Thailand arrests woman wanted over deadly 2015 bombing at shrine

By Patpicha Tanakasempipat

 

Wanna Suansan, who is wanted in connection with a deadly 2015 bombing, receives a medical examination at Royal Thai Police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Patpicha Tanakasempipat

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police in Thailand on Wednesday arrested a woman wanted in connection with a 2015 bombing in Bangkok that killed 20 people, 14 of them foreign tourists.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012599-thailand-arrests-woman-wanted-over-deadly-2015-bombing-at-shrine/

"Wins" chase "Grab Bike" and passenger through streets of Bangkok - assault charges laid

 

 

Police in Huay Khwang have charged two motorcycle taxi riders with assault and threatening behavior after they tried to attack a Grab Bike rider and his female passenger on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012602-wins-chase-grab-bike-and-passenger-through-streets-of-bangkok-assault-charges-laid/

"Bus-gate" -  red faces as international passengers from Vietnam bused to Domestic Terminal by mistake

 

 

Red faced immigration and airport staff at Don Meuang were forced to admit that a plane load of incoming passengers from Vietnam were taken from the aircraft to the domestic terminal instead of international arrivals.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012605-bus-gate-red-faces-as-international-passengers-from-vietnam-bused-to-domestic-terminal-by-mistake/

 

Video: Fate strikes again.... though no one dies in latest Thai road madness!

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A dash cam video next to a bridge showed pedestrians and light traffic going about their normal business on a lovely, sunny Wednesday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012629-video-fate-strikes-again-though-no-one-dies-in-latest-thai-road-madness/

 

Till death us do part.... joshing couple in lucky escape as wife "playfully" shoots husband in the head in Surin

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

A Thai wife said she shot her husband in the head after the pair were having some fun in a resort room in Surin.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012631-till-death-us-do-part-joshing-couple-in-lucky-escape-as-wife-playfully-shoots-husband-in-the-head-in-surin/

 

Experts sceptical of govt’s sudden interest in human rights

By KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION 

 

HUMAN RIGHTS advocates yesterday expressed scepticism at the junta-backed government’s latest attempt to make “human rights” a national agenda item, saying violations by the regime remain a daily reality.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012633-experts-sceptical-of-thai-govt’s-sudden-interest-in-human-rights/

 

UPDATE:

 

Prayut seeks royal approval for Cabinet reshuffle

By The Nation

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha drives an electric go-cart around Government House yesterday after it was brought to the compound as an exhibit of inventions by students in the Eastern Economic Corridor.

 

PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday confirmed that the new Cabinet list had been forwarded for royal endorsement.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012554-new-cabinet-list-sent-for-royal-endorsement/?do=findComment&comment=12473294

 

Disasters now dubbed ‘national threats’

By The Nation

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, in his capacity as head of the National Council for Peace and Order, has invoked Article 44 to amend the internal security law with the definition of “national threats” being expanded to cover disasters, including natural related incidents.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012634-disasters-now-dubbed-‘national-threats’/

 

Plan to cede police powers to agencies

By KHANITTHA THEPPHAJORN 
THE NATION 

 

File photo

 

TRAFFIC AMONG AREAS CITED UNDER PROPOSAL APPROVED BY NATIONAL REFORM COMMITTEE

THE POLICE force will transfer many of its current key missions to other agencies if the reform plan approved by the National Reform Committee on Judicial Affairs sails ahead. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012635-plan-to-cede-police-powers-to-agencies/

 

Owner compensates victims of funfair ride accident

By Suthinan Khongsin 
The Nation

 

 

The owner of the funfair ride that broke apart on Sunday night in Samut Prakan has agreed to pay compensation to the 15 people injured in the incident, police said on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012636-owner-compensates-victims-of-funfair-ride-accident/

 

Cadet died ‘due to health issue’

By THE NATION

 

 

Deputy PM Prawit says corporal |punishment is common practice in the military and there was no wrongdoing.

DESPITE a family’s concerns, the death of an 18-year-old cadet at a military academy was not caused by any irregularity or wrongdoing, senior officials insisted yesterday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012637-cadet-died-‘due-to-health-issue’/

 

Police to look at bank records in match-fixing case

By KAMPANART LA-ONG 
THE NATION 

 

National police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda

 

POLICE will extend the scope of their investigation into alleged match-fixing in Thailand’s top football league by examining the bank accounts of the 12 people suspected of involvement in the scandal to trace the money trail, a police source said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012638-police-to-look-at-bank-records-in-match-fixing-case/

 

UPDATE:

 

Erawan Shrine bomb suspect arrested at Suvarnabhumi

By SURIYA PATATHAYO 
THE NATION 

 

 

THE THAI woman implicated in the deadly Erawan Shrine bomb attack is now in Thai police custody.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012599-thailand-arrests-woman-wanted-over-deadly-2015-bombing-at-shrine/?do=findComment&comment=12473329

 

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Sap admits being hired to lie on behalf of Jomsap

By THAWEE APISAKULCHAT 
THE NATION 

 

Mukdahan man Sap Wapi surrenders to Nakhon Phanom police yesterday over a perjury charge.

 

SAP WAPI faces a charge of perjury after admitting he was hired to falsely confess to being the driver in the fatal 2005 hit-and-run accident for which teacher Jomsap Saenmuangkhot was jailed.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012527-sap-admits-being-paid-to-lie-on-jomsap’s-behalf/?do=findComment&comment=12473334

 

Man arrested for allegedly duped GSB in Khon Kaen of 38 million baht in housing loans

By Thai PBS

 

 

Police have arrested a man who allegedly duped the Government Housing Bank in Khon Kaen to grant housing loans to 14 individuals totaling 38 million baht with forged government documents.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012639-man-arrested-for-allegedly-duped-gsb-in-khon-kaen-of-38-million-baht-in-housing-loans/

 

EDITORIAL

Migration is not a crime

By The Nation

 

By jailing 300 Uighurs in 2014, Thailand was caught in an international bind, eased somewhat by the escape last weekend of the few still remaining in custody

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012640-migration-is-not-a-crime/

 

OPINION

North Korea-US negotiations? No light at the end of the tunnel   

By Suthichai Yoon 
The Nation

 

When I sat down with North Korean Ambassador to Thailand Mun Song Mo last week for a rare interview, one question uppermost in my mind was whether there was room for negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington to put an end to the ongoing crisis on the Korea peninsula.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012642-north-korea-us-negotiations-no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel- /

 

'The people have spoken,' says Zimbabwe's new leader

By MacDonald Dzirutwe

 

Zimbabwe's former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in as president on Friday marking a new era for a country dominated by Robert Mugabe for nearly four decades. 

 

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's new leader Emmerson Mnangagwa told a cheering crowd in Harare on Wednesday that the country was entering a new stage of democracy following Robert Mugabe's removal as president after nearly four decades in power.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012643-the-people-have-spoken-says-zimbabwes-new-leader/

 

German Social Democrats face pressure over coalition talks

By Andrea Shalal

 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Martin Schulz as they attend a meeting of the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, November 21, 2017. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) faced pressure on Wednesday to consider offering coalition talks to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives to settle the worst political crisis in modern German history.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012644-german-social-democrats-face-pressure-over-coalition-talks/

 

Putin wins backing from Iran, Turkey for new Syria peace push

By Denis Pinchuk and Stephen Kalin

 

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin via REUTERS

 

SOCHI, Russia/RIYADH (Reuters) - Russia's Vladimir Putin won the backing of Turkey and Iran on Wednesday to host a Syrian peace congress, taking the central role in a major diplomatic push to finally end a civil war all but won by Moscow's ally, President Bashar al-Assad.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012645-putin-wins-backing-from-iran-turkey-for-new-syria-peace-push/

 

Lebanon's PM Hariri shelves resignation, easing crisis

By Ellen Francis and Laila Bassam

 

Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon's prime minister from Saudi Arabia arrives to attend a military parade to celebrate the 74th anniversary of Lebanon's independence in downtown Beirut, Lebanon November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir?

 

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri on Wednesday shelved his decision to resign as prime minister at the request of President Michel Aoun, easing a crisis that had deepened tensions in the Middle East.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012646-lebanons-pm-hariri-shelves-resignation-easing-crisis/

 

Search for missing Argentine submarine reaches 'critical phase'

By Walter Bianchi and Nicolás Misculin

 

Members of the Argentine Navy look down at the sea from an airplane during a flight to search for the ARA San Juan submarine missing at sea, Argentina November 22, 2017. Argentine Navy/Handout via REUTERS

 

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The search for an Argentine navy submarine missing in the South Atlantic for one week reached a "critical phase" on Wednesday as the 44 crew on board could be running low on oxygen, a navy spokesman said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012647-search-for-missing-argentine-submarine-reaches-critical-phase/

 

Pressure mounts on U.S. Rep. Conyers after sexual harassment allegations

By Amanda Becker

 

FILE PICTURE: Committee chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) holds a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the George W. Bush presidency, called "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitation", on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 25, 2008. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative John Conyers faced additional fallout on Wednesday related to sexual harassment accusations made by former staffers, as a fellow Democrat called for his resignation and two more suggested he give up a prominent committee post.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012648-pressure-mounts-on-us-rep-conyers-after-sexual-harassment-allegations/

 

JPMorgan's Dimon says Trump likely to be a one-term president

By Richa Naidu and David Henry

 

FILE PHOTO: JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon speaks at a Remain in the EU campaign event attended by Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (not shown) at JP Morgan's corporate centre in Bournemouth, southern Britain, June 3, 2016. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/File Photo

 

CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N>, on Wednesday said he expects to see a new U.S. president in 2021 and advised the Democratic party to come up with a "pro-free enterprise" agenda for jobs and economic growth instead.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012653-jpmorgans-dimon-says-trump-likely-to-be-a-one-term-president/

 

Russian billionaire under investigation in France

By Matthias Galante and Katya Golubkova

 

Dagestani born tycoon Suleiman Kerimov watches a soccer match between Anzhi and Spartak in Moscow April 22, 2012. Kerimov built his multi-billion-dollar fortune with an appetite for risk, debt and excellent political connections. Yet there are signs that the secretive mining tycoon has used up his credit with President Vladimir Putin, who exerts a tight grip over the strategic natural resources that fuel Russia's $2 trillion economy. The 47-year-old from Dagestan has found himself in a tight spot after his company Uralkali pulled out of a potash cartel with Belarus in July, upsetting the market and infuriating a close - if difficult - ex-Soviet ally. Picture taken April 22, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer

 

NICE/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A French judge put Russian businessman and lawmaker Suleiman Kerimov, whose interests the Kremlin has pledged to defend, under formal investigation on Wednesday after his arrest linked to a French tax evasion case, the prosecutor said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012655-russian-billionaire-under-investigation-in-france/

 

Uber breach, cover-up trigger government probes around the globe

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Toby Melville/Illustration/File Photo

 

TORONTO (Reuters) – Governments around the globe launched investigations into Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] after the company disclosed it had covered up a breach that exposed data on millions of customers and drivers, the latest scandal to rock the ride-hailing firm.

 

Full story:  https://tech.thaivisa.com/uber-breach-cover-trigger-government-probes-around-globe/25816/

U.S. attorney general orders review of gun background check system

 

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions waits to speak at the Federalist Society's 2017 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, U.S., November 17, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday ordered a review of a government database used for background checks on gun buyers, after a man who killed 26 people in a Texas church was left off the system despite having a criminal record.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012656-us-attorney-general-orders-review-of-gun-background-check-system/

 

South Korea considers scrapping exercise with U.S. for Olympics - Yonhap

 

FILE PHOTO: The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games logo is seen at the the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea, September 27, 2017. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski/File Photo

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is considering scrapping a regular military exercise with U.S. forces next year to minimise the risk of an aggressive North Korean reaction during the Winter Olympics in the South, the Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012657-south-korea-considers-scrapping-exercise-with-us-for-olympics-yonhap/

 

"Large pedophile gang of foreign retirees" operating in Pattaya, says Thai media

 

Picture: TNews

 

Thai media claims that a large gang of foreign pedophile retirees is molesting young teenage boys in Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012662-large-pedophile-gang-of-foreign-retirees-operating-in-pattaya-says-thai-media/

 

More magic on its way with Bruno Mars

By THE NATION

 

 

Multiple Grammy-winner Bruno Mars, who’s sold more than 170 million singles and 26 million albums, returns to Thailand next April 30 for a show at Impact Arena in Muang Thong Thani.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1012665-more-magic-on-its-way-with-bruno-mars/