Die hard Man Utd fan makes odyssey to Samui to find his idol - meets Eric Cantona

 

 

Manager reported that a die hard Manchester United football fan found out that one of the club's all time legends was in Thailand.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035399-die-hard-man-utd-fan-makes-odyssey-to-samui-to-find-his-idol-meets-eric-cantona/

Video: Not again! Pick-up refuses to let ambulance pass - victim dies of drowning as a result

 

 

Daily News reported on yet another case of a driver refusing to make way for an ambulance in a desperate life and death race.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035401-video-not-again-pick-up-refuses-to-let-ambulance-pass-victim-dies-of-drowning-as-a-result/

It's safe it go back in the water.....or is it?

 

 

Thai Rath reported in their headline on Wednesday that tourists were safe to go back in the water at Sai Noi beach in the Hua Hin area.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035400-its-safe-it-go-back-in-the-wateror-is-it/

Court hears arguments on political parties, MPs laws

By THE NATION

 

 

REPRESENTATIVES OF involved agencies lined up yesterday to submit explanations to the Constitutional Court regarding the alleged unconstitutionality of the organic laws governing political parties and MPs.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035420-thailands-constitutional-court-hears-arguments-on-political-parties-mps-laws/

 

Continuing haze points to failure of Asean agreement

By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation

 

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Activists call for tighter controls over contract farming activities of food firms

 

THE FAILURE in the implementation of the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution (AATHP) has led to the prolonged and severe haze season in the northern region of Southeast Asia, while the goal of a haze-free Asean by 2020 was far from achievable, environmentalists said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035421-continuing-haze-points-to-failure-of-asean-agreement/

 

New Bt37-billion motorway in South planned to boost trade with Malaysia

By The Nation

 

 

THAILAND plans to build a 62km motorway in the southern province of Songkhla to the border with Malaysia in a bid to boost bilateral trade and cross-border tourism that is currently worth an estimated Bt500 billion per year, Transport Minister Arkhom Termpitayapaisit said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035422-new-bt37-billion-motorway-in-south-planned-to-boost-trade-with-malaysia/

 

AMLO to seize assets worth over Bt200 million

By Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai 
The Nation

 

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THE ANTI-MONEY Laundering Office (AMLO) committee has resolved to temporarily seize assets worth more than Bt200 million in relation to three key cases, AMLO acting secretary-general Pol Maj-General Rommasit Viriyasant revealed yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035423-amlo-to-seize-assets-worth-over-bt200-million/

 

No impact on ITD operations from poaching case, Premchai tells shareholders

By The Nation

 

File photo: Premchai Karnasuta

 

EMBATTLED construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta yesterday told shareholders of Italian-Thai Development (ITD) that the much-publicised killing of a black leopard – whose remains were found at his campsite in a wildlife sanctuary in February – would not affect the company’s business and it would continue to bid for more construction projects.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035424-no-impact-on-itd-operations-from-poaching-case-premchai-tells-shareholders/

 

WIPO praises products from Thailand’s North

By Sakaorat Sirima 
The Nation

 

 

Celadon-glazed ceramics of Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket district as well as Yok Dok Brocade silk fabric and Nong Chan Keun’s Longan Community Bio-Bank in Lamphun, have been praised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) as high-potential “geographical indication products” that could make it big in global markets.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035427-wipo-praises-products-from-thailand’s-north/

 

UPDATE:

 

Activist goes on hunger strike to protest Doi Suthep construction

By The Nation

 

Mae Ping River Conservation Group president Nikom Putta explains his decision to stage a hunger strike in front of the Court of Appeals Region 5 headquarters yesterday.

 

Peaceful protests step up as court defiant over housing for judges and staff
 

AN ENVIRONMENTALIST began a hunger strike yesterday over the construction of court officials’ residences at the foot of Chiang Mai’s Doi Suthep mountain. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035381-activist-plans-hunger-strike-over-doi-suthep-project/?do=findComment&comment=12927376

 

Community learning centre is not a priority in plans for Mahakan Fort park

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION

 

 

THERE IS NO place for the promised history learning centre of the Mahakan Fort Community, according to Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s (BMA) latest plan for the area. Instead, the budget of at least Bt90 million is likely to be spent on constructing a public park.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035428-community-learning-centre-is-not-a-priority-in-plans-for-mahakan-fort-park/

 

Attack on Hmong leader well planned, police say

By THE NATION

 

 

AT LEAST two gunmen took part in the ambush of a well-known Hmong leader and his family on Tuesday evening, evidence has suggested.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035429-attack-on-hmong-leader-well-planned-chiang-rai-police-say/

 

EDITORIAL

The mess some monks create

By The Nation

 

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Anyone in robes found behaving immorally should not be allowed to remain in robes

 

More and more senior monks have been implicated in a large-scale embezzlement scandal involving temples around the country. They include three members of the Sangha Supreme Council, the ruling body of Thai Buddhism, who are also in charge of some of the temples linked to the scandal.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035430-editorial-the-mess-some-monks-create/

 

U.S. Senate Democrats demand information on Trump CIA nominee

By Mark Hosenball

 

Gina Haspel, a veteran CIA clandestine officer picked by U.S. President Donald Trump to head the Central Intelligence Agency, is shown in this handout photograph released on March 13, 2018. CIA/Handout via Reuters

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Senate Democrats complained on Wednesday that the CIA is refusing to make public important information about Gina Haspel, the senior undercover officer President Donald Trump has nominated to be the intelligence agency's next director.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035432-us-senate-democrats-demand-information-on-trump-cia-nominee/

 

Self-styled Indian 'godman' jailed for life for teen rape

By Malini Menon

 

FILE PHOTO: Police escort spiritual leader Asaram Bapu (C) outside an airport after his arrest in Jodhpur, in the desert state of Rajasthan, India, September 1, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

 

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court jailed a self-styled religious preacher for life on Wednesday for raping a teenage girl, the latest sexual abuse case against a so-called "godman".

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035433-self-styled indian-godman-jailed-for-life-for-teen-rape/

 

Beloved princes: Boys become Buddhist novices in Thailand

By Jorge Silva

 

Danusorn Sdisaithaworn, 10, poses for a portrait during an annual Poy Sang Long celebration, a traditional rite of passage for boys to be initiated as Buddhist novices, while he visits a relative's house outside Mae Hong Son, Thailand, April 4, 2018. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

 

MAE HONG SON, Thailand (Reuters) - Golden umbrellas draped in beads and flowers provide shade for boys as young as seven riding on their fathers' shoulders in a procession through the mountain town of Mae Hong Son on Thailand's northern border.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035434-beloved-princes-boys-become-buddhist-novices-in-thailand/

 

Trump lawyer Cohen says will take 5th in Stormy Daniels case

 

FILE PHOTO - U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen leaves federal court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 16, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

 

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen said on Wednesday he would assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in connection with a lawsuit filed by adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035435-trump-lawyer-cohen-says-will-take-5th-in-stormy-daniels-case/

 

Dutch PM Rutte survives censure vote over dividend tax row

By Bart H. Meijer and Anthony Deutsch

 

Netherland’s Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

 

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte survived a censure vote in the early hours of Thursday called by lawmakers who believe he withheld information about how his Cabinet reached an unpopular decision to scrap a tax on dividends.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035436-dutch-pm-rutte-survives-censure-vote-over-dividend-tax-row/

 

Former California policeman arrested 'Golden State' serial killer case

By Fred Greaves

 

Joseph James Deangelo, 72 appears in a booking photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, April 25, 2018. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department/Handout via REUTERS

 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - An elderly former police officer was arrested and charged in four murders authorities attributed to the Golden State Killer, a serial criminal suspected of dozens of rapes and slayings that terrorized parts of California during the 1970s and 1980s.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035437-former-california-policeman-arrested-golden-state-serial-killer-case/

 

Liverpool look like the final - but for Kampanat it looks like jail!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A Thai man is facing four years jail for making a nice living selling fake football shirts.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035439-liverpool-look-like-the-final-but-for-kampanat-it-looks-like-jail/

 

Hanging internet wires claim motorcycle victim in Khon Kaen - woman, 39, is dead

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Dangerous hanging wires were the cause of a woman's death in downtown Khon Kaen yesterday evening.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035441-hanging-internet-wires-claim-motorcycle-victim-in-khon-kaen-woman-39-is-dead/

 

Liberals on top U.S. court ask if Trump travel waivers just 'window dressing'

By Mica Rosenberg and Dan Levine

 

A protester holds a placard outside the U.S. Supreme Court, while the court justices consider case regarding presidential powers as it weighs the legality of President Donald Trump's latest travel ban targeting people from Muslim-majority countries, in Washington, DC, U.S., April 25, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices sought assurances on Wednesday that the Trump administration's policy for granting medical or other exceptions to a ban on travellers from several Muslim-majority countries amounted to more than window dressing.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035444-liberals-on-top-us-court-ask-if-trump-travel-waivers-just-window-dressing/

 

"Keep Walking": Big Joke returning real whisky to the people!

 

Pictures: Thai Tourist Police

 

Not content with solving transnational crime of all descriptions Thailand's number one crime buster has turned his attention to pirates flogging cheap Thai booze as expensive foreign brands.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035450-keep-walking-big-joke-returning-real-whisky-to-the-people/

 

Upping the ante! Song Thaew driver caught playing poker while driving

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Pictures of a song thaew driving playing poker while driving in Khon Kaen were viewed by thousands of concerned netizens online yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035454-upping-the-ante-song-thaew-driver-caught-playing-poker-while-driving-in-khon-kaen/

 

93 foreigners rounded up in nationwide crackdowns

By The Nation

 

Pictures: Thai Tourist Police

 

Tourist police searched 118 locations around the country on Wednesday and arrested 93 foreigners for residing in Thailand illegally.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035458-93-foreigners-rounded-up-in-nationwide-crackdowns/

 

Police give husband 500 baht to get out of town - but he comes back and murders his wife

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Kind police in Ubon Ratchathani took pity on a husband who had no money and clubbed together to give him 500 baht so he could go home to mummy yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035460-police-give-husband-500-baht-to-get-out-of-town-but-he-comes-back-and-murders-his-wife/

 

Junta returning Pattaya sea views to the people!

 

File photo

 

D-Day is May Day in Pattaya Bay for boat operators.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035463-junta-returning-pattaya-sea-views-to-the-people/

 

Video: Another fine piece of Thai driving from Phayao.....

 

video screenshot

 

Yet further evidence of some of the appalling and selfish driving on Thai roads was posted online after a video was made at the weekend.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035464-video-another-fine-piece-of-thai-driving-from-phayao/

 

Hotel key cards, even invalid ones, help hackers break into rooms

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Attila Cser

 

HELSINKI (Reuters) – By getting hold of a widely used hotel key card, an attacker could create a master key to unlock any room in the building without leaving a trace, Finnish security researchers said in a study published on Wednesday, solving a 14-year-old mystery.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/hotel-key-cards-even-invalid-ones-help-hackers-break-rooms/28432/

South Korea's Moon to meet North Korea's Kim at border for summit

By Christine Kim and Josh Smith

 

FILE PHOTO - South Korea's President Moon Jae-in is seen during a meeting with Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (not pictured) at the Government Office in Hanoi, Vietnam March 23, 2018. REUTERS/Kham/Pool

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday as the latter crosses a military demarcation line to the South for the first summit between the two sides in more than a decade, South Korea said.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035468-south-koreas-moon-to-meet-north-koreas-kim-at-border-for-summit/