THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Monday 4 Dec 2017

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Minivan driver, just 18, sleeps at the wheel - many family members injured

 

Image: Daily News

 

A family who rented a minivan and two drivers ended up in the central reservation of the Petchkasem Highway yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014337-minivan-driver-just-18-sleeps-at-the-wheel-many-family-members-injured/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Video: Road rage with a golf club and a little kid in the car

 

 

A road rage incident in Chiang Mai has been viewed on Facebook more than two million times.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014338-video-road-rage-with-a-golf-club-and-a-little-kid-in-the-car/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Thai woman abandoned by agency in freezing South Korea

 

Image: Thairath

 

A translator went on Facebook to report that a 46 year old Thai woman had been abandoned by an agency who she paid to find her work in South Korea.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014344-thai-woman-abandoned-by-agency-in-freezing-south-korea/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Korat farmer killed by his own tractor

 

 

A Pak Chong, Korat, farmer who apparently left his tractor in gear was killed after being run over and crushed on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014346-korat-farmer-killed-by-his-own-tractor/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Officials welcome inaugural Nakhon Ratchasima-Phuket flight

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

 

PHUKET: At 2.45pm yesterday (Dec 3), Phuket Vice Governor Prakob Wongmaneerung welcomed the Governor of Nakhon Ratchasima Wichian Janthorn-otai and other passengers who were on board Phuket’s first direct flight from Nakhon Ratchasima by New Gen Airways.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014347-officials-welcome-inaugural-nakhon-ratchasima-phuket-flight/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Call center gangs beware - tourism cop Surachet is coming for you!

 

 

The head of the tourism police has been put in charge of operations to rid the country of the scourge of call centers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014351-call-center-gangs-beware-tourism-cop-surachet-is-coming-for-you/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Samsung unveils stunning new flip phone, which you’ll probably never be able to buy

 

 

The W2018, Samsung’s next generation high-end flip phone has been unleashed on the Chinese market.

 

This market seems to demand flip phones with the Samsung W2018 being initially introduced with China Telecom.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/samsung-unveils-stunning-new-flip-phone-youll-probablyu-never-able-buy/26051/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Here’s a round up of new tech released in Thailand this week – 04 Dec

 

 

Here's a round of the best new tech released in Thailand this week, which includes a new Oppo smartphone and a pair of Bluetooth headphones with a 22 day battery life.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/heres-round-new-tech-released-thailand-week-04-dec/26043/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Bangkok taxi driver masturbates while three girls are on their way to school

 

 

Sanook reported that a man went on Facebook to post a picture of a Bangkok cabby masturbating while there were three schoolgirls in his taxi.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014352-bangkok-taxi-driver-masturbates-while-three-girls-are-on-their-way-to-school/

 

[webfact]

More Bangkok schools to teach special needs children

By The Nation

 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to develop more of its schools to be able to teach children with special needs.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014355-more-bangkok-schools-to-teach-special-needs-children/

 

[webfact]

Baby dies as Bangkok slum fire levels 22 houses

By The Nation

 

 

A four-month-old baby died in a fire that razed 22 wooden houses in a squatter community in Bangkok’s Lat Krabang district late Sunday night.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014356-baby-dies-as-bangkok-slum-fire-levels-22-houses/

 

[webfact]

Marines rush aid to flood victims in Narathiwat

By The Nation

 

Marines handed out drinking water and instant food to 500 flood victim families in Narathiwat's Mueang district on Monday morning, with much of the southern border province still under water.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014358-marines-rush-aid-to-flood-victims-in-narathiwat/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Breaking: Carnage in South Pattaya as "epileptic" man plows into people/bikes

 

Image: Channel 3

 

Two people are dead and more than a dozen were injured - two seriously - after a pick-up driven by an epileptic man plowed into crowds and motorcycles on a busy South Pattaya Road.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014357-carnage-in-south-pattaya-as-epileptic-man-plows-into-peoplebikes/

 

[webfact]

Amazing Pattaya - the roads and sidewalks are just an embarrassment

 

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

Sophon Cable TV posted that nothing had been done about the dangerous state of the road in a popular tourist area - Soi Bua Khao.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014361-amazing-pattaya-the-roads-and-sidewalks-are-just-an-embarrassment/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

For security agencies, blockchain goes from suspect to potential solution

By Jeremy Wagstaff and Byron Kaye

 

 

(Reuters) - Police and security agencies have so far only taken an interest in blockchain - the distributed ledger technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin - for tracking criminals hiding illegal money from banks.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014360-for-security-agencies-blockchain-goes-from-suspect-to-potential-solution/

 

[webfact]

No vendors to be allowed on Phuket’s Surin Beach

Premkamon Ketsara

 

Cherng Talay Tambon Administration Organisation (OrBorTor) MaAan Samran. Photo: Premkamon Ketsara

 

PHUKET: It was decided at a meeting held at 2pm on Friday (Dec 1) at the Thalang District Office that no vendors are to be allowed on Phuket’ Surin Beach with immediate effect.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014364-no-vendors-to-be-allowed-on-phuket’s-surin-beach/

 

[webfact]

Thailand cracks down on rogue monks who indulge in sex, scams, transvestism

 

BANGKOK - Thailand's Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) has launched a nationwide crackdown on rogue monks who indulge in sex, scams, transvestism and politics.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014366-thailand-cracks-down-on-rogue-monks-who-indulge-in-sex-scams-transvestism/

 

[webfact]

PM donates money, thanks Toon for doing good deeds for the country

By Thai PBS

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha made personal donations to Artiwara “Toon” Kongmalai’s charity run project and thanked him for doing good deed for the country as the rocker called on the PM at the Government House Monday morning (Dec 4).

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014371-pm-donates-money-thanks-toon-for-doing-good-deeds-for-the-country/

 

[webfact]

UPDATE: 

 

Toon Bodyslam stops to meet PM during 2,000km charity run

By Prae Sakaowan

 

Photo: Kao/ Facebook

 

A month after starting his run at the southernmost point of Thailand, rock star “Toon Bodyslam” has reached Bangkok and met with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha this morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014371-pm-donates-money-thanks-toon-for-doing-good-deeds-for-the-country/?do=findComment&comment=12506878

[webfact]

China says resurfacing tensions on Korean peninsula regrettable

 

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a joint news conference with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (not pictured) at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China November 24, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday that after two months of relative calm on the Korean peninsula, the resurfacing of tensions was regrettable.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014372-china-says-resurfacing-tensions-on-korean-peninsula-regrettable/

 

[webfact]

Bounce for Australian PM as voters tire of leadership roundabout

By Tom Westbrook

 

Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attends the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Danang, Vietnam November 11, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Embattled Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull received an unexpected boost from an opinion poll on Monday that showed voters want their leaders to govern for their full terms rather than the revolving door that has marked Australian politics.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014374-bounce-for-australian-pm-as-voters-tire-of-leadership-roundabout/

 

[webfact]

France should know that Iran's missiles are not negotiable - spokesman

 

FILE PHOTO: A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran September 27, 2017. Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi/TIMA/File Photo via REUTERS

 

BEIRUT (Reuters) - France should know that Iran’s missile programme is not an issue that can be negotiated, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Bahram Qassemi, said in an interview with state media on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014375-france-should-know-that-irans-missiles-are-not-negotiable-spokesman/

 

[webfact]

Breaking news : Suspicious packages found at Myanmar Embassy are fake bombs

 

 

The Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok suspended services in its visa section on Monday after finding two suspicious packages that had been mailed to the embassy. The packages however turned out to be fake bombs.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014376-suspicious-packages-found-at-myanmar-embassy-are-fake-bombs/

 

[webfact]

Don in dark over claim of UK passport for Yingluck

By The Nation

 

 

Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai has denied a report of unknown origin that Britain had granted fugitive ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra a passport.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014377-don-in-dark-over-claim-of-uk-passport-for-yingluck/

 

[webfact]

Thailand confident of improved ranking in corruption perception index

By Thai PBS

 

 

Thailand believes its corruption ranking in international communities will improve this year after the country has shown strong determination to curb and suppress corruption by setting a four-year national stratagy to tackle the problem drastically.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014379-thailand-confident-of-improved-ranking-in-corruption-perception-index/

 

[webfact]

Results of cadet’s autopsy expected next week

By The Nation

 

The results of an autopsy conducted on the remains of Army cadet Pakhapong Tanyakan, the circumstances of whose death are in question, should be released next week, the director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science said on Monday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014380-results-of-cadet’s-autopsy-expected-next-week/

 

[webfact]

UPDATE:

 

Toon needs another day’s rest, will resume run Wednesday

By The Nation

 

 

Charity-run hero Artiwara “Toon” Kongmalai will take his doctors’ advice and have another day off to rest, resuming his cross-country campaign in Bangkok on Wednesday instead of Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014371-pm-donates-money-thanks-toon-for-doing-good-deeds-for-the-country/

 

[webfact]

Apple releases iOS 11.2 to fix the latest round of bugs and glitches

BY STAFF WRITER

 

REUTERS/Stephen Lam/Files

 

iOS 11.2 has now officially been released after a month of beta testing. For all eligible iPhone, iPad and iPad touch users – it can be downloaded now.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/apple-releases-ios-11-2-fix-latest-round-bugs-glitches/26056/

[webfact]

Australia to probe Facebook, Google over media disruption

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Files

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether U.S. online giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google has disrupted the news media market to the detriment of publishers and consumers.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/australia-probe-facebook-google-media-disruption/26058/

[webfact]

NACC reminds new cabinet members to declare assets within 30 days

 

 

BANGKOK, 4th December 2017, (NNT) - The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has reminded new cabinet members to declare their assets within 30 days. 

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1014384-nacc-reminds-new-cabinet-members-to-declare-assets-within-30-days/