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Ex-Playboy model released from deal not to discuss alleged Trump affair

 

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Newly-named Playboy Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal poses with Playboy magazine founder and editor in chief Hugh Hefner May 28 at ceremonies held at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, Ca.The Indiana native will be featured in the July issue of the magazine.

 

(Reuters) - Former Playboy model Karen McDougal reached an agreement on Wednesday with tabloid publisher American Media Inc that will allow her to speak freely about an affair she alleges she had with President Donald Trump, the company said in a statement.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034376-ex-playboy-model-released-from-deal-not-to-discuss-alleged-trump-affair/

 

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Video: Yet again! Car driver refuses to pull over for ambulance as heart patient struggles for life

 

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Another video has been posted online that showed a white car - that looks like a Honda Civic - that would not pull over despite an ambulance behind with its siren wailing.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034378-video-yet-again-car-driver-refuses-to-pull-over-for-ambulance-as-heart-patient-struggles-for-life/

 

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Basque separatist group ETA to announce final dissolution in May: media

 

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A woman watches a news program announcing the dissolution of armed Basque separatists ETA due for the first week of May, according to local television station ETB, in Guernica, April 18, 2018. REUTERS/Vincent West

 

MADRID (Reuters) - The Basque militant group ETA will announce its final dissolution early next month, the public television station ETB reported on Wednesday night.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034380-basque-separatist-group-eta-to-announce-final-dissolution-in-may-media/

 

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California, Trump administration reach deal on National Guard

 

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A private security guard keeps watch at the site of the construction of new bollard wall in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, as seen from the Mexican side of the border in San Jeronimo, on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

 

(Reuters) - California said on Wednesday it had reached a deal with the Trump administration to provide 400 National Guard troops to combat criminal gangs, human traffickers and illegal firearm and drug smugglers within the state and at the U.S.-Mexico border.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034382-california-trump-administration-reach-deal-on-national-guard/

 

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Video: Shark fever gripping Hua Hin - but the funny "Shark Rock" steals the show!

 

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Thai Rath reported that curious tourists were flocking to the Khao Tao viewpoint in Hua Hin to try to see the sharks in the area.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034384-video-shark-fever-gripping-hua-hin-but-the-funny-shark-rock-steals-the-show/

 

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Great idea to help those in need! Kamnan in Trat sets up donation fridge in the street

 

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A kamnan (local official) in Trat province has put an old refrigerator unit in the street near his offices to encourage the local population to donate unwanted or extra food to those in need.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034386-great-idea-to-help-those-in-need-kamnan-in-trat-sets-up-donation-fridge-in-the-street/

 

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Hua Hin tackles 1-in-2-million shark threat

By The Nation

 

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Shark prevention measures will be introduced in the resort town of Hua Hin after a tourist was bitten by a bull shark, even though a marine biologist said there was only a one-in-2-million chance of someone being attacked by a shark.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034387-hua-hin-tackles-1-in-2-million-shark-threat/

 

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SpaceX rocket launched from Florida carrying NASA planet-hunting telescope

By Joey Roullette

 

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A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Wednesday on SpaceX's first high-priority science mission for NASA, a planet-hunting space telescope whose launch was delayed for two days by a rocket-guidance glitch.

 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on SpaceX's first high-priority science mission for NASA, a planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system that might be capable of harbouring life.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034392-spacex-rocket-launched-from-florida-carrying-nasa-planet-hunting-telescope/

 

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Philippines' Duterte says he ordered investigation of Australian nun

 

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he delivers a speech during the 121st founding anniversary of the Philippine Army (PA) at Taguig city, Metro Manila, Philippines March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco/File Photo

 

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he ordered the investigation into a 71-year-old Australian nun for "disorderly conduct", justifying it as a legal move against "undesirable" foreigners.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034393-philippines duterte says-he-ordered-investigation-of-71-year-old-australian-nun/

 

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Phuket airport runway to be closed for maintenance

More delays, more inconvenience on the way at PIA

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

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Phuket International Airport Director, Petch Chancharoen, has announced that some runways and taxiways will be closed from April 27 – May 8 for 6 hours each day for cleaning and maintenance.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034394-phuket-airport-runway-to-be-closed-for-maintenance/

 

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Vietnamese woman arrested as alleged member of pickpocket gang

By The Nation

 

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Tourist police have arrested a Vietnamese woman for allegedly being an accomplice of a gang that pickpocketed Songkran revellers in Bangkok, deputy police chief Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpal said early on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034400-vietnamese-woman-arrested-as-alleged-member-of-pickpocket-gang/

 

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A beach in Hua Hin is closed following shark attack

By Thai PBS

 

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Hat Sai Noi beach in Hua Hin where a Norwegian tourist was attacked by a bull shark was temporarily closed and swimmers were forbidden to swim there as a precautionary measure to prevent possible recurrence of shark attacks.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034402-a-beach-in-hua-hin-is-closed-following-shark-attack/

 

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Police Commander dissatisfied with police officers Songkran results

 

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BANGKOK, 19th April 2018 (NNT) – The Commander of the Royal Thai Police has voiced dissatisfaction with the work of authorities during the Songkran holiday, especially with the commanding officers in three provinces. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034406-police-commander-dissatisfied-with-police-officers-songkran-results/

 

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Spotted stingray found near Phi Phi

The spotting of a big stingray at Malong Bay, near Maya Bay on Koh Phi Phi Ley, is rare in the area

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

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Scuba divers have spotted a stingray hunting for food in the deep sea off Koh Phi Phi while specialists warn that the rare animal is deadly dangerous and better left alone.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034410-rare-stingray-spotted-near-phi-phi/

 

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Airport scan spots ‘ice’ shipment inside Israel-bound squid

By The Nation

 

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Dried squid ready to be shipped to Israel in two Air Express packages were found to contain 110 grams of crystal methamphetamine (“ice”) on Wednesday night.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034416-airport-scan-spots-‘ice’-shipment-inside-israel-bound-squid/

 

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BMA Defends Giving Top Post To Anti-Govt Activist

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

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Sakoltee Pattiyakul, second from left, poses with other anti-government activists in 2014. Image: Sakoltee Pattiyakul / Facebook

 

BANGKOK — A deputy governor of Bangkok said Thursday he welcomes a former anti-election campaigner as his colleague, citing his “knowledge and ability.”

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034423-bma-defends-giving-top-post-to-anti-govt-activist/

 

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Phuket police arrest Songkran paint-splasher

The Phuket News

 

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Payak 'Tum' Samniangmai, 29, told police that he was responsible for splashing paint on peoples' cars during Songkran at Nai Yang Beach last Friday (Apr 13). Photo: Sakoo Police

 

PHUKET: Officers from the Phuket Tourist Police have confirmed that Sakoo Police have arrested a man who was alleged to have splashed paint on numerous cars during the Songkran festivities at Nai Yang Beach last Friday (April 13).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034192-acrylic-paint-used-for-‘splashing’-during-songkran-in-nai-yang-phuket/?do=findComment&comment=12907430

 

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Bill Gates backs gene technologies in fight to end malaria

By Kate Kelland

 

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Bill Gates talks to the Britain's Prince Andrew and Prince of Wales during the Malaria Summit in Northumberland Avenue, London April 18, 2018. Dominic Lipinski/Pool via Reuters

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Gene-editing technologies that alter mosquitoes' DNA could prove critical in the fight against malaria, Bill Gates said on Wednesday, and ethical concerns should not block progress in such gene-modifying research.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034425-bill-gates-backs-gene-technologies-in-fight-to-end-malaria/

 

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Man arrested for stealing ex-boss’s ATM card, withdrawing B6.52mn

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

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Police place Witoon Buamdee, 37, under arrest in Koh Kaew on Tuesday night (April 17). Photo: Phuket Provincial Police

 

PHUKET: Police have arrested a man who allegedly stole his ex-boss’s ATM card and somehow used it 248 times to withdraw more B6.5 million for himself.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034426-man-arrested-for-stealing-ex-boss’s-atm-card-withdrawing-b652mn/

 

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Exclusive: Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law

BY REUTERS

 

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network is making changes that ensure the number will be much smaller.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/exclusive-facebook-put-1-5-billion-users-reach-new-eu-privacy-law/28335/

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Army promises help for worried conscript with ailing grandma

By The Nation

 

The commander of the Bangkok-based 11th Army Circle promised on Thursday to assign soldiers to take care of an elderly woman whose conscripted grandson will be unable do so.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034373-video-what-is-gran-going-to-do-without-me-conscript-in-tears-after-the-dreaded-red-card/?do=findComment&comment=12907525

 

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Ukrainian man rescued 5km off Phuket’s coast

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

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Rescue workers attend to Ukrainian national Josie Marh, 27, after he was rescued five kilometres offshore from Bang Tao Beach. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: A 27-year-old Ukrainian man is safe after being recovered five kilometres off Bang Tao Beach by fishermen yesterday evening (April 18).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034447-ukrainian-man-rescued-5km-off-phuket’s-coast/

 

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