beach-smoking-areas/

 

Editor arrested over alleged pyramid scheme

By The Nation

 

 

Citizen Police newspaper owner and managing editor, Sap-anan Charoenwattana-udom, was arrested on Wednesday over an alleged pyramid scheme that caused Bt150 million-worth damages to some 3,000 people.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007506-editor-arrested-over-alleged-pyramid-scheme/

Indian merchant killed in Suphan Buri shooting

By Mongkol Sawangsri 
The Nation

 

 

The bullet-ridden body of an Indian cloth merchant was found floating in a well in Suphan Buri’s Sam Chuk district on Wednesday morning.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007505-indian-merchant-killed-in-suphan-buri-shooting/

Video: Now there's a coincidence! Snatch thief meets victim at the gold shop in Hat Yai!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Police in Hat Yai are on the trail of a thief after he went to sell half a necklace at a downtown gold shop.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007536-video-now-theres-a-coincidence-snatch-thief-meets-victim-at-gold-shop-in-hat-yai/

 

"Like Mac-insect legs with your Mac-coffee, sir?" Ronald investigates cockroach claims

 

Picture: Facebook

 

A MacDonald's customer went on Facebook to show what he found in his hot coffee at one of their Bangkok stores.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007538-like-mac-insect-legs-with-your-mac-coffee-sir-ronald-investigates cockroach-claims/

 

More than 3,000 cars 'drown' in latest Bangkok flooding - insurance companies ordered to be "just"

 

Picture: PPTV

 

PPTV revealed that more than 3000 cars were seriously damaged in the record breaking deluge and floods that hit Bangkok on Friday night.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007539-more-than-3000-cars-drown-in-latest-bangkok-flooding-insurance companies-ordered-to-be-just/

 

Flood woes will ease, if rains cease, says Chatchai

 

This aerial picture shows the site of breached earth dam in Lop Buri, which has caused widespread flooding in nearby farmland and villages.

 

Situation in the Chao Phraya basin under control, says minister.

 

FLOODING in the Chao Phraya River Basin will be resolved within one month if there is no more rain, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister General Chatchai Sarikulya confirmed yesterday. However, many dams are still full and the Northeastern region is still suffering from severe flooding.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007541-flood-woes-will-ease-if-rains-cease-says-chatchai/

 

Supreme Court upholds jail for father of Akeyuth killer

By KESINEE TAENGKHIEO 
THE NATION

 

Santiparb Pengduang

 

THE SUPREME COURT yesterday sentenced Master Sergeant Ittipon Pengduang to one year and four months’ imprisonment for receiving stolen property in connection with the murder of outspoken businessman Akeyuth Anchanbutr in June 2013.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007542-supreme-court-upholds-jail-for-father-of-akeyuth-killer/

 

Trang fishermen deny dugong-hunting claims

By KANITA SEETONG 
THE NATION

 

 

CONSERVATIONISTS and fishermen in Trang province have denied claims that dugong hunters are active in the area. They have demanded that Thanya Netithammakun, who heads the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, either substantiate the claims with evidence or provide further explanation.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007543-trang-fishermen-deny-dugong-hunting-claims/

 

Surveillance drones to be deployed to help ground forces

By Thai PBS

 

 

The army will deploy surveillance drones in the Deep South in 2018 fiscal year, Deputy Defence Minister Udomdej Seetabutr said Wednesday (Oct 18).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007544-surveillance-drones-to-be-deployed-to-help-ground-forces/

 

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Thaksin’s son meets DSI, denies charges of money-laundering and vows to fight in court

By THE NATION 

 

CCTV footage from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) shows Panthongtae Shinawatra reporting on Tuesday after being charged for alleged money laundering and summoned by the department. He is accompanied by three men and his younger sister.

 

PANTHONGTAE SHINAWATRA, the son of fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and three other persons who are facing money-laundering and related charges filed by the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), have denied any wrongdoing and will fight their cases in court.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007472-son-of-thailands-ex-pm-thaksin-charged-with-money-laundering/?do=findComment&comment=12372703

 

Police reform committee to present performance reports next week

 

BANGKOK, 19 October 2017 (NNT) - The government-appointed police reform committee expects to present its performance report next week. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007545-thai-police-reform-committee-to-present-performance-reports-next-week/

 

Thai industrial sentiment enjoys second consecutive improvement in September

 

BANGKOK, 19th October 2017 (NNT) - Thailand’s industrial sentiment improved for the second consecutive month in September. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007546-thai-industrial-sentiment-enjoys-second-consecutive-improvement-in-september/

 

Trying to unlock Brexit, Britain's May to make offer on EU citizens

By Elizabeth Piper and Alastair Macdonald

 

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, October 18 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will promise on Thursday to make it as easy as possible for European Union citizens living in Britain to stay after Brexit, trying to unlock stalled talks that have spurred calls for her to walk away.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007547-trying-to-unlock-brexit-britains-may-to-make-offer-on-eu-citizens/

 

Canada's Quebec province to ban face coverings in public sector

By Kevin Dougherty

 

A demonstrator adds a Quebec flag to her veil during a protest against Quebec's proposed Charter of Values in Montreal, September 14, 2013. REUTERS/ Christinne Muschi

 

QUEBEC CITY, Quebec (Reuters) - Quebec will ban face coverings for people giving or receiving provincial government services under a law passed on Wednesday that rights groups have criticised as marginalising Muslim women in the mainly French-speaking Canadian province.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007548-canadas-quebec-province-to-ban-face-coverings-in-public-sector/

 

Catalonia to press ahead with independence if Madrid suspends autonomy

By Isla Binnie and Sam Edwards

 

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy answers a question at the Parliament in Madrid, Spain, October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Juan Medina

 

MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalonia's leader pledged to press ahead with his independence bid if Spain moves to suspend the region's autonomy, a regional government source said on Wednesday, hours before a deadline over keeping the euro zone's fourth-largest economy united.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007549-catalonia-to-press-ahead-with-independence-if-madrid-suspends-autonomy/

 

EU looks for 'big pot of money' to handle migration

By Gabriela Baczynska

 

Migrants stand at a naval base after they were rescued by the Libyan coastguard, in Tripoli, Libya October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will promise during talks in Brussels "sufficient and targeted funding" for migration projects in Africa and elsewhere, according to a draft statement that shows they have yet to put their money where their mouth is.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007550-eu-looks-for-big-pot-of-money-to-handle-migration/

 

Khamenei says Iran will 'shred' nuclear deal if U.S. quits it

By Parisa Hafezi

 

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with students in Tehran, Iran, October 18, 2017. Leader.ir/Handout via REUTERS

 

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Tehran would stick to its 2015 nuclear accord with world powers as long as the other signatories respected it, but would "shred" the deal if Washington pulled out, state TV reported.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007551-khamenei-says-iran-will-shred-nuclear-deal-if-us-quits-it/

 

EU leaders to call for end to North Korea's weapons programme - draft

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visit a shoe factory in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on October 19, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will demand on Thursday that North Korea end its nuclear and ballistic weapons programme, according to the draft final statement of an EU summit.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007552-eu-leaders-to-call-for-end-to-north-koreas-weapons-programme-draft/

 

Kurdish forces withdraw to June 2014 lines - Iraqi army commander

By Mustafa Mahmoud

 

Members of Iraqi security forces are seen at an oil field in Dibis area on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

 

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish Peshmerga forces have retreated to positions they held in northern Iraq in June 2014 in response to an Iraqi army advance into the region after a Kurdish independence referendum, a senior Iraqi commander said on Wednesday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007553-kurdish-forces-withdraw-to-june-2014-lines-iraqi-army-commander/

 

Judge in Yingluck case ruled her ‘not guilty’

By Kasamakorn Chanwanpen 
The Nation 

 

ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra

 

Pison Pirun, a judge in the nine-member Supreme Court panel that ruled in the case over the rice-pledging scheme against ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra case, was the only judge to rule her not guilty on the grounds that “she lacked the intention to cause loss or seek advantage she was not entitled to”.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007556-judge-in-yingluck-case-ruled-her-‘not-guilty’/

 

Death toll rises to 42 in California wildfires

By Dan Whitcomb

 

The skyline of downtown Los Angeles is pictured through smoke during the Wilson Fire near Mount Wilson in the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The death toll from more than a dozen major wildfires still burning across Northern California's celebrated wine country rose to 42 on Wednesday, after search and rescue teams picking through burned out neighbourhoods found another victim.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007558-death-toll-rises-to-42-in-california-wildfires/

 

On Iran, U.S. asks U.N. Security Council: 'Where's the outrage?'

By Michelle Nichols

 

U.S. President Donald Trump talks with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley as they attend a session on reforming the United Nations at U.N. Headquarters in New York, U.S., September 18, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

 

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States accused Iran on Wednesday of violating several United Nations Security Council resolutions, saying it would no longer "turn a blind eye" and asking the 15-member council of Tehran's behaviour: "where's the outrage?"

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007559-on-iran-us-asks-un-security-council-wheres-the-outrage/

 

U.S. wants stronger India economic, defence ties given China's rise: Tillerson

By Jonathan Landay and David Brunnstrom

 

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson participates in the first meeting of the U.S. National Space Council at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S. October 5, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Files

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said before a visit to India next week that the Trump administration wanted to "dramatically deepen" cooperation with New Delhi, seeing it as a key partner in the face of negative Chinese influence in Asia.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007560-us-wants-stronger-india-economic-defence-ties-given-chinas-rise-tillerson/

 

Back to Pattaya we go, Mr Crusoe

 

Picture: PR Pattaya

 

Pictures have emerged on Facebook of a dramatic ocean rescue.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007561-back-to-pattaya-we-go-mr-crusoe/

 

Power outage announcement for October 19 to 22

By The Nation

Metropolitan Electricity Authority plans to maintain and improve the electricity distribution system so it will temporarily cut off the power for security on operation process in the following areas:

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007564-power-outage-announcement-for-october-19-to-22-bangkok-samutprakan/

 

Taking the bullet train to Pattaya - picture shows the shape of things to come!

 

Image: Chonburi Index

 

Attendees at a seminar to discuss the proposed bullet train link from Bangkok to Rayong were wowed by the possibilities.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007565-taking-the-bullet-train-to-pattaya-picture-shows-the-shape-of-things-to-come/

 

Joint operation sees big international "call center" operation shut down

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A joint operation between the Thai special branch, Thai Post Office and the Taiwanese Ministry of Justice has seen an international call center gang smashed.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1007566-joint-operation-sees-big-international-call-center-operation-shut-down/

 

Twitter looks to toughen rules on online harassment, abuse

BY REUTERS

By Angela Moon and Arjun Panchadar

 

REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo

 

REUTERS – Twitter Inc plans to toughen its rules on online sexual harassment and impose stronger penalties for misconduct, according to an email it sent to a group of safety advocates, academics and researchers that helps the social media service set its policies.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/twitter-looks-toughen-rules-online-harassment-abuse/25069/

Zuckerberg has no plan to visit Thailand: Facebook

BY THE NATION

 

 

Social media giant Facebook has denied reports that its cofounder and major shareholder Mark Zuckerberg plans to visit Thailand later this month.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/zuckerberg-no-plan-visit-thailand-facebook/25064/