"Six foreign tourists dead" as van slams in to turning 10 wheel truck

 

 

As many as six foreign tourists died and several more were injured as a van slammed into the back of a ten wheel truck turning into a quarry in Bang Pa-In, Ayuthaya yesterday afternoon.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010461-six-foreign-tourists-dead-as-van-slams-in-to-turning-10-wheel-truck/

Bangkok ranks as second-most visited city

By The Nation

 

 

Bangkok this year has become the second-most visited city in the world after Hong Kong, according to Euromonitor International’s report released yesterday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010445-bangkok-ranks-as-second-most-visited-city/

Video: Road rage - this time motorcyclist has a knife AND a gun

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Footage posted on Facebook showed the latest road rage incident in Thailand that happened in Nakorn Sawan.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010473-video-road-rage-this-time-motorcyclist-has-a-knife-and-a-gun/

 

"Pretty security guard" who hit the national news now in coma after accident in Pathum Thani

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A mother is praying for a miracle after her daughter suffered severe head trauma in a collision with an 18 wheel truck on the Rangsit to Nakorn Nayok road in Thanyaburi on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010474-pretty-security-guard-who-hit-the-national-news-now-in-coma-after-accident-in-pathum-thani/

 

Songklod under ‘scrutiny’ over new political party plan

By Chitraporn Senwong 
The Nation

 

 

Maj Gen Songklod Thiprat, a founder of the Volunteers for Thai Nation’s Power which is seen as a bid to form a new political party to support the junta, is subject to scrutiny by the Defence Ministry, an informed source said on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010476-songklod-under-‘scrutiny’-over-new-political-party-plan/

 

Official rulings in Yingluck case revealed

By KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION 

 

 

ONLY ONE JUDGE SAID EX-PREMIER DID NOT HAVE ILL INTENT IN RICE-PLEDGING SCHEME

 

THE SUPREME Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders on Tuesday published the full combined verdict as well as individual judgements of nine judges in the case against fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra regarding her government’s rice-pledging scheme.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010477-official-rulings-in-yingluck-case-revealed/

 

Prayut tipped to put competence ahead of friendship in Cabinet reshuffle

By SAKDA SAMERPHOP 
THE NATION 

 

 

PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha is expected to be more decisive in selecting qualified, competent members for his fifth Cabinet, in what could be his final year in office.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010478-prayut-tipped-to-put-competence-ahead-of-friendship-in-cabinet-reshuffle/

 

PM slammed for six questions

By WASAMON AUDJARINT, 
SAKDA SAMERPHOP 
THE NATION

 

 

POLITICIANS AND ACADEMICS SAY ‘DANGEROUS’ MOVE INDICATES NCPO’S INTENTION TO CLING TO POWER AND LEGITIMISE UNDEMOCRATIC RULE

PRIME MINISTER GENERAL Prayut Chan-o-cha’s latest efforts to survey people’s thoughts on politics with six controversial questions appeared to be an attempt not only to set a political agenda but also to legitimise the junta’s rule despite it being undemocratic, politicians and academics have concluded.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010479-pm-prayut-slammed-for-six-questions/

 

Crowds seek ‘last hope’ cancer cures from herbal ‘doctor’ in Prachin Buri

By SAICHON NUDAENG 
THE NATION 

 

 

ON THE first Sunday of every month, thousands of people queue in front of the house of “Mor Saeng” in Prachin Buri for what is believed to be a herbal cure to cancer.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010480-crowds-seek-‘last-hope’-cancer-cures-from-herbal-‘doctor’-in-prachin-buri/

 

DSI focuses on four ‘special cases’ involving financial crimes

By PIYANUCH THAMNUKASETCHAI 
THE NATION 

 

 

THE DEPARTMENT of Special Investigation (DSI) is set to take action in four major cases involving money laundering and embezzlement.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010481-dsi-focuses-on-four-‘special-cases’-involving-financial-crimes/

 

UPDATE:

Four Japanese and a Thai guide killed as minivan rams truck

 

 

Five people were killed and one injured when a minivan rammed into the rear of a running truck in Ayutthaya’s Bangpain district on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010461-six-foreign-tourists-dead-as-van-slams-in-to-turning-10-wheel-truck/?do=findComment&comment=12430723

 

OPINION

Can we dream of Thailand 4.0 if politics is stuck in 0.4?

By Sutthichai Yoon 
The Nation

 

We are back in the same old vicious circle once again. Many of the questions making headlines these days are little different from those that were being asked decades ago. The gist doesn’t change, only the players are different:

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010482-can-we-dream-of-thailand-40-if-politics-is-stuck-in-04/

 

Billion baht sports & conference complex to be built at Mai Khao Beach

International MICE (meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibitions) industry and local conference and event organisers have been calling for a major conference venue on Phuket for decades.

By Nattha Thepbamrung and Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

Phuket’s Governor led a team to visit 150 rai of land on Mai Khao Beach today (November 8) to review the plans to build a sports complex with a 900 – 1,000 million Baht budget from the budget year 2019.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010485-billion-baht-sports-conference-complex-to-be-built-at-phukets-mai-khao-beach/

 

Qatar Airways launches Pattaya flights

Qatar Airways announces flights to Pattaya

 

Jomtien Beach in Pattaya. Photo: Tourism Authority of Thailand

 

Doha-based Qatar Airways recently announced its plan to launch flights between Doha and U-Tapao Rayong-Pattaya International Airport in response to increased customer demand for services to Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010486-qatar-airways-launches-pattaya-flights/

 

UPDATE:

AMLO seizes an addition of 2.3 billion baht worth of assets from “Sia Piang”

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has frozen an addition of 2.3 billion baht worth of assets belong to Apichart Chansakulporn, aka Sia Piang, and associates who implicated in the fake G-to-G rice deals between a fake Chinese importing company and the Foreign Trade Department.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010460-amlo-confiscates-land-worth-bt23-bn-over-rice-deals/?do=findComment&comment=12430761

 

In new test for British PM, British aid minister resigns

By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Employment Minister Priti Patel, leaves after a cabinet meeting in Downing Street in central London, Britain June 27, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British aid minister Priti Patel was forced from office on Wednesday over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials after Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassert her diminished authority as she negotiates Brexit.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010489-in-new-test-for-british-pm-british-aid-minister-resigns/

 

EU parliament's Brexit negotiator - 'major issues' unresolved on citizens' rights

 

Guy Verhofstadt, President of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), in Strasbourg, France, October 4, 2017. REUTERS/Reuters TV

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - "Major issues" must still be resolved on safeguarding citizens' rights after Brexit, the European Parliament's negotiator Guy Verhofstadt said on Wednesday, the eve of another round of divorce negotiations between London and Brussels.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010490-eu-parliaments-brexit-negotiator-major-issues-unresolved-on-citizens-rights/

 

North Korea says sanctions hurting women, children

By Stephanie Nebehay

 

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles as children eat during his visit to the Pyongyang Orphanage on International Children's Day in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang June 2, 2014. To match Insight NORTHKOREA-FOOD/ KCNA / via REUTERS/File Photo

 

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it was working to uphold women's rights and gender equality but that sanctions imposed by major powers were taking a toll on vulnerable families.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010491-north-korea-says-sanctions-hurting-women-children/

 

U.S. Democrats ride grassroots wave to major statehouse gains

By Letitia Stein and Joseph Ax

 

FILE PHOTO: Virginia Governor Elect Ralph Northam (C) celebrates with, left to right, Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Lt. Governor Elect Justin Fairfax, Attorney General Mark Herring and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), at his election night rally on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Democrats claimed historic gains in Virginia's statehouse and flipped Republican-held seats in other local races across the United States on Tuesday, in the party's first big wave of victories since Republican Donald Trump's surprise White House win a year ago.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010492-us-democrats-ride-grassroots-wave-to-major-statehouse-gains/

 

Syrian army, allies, take last IS stronghold in Syria - commander

By Laila Bassam and Angus McDowall

 

A Free Syrian army fighter holds his weapon in Jubata al-Khashab in Quneitra province, Syria, November 4, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir

 

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's army and its allies, spearheaded by Lebanon's Hezbollah, captured Islamic State's last stronghold in Syria on Wednesday, a commander in the alliance said, bringing the self-declared caliphate close to complete downfall.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010493-syrian-army-allies-take-last-is-stronghold-in-syria-commander/

 

NATO agrees new military commands to protect Europe

By Robin Emmott

 

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gives a news conference during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Vidal

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO allies backed plans on Wednesday for two new military headquarters to help protect Europe in the event of a conflict with Russia, laying the ground for the U.S.-led alliance's biggest expansion in decades.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010494-nato-agrees-new-military-commands-to-protect-europe/

 

Government announces New Year’s 4-day public holiday

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: Tore Bustad/Flickr

 

The government has announced that Thailand will enjoy a four-day public holiday at the end of the year, from Dec. 30 – Jan. 2. That Saturday and Sunday were already public holidays, and also a weekend, so Jan. 1-2 will be the observation of those holidays.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010497-government-announces-new-year’s-4-day-public-holiday/

 

Cuban opposition falls at first hurdle as Castro handover looms

By Nelson Acosta and Sarah Marsh

 

Manuel Cuesta Morua, spokesman for opposition electoral platform Otro18, speaks during an interview in Havana, Cuba, November 2, 2017. Picture taken on November 2, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

 

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban opposition leaders said they failed to get anyone nominated as a candidate for municipal elections, falling at the first hurdle as the Communist-run island embarks on a political cycle that will end 60 years of Castro brothers' rule.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010498-cuban-opposition-falls-at-first-hurdle-as-castro-handover-looms/

 

Zimbabwe's Mugabe - Beware of death on road to presidency

By MacDonald Dzirutwe

 

President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe attend a rally of his ruling ZANU-PF party in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 8, 2017.REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

 

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday the route to leadership was long and full of "pitfalls and death", as he accused his fired deputy and former protege of showing impatience in his bid to succeed him.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010499-zimbabwes-mugabe-beware-of-death-on-road-to-presidency/

 

U.S. judge issues gag order in Manafort case

By Karen Freifeld

 

Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The judge presiding over the criminal case against President Donald Trump's former campaign manager issued a gag order on Wednesday barring anyone involved in the case from making public statements that might taint it.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010500-us-judge-issues-gag-order-in-manafort-case/

 

Pentagon confirms rare, three aircraft carrier drill November 11-14

 

FILE PHOTO - Admiral Scott Swift, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, speaks at a news conference near the damaged USS John McCain and the USS America at Changi Naval Base in Singapore August 22, 2017. REUTERS/Calvin Wong/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would soon carry out the first exercise in a decade involving three aircraft carrier strike groups in the Western Pacific, confirming a Reuters report published on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010501-pentagon-confirms-rare-three-aircraft-carrier-drill-november-11-14/

 

FBI may have lost critical time unlocking Texas shooter's iPhone

By Stephen Nellis and Dustin Volz

 

Daniel Friesenhahn (C) is comforted by Derrick Barnhardt (R) and Chris Johnson during a vigil in the memory of those killed in the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in La Vernia, Texas, U.S., November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

 

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For about 48 hours after a deadly rampage at a Texas church, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies did not ask Apple Inc to help them unlock the gunman's iPhone or associated online accounts, a person familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010502-fbi-may-have-lost-critical-time-unlocking-texas-shooters-iphone/

 

Hua Hin’s tallest building to open this month

By KWANCHAI RUNGFAPAISARN 
THE NATION

 

Proudputh

 

PROUD REAL ESTATE yesterday announced the completion of the second-phase development of its mixed-use project in Hua Hin involving an additional investment of Bt1.8 billion.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010504-hua-hin’s-tallest-building-to-open-this-month/

 

U.N. warns if no Yemen aid access, world will see largest famine in decades

By Michelle Nichols

 

Saida Ahmed Baghili, 18, lies on a bed at the al-Thawra hospital where she receives treatment for severe malnutrition in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad/File photo

 

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations aid chief Mark Lowcock warned on Wednesday that if a Saudi-led military coalition did not allow humanitarian aid access to Yemen then it would cause "the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims."

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010507-un-warns-if-no-yemen-aid-access-world-will-see-largest-famine-in-decades/

 

Video: Millions view shocking school violence as teacher appears to attack student

 

Picture: video screenshot

 

Widely shared footage online showed a person who appeared to be a teacher mercilessly attacking a young student at his desk.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010510-video-millions-view-shocking-school-violence-as-teacher-appears-to-attack-student/