Bride has kittens as groom turns up dressed as black guy with fuzzy hair!

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

A Thai bride nearly fainted as her husband to be came to their wedding dressed as a dark skinned guy with fuzzy black hair!

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017958-bride-has-kittens-as-groom-turns-up-dressed-as-black-guy-with-fuzzy-hair/

Police crack down hard on drunk driving

By The Nation

 

 

With highways and roads congested with holidaymakers heading upcountry for the New Year celebrations, senior police officers instructed subordinates to get tough on drunk drivers – which were said to be a key contributor to road accidents.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017972-police-crack-down-hard-on-drunk-driving/

 

Toon, Prayut faces adorn holiday cakes

By The Nation

 

 

As make their food choices for this festive season, cakes featuring the faces of Toon Bodyslam or Artiwara Kongmalai and Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha are selling like hotcakes in Uttaradit.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017973-toon-prayut-faces-adorn-holiday-cakes/

 

Survey shows one in every three high school students visits beer gardens

 

 

As beer brewers are making good business selling beer at beer gardens in the capital and tourist towns in the provinces during the New Year festive season, the Alcohol Control Committee has voiced concern over high number of teenagers visiting beer gardens.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017974-survey-shows-one-in-every-three-high-school-students-visits-beer-gardens/

 

Phuket readies for New Year long weekend 

The Phuket News

 

Many key offices across Phuket will be closed next Monday and Tuesday for the New Year long weekend. Photo: The Phuket News
 

PHUKET: Most of the key government offices across Phuket started shutting down this afternoon (Dec 29) as the nation heads into a four-day holiday for the New Year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017975-phuket-readies-for-new-year-long-weekend/

 

Six people sentenced for criticising Chon Buri governor over long funeral lineups

By Preewadee Wichaiprasit 
The Nation

 

Pakkarathorn Thienchai

 

A Court in Chon Buri province on Friday sentenced two women and four men to suspended jail terms and fines in the verdict in a libel case launched by the Chon Buri governor over his hosting a funeral-flower-laying ceremony for the late King.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017979-six-people-sentenced-for-criticising-chon-buri-governor-over-long-funeral-lineups/

 

Exclusive - Russian tankers fuelled North Korea via transfers at sea: sources

By Guy Faulconbridge, Jonathan Saul and Polina Nikolskaya

 

FILE PHOTO - A North Korean flag flies on a mast at the Permanent Mission of North Korea in Geneva October 2, 2014. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

 

LONDON/MOSCOW - Russian tankers have supplied fuel to North Korea on at least three occasions in recent months by transferring cargoes at sea, according to two senior Western European security sources, providing an economic lifeline to the secretive Communist state.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017981-exclusive-russian-tankers-fuelled-north-korea-via-transfers-at-sea-sources/

 

Gunman kills 11 in attacks on Coptic church, Christian-owned shop in Egypt

 

Police tape cordon is seen at the site of attack on a church in the Helwan district south of Cairo, Egypt December 29, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

 

CAIRO (Reuters) - A gunman killed at least 11 people on Friday in attacks on a Coptic Orthodox church and a Christian-owned shop near Cairo before he was wounded and arrested, the Egyptian interior ministry and church officials said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017983-gunman-kills-11-in-attacks-on-coptic-church-christian-owned-shop-in-egypt/

Price protests turn political in Iran as rallies spread

 

DUBAI (Reuters) - Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in several cities across Iran on Friday, Iranian news agencies and social media reports said, as price protests turned into the largest wave of demonstrations since nationwide pro-reform unrest in 2009.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017984-price-protests-turn-political-in-iran-as-rallies-spread/

 

Spanish PM calls for Catalan parliament to be formed on January 17

 

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy gestures while delivering his year-end speech at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, December 29, 2017. REUTERS/Juan Medina

 

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's prime minister said on Friday that the new Catalan parliament should hold its maiden session on Jan. 17, the first step in reinstating local government after Madrid fired the old regional administration for illegally declaring independence.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017985-spanish-pm-calls-for-catalan-parliament-to-be-formed-on-january-17/

Thousands of Palestinians take part in anti-Trump protests

 

A Palestinian demonstrator hurls stones toward Israeli troops during clashes at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near the West Bank city of Nablus, December 29, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

 

GAZA (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza and the occupied West Bank for the fourth Friday in a row in protests against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017986-thousands-of-palestinians-take-part-in-anti-trump-protests/

Boy, three, playing with stove caused deadly N.Y. fire, officials say

By Jonathan Allen and Gina Cherelus

 

Fire Department of New York (FDNY) personnel work on the scene of an apartment fire in Bronx in New York, U.S., December 29, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a kitchen stove started a fire in a New York City apartment building that killed 12 people, including four children, city officials said on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017987-boy-three-playing-with-stove-caused-deadly-ny-fire-officials-say/

 

Trump wants Postal Service to charge 'much more' for Amazon shipments

By Eric M. Johnson and Makini Brice

 

U.S. President Donald Trump targeted online retailer Amazon on Friday in a call for the country's postal service to raise prices of shipments in order to recoup costs. Caroline Woods reports.

 

SEATTLE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump called on the U.S. Postal Service on Friday to charge "much more" to ship packages for Amazon <AMZN.O>, picking another fight with an online retail giant he has criticized in the past.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017988-trump-wants-postal-service-to-charge-much-more-for-amazon-shipments/

 

Arise Sir Ringo - Beatles drummer knighted in UK honours list

 

 

Ringo Starr performs during the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio April 18, 2015. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Ex-Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has been knighted in Queen Elizabeth's New Year's honours list, along with Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb and author Michael Morpurgo, while ballet dancer Darcey Bussell becomes a dame.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017991-arise-sir-ringo-beatles-drummer-knighted-in-uk-honours-list/

PM denies political deals

By THE NATION

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, third from left, was seen in a photo posing with the Sasomsub family at a golf course in Nakhon Pathom .

 

Dont’ be paranoid about me staying in power, says Prayut; meeting with Sasomsub family was not planned.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017992-pm-denies-political-deals/

 

Prayut to use powers under Article 44 to extend migrant worker registration until June

By The Nation

 

 

PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha will exercise his absolute power under Article 44 to extend the deadline for the national verification of migrant workers until the end of June next year, as nearly 1 million of them remained undocumented, the government spokesman said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017993-prayut-to-use-powers-under-article-44-to-extend-migrant-worker-registration-until-june/

 

Prawit names third party over watches

By THE NATION

 

 

Sends letter to NACC explaining his controversial possessions.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017994-prawit-names-third-party-over-watches/

 

Plan to move stranded family out of airport

By JESSADA CHANTARARAK 
THE NATION

 

 

A ZIMBABWEAN family who have been stranded in the departure lounge at Suvarnabhumi International Airport for three months after refusing to return to their home country may be moved to a Bangkok detention centre, pending a consideration of their asylum application by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017995-plan-to-move-stranded-family-out-of-airport/

 

 

Woman believed to be ex-PM Yingluck seen shopping in UK

 

 

Authorities concerned are trying to verify whether a woman who was seen shopping in the United Kingdom which appeared on the Facebook page of New TV was former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra as claimed or not, NCPO spokesperson Maj-Gen Piyapong Klinpan said on Friday (Dec 29).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017997-woman-believed-to-be-ex-pm-yingluck-seen-shopping-in-uk/

 

Investigation on Dr Yorn’s hit-and-run case not yet concluded

 

 

The investigation into a hit-and-run case involving Dr Yorn Chiranakhon, a senior official of Health Centre Region 12 overseeing the South, has not been completed, said Dr Nathawut Prasertsiripong, a Public Health Ministry inspector who chairs the fact-finding committee.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017998-investigation-on-dr-yorn’s-hit-and-run-case-not-yet-concluded/

 

Human trafficking gang arrested

By JESSADA JANTARAK 
THE NATION

 

 

IMMIGRATION police have rescued 30 Ugandans from a human-trafficking gang in one of the bureau’s biggest operations of the final quarter of the year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1017999-human-trafficking-gang-arrested/

 

Vans cause of most accidents among public transport

 

 

Most of the road accidents involving public transport which occurred between Jan-Nov 2017 were caused by vans, said Kongsak Chuenkrailat, chairman of the project for safety passengers of the Foundation for Consumers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018000-vans-cause-of-most-accidents-among-public-transport/

 

E-governance making progress

By JIRAPAN BOONNOON 
THE NATION

 

Sak Segkhoonthod, president of the Electronic Government Agency (EGA).

 

WITHIN the next five years, more than 80 per cent of government offices will use e-documents for identification in the country.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018002-e-governance-making-progress/

 

Krok E-Dok music fest returns

By THE NATION

 

 

The second annual Krok E-Dok Festival is set for a 100-rai spread near Khao Yai in Saraburi on January 5 and 6. Named after Krok E-Dok Waterfall, the music festival will star David Inthee, Cham Chamrum, Saen Naka, ZuZu, Si Phueak Khon Dan Kwien and comedy troupe Kai Mokjok on January 5 and Lamyai Haithongkham, Zak Chumpae, Arm Chutima, Paradox and magician June Siam on January 6.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018005-krok-e-dok-music-fest-returns/

 

 

Tourists' tears of grief as friend "ignores warnings" and falls at Samui waterfall

 

Image: Daily News

 

Our picture this morning shows the moment when a holiday in paradise turned to hell for a group of Israeli tourists.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018015-tourists-tears-of-grief-as-friend-ignores-warnings-and-falls-at-samui-waterfall/

Bangkok airports busy as New Year exodus in full swing

 

Image: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that both Don Meuang and Suvanabhumi airports were busy yesterday as New Year travelers poured into and out of the capital.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018017-bangkok-airports-busy-as-new-year-exodus-in-full-swing/ 

 

 

Immigration: Over-stayers up by nearly half in 2017

 

Image: Thai News Agency

 

The Thai Immigration Bureau has announced figures for 2017 and the last quarter that show while visitors are up overstaying has gone through the roof.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018019-immigration-over-stayers-up-by-nearly-half-in-2017/

This new Android malware will destroy your phone

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

Cybersecurity experts, Kaspersky has warned that there is a major malware threat to Android users.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/new-android-malware-will-destroy-phone/26435/

If you use any of these passwords you shouldn’t be allowed near a computer

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

It doesn’t matter how many times you tell some people, they still continue to the most stupid passwords.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/use-passwords-shouldnt-allowed-near-computer/26433/

Happy hour is over: Phuket New Year crackdown targets illegal alcohol sales, promotion 

The Phuket News

 

Health officials inspect one of the bars at the Chillva Market where public promotion of alcohol, especially through a promotion, were found to be illegal. Photo: The Phuket News
 

PHUKET: After a week of warnings issued to vendors of alcohol across the island, the Phuket Public Health Office (PPHO), acting on orders from Bangkok, now say they have no choice but to start legal action against those who continue to break the law involving the illegal sale and promotion of alcohol ahead of the New Year celebrations.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018023-happy-hour-is-over-phuket-new-year-crackdown-targets-illegal-alcohol-sales-promotion/