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Louisiana will not charge police in Alton Sterling shooting

By Jon Herskovitz

 

A boy sits next to a makeshift memorial outside the Triple S Food Mart where Alton Sterling was fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 7, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman/Files

 

(Reuters) - Louisiana will not charge two white police officers who in 2016 fatally shot Alton Sterling, one of series of black men slain by police that sparked protests across the United States, because evidence showed their actions were justified, a state official said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031074-louisiana-will-not-charge-police-in-alton-sterling-shooting/

 

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High speed rail: Pattaya to Bangkok in well under an hour - around 300 baht!

 

Image: Sanook

 

Basic times and prices have been announced for the confirmed high speed train linking U-Tapao airport with Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang in Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031079-high-speed-rail-pattaya-to-bangkok-in-well-under-an-hour-around-300-baht/

 

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China's Xi affirms friendship with North Korean leader, gets denuclearisation pledge

By Ben Blanchard and Joyce Lee

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in this still image taken from video released on March 28, 2018. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited China from Sunday to Wednesday on an unofficial visit, China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. CCTV via Reuters TV

 

BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it won a pledge from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to denuclearise the Korean peninsula during a meeting with President Xi Jinping, who pledged in return that China would uphold its friendship with its isolated neighbour.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031081-chinas-xi-affirms-friendship-with-north-korean-leader-gets-denuclearisation-pledge/

 

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Apple launches its most affordable iPad ever

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/John Gress

 

Apple bid for education market: new software, same iPad price

 

CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc on Tuesday rolled out a new iPad and classroom software aimed at grabbing more of the U.S. education market, but did not cut the price of its entry-level tablet despite schools flocking to laptops costing a third less.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/apple-launches-affordable-ipad-ever/27987/

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Big Joke goes to China in latest call center bust

 

Pictures: Daily News

 

Globetrotting crime buster Surachet Hakpal was in China yesterday arresting six Thais and a Taiwanese ringleader of a call center gang.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031082-big-joke-goes-to-china-in-latest-call-center-bust/

 

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Video: "Thanks airbag" as innocent driver comes close to death at intersection

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

A dash cam video showed the moment when an oncoming pick-up trying to run a red light lost control and rolled straight into another vehicle waiting at the lights.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031084-video-thanks-airbag-as-innocent-driver-comes-close-to-death-at-intersection/

 

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Thai woman ordered execution of husband over "mia noi" and ten million baht, say cops

 

 

Police in the south of Thailand have announced the arrest of five people in the murder of Krabi municipal engineer Montree Upla or "Tik", 57, in February.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031091-thai-woman-ordered-execution-of-husband-over-mia-noi-and-ten-million-baht-say-cops/

 

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Abbot of Bueng Kan temple arrested, defrocked for drug abuse

By The Nation

 

Police raided a temple in Bueng Kan’s Bueng Khong Long district late on Tuesday night and arrested its abbot for drug abuse.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031092-abbot-of-bueng-kan-temple-arrested-defrocked-for-drug-abuse/

 

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"Don't worry - Chinese space station won't drop on your head!" air chief marshal reassures Thais

 

Image: Sanook//Leo Delauncey / Mailonline 

 

Air Chief Marshall Jom Rungsawang has moved to allay fears that a Chinese space station will not fall on people in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031093-dont-worry-chinese-space-station-wont-drop-on-your-head-air-chief-marshal-reassures-thais/

 

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Human bones found on Koh Samui

By The Nation

 

The skull and bones of an unidentified person were found on forested land near a fruit orchard on Koh Samui in Surat Thani on Tuesday evening.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031095-human-bones-found-on-koh-samui/

 

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Maybe he should clean up the force - cop collects litter in his free time!

 

Pictures: Manager Online

 

Manager visited a career policeman in Chumpon who is well known in the area for collecting roadside litter and stuff to sell in his free time.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031097-maybe-he-should-clean-up-the-force-cop-collects-litter-in-his-free-time/

 

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We must avoid new Cold War: German government's Russia expert

 

German deputy Foreign Minister Gernot Erler gestures during an interview with Reuters in Berlin May 31, 2006. REUTERS/Alexandra Beckstein/Files

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany wants to keep up a dialogue with Moscow despite joining Western expulsions of Russian diplomats and must avoid a new Cold War, the German government's coordinator for Russia said in a newspaper interview.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031099-we-must-avoid-new-cold-war-german-governments-russia-expert/

 

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Thai/US teen killed as motorcycle slams into back of 22 wheel truck in Pattaya

 

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

A 16 year old boy of mixed Thai and American heritage was killed when his motorcycle hit the back of a 22 wheel truck carrying concrete posts just after midnight Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031100-thaius-teen-killed-as-motorcycle-slams-into-back-of-22-wheel-truck-in-pattaya/

 

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Accident-prevention measures for black spots in Ayutthaya

By The Nation

 

FILE photo//Google maps

 

Ayutthaya police and a road-safety committee in the central province have reached an agreement on measures to prevent accidents at five spots where they often occur.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031103-accident-prevention-measures-for-black-spots-in-ayutthaya/

 

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Cabinet meeting approves NCPO's solutions to corruption problems

 

 

BANGKOK, 28th March 2018 (NNT) – The weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday (March 27th) has approved solutions to corruption problems in the state sector, as proposed by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031105-cabinet-meeting-approves-ncpos-solutions-to-corruption-problems/

 

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Transport Ministry launches Safe Songkran Festival 2018

 

 

BANGKOK, 28th March 2018 (NNT) – The Deputy Director-General of the Department of Highways, Apisit Promasen, said the Ministry of Transport has launched the Safe Songkran Festival 2018 under the "7-7-7" road safety campaign. 

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031107-7-7-7-transport-min-launches-safe-songkran-festival-2018/

 

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Big Joke's right hand woman is the cutest captain on the force

 

Pictures: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath featured an interview with a female police captain who has often been at the side of crime buster Surachet Hakpal.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031109-big-jokes-right-hand-woman-is-the-cutest-captain-on-the-force/

 

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Songkhla to capture and quarantine stray dogs

By The Nation

 

Officials from the Songkhla Livestock Development Office will start rounding up stray dogs from communities in the southern province next month and move them to a quarantine centre in Satun, a senior official said Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031112-songkhla-to-capture-and-quarantine-stray-dogs/

 

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Bus Owner Charged Over Last Week’s Deadly Crash

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

  

Cremation ceremony for the bus crash victims takes place Tuesday in Kalansin province

 

BANGKOK — The owner of a bus company was charged Tuesday for allegedly allowing one of his employees to drive a bus under the influence of drugs, resulting in a crash that killed 18 passengers last week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031113-bus-owner-charged-over-last-week’s-deadly-crash/

 

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Man Flies From Isaan Just To Buy Yaa Baa In On Nut: Police

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

  

Pittawat Chanthong, 19, points to the yaa baa he was arrested with Wednesday morning.

 

BANGKOK — A man was arrested and charged with possession and use of drugs after he was intercepted flying in from Isaan just to pick up some yaa baa in the capital early Wednesday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031114-man-flies-from-isaan-just-to-buy-yaa-baa-in-on-nut-police/

 

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New guidelines to tackle corruption approved

By Thai PBS

 

 

The government has endorsed new measures to counter corruption in state offices with order to office heads that if irregularities and corruption have been lodged, they must act in seven days, and finish investigation in 30 days.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031105-cabinet-meeting-approves-ncpos-solutions-to-corruption-problems/?do=findComment&comment=12837480

 

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg to testify before Congress but refuses to meet British govt

BY REUTERS 

 

REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo

 

Facebook’s Zuckerberg to testify before Congress: Source

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg plans to testify before U.S. Congress, a source briefed on the matter said on Tuesday, as he bows to pressure from lawmakers insisting he explain how 50 million users’ data ended up in the hands of a political consultancy.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/facebooks-zuckerberg-testify-congress-refuses-meet-british-govt/27992/

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Three Facebook users sue over collection of call, text history

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/three-facebook-users-sue-collection-call-text-history/27990/

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Fires push Mae Hong Son pollution to 150mg

By Tossapon Boonpat 
The Nation

 

 

Fire-fighters and volunteers in Mae Hong Son are battling brush fires along highways and on mountains day and night despite woodlands being officially sealed off.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031116-fires-push-mae-hong-son-pollution-to-150mg/

 

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In depth investigation ordered by PM on pro-election movement

By Thai PBS

 

 

The prime minister has ordered security officials to conduct in depth investigation into the movement of the pro-election groups as he suspected they might have support from certain political parties and they might have ill intentions.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031119-in-depth-investigation-ordered-by-pm-on-pro-election-movement/

 

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Chalong Underpass at 40%, says Highways chief

Shela Riva

 

Highways Department Chief Somwang Lohamut confirmed that the underpass is now at 40% complete. Photo: Mark Knowles

 

PHUKET: Phuket Governor Norraphat Plodthong held a meeting with Highways Department Chief Somwang Lohamut yesterday (Mar 27) to discuss the progress of the Chalong Underpass and traffic problems at Chalong Circle.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031122-chalong-underpass-at-40-says-highways-chief/

 

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Poacher accidentally shoots brother dead in Chiang Mai

By The Nation 

 

A man poaching in a Chiang Mai forest mistook his elder brother for a wild animal and shot him dead.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031124-poacher-accidentally-shoots-brother-dead-in-chiang-mai/

 

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First coins of King Rama X to enter circulation on April 6

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Ministry of Finance announced on Wednesday that the first coins featuring the portrait of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun will be put in circulation on April 6.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031129-first-coins-of-king-rama-x-to-enter-circulation-on-april-6/

 

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#DontTellMeHowToDress: Thai women clap back at govt advice to cover up at Songkran

By Prae Sakaowan 

 

A file photo of a woman participating in a water fight during Songkran Festival, April 2012. Photo: John Shedrick

 

The hashtags #DontTellMeHowToDress and #TellMenToRespect have gained popularity on Twitter over the past few days in Thailand. The social movement is a rare clapback from Thai women, who are speaking out against the government’s advice that they should cover up in order to avoid sexual harassment during the upcoming Songkran festival.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031130-donttellmehowtodress-thai-women-clap-back-at-govt-advice-to-cover-up-at-songkran/

 

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Thai startups join Korean peer in digital currency venture

Tech March 28, 2018 01:00

By Asina Pornwasin
Jirapan Boonnoon 
The Nation 

Natavudh Pungcharoenpong, left, and Vachara Aemavat, right, co-founders and co-chief executives of Six Network, say the company’s services will support the development of an innovative economy in Thailand.

 

THAI startups Ookbee U and Computerlogy yesterday joined South Korean peer Yellow Digital Marketing Global (YDM) in officially launching a joint-venture company that will initiate a cryptocurrency and help foster the development of the digital economy in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031131-thai-startups-join-korean-peer-in-digital-currency-venture/