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Nigerian man arrested as police hunt ‘romance scam’ gang

By Jessada Jantararak 
The Nation

 

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Tourist police are hunting for conspirators in a “romance scam” gang after they arrested a 32-year-old Nigerian who allegedly lured a Thai woman in Lampang province into wiring him nearly Bt100,000.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034886-nigerian-man-arrested-as-police-hunt-‘romance-scam’-gang/

 

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People to pay more for medical care under healthcare reform

By Chularat Saengpassa 
The Nation

 

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AS A PART of the country’s upcoming national healthcare reform, Thais will definitely have to pay extra for any extra medical services or medicines they want.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034888-thai-people-to-pay-more-for-medical-care-under-healthcare-reform/

 

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Experts worried about lack of Thai digital skills

By The Nation

 

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Alibaba durian deal dismissed as ‘hype’, observers ponder impact

 

THE HYPE over Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Bt11-billion investment in Thailand, announced last Thursday, and its huge Tmall online platform has only masked the country’s fundamental weaknesses in embracing the digital technology for economic and social benefits, according to experts.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034889-experts-worried-about-lack-of-thai-digital-skills/

 

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Teary farewell as residents evacuate Mahakan Fort

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION

 

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MANY RESIDENTS of centuries-old Mahakan Fort Community shed tears yesterday as they were forced to bid their last farewell to the place they and their ancestors had long called “home”.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034890-teary-farewell-as-residents-evacuate-mahakan-fort/

 

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Somchai withdraws from Electoral Commission selection process

By The Nation

 

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Former election commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn has withdrawn from the contest to become the next secretary-general of the Election Commission (EC), he disclosed on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034892-somchai-withdraws-from-electoral-commission-selection-process/

 

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Abhisit convinces Democrats to affirm leader by mobile vote for all members

By Jintana Panyaarvudh 
The Nation

 

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Democrat Party deputy leader Ongart Klampaiboon

 

The Democrat Party’s new era will kick off with a primary vote by all members for the party leader, said a top party official.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034893-abhisit-convinces-democrats-to-affirm-leader-by-mobile-vote-for-all-members/

 

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Police to quiz celebrities after factory raid nets ‘dangerous’ products

By JESSADA JANTARAK 
THE NATION

 

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POLICE PLAN to summons for questioning about 15 celebrities, stars and Internet idols hired to be presenters of well-known food-supplement brands whose company is facing allegations of operating without a proper licence.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034894-thai-police-to-quiz-celebrities-after-factory-raid-nets-‘dangerous’-products/

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Dawn of the new Democrats?

By JINTANA PANYAARVUDH 
THE NATION 

 

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File photo: Democrat leader Abhisit Vejjajiva during a rite at the party's head office.

 

At 72 years of existence and repeated election losses, Thailand’s oldest political party is facing the biggest challenge in its history trying to rebrand itself ahead of the national election

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034895-dawn-of-the-new-democrats/

 

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Thailand has what it takes for startup success, says venture fund head

By Kwanchai Rungfapaisarn 
The Nation

 

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Peng T Ong, managing partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures

 

DUE TO THE REGION’S abundance of affordable resources, supportive governments and strong market demand, Southeast Asia has much potential as a testing ground for startups aiming to go global, said Peng T Ong, managing partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures. Conditions are ripe in the region for startups to maximise their growth potential, he added.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034896-thailand-has-what-it-takes-for-startup-success-says-venture-fund-head/

 

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Three girls wounded by stray bullets

By Thai PBS

 

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Police are looking for a gunman who fired gunshots during a wedding procession in Nakhon Nayok’s Muang district Sunday morning (April 22), resulting to three young girls sustaining bullet wounds.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034900-three-girls-wounded-by-stray-bullets-in-nakhon-nayok/

 

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Man arrested after Facebook livestreaming torture of his girlfriend

By Thai PBS

 

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A man who broadcast live on Facebook the scenes he tortured and threatened to kill his girlfriend was arrested by the police.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034899-woman-seen-being-beaten-on-facebook-live-rescued-in-bangkok/?do=findComment&comment=12917888

 

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Two killed and five seriously injured in road accident in Songkhla

By Thai PBS

 

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Two people were killed and five others seriously injured when a pickup truck crashed into a motorcycle with a sidecar and turned over on a road in Singha Nakhon district of Songkhla province on Sunday (April 22).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034901-two-killed-and-five-seriously-injured-in-road-accident-in-songkhla/

 

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Chiang Mai residents launch social sanction against judges

By Thai PBS

 

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Chiang Mai residents who oppose the judges’ housing project in Doi Suthep mountain have launched a social sanction against the judges and officials of the 5th Region Appeals Court who move in to stay there.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034902-chiang-mai-residents-launch-social-sanction-against-judges/

 

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Lao general staff chief assures Thai fugitives in Laos will not cause trouble for Thailand

By Thai PBS

 

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Lao chief of general staff Lt-Gen Suvon Luongbunmi has assured that Thai fugitives, including red-shirt supporters, taking refuge in Laos will not be allowed to conduct any activity which will pose a problem for the Thai government, Post Today reports.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034903-lao-general-staff-chief-assures-thai-fugitives-in-laos-will-not-cause-trouble-for-thailand/

 

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GSB and BAAC extend over 10 billion baht in emergency loans to low-income earners

By Thai PBS

 

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The Government Savings Bank (GSB) and the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) have collectively extended emergency loans amounting to 10 billion baht to some 220,000 people so they do not have to seek loans from “loan sharks” and fall into unorganized debt trap.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034904-gsb-and-baac-extend-over-10-billion-baht-in-emergency-loans-to-low-income-earners/

 

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The CIA closed its original 'black site' years ago. But its legacy of torture lives on in Thailand

By SHASHANK BENGALI and CHRIS MEGERIAN

BANGKOK, THAILAND

 

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In February 2015, security forces in southern Thailand hauled in a 26-year-old Muslim man and demanded he confess to participating in a violent separatist insurgency. Officers tied him to a chair, covered his face with a shirt and poured water into his mouth until he choked.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034905-the-cia-closed-its-original-black-site-years-ago-but-its-legacy-of-torture-lives-on-in-thailand/

 

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Police Chief orders crackdown on foreign mafia gangs

 

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BANGKOK, 23rd April 2018 (NNT) – The Deputy Spokesman of the Royal Thai Police (RTP) disclosed that the police chief had ordered strict and continuous crackdowns on foreign mafia gangsters following a raid on the group sex party in Pattaya on Saturday night. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034906-thai-police-chief-orders-crackdown-on-foreign-mafia-gangs/

 

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PM stresses necessity of village funds

 

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BANGKOK, 23rd April 2018 (NNT) – Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha commented this weekend that village and urban community funds have improved the livelihoods of Thai people in all corners of the country. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034907-pm-prayut-stresses-necessity-of-village-funds/

 

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Police search for gunman who killed 4 at Nashville waffle house

By Tim Ghianni

 

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A police vehicle sits parked at the scene of a fatal shooting at a Waffle House restaurant near Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., April 22, 2018. Metro Nashville Police Department/Handout via REUTERS

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - A nearly nude gunman killed four people at a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, early on Sunday and then fled after a patron saved lives by wrestling the assault-style rifle from his hands.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034908-naked-gunman-kills-four-in-nashville-waffle-house/

 

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Austin Powers movies' Mini-Me, Verne Troyer, dies

Rich McKay

 

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(Reuters) - The diminutive actor who starred in the Austin Powers movies’ as “Mini Me”, Verne Troyer, died Saturday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 49.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034910-austin-powers-movies-mini-me-verne-troyer-dies/

 

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Canadian accused of killing Peruvian medicine woman lynched in Amazon

 

LIMA (Reuters) - A Canadian man was lynched in the Peruvian Amazon after residents of a remote village accused him of killing an 81-year-old medicine woman a day earlier, a spokesman for the attorney general's office said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034911-canadian accused-of-killing-peruvian-medicine-woman-lynched-in-amazon/

 

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France's lower house approves bill to tighten asylum rules

 

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PARIS (Reuters) - France's lower house approved by a large majority on Sunday a bill that would tighten asylum rules after tense debates that created the first cracks within President Emmanuel Macron's party.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034912-frances-lower-house-approves-bill-to-tighten-asylum-rules/

 

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Trump says 'long way' to go on North Korea crisis

By Doina Chiacu and Heekyong Yang

 

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WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said the North Korean nuclear crisis is a long way from being resolved on Sunday, striking a cautious note a day after the North's pledge to end its nuclear tests raised hopes before planned summits with South Korea and the United States.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034913-trump-says-long-way-to-go-on-north-korea-crisis/

 

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Romney fails to win GOP nomination for senate, heads to primary in Nov

By Rich McKay

 

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(Reuters) - Mitt Romney's restart of his political career hit a roadblock Saturday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034914-romney-fails-to-win-gop-nomination-for-senate-heads-to-primary-in-nov/

 

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G7 foreign ministers' summit to hold tough line on Russia - sources

By David Ljunggren and Lesley Wroughton

 

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Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland is joined by France's Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, Acting U.S. Secretary of State John J. Sullivan, Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, High Representative for the European Union's Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs Angelino Alfano, Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Taro Kono and Minister of Foreign Affairs for Germany Heiko Maas at opening remarks on the first day of foreign ministers meetings from G7 countries in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 22, 2018. REUTERS/Fred Thornhill

 

TORONTO (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations are expected to maintain a tough line on Russia over its involvement in conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, while leaving the door open to cooperation, two sources briefed on the matter said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034919-g7-foreign-ministers-summit-to-hold-tough-line-on-russia-sources/

 

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Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic to appeal war crimes conviction

By Stephanie van den Berg

 

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will take the courtroom floor again on Monday when he contests his conviction for genocide and a 40-year prison sentence before U.N. appeals judges.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034922-former-bosnian-serb-leader-karadzic-to-appeal-war-crimes-conviction/

 

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Nicaragua cancels planned welfare overhaul in bid to end protests

By Oswaldo Rivas

 

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MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Sunday a planned overhaul of the welfare system that sparked days of deadly protests had been canceled, as he attempted to end the biggest crisis of his administration.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1034923-nicaragua-cancels-planned-welfare-overhaul-in-bid-to-end-protests/

 

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