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/

 

 

Rock star 'Sek Loso' remains in custody after stand-off with police over gun

By THE NATION

 

Rock star Seksan Sukpimai, better known as “Sek Loso”, is released on bail yesterday in relation to drug use charges. He was then rearrested and transferred to Nakhon Sri Thammarat police for allegedly firing a gun into the air.

 

CONTROVERSIAL rock star Seksan Sukphimai, who is also widely known as “Sek Loso”, posted bail after being arrested at his home on Sunday but he remained in police custody on further charges related to obstructing a police operation.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018314-rock-star-sek-loso-remains-in-custody-after-stand-off-with-police-over-gun/

 

New Year road toll expected to drop

By THE NATION

 

 

ROAD ACCIDENTS during the first four days of the New Year holiday season killed 239 people and injured more than 2,500 others.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018315-road-death-toll-rises-to-239-after-four-days-of-thailand’s-7-dangerous-days/

 

Public sceptical of junta fight against graft: watchdog

By WASAMON AUDJARINT 
THE NATION

 

Mana Nimitmongkol

 

WHILE THE junta continued to claim that fighting corruption was on its agenda over the past year, the state-centric approach brought into question whether junta leaders were truly serious about dealing with graft – or were instead using the issue for their own benefit or to attack particular parties, an anti-graft watchdog has said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018316-public-sceptical-of-junta-fight-against-graft-watchdog/

 

Govt predicts good economy based on EEC development

By THE NATION

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha

 

Prayut admits need to address farm prices; urges people to ‘set goals’

 

THE GOVERNMENT has expressed optimism about the economic outlook for 2018, with Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha saying his New Year’s resolution is to push the “Smart City” concept in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).

 

Source: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018317-govt-predicts-good-economy-based-on-eec-development/

 

Abhisit urges govt economic rethink to address people’s falling well-being

By Wasamon Audjarint 
The Nation

 

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva

 

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday urged the junta government to revise its economic policies and plans in order to tackle a decline in people’s well-being.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018318-abhisit-urges-govt-economic-rethink-to-address-people’s-falling-well-being/

 

Barrage of reports about damage caused by New Year's gunfire

By The Nation

 

 

Bullets fired into the air during New Year’s celebrations damaged many people’s property late Sunday night, although no injuries were reported as of on Monday, as the dangerous activity continued despite a campaign against the irresponsible discharging of guns during holidays.

 

Full story; https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018320-barrage-of-reports-about-damage-caused-by-new-years-gunfire/

 

Large numbers make merit, witness first sunrise of 2018 around the Kingdom

By The Nation

 

 

People celebrated the first day of 2018 by making merit at their local temples and watching the first light of the year at various tourist destinations across the country.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018321-large-numbers-make-merit-witness-first-sunrise-of-2018-around-the-kingdom/

 

Analogue TV broadcasts switched off

By The Nation

 

File photo

 

Television stations in several provinces stopped broadcasting analogue services on New Year’s Eve as part of the Office of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) policy to encourage the full use of the digital system.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018323-analogue-tv-broadcasts-switched-off/

 

EDITORIAL

The Thai electorate's New Year wish

By The Nation

 

Prime Minister Prayut has named his targets for 2018, but he’s proved to be a poor shot

The Nation surely is not the only entity making a New Year wish for 2018 that Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha would stop threatening to delay the anticipated election. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018324-the-thai-electorates-new-year-wish/

 

13 tourists injured in van’s plunge into Doi Ang Khang ravine

By Thai PBS

 

 

Thirteen Thai tourists were injured, four of them in serious condition, after a passenger van in which they were travelling on the way back from Doi Ang Khang, Fang district of Chiang Mai, skidded out of the narrow road and plunged into a deep ravine on New Year’s Day.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018325-13-tourists-injured-in-van’s-plunge-into-doi-ang-khang-ravine/

 

Ex-Marine crushed to death by a wild elephant in his longan orchard

By Thai PBS

 

 

An ex-Marine was crushed to death by a wild elephant in his longan orchard in Chanthaburi’s Pong Nam Ron district on Sunday night (Dec 31).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018326-ex-marine-crushed-to-death-by-wild-elephant-in-chanthaburi/

 

Two brothers drowned in a fatal car plunge into a canal

By Thai PBS

 

 

Two brothers drowned when a car in which they were travelling plunged upside down into a roadside irrigation canal in Damnoen Saduak district of Ratchaburi on Sunday night.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018327-two-brothers-drowned-in-a-fatal-car-plunge-into-a-canal/

 

Fire Burns Through Chiang Mai Temple Hours After New Year

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

  

CHIANG MAI — A fire broke out early Monday morning at a temple in Chiang Mai’s Chai Prakan district only an hour after the cross-year prayer. No injuries were reported.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018328-fire-burns-through-chiang-mai-temple-hours-after-new-year/

 

Plunging Pound Saps Expat Pension Spending Power

By Lisa Smith

 

File photo

 

Brexit and the falling Pound is damaging the wealth of British expat pensioners around the world

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018329-plunging-british-pound-saps-expat-pension-spending-power/

Russian tourists survive serious motorbike accident

The Phuket News

 

Officials visit Russian tourist Anna Timofeeva, 45, who suffered multiple broken bones, including arm and ribs, in the accident, at Bangkok Hospital Phuket in Phuket Town today )Jan 1). Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: Officials today (Jan 1) paid a visit to two Russian tourists still recovering in hospital, one stil in intensive care with spinal injuries, after a motorbike accident on Saturday (Dec 30).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018330-russian-tourists-survive-serious-motorbike-accident/

 

British tourists throw punches in nasty brawl minutes after seeing in the New Year at Thailand holiday hotspot

The men were seen brawling in the street as locals tried to pull them apart and fellow holiday makers attempt to keep out of the way

 

Bar workers begged the men to stop (Image: Newsflare)

 

Fist were flying between British tourists just seconds after the clock struck to mark the start of 2018.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018332-british-tourists-in-hua-hin-throw-punches-in-nasty-brawl-minutes-after-seeing-in-the-new-year/

 

California launches legal sale of cannabis for recreational use

By Steve Gorman

 

A billboard advertising marijuana in advance of the upcoming legalization of recreational marijuana in San Francisco, California, U.S. December 29, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Christie

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California will launch the world's largest regulated commercial market for recreational marijuana on Monday, as dozens of newly licensed stores catering to adults who enjoy the drug for its psychoactive effects open for business up and down the state.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018334-california-launches-legal-sale-of-cannabis-for-recreational-use/

 

North Korea's Kim 'open to dialogue' with South Korea, will only use nukes if threatened

By Heekyong Yang and Josh Smith

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves to people attending a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country's founding father, Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - Kim Jong Un warned the United States on Monday he had a "nuclear button" on his desk ready for use if North Korea was threatened, but offered an olive branch to South Korea, saying he was "open to dialogue" with Seoul.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018335-north-koreas-kim-open-to-dialogue-with-south-korea-will-only-use-nukes-if-threatened/

 

Iranian protesters attack police stations, raise stakes in unrest

By Michael Georgy

 

Opponents of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hold a protest outside the Iranian embassy in west London, December 31, 2017. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

 

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian protesters attacked police stations late into the night on Monday, news agency and social media reports said, as security forces struggled to contain the boldest challenge to the clerical leadership since unrest in 2009.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018336-iranian-protesters-attack-police-stations-raise-stakes-in-unrest/

 

Blaze destroys hundreds of cars, melts floors of Liverpool car park

 

Burnt cars are seen in what remains of the multi-storey car park, where a large fire destroyed many cars on Sunday, in King's Dock, Liverpool, Britain, January 01, 2018. Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service/Handout via REUTERS

 

LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) - Hundreds of cars were reduced to burned-out shells in a dramatic multi-storey blaze in a car park on the waterfront of the northwestern English city of Liverpool on New Year's Eve, emergency services said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018338-blaze-destroys-hundreds-of-cars-melts-floors-of-liverpool-car-park/

 

Trump says U.S. has gotten 'nothing' from Pakistan aid

By David Shepardson

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters before departing the White House for a visit to the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC, U.S., December 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States has "foolishly" handed Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years while getting nothing in return, and pledged to put a stop to it.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018339-trump-says-us-has-gotten-nothing-from-pakistan-aid/

 

Israel indicts Palestinian teenage girl who punched soldier - army

By Ali Sawafta

 

Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi (R) enters a military courtroom escorted by Israeli Prison Service personnel at Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 1, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

 

OFER PRISON, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel indicted a 16-year-old Palestinian girl on Monday on charges including assault for punching an Israeli soldier in the face two weeks ago, an incident which made her into a hero for Palestinians and was seen as humiliating by right-wing Israelis.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018340-israel-indicts-palestinian-teenage-girl-who-punched-soldier-army/

 

UPDATE:

 

THAI STREET BRAWL 

‘Boozed-up Brits’ filmed fighting in Thailand party paradise on New Year’s Eve

A fight broke out amongst the holidaymakers who were ringing in the New Year in the resort of Hua Hin.

 

BRITS in Thailand brawled into 2018 with punches flying between two groups of UK revellers in the Far Eastern country.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018332-british-tourists-in-hua-hin-throw-punches-in-nasty-brawl-minutes-after-seeing-in-the-new-year/?do=findComment&comment=12584282

 

Pattaya: Great Dane tries to kill himself as Nepalese neighbor steps in to perform exorcism

 

Picture: 77Jowo

 

Pattaya police station chief Apichai Krobpetch got a call about a Danish man making a lot of noise in an apartment room in Soi 17 on New Year's Eve.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018345-pattaya-great-dane-tries-to-kill-himself-as-nepalese-neighbor-steps-in-to-perform-exorcism/

 

Merkel's allies, further defying SPD, seek cuts to tax and asylum seeker benefits

 

A combination of two photos show German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Martin Schulz as they attend a debate of the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, December 12, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Bavarian conservatives are pressing for corporate tax cuts and cuts to welfare payments for asylum seekers, which could complicate talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) on forming a new government.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018347-merkels-allies-further-defying-spd-seek-cuts-to-tax-and-asylum-seeker-benefits/

 

Cops use Article 44 to bust New Year's magic mushroom and laughing gas party on Koh Pangan

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Police and soldiers swooped on a well known bar on Koh Pangan yesterday and found magic mushroom punch on sale as well as nitrous oxide in balloons.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018348-cops-use-article-44-to-bust-new-years-magic-mushroom-and-laughing-gas-party-on-koh-pangan/

 

Record-shattering U.S. cold reaches into Florida

By Ian Simpson

 

A person dressed as a polar bear walks on the boardwalk after participating in the Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year's Day Plunge on Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S., January 1, 2018. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

 

(Reuters) - Record-shattering arctic cold reached as far south as Florida on Monday with freeze warnings in place from Texas to the Atlantic Coast and the northeastern United States facing another cold wave at the end of the week, forecasters said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018349-record-shattering-us-cold-reaches-into-florida/

 

Nine dead in latest outbreak of Brazilian prison violence

 

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Nine inmates were killed, 14 were injured, and dozens escaped in a prison riot on Monday, national news media reported, in the latest example of Brazil's continuing difficulties maintaining control over its notoriously violent penal system.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018350-nine-dead-in-latest-outbreak-of-brazilian-prison-violence/

 

Truck strikes pedestrians, vehicle in San Francisco, injuring seven

 

(Reuters) - At least seven people suffered injuries when a truck hit pedestrians and another vehicle in San Francisco on Monday, an incident that police said was not related to terrorism, authorities and local media reported.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018351-truck-strikes-pedestrians-vehicle-in-san-francisco-injuring-seven/