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Porn star Daniels loses bid to question Trump, get quick trial

 

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Stormy Daniels, an adult film star and director whose real name is Stephanie Clifford is interviewed by Anderson Cooper of CBS News' 60 Minutes program in early March 2018, in a still image from video provided March 25, 2018. CBSNews/60 MINUTES/Handout via REUTERS.

 

(Reuters) - A federal judge has rejected adult film star Stormy Daniels' request for permission to question Donald Trump and schedule a trial soon in her lawsuit to end her agreement to remain silent about her alleged sexual encounter with the U.S. president.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031392-porn-star-daniels-loses-bid-to-question-trump-get-quick-trial/

 

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Bus inferno kills 20 Myanmar workers

By Thai PBS

 

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About 20 Myanmar workers died and three were injured when a chartered bus caught fire while on the way to Mae Sot district of Tak province before dawn on Friday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031390-20-registered-myanmar-migrants-burned-to-death-on-bus-in-tak/

 

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Under Armour says 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts breached

BY REUTERS

 

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(Reuters) – Under Armour Inc said on Thursday that data from some 150 million MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app accounts was compromised in February, in one of the biggest hacks in history, sending shares of the athletic apparel maker down 3 percent in after-hours trade.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/armour-says-150-million-myfitnesspal-accounts-breached/28021/

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Facebook begins ‘fact-checking’ photos and videos

BY REUTERS

 

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had begun “fact-checking” photos and videos to reduce the hoaxes and false news stories that have plagued the world’s largest social media network.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/facebook-begins-fact-checking-photos-videos/28024/

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Apple launches iOS 11.3 with host of new privacy tools

BY REUTERS

 

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Apple unveils new privacy tools ahead of EU law

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Apple is introducing new tools that will allow consumers to control how their data are used and deactivate their Apple ID accounts, as tech companies strive to bring their services into line with a tough new EU data protection law.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/apple-launches-ios-11-3-host-new-privacy-tools/28026/

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Yulia Skripal, poisoned with her Russian double-agent father, is getting better

By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew MacAskill

 

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A police officer stands guard outside of the home of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, in Salisbury, Britain, March 6, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The daughter of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal is getting better after spending three weeks in critical condition due to a nerve toxin attack at his home in England, the hospital where she is being treated said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031395-yulia-skripal-poisoned-with-her-russian-double-agent-father-is-getting-better/

 

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US to require would-be immigrants to turn over social media handles

By Tal Kopan, CNN

 

Washington (CNN)The Trump administration plans to require immigrants applying to come to the United States to submit five years of social media history, it announced Thursday, setting up a potential scouring of their Twitter and Facebook histories.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031398-us-to-require-would-be-immigrants-to-turn-over-social-media-handles/

 

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OIC launches 10-baht travel insurance for Songkran revelers

 

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BANGKOK, 30th March 2018 (NNT) – The Office of Insurance Commission (OIC) has unveiled a travel insurance package costing only 10 baht to be offered to holidaymakers this Songkran Festival. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031405-oic-launches-10-baht-travel-insurance-for-songkran-revelers/

 

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Nong Khai folk turn drought to opportunity with Mekong beach

By The Nation

 

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With a sand beach revealed as the Mekong River subsided for the summer season, the Nong Khai community saw opportunity to create a tourist attraction.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031410-nong-khai-folk-turn-drought-to-opportunity-with-mekong-beach/

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Fire kills 20 Myanmar migrant workers on bus in Thailand - police

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A fire on board a bus in western Thailand killed 20 migrant workers from Myanmar early on Friday, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031390-20-registered-myanmar-migrants-burned-to-death-on-bus-in-tak/?do=findComment&comment=12843991

 

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North, South Korea fix April date for first summit in years

By Christine Kim

 

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SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea will hold their first summit in more than a decade on April 27, South Korean officials said on Thursday, after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged his commitment to denuclearisation as tensions ease between the old foes.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031412-north-south-korea-fix-april-date-for-first-summit-in-years/

 

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Tak Governor to smooth way for Myanmar relatives to retrieve bodies of bus-fire victims

By The Nation

 

The Tak governor and Tak police chief will coordinate with government agencies to help relatives enter Thailand to retrieve the bodies of 20 Myanmar workers killed in a bus fire in the province’s Muang district early on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031390-20-registered-myanmar-migrants-burned-to-death-on-bus-in-tak/?do=findComment&comment=12844126

 

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Opinion: Hiding in plain sight

The Phuket News

 

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Faded, painted over or otherwise illegible licence plates are a growing trend in Phuket. Photo: Supplied

 

The Phuket News presents a reader’s opinion on the state of the illegible license plates on vehicles across the island, but mostly carried on taxis, vans and buses carrying tourists to and from their hotels, the airport and tourist attractions around the island.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031416-opinion-hiding-in-plain-sight/

 

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Pattaya halts beach restoration again

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PATTAYA:--The on-again, mostly-off-again effort to stop erosion from wiping Pattaya Beach off the map is off again after Chulalongkorn University consultants, for the third time, bungled the job of finding the right sand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031415-pattaya-halts-beach-restoration-again/

 

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Bodies of Tak bus-fire victims being sent 150km for identification

By The Nation

 

The badly-burned bodies of 20 Myanmar workers killed in a bus fire in Tak’s Muang district early on Friday will be sent about 150 kilometres to two hospitals in Phitsanulok for identification.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031390-20-registered-myanmar-migrants-burned-to-death-on-bus-in-tak/?do=findComment&comment=12844188

 

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20 Foreign Workers Incinerated In Bus Fire

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

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TAK — Twenty foreigners were killed when a bus caught fire early Friday on a highway in the north.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031390-20-registered-myanmar-migrants-burned-to-death-on-bus-in-tak/?do=findComment&comment=12844222

 

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Schoolgirls will get HPV vaccine as rumours of shortage denied

By The Nation

 

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Contrary to circulating rumours, there was no shortage of the vaccine against human papilloma virus (HPV) needed for shots for Prathom 5 schoolgirls nationwide, according to Atthaporn Limpanyalert, a National Health Security Office (NHSO) spokesperson.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031421-schoolgirls-will-get-hpv-vaccine-as-rumours-of-shortage-denied/

 

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CSD police to be asked to investigate suspected fake anti-rabies vaccine

By Thai PBS

 

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A complaint is to be lodged with the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police next week to investigate two importers of anti-rabies vaccine after it was discovered that their product is substandard and suspected to be fake, said Atchariya Ruangrattanapong, head of a private organization dedicated to help crime victims.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031423-csd-police-to-be-asked-to-investigate-suspected-fake-anti-rabies-vaccine/

 

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Phuket Prison ‘all white’ as search fails to find drugs

The Phuket News

 

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PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Prison has once again been declared a “white” prison after a search yesterday evening (Mar 29) failed to uncover any drugs.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031425-phuket-prison-‘all-white’-as-search-fails-to-find-drugs/

 

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Watch Issue Is ‘Over,’ Prawit Insists

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

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BANGKOK — Junta No. 2 boss Prawit Wongsuwan maintained Friday that dozens of luxury watches worth millions of baht spotted on his wrist were all loaned by a friend.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031429-watch-issue-is-‘over’-prawit-insists/

 

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Drug protection, suppression activities expanded to Phuket villages

The Phuket News

 

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Phuket Vice Governor Snith Sriwihok. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: Phuket Vice Governor Snith Sriwihok held a meeting yesterday on drug protection and suppression where he stated that the island’s local villages and communities need to be educated and included in drug use prevention projects.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1031431-drug-protection-suppression-activities-expanded-to-phuket-villages/

 

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