Investor confidence up as FETCO sees growth next year

 

 

BANGKOK, 19 December 2017 (NNT) – The Federation of Thai Capital Markets Organization (FETCO) is forecasting economic expansion in Thailand of 4.2 percent next year with exports and investment to continue growing while also assessing that investor confidence over the next 3 months may temper somewhat but continue on an uptrend. 

 

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Britain's new 3 billion pound warship has a leak

 

The Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is docked the day it was commissioned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth, December 7, 2017. PO(Phot) Si Ethell/Royal Navy handout via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest ever warship, the new 3.1 billion pound ($4.2 billion) aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, has a leak and needs repairs, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Tuesday.

 

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Thai junta says it will lift ban on politics, paving way for election

By Aukkarapon Niyomyat

 

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha attends the opening session of the 31st ASEAN Summit in Manila, Philippines, November 13, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday he would use a special order that gives the military sweeping powers to lift a ban on political activity that has been in place since a 2014 coup, paving the way for a 2018 general election.

 

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Assad says France sponsors terrorism, cannot talk about peace

 

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview with RIA Novosti and Sputnik in this handout picture provided by SANA on April 21, 2017, Syria. SANA/Handout via REUTERS

 

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad attacked France on Tuesday, accusing it of supporting bloodshed in his country making it unfit to talk about a peace settlement.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016585-assad-says-france-sponsors-terrorism-cannot-talk-about-peace/

 

UPDATE:

 

PM to extend deadline for parties to update membership lists

By The Nation

 

 

The junta chief will exercise his absolute power under Article 44 to extend the deadline for political parties to proceed with their administrative work, including updating their party member lists, despite the fact that the ban on political activities remains.

 

Source: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016580-thai-junta-says-it-will-lift-ban-on-politics-paving-way-for-election/?do=findComment&comment=12550515

Prawit, Somkid deny NCPO-backed party being set up

By Thai PBS

 

 

Deputy prime ministers Prawit Wongsuwon and Somkid Jatusripitak have denied a report that the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) may set up a nominee party to push for Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha to be prime minister after the next general election.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016586-prawit-somkid-deny-ncpo-backed-party-being-set-up/

 

Services to be held for Phuket expat Cassius Rolfe-Johnson

 

Services and mass prayers by monks will be held at Wat Cherng Talay tonight (Dec 19), from 7pm. Image: Google Maps

 

PHUKET: Friends are invited to attend mass prayers for long-term Phuket expat Cassius Peter Rolfe-Johnson, who passed away on Saturday (Dec 16).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016587-services-to-be-held-for-phuket-expat-cassius-rolfe-johnson/

 

UPDATE:

 

Krabi kid fenced at home after tragic accident

The father has brought him to several hospitals in Phuket, Trang and Krabi but says his son has never recovered. The boy likes to run away into the jungle or to the dam making his father very worried so he built a 2x2 metre wooden cage to restrain him while he was working away from home.

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

A Krabi man, Chamnan Duangchan, the father 9 year old Poramet Duangchan, is crying out for help after his son was hit by a car and become so worried that he feels he has to keep his son in a cage while working away from home.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016414-father-in-krabi-keeps-nine-year-old-son-in-cage-for-five-years/?do=findComment&comment=12550579

 

 

Ladyboy ‘changed lifestyle’ to avoid arrest over motorbike theft

By Khanathit Srihirundaj 
The Nation

 

 

Police have arrested a 20-year-old “ladyboy”, who allegedly had cosmetic surgery in an attempt to elude capture, over the theft of a motorcyle in Bang Khen district in February 2015.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016603-ladyboy-‘changed-lifestyle’-to-avoid-arrest-over-motorbike-theft/

 

Academics urge Cabinet to reconsider ‘damaging’ draft plans for national minerals management

By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation

 

 

A group of academics has urged the Cabinet to reconsider the draft national minerals management plans on the grounds that they contain many serious flaws, which they argue would cause wide-ranging damage to the country and citizens.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016604-academics-urge-cabinet-to-reconsider-‘damaging’-draft-plans-for-national-minerals-management/

 

Woman has the perfect response to SMS scammer

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

A woman has got her own back – and become the internet’s new hero in the process – after being bombarded with scam text messages.

 

Full Story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/woman-perfect-response-sms-scammer/26393/

Samsung Galaxy S9 to have much improved battery, new leak suggests

BY STAFF WRITER

 

Galaxy S8

 

One of the criticisms that many of us have about our smartphones is the battery life.

 

Full Story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-much-improved-battery-new-leak-suggests/26397/

AirAsia, Firefly stewardesses' uniforms too sexy: Malaysian MPs

 

Air Asia

 

Two Malaysian ruling party lawmakers have chided homegrown low-cost airlines AirAsia and Firefly for dressing their stewardesses in uniforms that are "too revealing".

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016607-airasia-firefly-stewardesses-uniforms-too-sexy-malaysian-mps/

 

Has The Watch Struck Four For Embattled Prawit?

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

File photo of Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan in a May 2016 photo. Photo: Defense Ministry / Lakmuangonline.com

 

BANGKOK — As if three undeclared wristwatches were not enough, deputy junta leader Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan was spotted wearing what appears to be a fourth pricey timepiece in a photo Tuesday as an anti-corruption agency awaits clarification on the first.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016617-has-the-watch-struck-four-for-embattled-prawit/

 

Dutch man arrested for double "revenge" murder of Thai girlfriend's mother and brother

 

Image: Daily News

 

Surin police suspect a 53 year old man from the Netherlands murdered his ex girlfriend's mother and brother at the family house.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1016628-dutch-man-arrested-for-double-revenge-murder-of-thai-girlfriends-mother-and-brother/

 

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