Cheddar Man: Face of first modern Briton revealed by pioneering research

Groundbreaking new DNA analysis finds country's oldest ancestor had dark skin

Chris Baynes

 

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The first modern Briton had “dark to black” skin, groundbreaking new analysis of his 10,000-year-old remains has revealed.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023879-dna-shows-first-modern-briton-had-“dark-to-black”-skin/

 

SpaceX rocket launches Luxembourg satellite for NATO

By Joey Roulette

 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Wednesday carrying into orbit a Luxembourg-made communications satellite designed in part to expand NATO's surveillance reach and its capability to deter cyber attacks on alliance members.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023881-spacex-rocket-launches-luxembourg-satellite-for-nato/

 

Video: Pick-up slams into back of high end BMW that "couldn't be left in neutral" at parking lot

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

A pick-up was seen on CCTV slamming into the back of a BMW X1 that was left hemming it in at the JJ Mall parking lot in Chatujak, Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023884-video-pick-up-slams-into-back-of-high-end-bmw-that-couldnt-be-left-in-neutral-at-parking-lot/

 

Video: Fire at kennels in Chonburi kills many dogs, others injured

 

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A video on the Pattaya News site showed the aftermath of a fire at a dog kennels in the Don Hua Lor area of Chonburi yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023886-video-fire-at-kennels-in-chonburi-kills-many-dogs-others-injured/

 

Red-shirt TV channel suspended again

By The Nation

 

 

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) on Monday ordered a15-day suspension of the broadcasting licence of Peace TV, a satellite-based station run by red-shirt leaders.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023888-red-shirt-tv-channel-suspended-again/

 

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Five injured in fire on Phi Phi island

By The Nation

 

 

About 200 tourists and locals joined forces to fight a fire that raged through 25 houses on Phi Phi Island late on Tuesday night, injuring five people, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023863-fire-breaks-out-at-phi-phi-island-hostel/?do=findComment&comment=12688391

 

U.S.'s Tillerson praises Colombia aid to Venezuela, anti-drug efforts

 

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shake hands during a joint news conference in Bogota, Colombia February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga

 

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday said the United States is heartbroken by the economic and social situation effecting Venezuela and appreciates Colombia's help in dealing with the humanitarian crisis.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023891-uss-tillerson-praises-colombia-aid-to-venezuela-anti-drug-efforts/

 

Premchai denies poaching, says trip to Thung Yai was for leisure

By The Nation

 

 

Construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta has said his trip to World Heritage Thung Yai Naresuan Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi province was for leisure.

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023897-premchai-denies-poaching-says-trip-to-thung-yai-was-for-leisure/

 

Bitcoin bounces back from three-month low in volatile trade

Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss

 

FILE PHOTO: A collection of Bitcoin (virtual currency) tokens are displayed in this picture illustration, in Paris, France, December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Illustration/File Photo

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin rallied from three-month lows below $6,000 in choppy trading on Tuesday, but worries lingered about a global regulatory clampdown and moves by banks to ban buying bitcoin with credit cards.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023903-bitcoin-bounces-back-from-three-month-low-in-volatile-trade/

 

Apple sees ‘strong demand’ for replacement iPhone batteries: letter

BY REUTERS 

 

REUTERS/David Gray

 

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc has seen “strong demand” for replacement iPhone batteries and may offer rebates for consumers who paid full price for new batteries, the company said in a Feb. 2 letter to U.S. lawmakers made public on Tuesday.

 

Full story:  https://tech.thaivisa.com/apple-sees-strong-demand-replacement-iphone-batteries-letter/27070/

Cuban independent media say no thanks to Trump free press initiative

By Sarah Marsh

 

Elaine Diaz, who founded web-based outlet Periodismo de Barrio in 2015, talks to Reuters in Havana, Cuba February 5, 2018. Picture taken February 5, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer

 

HAVANA (Reuters) - Leading Cuban independent media said they want nothing to do with a Trump administration initiative to foster more such outlets on the communist-run isle, contending it interferes in Cuba's politics and creates the impression they are U.S. mouthpieces.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023905-cuban-independent-media-say-no-thanks-to-trump-free-press-initiative/

 

PM says election date to be set after enforcement of organic laws

 

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BANGKOK, 7th February 2018 (NNT)-Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha says the date of a general election will be determined after draft organic laws on the election of MPs and the Senate selection have been enforced. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023906-pm-prayut-says-election-date-to-be-set-after-enforcement-of-organic-laws/

 

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket soars in debut test launch from Florida

By Joey Roulette

 

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The world's most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, roared into space through clear blue skies in its debut test flight on Tuesday from a Florida launch site where moon missions once began, in another milestone for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private rocket service.

 

Full story:  https://tech.thaivisa.com/27067-2/27067/

Two-year-old Down's syndrome girl rescued from drunk father

By The Nation

 

Police rescued a two-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome left unattended by drunk father inside a cement cage at a home in Nakhon Ratchasima on Tuesday night.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023912-two-year-old-downs-syndrome-girl-rescued-from-drunk-father-in-korat/

 

11street seeks to strengthen grocery offering

By The Nation

 

Jeon Hong-cheol, chief executive officer of 11street (Thailand)

 

Recognising the trend towards purchasing household goods online, 11street has expanded its range of products in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) category.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023914-11street-seeks-to-strengthen-grocery-offering/

 

 

Student conservationists want wealthy alleged poacher duly prosecuted

By The Nation

 

 

Student environmental-conservation clubs at leading universities have called for the law to be duly enforced in the matter of an industrialist allegedly caught trophy hunting in Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023922-student-conservationists-want-wealthy-alleged-poacher-duly-prosecuted/

 

Insurance assessors visit glove-factory fire scene

By The Nation

 

 

Five insurance companies have brought Bangkok-based and foreign experts to inspect the massive fire scene at Thai Kong Co’s rubber-glove-manufacturing factory in Trang’s Kantang district.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023927-insurance-assessors-visit-glove-factory-fire-scene/

 

More than a thousand herons and egrets visit Krabi during winter

“There are people in the area coming to take photos of the herons and egrets every day because they only visit us only 3-4 months a year.”

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

More than a 1,000 herons and egrets were found in the palm garden at the backyard of a Krabi citizen, 80 year old Jarat Jaihan, in Prudinna sub-district, during their annual escape from the northern winter.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023930-more-than-a-thousand-herons-and-egrets-visit-krabi-during-winter/

 

 

First step towards flying cars: Incredible footage shows driverless drone flying people around China

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

Image: ehang

 

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s The Ehang 184 an autonomous, people-carrying quadcopter!

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/first-step-towards-flying-cars-incredible-footage-shows-driverless-drone-flying-people-around-china/27073/

B40k bail for Russian woman found in possession of dead coral in Phuket

Shela Riva

 

Some of the dead coral and shells found at the bungalow of Liliya Karmanova and Polina Lihtmen. Photo: DMCR Phuket office

 

PHUKET: The 20-year-old Russian woman who was found to be in illegal possession of dead corals at her bungalow in Karon last week is out on bail while awaiting her court sentence, Nares Choopueng from the Department Marine Coastal Resources (DMCR) Phuket office confirmed today (Feb 7).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023944-b40k-bail-for-russian-woman-found-in-possession-of-dead-coral-in-phuket/

Pre-dawn raid could see Pattaya ladies’ pub shut for five years

By The Nation

 

 

Crime Suppression Division officers and Muang Pattaya police raided a women-only pub in Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district early Wednesday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023945-pre-dawn-raid-could-see-pattaya-ladies’-pub-shut-for-five-years/

 

‘Tiger Temple’ To Reopen As Tiger Zoo

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

  

A visitor at Tiger Temple in 2008. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

 

KANCHANABURI — Thailand’s most infamous tiger petting zoo may not have used up its nine lives when it was raided and shut down following gruesome discoveries two years ago.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023946-thailand’s-tiger-temple-to-reopen-as-tiger-zoo/

 

Campsite in wildlife sanctuary scoured for evidence

By The Nation

 

 

Police were on Wednesday seeking evidence of alleged poaching at a campsite in Kanchanaburi’s Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in the case involving Premchai Karnasuta, president of Italian-Thai Development Plc.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023948-campsite-in-wildlife-sanctuary-scoured-for-evidence/

 

Reservoir to be built on Koh Chang

By The Nation

 

The Irrigation Department will build a reservoir across a canal on tourist-destination Koh Chang in Trat to tackle its water shortage.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023949-reservoir-to-be-built-on-koh-chang/

 

Why blaze debris at Trang factory site had to be cleared quickly

By Khanittha Sitong 
The Nation

 

 

Parts of the gutted Thai Kong Co rubber-glove-manufacturing factory in Trang had to be cleared before police could inspect the site so that efforts could continue to contain the blaze, the province’s deputy governor said on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023951-why-blaze-debris-at-trang-factory-site-had-to-be-cleared-quickly/

 

Actress ‘Saipan’ to meet police over lewd Instagram post

By Kornkamon Aksorndech 
The Nation

 

File photo: Actress Apinya Sakuljaroensuk and her actor boyfriend Nuttawuth Boonrapsap on January 12 went to an interview with police at the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) in Bangkok regarding her Instagram post that allegedly violated

 

Actress Apinya “Saipan” Sakuljaroensuk has an appointment to meet police investigators and a prosecutor at the Office of the Attorney General in Bangkok's Ratchadapisek area on February 15 to discuss her recent Instagram post that allegedly violated the Computer Crime Act, a police source said on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023963-actress-‘saipan’-to-meet-police-over-lewd-instagram-post/

 

Union calls for more trains on Airport Link

By Photo and story by Chalinee Thirasupa 
The Nation 

 

 

Members of the SRT Electrified Train Company’s labor union and some members of the public on Wednesday filed a petition to Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha via the government’s Bangkok public complaints centre, calling for speedy procurement of seven electric trains for the Airport Rail Link.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023965-union-calls-for-more-trains-on-airport-link/

 

World’s leading free VPN service found to be leaking sensitive data on its 500 million users

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

One of the world’s most popular free VPN services is leaking sensitive data on its users, a security researcher has claimed.

 

Full story:  https://tech.thaivisa.com/worlds-leading-free-vpn-service-found-leaking-sensitive-data-500-million-users/27076/

Mor Saeng certified as folk doctor, but banned from charging money

By The Nation

 

Saengchai Haelerttrakul or "Mor Saeng"

 

The untrained medical practitioner famed for his so-called “cure” for cancer, “Mor Saeng”, has been officially certified as a folk doctor.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1023968-mor-saeng-certified-as-folk-doctor-but-banned-from-charging-money/