Ocean Marina Yacht Club crowned Best Marina Development in Asia at 2018 Christofle Yacht Style Awards

 

Mr. Napong Paripontpochanapisuti, Acting Assistant Managing Director, Residential Business, Ocean Property Co. Ltd (left) and Mr. Scott Finsten, Harbour Master, Ocean Marina Yacht Club (right) receiving the award for “Best Marina Development” in Asia at the 2018 Christofle Yacht Style Awards.

 

PHUKET, Thailand – At the inaugural Christofle Yacht Style Awards Ocean Marina Yacht Club were crowned “Best Marina Development” in Asia, seeing off stiff competition from marinas throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019414-ocean-marina-yacht-club-crowned-best-marina-development-in-asia at-2018-christofle-yacht-style-awards/

 

Taxi driver fires stone from catapult at Thai celeb Mario Maurer in Porsche

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Police were called to the Pratunam area of Bangkok after a road rage incident involving a taxi driver and a heartthrob Thai actor.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019415-taxi-driver-fires-stone-from-catapult-at-thai-celeb-mario-maurer-in-porsche/

 

About 20 young pupils injured when pickup hit by ambulance in Narathiwat

By The Nation

 

About 20 young pupils were slightly injured on Tuesday morning when the pickup truck taking them to school was hit by an ambulance, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019416-about-20-young-pupils-injured-when-pickup-hit-by-ambulance-in-narathiwat/

 

Russian tourists rescued in Pattaya bay as boat develops engine trouble

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

More than 100 Russian tourists were rescued from a stricken pleasure boat in Pattaya bay after it developed engine trouble yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019417-russian-tourists-rescued-in-pattaya-bay-as-boat-develops-engine-trouble/

 

Seven deadly days: 90% of court cases involved drink driving, 99 re-offended

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The director general of the Department of Probation has released the figures for driving offence that have winded up going to court after the seven deadly days of new year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019423-seven-deadly-days-90-of-court-cases-involved-drink-driving-99-re-offended/

 

"Oohoo - horm jang!" - nice smelling "win" helmets set to save lives on Bangkok streets!

 

Picture: INN

 

National police top brass presided over a new constabulary initiative yesterday:

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019425-oohoo-horm-jang-nice-smelling-win-helmets-set-to-save-lives-on-bangkok-streets/

 

UPDATE:

 

Family tossed off bus for screaming kid reaches Samui safely

 

 

A family travelling from Bangkok to Koh Samui on a transport company bus were told to get off in the night as the relief driver couldn't get to sleep.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019413-family-ordered-off-bangkok-samui-bus-because-of-crying-child/?do=findComment&comment=12604429

 

Flights delayed at Don Muang Airport due to air show rehearsals

By The Nation

 

 

Bangkok's Don Muang Airport has urged travellers to plan ahead and arrive at the airport two to three hours ahead of scheduled flight times until January 11 as rehearsals will be taking place for the Royal Thai Airforce air show.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019429-flights-delayed-at-don-muang-airport-due-to-air-show-rehearsals/

 

Settled with a "wai" and some Chicken Essence - Pattaya drunks apologize to cops

 

Picture: 77Jowo

 

The incident on New Year's day when a Pattaya policeman fired into the air has been settled.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019430-settled-with-a-wai-and-some-chicken-essence-pattaya-drunks-apologize-to-cops/

 

Rescue on the way for senior in Sakon Nakhon shanty

By The Nation

 

An 81-year-old Sakon Nakhon woman living on her own was at the centre of an impromptu press conference on Tuesday morning when the local district chief inspected her rickety house.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019432-rescue-on-the-way-for-senior-in-sakon-nakhon-shanty/

 

North Korea says to send senior officials, athletes to Olympics: South Korea

 

Head of the North Korean delegation Ri Son Gwon shakes hands with his South Korean counterpart Cho Myoung-gyon during their meeting at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, South Korea, January 9, 2018. Yonhap via REUTERS

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said during rare talks with the South it will send a delegation of high-ranking officials, athletes and a cheering squad to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea next month, a senior South Korean official said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019434-north-korea-says-to-send-senior-officials-athletes-to-olympics-south-korea/

 

Cash envelopes containing THB200,000 stolen from newlyweds’ bedroom

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

File photo of a cash envelope. Photo: Brian Jeffery Beggerly/ Flickr

 

A couple, who just got married on Sunday, said their Chonburi home was broken into and the thief allegedly stole all of the cash envelopes they received as gifts from wedding guests.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019435-cash-envelopes-containing-thb200000-stolen-from-newlyweds’-bedroom/

 

E-cigarettes - Thailand ban is "appropriate" says leading doctor

 

Dr Prakit with a sign "Cigarettes= addictive drugs"

 

A leading Thai doctor has said that the government's ban on the import and usage of e-cigarettes is appropriate.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019437-e-cigarettes-thailand-ban-is-appropriate-says-leading-doctor/

 

Thai foreign minister says fugitive former PM Yingluck in London

 

FILE PHOTO: Ousted former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom/File Picture

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled the country to avoid being jailed over a rice subsidy scheme that lost billions of dollars, is in Britain, Thailand's foreign minister said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019438-thai-foreign-minister-says-fugitive-former-pm-yingluck-in-london/

 

Paiboon urges Prayut to maintain neutrality if he wants to become post-election outsider PM

By The Nation

 

Paiboon.

 

People’s Reform Party founder Paiboon Nititawan on Monday warned Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, who recently declared that he was now a politician, to maintain his neutrality by staying away from any party membership or party lists of three proposed PMs.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019440-paiboon-urges-prayut-to-maintain-neutrality-if-he-wants-to-become-post-election-outsider-pm/

 

UPDATE:

 

Don admits Yingluck is in UK

By The Nation

 

 

Fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been in London since September, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said on Tuesday, citing his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, as the source of the information.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019438-thai-foreign-minister-says-fugitive-former-pm-yingluck-in-london/?do=findComment&comment=12604669

 

Prayut offers a lesson ahead of Teachers Day

By The Nation

 

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has urged teachers and students to be good and have faith in what they’re doing so they can succeed.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019448-prayut-offers-a-lesson-ahead-of-teachers-day/

 

Fire destroys monks’ residence at Chiang Rai temple

By The Nation

 

A fire swept through the living quarters of monks and novices at a temple in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Khong district on Tuesday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019449-fire-destroys-monks’-residence-at-chiang-rai-temple/

 

UPDATE:

 

Thailand Will Seek Yingluck Extradition From London

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

  

Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra poses for a photo on Jan. 2, 2016

 

BANGKOK — The foreign minister confirmed Tuesday morning that fugitive former premier Yingluck Shinawatra was in London and said Bangkok would seek her extradition.

 

Source: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019438-thai-foreign-minister-says-fugitive-former-pm-yingluck-in-london/?do=findComment&comment=12604961

 

CES 2018: LG unveils stunning new 65 inch TV that can be rolled up like a newspaper

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

Image: LG Display

 

LG has unveiled a new 65 inch OLED TV that can be rolled up like a newspaper and stored away whenever it is not being used.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/ces-2018-lg-unveils-stunning-new-65-inch-tv-can-rolled-like-newspaper/26589/

iPhone addiction may be a virtue, not a vice for investors

BY REUTERS 

 

REUTERS/Stephen Lam/Files

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc investors are shrugging off concerns raised by two shareholders about kids getting hooked on iPhones, saying that for now a little addiction might not be a bad thing for profits.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/iphone-addiction-may-virtue-not-vice-investors/26592/

Dozens Accused Of Raping Phang Nga Teen Still At Large

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

 

The 14-year-old alleged victim talks to police in September at the Khokkloi Police Station in Phang Nga province.

 

PHANG NGA — Twenty-nine of 40 people accused of gang raping a minor last year are still at large as of Tuesday morning, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019453-dozens-accused-of-raping-phang-nga-teen-still-at-large/

 

VACANCY: British Embassy recruiting Honorary Consul Koh Samui

Vacancy - BK - Honorary Consul (Koh Samui, Thailand)

The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer.  We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law. We promote family-friendly flexible working opportunities, where operational and security needs allow.

 

Info: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019457-vacancy-british-embassy-recruiting-honorary-consul-koh-samui/

Pattaya: Iranian con suspect let go after friend arrives at the station

 

Picture: Pattaya Crime News

 

Pattaya Crime News on Facebook reported "confusing" goings on at Pattaya police station after an Iranian apparently banged to rights trying a 160,000 baht con was let go.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019458-pattaya-iranian-con-suspect-let-go-after-friend-arrives-at-the-station/

 

Two Koh Phangan bars ordered shut under Article 44 for selling drugs to tourists

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath have reported that two bars on Hat Rin beach in Koh Phangan, Surat Thani, have been ordered shut using Article 44 powers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019460-two-koh-phangan-bars-ordered-shut-under-article-44-for-selling-drugs-to-tourists/

 

Ex-deputy commerce minister Banyin to be indicted

By Thai PBS

 

 

The attorney-general has decided to indict former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn and his alleged accomplices on forgery charges in connection with the dubious transfer of about 200 million baht worth of shares of the late businessman Chuwong sae Tang.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019462-ex-deputy-commerce-minister-banyin-to-be-indicted/

 

Hip Chiang Mai Nature Cafe To Be Partly Demolished

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

  

Mae Rim district chief Chaisang Pattanasakpinyo, second from right, points as he inspects the Jungle de Cafe on Tuesday in Chiang Mai province.

 

CHIANG MAI — Just weeks after opening, a hip new Chiang Mai cafe will be partially demolished for encroaching on protected land.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019463-hip-chiang-mai-nature-cafe-to-be-partly-demolished/

 

Terrifying ordeal for young mother at hands of knife man high on "ice" ends happily

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A middle of the night drama in Koh Samui ended happily with the arrest of a man high on amphetamines who took a 20 year old woman hostage with a kitchen knife.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019466-terrifying-ordeal-for-young-mother-at-hands-of-knife-man-high-on-ice-ends-happily/

 

Patong nightlife operators fear ‘return of bribes’

The Phuket News

 

Signs promoting alcohol hang above tourists on bustling Soi Sea Dragon, off Bangla Rd in Patong. Photo: The Phuket News / file

 

PHUKET: The President of the Patong Entertainment Association (PEBA) has voiced his concern that nightlife operators will again be called on to pay bribes in order to take advantage of late trading, while supporting a call for venues operating in dedicated zones to be exempt from punishment under the alcohol-promotion laws.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019470-patong-nightlife-operators-fear-‘return-of-bribes’/

 

Activist fails to call time on Prawit

By The Nation

 

 

Pro-democracy activist Ekachai Hongkangwan on Tuesday made another attempt to hand his watch to Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan at Government House – and failed.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1019471-activist-fails-to-call-time-on-prawit/