Today haircuts, tomorrow the treadmill - Pattaya cops told to smarten up their act

 

 

Pattaya's police chief has ordered his men to smarten up their act.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012241-today-haircuts-tomorrow-the-treadmill-pattaya-cops-told-to-smarten-up-their-act/

Activists petition DSI, premier in Akara gold mine case

By The Nation

 

File photo: Akara Resources gold mine

 

Anti-gold-mining activists on Monday submitted a petition to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), urging the agency to accelerate the investigation and prosecution of Akara Resources in regard to the case of allegedly unlawful use of public land and a public road for its mining operations.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012242-activists-petition-dsi-premier-in-akara-gold-mine-case/

Father shoots his son dead - but there are extenuating circumstances

 

Picture: TNews

 

Police in downtown Chumporn in the south of Thailand were called to a house after a father shot his son dead.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012264-father-shoots-his-son-dead-but-there-are-extenuating-circumstances/

 

"There are still good Thai people about" - Thai media report on good Samaritan who saves the day

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

Manager reported on a story about a Thai member of the public who helped a foundation medical team reach their destination.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012266-there-are-still-good-thai-people-about-thai-media-report-on-good-samaritan-who-saves-the-day/

 

Local polls possible with new laws

By THE NATION

 

FOLLOWING mounting pressure over the political activity ban, the ruling junta has indicated that it could resort to issuing extra rules to allow election campaigning but not other activities.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012268-local-polls-possible-with-new-laws/

 

Amendments ‘would further delay election’ : Nikorn

By The Nation

 

WITH THE deadline drawing close for political parties to file details under the new party bill, the law should not be amended any further as it might lead to another delay in the election, a key figure from the Chartthai Pattana Party said yesterday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012269-amendments-‘would-further-delay-election’-nikorn/

 

Diplomacy needed in North Korean dispute, says US commander on Asean goodwill trip

By SUPALAK GANJANAKHUNDEE 
THE NATION 
PATTAYA 

 

 

NORTH KOREA remained a key security concern in the region for the United States 7th Fleet, but diplomacy was the only option to solve the problem, Vice Admiral Phillip Sawyer said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012270-diplomacy-needed-in-north-korean-dispute-says-us-commander-on-asean-goodwill-trip/

 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012270-diplomacy-needed-in-north-korean-dispute-says-us-commander-on-asean-goodwill-trip/

 

Uighur escape pressures cops

By SOMCHAI SAMART, 
SURIYA PATATAYO 
THE NATION 

 

 

Six officers transferred following dramatic break-out of 20 detainees from Songkhla immigration facility.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012271-uighur-escape-pressures-thai-cops/

 

Lie-detector tests failed by Jomsap allies

By Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai, 
Tawee Apisakulchart 
The Nation

 

 

Seven suspects face perjury complaints

TWO KEY suspects accused of falsifying evidence to clear the name of former teacher Jomsap Saenmuangkhot, who has been convicted of a 2005 fatal hit-and-run, failed a lie-detector test, Justice Ministry deputy permanent secretary Pol Colonel Dusadee Arawuit said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012272-lie-detector-tests-failed-by-jomsap-allies/

 

Distressed residents blame govt for flood-retention areas

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION 
AYUTTHAYA

 

 

PEOPLE LIVING in the flood-retention fields of the Chao Phraya River Basin have been trying to carry on with their lives in waters up to four metres deep and have yet to receive compensation while living on handouts for four months.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012273-distressed-residents-blame-govt-for-flood-retention-areas/

 

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MRT operator ditches seats as it struggles with passenger surge

By THE NATION

 

Photo from: MRT Bangkok Metro's Facebook fanpage

 

THE MRT Metro blue line operator is trying to solve problems associated with overcrowded trains by removing seats in the middle |train cars to provide more space for passengers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012121-blue-line-to-rip-out-30-of-seats-to-increase-capacity/?do=findComment&comment=12466209

 

GDP growth shifts into higher gear

By WICHIT CHAITRONG 
THE NATION

 

 

THE country’s economy grew at a heady 4.3 per cent in the third quarter, the highest rate posted for 18 quarters, Porametee Vimolsiri, secretary general of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) , said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012275-thailands-gdp-growth-shifts-into-higher-gear/

 

Family suspects foul play for the death of their cadet son at school

By Thai PBS

 

 

The family of a military cadet whom the Armed Forces Preparatory School claimed to have died of heart failure has demanded clarification from the school’s management about the actual cause of his death.

 

Full story; https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012276-family-suspects-foul-play-for-the-death-of-their-cadet-son-at-school/

 

Ex-deputy interior minister Sombat declared unusually rich

By Thai PBS

 

 

Former deputy interior minister Sombat Uthaisang has been declared unusually rich by the National Anti-Corruption Commission after he failed to explain how he amassed 91 million baht worth of his assets.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012277-ex-deputy-interior-minister-sombat-declared-unusually-rich/

 

A food shop was ordered closed after three died from eating salad from the shop

By Thai PBS

 

 

A food shop that sells jackfruit salad(Soop Kanoon) in the fresh market of Tambon Nadoon, Nadoon district of Maha Sarakham was ordered closed indefinitely after it was reported that over 20 people who ate the soup bought from the shop suffered severe diarrhea and three of them have died at the district hospital.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012278-a-food-shop-was-ordered-closed-after-three-died-from-eating-salad-from-the-shop/

 

Will Southern Thailand Turn to Jihad?

By Austin Bodetti

 

Only peace talks can keep Islamic State-style jihadism from coming to Thailand

 

In a world where the news media focuses on the failed states of the Muslim world, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, Thailand often escapes attention.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012279-will-southern-thailand-turn-to-jihad/

 

Zimbabwe's Mugabe faces impeachment after military takeover

By MacDonald Dzirutwe

 

A Monday deadline imposed on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to resign by his own ruling party passes with no word from the leader, setting up for formal impeachment proceedings in parliament.

 

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe faces the start of impeachment proceedings on Tuesday that could see him ousted within the week, against the backdrop of a military takeover dubbed "Operation Restore Legacy".

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012280-zimbabwes-mugabe-faces-impeachment-after-military-takeover/

 

Merkel signals readiness for new election after coalition talks collapse

By Paul Carrel and Gernot Heller

 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the meeting with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier after coalition government talks collapsed in Berlin, Germany, November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would prefer a new election to ruling with a minority after talks on forming a three-way coalition failed overnight, but Germany's president told parties they owed it to voters to try to form a government.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012281-merkel-signals-readiness-for-new-election-after-coalition-talks-collapse/

 

Trump declares North Korea state sponsor of terrorism, triggers sanctions

By Jeff Mason and David Brunnstrom

 

U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson look up during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, a designation that allows the United States to impose more sanctions and risks inflaming tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile programmes.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012282-trump-declares-north-korea-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-triggers-sanctions/

 

Amsterdam, Paris win post-Brexit EU agencies in lucky dip

By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald

 

FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is seen in London, Britain April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Amsterdam and Paris won the right to host two EU agencies that must leave London because of Brexit after an extraordinary ministerial meeting in Brussels that left both results decided by drawing lots from a fishbowl.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012283-amsterdam-paris-win-post-brexit-eu-agencies-in-lucky-dip/

 

UK's May meets senior ministers to discuss Brexit divorce bill offer

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London, November 1, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville /File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May met with senior members of her ministerial team on Monday to discuss their response to European Union demands for more detail on how much Britain is willing to pay as part of its Brexit divorce package.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012284-uks-may-meets-senior-ministers-to-discuss-brexit-divorce-bill-offer/

 

Poland faces 100,000 euros a day fine if it continues logging in forest

 

FILE PHOTO: Logging machine is pictured during logging at Bialowieza forest, near Bialowieza village, Poland August 2, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's top court said on Monday Poland would be fined 100,000 euros (£88,638.66) a day if it did not stop large-scale logging in the Bialowieza forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012285-poland-faces-100000-euros-a-day-fine-if-it-continues-logging-in-forest/

 

Sounds detected in undersea area where Argentine sub went missing

By Walter Bianchi and Maximiliano Rizzi

 

Argentina's President Mauricio Macri speaks to relatives of the 44 crew members of the ARA San Juan submarine missing at sea at an Argentine Naval Base in Mar del Plata, Argentina November 20, 2017. Argentine Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

 

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine authorities were analysing sounds detected by probes deep in the South Atlantic on Monday as they searched for a navy submarine that went missing five days ago after reporting an electrical malfunction.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012286-sounds-detected-in-undersea-area-where-argentine-sub-went-missing/

 

More military outgoings than incomings in new Cabinet: PM

By The Nation

 

PM Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha and his deputy and Defence Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan during the Asean International Fleet Review in Pattaya on Monday.

 

There will be more outgoing military officers than incoming ones in the freshly reshuffled Cabinet, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012289-more-military-outgoings-than-incomings-in-new-cabinet-pm-prayut/

 

Like Zimbabwe, South Africa needs leadership change - ANC official

By Alexander Winning

 

FILE PHOTO: South Africa's President Jacob Zuma gestures during the last day of the six-day meeting of the African National Congress 5th National Policy Conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Soweto, South Africa, July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

 

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) should get President Jacob Zuma to stand down as head of state after a party conference next month because like Zimbabwe the country urgently needs a change of leader, a senior ANC official said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012290-like-zimbabwe-south-africa-needs-leadership-change-anc-official/

 

Hundreds of Las Vegas shooting victims file lawsuits in California court

By Tina Bellon

 

A hat rests on flowers in a makeshift memorial during a vigil marking the one-week anniversary of the October 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada U.S. October 8, 2017. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus

 

(Reuters) - Hundreds of victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas filed five lawsuits on Monday in a California court against the operators of the hotel from which the gunman fired, the organizers of the country music festival he targeted and the killer's estate.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012291-hundreds-of-las-vegas-shooting-victims-file-lawsuits-in-california-court/

 

Pattani man kills his girlfriend, stabs brother, then jumps off Khao Rang viewpoint

The neighbours have told the police that they heard an argument but didn't pay attention as the pair often fought in the past. That was until they heard the woman scream yesterday.

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

  

29 year old Peeya Payae is under arrest at Vachira Hospital today, after allegedly killing his girlfriend by stabbing her in the head and then stabbing her brother before jumping off Khao Rang Viewpoint in an attempted suicide.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012292-pattani-man-kills-his-girlfriend-stabs-brother-then-jumps-off-khao-rang-viewpoint/

 

Neighbor beaten to death after asking rowing couple to keep the noise down

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A neighbor trying to watch the nightly soaps had enough when a couple next door were arguing loudly.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012294-neighbor-beaten-to-death-after-asking-rowing-couple-to-keep-the-noise-down/

 

Tourists generate 2.1 trillion baht during first 10 months

 

BANGKOK, 21 November 2017 (NNT) - The Permanent Secretary for Tourism and Sports, Pongpanu Svetarundra, said arrivals to Thailand generated tourism revenue of more than 2.1 trillion baht during the first 10 months of 2017. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012296-tourists-generate-21-trillion-baht-during-first-10-months/

 

Thai students win medals in 11th International Astrophysics and Astronomy Olympiad

 

PHUKET, 20 November 2017 (NNT) – Five Thai students have won two gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal in the 11th International Astrophysics and Astronomy Olympiad. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012298-thai-students-win-medals-in-11th-international-astrophysics-and-astronomy-olympiad/