THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Tuesday 20 Feb 2018

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Nigerians and Thai taxi driver arrested after dramatic chase in Aranyaprathet

 

 

Two Nigerian illegals and a Thai taxi driver were arrested after a dramatic border chase traversing five checkpoints.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025793-nigerians-and-thai-taxi-driver-arrested-after-dramatic-chase-in-aranyaprathet/

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Video: Irate house owner takes axe to illegally parked car - but there's a backstory

 

 

A video posted to Facebook showed a furious woman house owner use an axe and a shovel to bash a pick-up blocking her driveway.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025795-video-irate-house-owner-takes-axe-to-illegally-parked-car-but-theres-a-backstory/

 

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Video: Meet "The Kindest German in Thailand" - with a heart of pure gold, just like the Thais

 

Picture: video screenshot

 

A German resident of Pattaya is doing his best to improve the image of the resort that has taken a bit of a battering in the last few years.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025812-video-meet-the-kindest-german-in-thailand-with-a-heart-of-pure-gold-just-like-the-thais/

 

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Video: Man attacked in the street because he wouldn't leave jealous guy's girlfriend alone

 

Picture: video screenshot

 

A video posted to Facebook showed a 40 year old man relentlessly beat a 29 year old rival in the street in Chonburi.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025815-video-man-attacked-in-the-street-because-he-wouldnt-leave-jealous-guys-girlfriend-alone/

 

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Junta vows ‘soft’ approach as multiple groups mobilise

By THE NATION

 

 

March on Govt House by power plant protesters today poses another key challenge to NCPO order.
 

AS PROTESTERS, including opponents of coal-fired power plants and pro-election groups, increase pressure on the junta, security officials have said they would use a “soft approach” to maintain order, but also look into “financiers” who allegedly backed anti-junta groups.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025816-junta-vows-‘soft’-approach-as-multiple-groups-mobilise/

 

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‘I want to create a better future for our country’: Rangsiman

By The Nation

 

File photo: Rangsiman Rome

 

Student activist Rangsiman Rome, a key leader of the newly formed movement “People Who Want to Vote”, has earned fame as a staunch critic of the junta.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025817-‘i-want-to-create-a-better-future-for-our-country’-rangsiman/

 

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MP bill committee bans election campaign entertainment

By The Nation

 

THE JOINT committee reviewing the contentious MP election bill agreed unanimously in its first meeting to ban any form of entertainment during election campaigns.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025825-scrutiny-committee-bans-entertainment-activities-during-election-campaign/?do=findComment&comment=12728216

 

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Amnesty asks supporters to petition for no further prosecution

By The Nation

 

 

Amnesty International on Monday called for its supporters worldwide to write letters urging the Thai authorities to stop prosecuting pro-election MBK 39 activists, as well as any other Thais pursued as a result of performing peaceful assembly.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025819-amnesty-asks-supporters-to-petition-for-no-further-prosecution/

 

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TJA maintains secrecy in sexual harassment case ‘to protect privacy of all concerned’

By Khanittha Theppajorn 
The Nation

 

The Thai Journalists Association is sticking to its position in refusing to disclose details about the recent scandal concerning sexual harassment allegedly committed by a senior media executive.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025820-tja-maintains-secrecy-in-sexual-harassment-case-‘to-protect-privacy-of-all-concerned’/

 

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Destitute fund probe reveals ‘solid evidence’ of fraud at five centres

By THE NATION

 

 

EVIDENCE SUGGESTS state officials in at least five provinces have embezzled state funds intended for the destitute.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025821-destitute-fund-probe-reveals-‘solid-evidence’-of-fraud-at-five-centres/

 

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Premchai probe focuses on slain leopard’s missing sex organ

By The Nation

 

 

THE SEXUAL organ of a black leopard found slain during the recent arrest of Italian-Thai Development president Premchai Karnasuta and his three companions in Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary has disappeared, leading the investigators to believe that it was consumed by the suspects.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025822-premchai-probe-focuses-on-slain-leopard’s-missing-sex-organ/

 

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Obec reassures parents over 40-student classroom goal

By THE NATION

 

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THE POLICY to have schools limit classroom sizes to 40 students is flexible, and more classrooms could be opened up to ensure children get taught, Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) chief Boonrak Yodphetch said yesterday, as he sought to soothe worries expressed by both parents and administrators.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025823-obec-reassures-parents-over-40-student-classroom-goal/

 

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‘We Walk’ NHRC complaint alleges intimidation

By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation 

 

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“WE WALK” activists have asked the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to review alleged intimidation by law-enforcement officers during their long march to Khon Kaen championing social justic issues.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025824-‘we-walk’-nhrc-complaint-alleges-intimidation/

 

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St Gabriel’s director capitulates after protest against alleged affair and diversion of funds

By The Nation

 

 

PARENTS HAVE petitioned Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin and Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha over a perceived lack of integrity regarding the director of the prestigious St Gabriel’s College.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025731-black-day-for-prestigious-bangkok-school/?do=findComment&comment=12728169

 

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Scrutiny committee bans entertainment activities during election campaign

By Thai PBS

 

 

The tri-partite scrutiny committee on Monday (Feb 19) resolved unanimously by nine votes against nil to restore the original provision of the election of MPs bill which bans the holding of entertainment activities during the election campaign period.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025825-scrutiny-committee-bans-entertainment-activities-during-election-campaign/

 

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SCB research centre predicts 650,000 jobs taken over by robots in the next 12 years

By Thai PBS

 

 

About 650,000 jobs in automotive, food processing and electronic industries are like to be taken over by robots and intelligence robots in the next 12 years, according to a forecast of the Business and Economic Research Centre of Siam Commercial Bank.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025826-scb-research-centre-predicts-650000-jobs-taken-over-by-robots-in-the-next-12-years/

 

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Turbulent weather before temperature drop later this week

By Thai PBS

 

 

People in the upper north of Thailand are warned of turbulent weather from Wednesday until Saturday, with rain storm and strong wind during the initial period to be followed by a drop in temperature from 2-4 degrees Celsius.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025827-turbulent-weather-before-temperature-drop-later-this-week/

 

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Illegal immigrant arrested over fake US bank notes

"There’s no report about his return and police suspect that he traveled through Buriram province where has the border connects with Cambodia."

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

  

A 29 year old Nigerian, Chukwuemeka Anslem Njibigbo, has been arrested after exchanging a fake 100 dollar bank note at the Kasikorn Bank in Central Festival Phuket.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025828-illegal-nigerian-immigrant-arrested-in-phuket-over-fake-us-bank-notes/

 

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Firefly’s direct Penang flights go daily from March 25

The daily flights will depart Penang just after 2pm - the return flight is approximately 3.30pm, Phuket time (one hour behind Penang)

By Tanutam Thawan

 

 

Firefly are upping the direct flights from Penang to Phuket from four a week to daily starting March 25.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025829-firefly’s-direct-penang-phuket-flights-go-daily-from-march-25/

 

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Police quagmire as officer’s ‘ang pao’ largesse probed for gambling links

By JESSADA CHANTHARAK, 
SURIYA PATATHAYO 
THE NATION

 

 

A POLICEMAN’S Chinese New Year’s gifts to fellow officers did not constitute a crime, but might have been a breach of discipline, Metropolitan Police Bureau commissioner Lt-General Charnthep Sesawet said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025745-police-officer’s-new-year-largesse-investigated/?do=findComment&comment=12728220

 

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Trump backs effort to improve gun background checks

By Jeff Mason and Timothy Gardner

 

Adin Chistian (16), student of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and his mother Denyse, look at the crosses placed in front of the fence of the school to commemorate the victims of the mass shooting, in Parkland, Florida, U.S., February 19, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

 

PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that President Donald Trump supports efforts to improve federal background checks for gun purchases, days after a shooting at a Florida school killed 17 people.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025832-trump-backs-effort-to-improve-gun-background-checks/

 

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Irish PM calls for urgent restoration of Northern Ireland government

 

FILE PHOTO: Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Leo Varadkar, speaks outside Stormont House, in Belfast, Northern Ireland February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

 

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's Prime Minister called for the urgent restoration of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government on Monday after talks to end a year-long political stalemate broke down yet again last week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025833-irish-pm-calls-for-urgent-restoration-of-northern-ireland-government/

 

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Head bowed, Florida shooting suspect returns to court for hearing

By Katanga Johnson

 

Nikolas Cruz, facing 17 charges of premeditated murder in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. February 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Stocker/Pool

 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - A former student accused of last week's deadly shooting at a Florida high school returned to court for one of two hearings on Monday in a case that has galvanized advocates of stricter gun control, including many of the rampage survivors.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025834-head-bowed-florida-shooting-suspect-returns-to-court-for-hearing/

 

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Presidents of Russia, Turkey, Iran to meet in April in Turkey - RIA cites Kremlin

 

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Preparations are under way for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to meet in April in Turkey, RIA news agency said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025835-presidents-of-russia-turkey-iran-to-meet-in-april-in-turkey-ria-cites-kremlin/

 

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New British party inspired by France's Macron seeks to overturn Brexit

By Andrew MacAskill

 

FILE PHOTO: The British Union flag and European Union flag are seen hanging outside Europe House in central London June 9, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

LONDON (Reuters) - A new British political party inspired by French President Emmanuel Macron's rise to power launched a national electoral campaign on Monday aimed at stopping Brexit.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025836-new-british-party-inspired-by-frances-macron-seeks-to-overturn-brexit/

 

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Big rise in Thais seeking to adopt a child

By The Nation

 

File photo: Mental Health Department director-general Sqn-Leader Boonruang Triruangworawat

 

The number of people registering themselves as potential adoptive parents jumped nearly seven-fold between 2011 and 2016.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025839-big-rise-in-thais-seeking-to-adopt-a-child/

 

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Govt House security hunts for ‘superstitious’ suspects who lit incense

By The Nation

 

 

Police stationed at Government House will check surveillance camera records to identify the person or people who lit 36 incense sticks in front of the Prime Minister’s Office building last week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025840-thai-govt-house-security-hunts-for-‘superstitious’-suspects-who-lit-incense/

 

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Army commander urges all to help maintain peace

 

BANGKOK, 20th February 2018 (NNT) – The army commander is urging all groups to refrain from joining any movement that may disrupt peace in the country. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025781-army-chief-admits-thai-police-cannot-arrest-thaksin-and-yingluck-without-the-help-of-the-interpol/?do=findComment&comment=12728408

 

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PLTO approves Phuket Smart Bus for operation, service to begin Feb 28

Shela Riva

 

From right: PKCD chairman Karn Prachumpan, Chief of the PLTO Banyat Kantha, Head of Vehicle Inspection of the PLTO Decha Patawanich and PKCD staff. Photo: PKCD

 

PHUKET: An official press release sent to The Phuket News today (Feb 19) by Phuket City Development (PKCD) confirms that the Phuket Land Transport Office (PLTO) has approved their Smart Bus initiative and that the service is set to commence on Feb 28.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025841-plto-approves-phuket-smart-bus-for-operation-service-to-begin-feb-28/

 

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Peru's ex-President Fujimori ordered to stand trial again

 

Peru's ex-President Alberto Fujimori has been ordered to stand trial for the 1992 killings of six farmers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025842-perus-ex-president-fujimori-ordered-to-stand-trial-again/