Inspire & Thaivisa Gala Dinner with Frank Bruno at Four Points by Sheraton

 

When - Wednesday, 17 January 2018 at 19:30–22:30

 

Where - Four Points by Sheraton Bangkok, Sukhumvit 15

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1299211190182797/

 

 

November poll ‘impossible’

By Wasamon Audjarint 
The Nation

 

Pheu Thai Party’s former deputy secretary general Chavalit Witchayasuth (left), Democrat Party’s deputy leader (second from right) and outgoing election Commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn (right) attend a forum on election yesterday.

 

Critics slam use of article 44 as harming democracy while weakening existing political parties by essentially resetting playing field
 

DESPITE the junta leader’s claim to promote an inclusive democracy, the new Article 44 order to extend deadlines for political party activity would instead make a November election “impossible” and weaken public participation in the political system, observers and academics said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017349-november-poll-‘impossible’/

 

Police appeal for public help to lower holiday road toll

By Pratch Rujivanarom, 
Suriya Patatayo 
The Nation 

 

 

THE Academic Centre for Road Safety said yesterday that drunk driving remained the issue of greatest concern regarding road safety, as people may celebrate for a longer time during the upcoming holidays compared to previous years.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017350-police-appeal-for-public-help-to-lower-holiday-road-toll/

 

UPDATE:

 

‘Toon’ campaign exceeds Bt1 bn in donations

By The Nation

 

 

THE CHARITY run by Bodyslam frontman Artiwara “Toon” Kongmalai hit more than Bt1 billion in donations yesterday afternoon.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017305-toon-ploughs-on-amid-chill-as-he-inches-towards-finish/?do=findComment&comment=12564214

 

UPDATE:

 

‘Inspirational’ police inspector commits suicide at RTP office

By The Nation

 

 

A 30-YEAR-OLD police inspector, who reportedly suffered from stress and depression, apparently committed suicide yesterday morning by shooting himself at his office inside the Royal Thai Police (RTP) headquarters in Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017300-‘depressed’-inspector-kills-himself-in-police-headquarters/?do=findComment&comment=12564216

 

Education policy given a failing grade

By Chularat Saengpassa 
The Nation

 

Athapol Anunthavorasakul

 

Academic says reforms shortsighted and politicised due to lack of coordination

AS 2017 comes to a close, a prominent educator has compared top education policymakers to inefficient orchestra conductors given their recent performance. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017351-education-policy-given-a-failing-grade/

 

Jazz legend Brian McKnight to perform at Thailand International Jazz Festival 2018

 

 

The Thailand International Jazz Festival 2018 is scheduled to take place from 2 to 3 February at Singha Park, Chiang Rai, with global jazz legend Brian McKnight leading a lineup of award-winning artists and emerging jazz stars from around the world along with talented local performers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017352-jazz-legend-brian-mcknight-to-perform-at-thailand-international-jazz-festival-2018-in-chiang-rai/

 

Toxic waste plant fire causes building closure

By Thanapat Kitjjakosol 
The Nation

 

A waste-stabilising building within the compound of a factory for industrial and toxic waste disposal in Sa Kaew’s Watthana Nakhon district has been temporarily closed following a fire on Saturday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017353-toxic-waste-plant-fire-causes-building-closure-in-sa-kaew/

 

Flooded village declared disaster zone

By The Nation

 

 

The southern province of Songkhla has declared a village in Singha Nakhon district’s Tambon Hua Khao to be a disaster zone after strong and relentless waves severely damaged 20 seaside homes and drove 52 families to evacuate as a precaution, a senior official said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017354-songkhla-flooded-village-declared-disaster-zone/

 

Truck brings down power poles in Samut Prakan

By The Nation

 

 

A truck snagged overhead cables and pulled down 18 power poles on the outbound lane of Theparak Road in Samut Prakan province on Sunday morning, causing severe traffic jams and leaving nearby residents without electricity.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017355-truck-brings-down-power-poles-in-samut-prakan/

 

EDITORIAL

Digital TV operators in desperate need of assistance

 

The NBTC must evaluate its true role and heed their cries for help or 2018 will be as bad

 

If 2014 and 2015 saw dark clouds gathering over the digital TV industry, 2017 brought a real, gigantic storm. It will very likely continue in 2018, unless the regulator – the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission – takes concrete steps in fulfilling its mission, which is to make it tenable for truly new players to play a significant part in industries that have been dominated by the state and big corporates.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017356-digital-tv-operators-in-desperate-need-of-assistance/

 

Robber in Chalong caught last night

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

  

At 1 am this morning Chalong police received a report about a robbery in Aek Anda Village in Soi Anusorn and managed to catch 27 year old Aed Bangjak, who lives in Rawai. He was carrying a sack with him at the time. Inside the sack police found aluminium parts, a set of screwdrivers and other robbery equipment.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017357-robber-caught-in-chalong/

 

1 Million Thai Teens Suffer From Depression: Official

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Middle-school students at the Parliament Museum in a 2010 file photo. Photo: Office of the Prime Minister

 

BANGKOK — Thailand may be known as the “Land of Smiles” but an estimated 1 million teenagers suffer clinical depression, many of whom are going untreated, said the nation’s chief mental health official Boonruang Trairuangworawat on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017360-1-million-thai-teens-suffer-from-depression-official/

 

Meechai assures no “set zero” for old political parties

By Thai PBS

 

 

Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) chairman Meechai Ruchupan reiterated on Sunday (Dec 24) that the NCPO’s order 53/2560 was not intended to “set zero” the memberships of old political parties, but to ease time constraint to allow old and new parties alike to make preparations so that they can contest the next general election.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017361-meechai-assures-no-“set-zero”-for-old-political-parties/

 

13 beaches with good environmental condition named

By Thai PBS

 

 

Thirteen beaches in six provinces have been found to be of a very good environmental condition in an assessment by the Pollution Control Department of the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017362-13-thai-beaches-with-good-environmental-condition-named/

 

Thai monetary policy can remain accommodative despite higher U.S. rates: central bank chief

Reuters Staff

 

FILE PHOTO: Thailand's Central Bank Governor Veerathai Santiprabhob speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Bank of Thailand in Bangkok, Thailand, December 24, 2017. REUTERS/Matthew Tostevin

 

CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Thailand’s central bank can continue its accommodative monetary policy to aid the country’s economic recovery, although the U.S. Federal Reserve keeps raising its interest rates, the central bank governor said on Saturday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017363-thai-monetary-policy-can-remain-accommodative-despite-higher-us-rates-central-bank-chief/

 

Trump's Christmas wish - 'We've got prosperity. Now we want peace'

By Roberta Rampton

 

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) Santa Tracker phone calls with children at Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 24, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - On Christmas Eve, U.S. President Donald Trump took calls from children, asking them what they wanted most from Santa, and revealing what was on his own wish list.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017364-trumps-christmas-wish-weve-got-prosperity-now-we-want-peace/

 

Guatemala to move embassy to Jerusalem, backing Trump

 

People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

 

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said on Sunday he had given instructions to move the Central American country's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a few days after his government backed the United States in a row over the city's status.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017366-guatemala-to-move-embassy-to-jerusalem-backing-trump/

 

Pope, on Christmas Eve, says faith demands respect of immigrants

By Philip Pullella

 

Pope Francis arrives during the traditional midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve at the Vatican December 24, 2017. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

 

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis strongly defended immigrants at his Christmas Eve Mass on Sunday, comparing them to Mary and Joseph finding no place to stay in Bethlehem and saying faith demands that foreigners be welcomed.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017367-pope-on-christmas-eve-says-faith-demands-respect-of-immigrants/

 

Peru president summons Cabinet to discuss Fujimori - source

By Mitra Taj

 

Supporters shout slogans next to an image of former President Alberto Fujimori during a vigil for his recovery outside Clinica Centenario Peruano Japonesa in Lima, Peru December 24, 2017. The sign reads "'Chino' freedom now". REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo.

 

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has summoned his Cabinet for an extraordinary meeting on Christmas Eve to discuss former President Alberto Fujimori's request to be freed from prison, a government source told Reuters on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017368-peru-president-summons-cabinet-to-discuss-fujimori-source/

 

Swiss president wants a vote to clarify country's EU position

By John Revill

 

Swiss Federal President Doris Leuthard attends the One Planet Summit at the Seine Musicale center in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, France, December 12, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

 

ZURICH (Reuters) - A referendum in Switzerland to clarify the country's relationship with the European Union would be helpful, Swiss President Doris Leuthard said on Sunday, after ties between the two sides cooled this week.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017369-swiss-president-wants-a-vote-to-clarify-countrys-eu-position/

 

UPDATE:

 

Peru's president pardons ex-leader Fujimori, citing his health

 

FILE PHOTO - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is seen during an interview with Reuters at his house in "Hacienda Chiucureo" neighborhood, some 30 km (18 mile) north of Santiago, September 21, 2007. REUTERS/Esteban Medel/File Photo

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017368-peru-president-summons-cabinet-to-discuss-fujimori-source/?do=findComment&comment=12564358

 

Thalang car crash kills one year old baby

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

  

At almost midnight (December 24), at Saladaeng intersection on Thepkasattri Road in Thalang, a 6-wheel bus crashed into a car, resulting in one casualty and two injured passengers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017371-thalang-car-crash-kills-one-year-old-baby/

 

Driver killed as petrol tanker crashes

By The Nation

 

 

A tanker truck overturned on a highway in Phrae’s Rong Kwang district on Monday morning, causing many explosions and a fierce fire. The tanker’s driver, Chaichana Praphan, is believed to have been killed in the blaze.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017404-driver-killed-as-petrol-tanker-crashes/

 

Tight security in place for New Year’s Eve

By Kornkamol Aksorndej 
The Nation

 

 

Police have prepared security plans for key sites for New Year celebrations and prayers in Bangkok.

 

Deputy Metropolitan Police Commissioner Pol Maj-General Montri Yimyaem disclosed on Monday that there would be key sites for the countdown to the New Year in the capital. They are CentralWorld, Khao San Road, Asiatique and Crystal Design Centre. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017406-tight-security-in-place-for-new-year’s-eve-in-bangkok/

 

Man shoots wife, then kills himself in front of their children in Nonthaburi

 

 

A man estranged from his wife shot her and then himself in front of their children outside their school in Nonthaburi province on Monday morning. The mother had reportedly refused to go back to him.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017408-man-shoots-wife-then-kills-himself-in-front-of-their-children-in-nonthaburi/

 

Weather warning as deadly Tembin approaches

By The Nation

 

 

A weather warning for Tropical Storm Tembin has been issued for the southern provinces, as the storm is expected to pass through southern Vietnam on Tuesday and hit Thailand later in the week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017409-weather-warning-for-southern-provinces-as-deadly-tembin-approaches/

 

Democracy must have good governance, says Prayut

By The Nation

 

PM Prayut pays worship to Phra Phuttha Chinnarat at Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat in Phitsanulok province

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday addressed a group of people with disabilities, who came to see him during his fourth mobile Cabinet meeting in Phitsanulok province, with a rhetorical question: Do they want to have an election to find someone else to replace him?

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017410-democracy-must-have-good-governance-says-prayut/

 

Political parties given until April to survey members

By The Nation

 

 

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam has advised political parties to begin contacting their members via phone or online channels from today to avoid losing them.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017411-political-parties-given-until-april-to-survey-members/

 

Prayut finds a feathered friend

By The Nation

 

 

Perhaps tired of taking the heat from humans, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday chose instead to enjoy a brief one-way conversation with a fighting cock in Phitsanulok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017412-prayut-finds-a-feathered-friend/