‘Songkran Festival’ extended to five-day holiday

By The Nation

 

File photo

 

The Cabinet on Tuesday gave the green light for the five-day "Songkran Festival" holiday from April 12 to 16.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026943-‘songkran-festival’-extended-to-five-day-holiday/

PM orders setting up of panel to follow up cases of criminals that have fled Kingdom

By The Nation

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered the establishment of a panel to follow up on cases of criminals that have fled the country, Government Spokesperson Lt-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd said on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026953-pm-orders-setting-up-of-panel-to-follow-up-cases-of-criminals-that-have-fled-kingdom/

PM vows to intervene in markets dispute

By The Nation

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha promised on Tuesday to look into a dispute between residents and Bangkok authorities over the presence of noisy markets around their homes in Prawet district.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026955-pm-vows-to-intervene-in-markets-dispute/

Rejected Supreme Court candidates for EC can run again: Meechai

By The Nation

 

Meechai Ruchupan

 

The two election commissioner candidates nominated by the Supreme Court are eligible to run again in the contest despite their earlier rejection by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), chief charter drafter Meechai Ruchupan said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026982-rejected-supreme-court-candidates-for-ec-can-run-again-meechai/

 

Advocate judge tells court legal procedures adhered to in Thaksin passport revocation case

By Kesinee Tangkaew 
The Nation

 

FILE photo: Thaksin Shinawatra

 

The advocate judge in the passport-revocation case concerning self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra made the closing statement in the case on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026983-advocate-judge-tells-court-legal-procedures-adhered-to-in-thaksin-passport-revocation-case/

 

UPDATE:

 

Election postponed – again

By WASAMON AUDJARINT, 
KAS CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION

 

File photo : Prayut

 

ACTIVISTS RAGE AS PM PUSHES BACK DATE TO FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR

 

FACED WITH mounting pressure from critics and the international community, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday said the next election would be held “no later than” next February.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026923-thai-pm-now-says-election-to-be-held-no-later-than-feb-2019/?do=findComment&comment=12752421

 

OPINION:

Brexit has created chaos in Britain – nobody voted for this

Zoe Williams

The Guardian

 

From homelessness to prisons and welfare, the social safety net is failing. Brexit is suffocating the Tory government

 

There’s a homeless shelter near my house, which is one of a few reasons why I’ve never seriously considered the possibility that anyone might freeze to death on the streets overnight.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026984-brexit-has-created-chaos-in-britain-–-nobody-voted-for-this/

 

PM uses OIC visit to express hope Islamic world understands  govt’s different approach to restoring peace in deep South 

By The Nation

 

Turkey's permanent representative to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Salih Mutlu Sen, fourth left, speaks to Muslims in the deep South during a visit on Tuesday.

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Tuesday that he hoped the Islamic world would understand the military government’s different approach to restoring peace in the deep South, as a delegation from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) visited the restive region.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026986-prayut-uses-oic-visit-to-express-hope-islamic-world-understands -govt’s-different-approach-to-restoring-peace-in-deep-south/

 

UPDATE:

 

Arrest warrant to be sought for teacher in Bt30m lottery dispute

By THE NATION

 

Preecha Kraikruan

 

ARREST WARRANTS will be sought today for a teacher and a lottery ticket vendor involved in the Bt30-million lottery controversy in Kanchanaburi, both of whom are accused of giving false information with malicious intent.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026896-teacher-in-lottery-row-has-no-fear-of-arrest/?do=findComment&comment=12752431

 

Nationwide graft probe of destitute fund

By PIYANUCH THAMNUK0ASETCHAI 
THE NATION

 

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Top ministry official linked to wrongdoing as investigation finds systemic corruption

 

ALLEGED CORRUPTION related to government assistance for destitute people plagues at least 14 provinces, an ongoing probe by the Office of Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) stated yesterday. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026987-nationwide-graft-probe-of-destitute-fund/

 

Experts contradict govt on coastal erosion

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION 

 

The breakwaters at Rayong's Saeng Chan Beach have transformed once long sandy beach to series of small bays. // Pratch Rujivanarom

 

EXPERTS SAY coastal erosion in Thailand is getting worse, not better, as had been earlier announced by the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026988-experts-contradict-thai-govt-on-coastal-erosion/

 

Mental health alert issued about elderly suicide

By THE NATION

 

File photo

 

ELDERLY PEOPLE are the second-most at-risk demographic group for suicides in Thailand, the Mental Health Department revealed yesterday. Working-age people are the most at-risk group.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026989-mental-health-alert-issued-about-elderly-suicide/

 

Life’s a bitch when you feel trapped

 

 

A female dog got entangled in a football net in Rayong’s Banchang district on Tuesday and could not free herself.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026990-life’s-a-bitch-when-you-feel-trapped/

 

UPDATE:

 

Srisaket home to a hero’s welcome - and a warning for sore opponent

By Lerpong Amsa-ngiam 
The Nation

 

Srisaket Sor Rungvisai receives a grilled paddy field rat, his favourite Isaan delicacy, from his father Jiamsak, on his return to Bangkok yesterday.

 

Srisaket Sor Rungvisai says he fears no one as he returned home to a hero’s welcome yesterday following his successful WBC super-flyweight title defence campaign in California at the weekend.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026918-thai-boxer-srisaket-gets-hero’s-welcome-at-homeland/?do=findComment&comment=12752462

 

OPINION

Another leap of faith in the South

By The Nation

 

The government has negotiated its ‘Safety Zone’ with the wrong group – praying that the right group agrees

 

In the most recent effort to bring a measure of peace the conflict-besieged southernmost provinces, where the ongoing insurgency has claimed 7,000 lives, the government is now promoting the idea of a “Safety Zone”.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026991-another-leap-of-faith-in-the-south/

 

PM urges all parties concerned to help solve prostitution problem

By Thai PBS

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha urged all parties concerned to help solve prostitution problem so that Thailand will not be seen as a sex destination by foreign tourists.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026992-pm-prayut-urges-all-parties-concerned-to-help-solve-prostitution-problem/

 

Suthep vows no return to politics but will support Gen Prayut as next PM

By Thai PBS

 

 

People’s Democratic Reform Committee Foundation chairman Suthep Thuagsuban reiterated on Tuesday that he would not contest the next general election nor accept any political post, but would continue to support General Prayut Chan-o-cha as the next prime minister.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026993-suthep-vows-no-return-to-politics-but-will-support-gen-prayut-as-next-pm/

 

Police not sure evidence is strong enough to press bribery charge against Premchai

By Thai PBS

 

 

Anti-corruption police have admitted that the sound clip purportedly showing the Italian-Thai Development Plc boss Premchai Karnasuta trying to bribe Thung Yai Naresuan forest rangers might not be strong enough to press bribery charge against the alleged illegal hunter.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026994-police-not-sure-evidence-is-strong-enough-to-press-bribery-charge-against-premchai/

 

Tourists flee in terror as jet ski operator shoots rival dead on Chaweng beach

 

 

Tourists on Chaweng beach fled in terror as a dispute between two Thai men ended in a shoot-out at around 4.30pm on Tuesday 27th of February 2018.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026995-tourists-flee-in-terror-as-jet-ski-operator-shoots-rival-dead-on-chaweng-beach-koh-samui/

 

Trump son-in-law, adviser Kushner loses access to top intelligence briefing: sources

By Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel

 

FILE PHOTO - White House senior adviser Jared Kushner sits behind U.S. United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley before the start of a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at the United Nations in New York, U.S., February 20, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, has lost access to the most valued U.S. intelligence report, the President's Daily Brief, as the White House imposes greater discipline on access to secrets, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026998-trump-son-in-law-adviser kushner loses-access-to-top-intelligence-briefing-sources/

 

Trump picks Brad Parscale to manage 2020 re-election

By Steve Holland

 

President Donald Trump on Tuesday named political strategist Brad Parscale as manager of his 2020 presidential re-election campaign, rewarding a digital expert who was critical to Trump’s 2016 victory and who is trusted by the Trump family. 

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday named political strategist Brad Parscale as manager of his 2020 presidential re-election campaign, rewarding a digital expert who was critical to Trump's 2016 victory and who is trusted by the Trump family.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1026999-trump-picks-brad-parscale-to-manage-2020-re-election/

 

U.S. Republicans in Congress reject new gun limits

By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan

 

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 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. February 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Stocker/Pool

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders of the U.S. Congress said on Tuesday that they would not raise the minimum age for gun buyers, in a sign that one of President Donald Trump's proposals likely will not get far on Capitol Hill after a deadly Florida school shooting.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1027000-us-republicans-in-congress-reject-new-gun-limits/

 

Britain may join U.S. strikes against Syria if chemical weapon use proven

 

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson delivers a speech on Brexit at the Polixy Exchange in central London, Britain, February 14, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain would consider joining U.S. military strikes against the Syrian government if there is evidence chemical weapons are being used against civilians, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1027001-britain-may-join-us-strikes-against-syria-if-chemical-weapon-use-proven/

 

Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

By Markus Wacket and Ilona Wissenbach

 

Greenpeace environmental activists protest in front of Germany's Federal Administrative Court before it decides whether German law provides a legal basis for cities to ban diesel cars to help reduce air pollution, in Leipzig, Germany February 27, 2018. The placards read: "Health risk." REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

 

LEIPZIG/FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move that could accelerate a shift away from the combustion engine and force manufacturers to pay to improve exhaust systems.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1027003-diesel-cars-can-be-banned-from-german-cities-court-rules/

 

U.S. envoy for North Korea to retire after Trump rejects unconditional talks

By David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Joseph Yun arrives at a meeting with the media in Bangkok, Thailand December 15, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. special envoy for North Korea plans to retire on Friday, the State Department said just hours after President Donald Trump again rejected talks to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis unless conditions are met.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1027004-us-envoy-for-north-korea-to-retire-after-trump-rejects-unconditional-talks/

 

How much would you pay for a plastic amulet?

The tourists are offered amulets for sale, priced between 6,800 and 50,000 baht.

By Tanutam Thawan

 

  

The shenanigans at the Kathu Temple, where Chinese tour buses are arriving daily in their droves to purchase ‘lucky’ and ‘magic’ amulets, continues. This time two Dutch tourists, interested to visit a temple and check out the alleged lucky amulets, were horrified by what they discovered.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1027006-phuket-how-much-would-you-pay-for-a-plastic-amulet/

 

Google’s Clips camera is latest effort to bring AI into home gadgets

BY REUTERS 

 

REUTERS/Paresh Dave

 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Babies, dogs and artificial intelligence.

 

Alphabet Inc’s Google is betting this combination proves irresistible with the Tuesday launch of Google Clips, a pocket-sized digital camera that decides on its own whether an image is interesting enough to shoot.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/googles-clips-camera-latest-effort-bring-ai-home-gadgets/27481/

Moon to get first mobile phone network

BY REUTERS 

 

REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga

 

BARCELONA (Reuters) – The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon mission.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/moon-get-first-mobile-phone-network/27485/

Thailand Weighs Benefits of Joining Trade Pact Trump Ditched

By Jason Koutsoukis and Natnicha Chuwiruch

 

++ Current 11-nation trade agreement set to be signed next month

++ Donald Trump says U.S. re-entering trade deal a ‘possibility’

 

Thailand is considering applying to join the 11-nation trade deal that was to originally include the U.S., but was abandoned by President Donald Trump on his first day in office.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1027009-thailand-weighs-benefits-of-joining-trade-pact-trump-ditched/

 

Close Trump aide Hicks declines to answer questions about time in White House

By Patricia Zengerle

 

FILE PHOTO: White House Communications Director Hope Hicks departs as she and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway (L) stand on the sidelines while U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hope Hicks, a close aide to President Donald Trump, declined to answer questions about her time in the White House from members of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee as she testified on Tuesday in its investigation of Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, lawmakers said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1027011-close-trump-aide-hicks-declines-to-answer-questions-about-time-in-white-house/