Big Joke having a big effect on Bangkok transnational crime as thousands of Africans arrested

 

 

Crime-buster Surachet Hakpal has said that police operations to rid the country of trans national criminals has already had a big effect on reducing crime of this sort in Bangkok.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035558-big-joke-having-a-big-effect-on-bangkok-transnational-crime-as-thousands-of-africans-arrested/

PHOTOS: Foreigner caught allegedly defecating on floor of Pattaya bar

 

 

A foreign man has been caught on camera allegedly defecating on the floor of a bar in Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035534-photos-foreigner-caught-allegedly-defecating-on-floor-of-pattaya-bar/

Why smelly Durian might be the new "Passionfuit" - sexy model stirs up feelings for the King of Fruits!

 

 

It's said you either love it or you hate it - but it has always stirred up debate in Thailand.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035556-why-smelly-durian-might-be-the-new-passionfuit-sexy-model-stirs-up-feelings-for-the-king-of-fruits/

Military pledges firm backing for PM Prayut

By JITRAPORN SENAWONG, 
KAS CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION

 

 

Supreme commander hints at other military leaders also joining pro junta parties

 

AMID apparent efforts by the junta and its backers to ensure the return of Prayut Chan-o-cha as prime minister after the election, the military yesterday pledged its full support to the ruling junta and its leaders.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035582-military-pledges-firm-backing-for-pm-prayut/

 

Security issues top Prawit’s talks in the US

By The Nation

 

DEPUTY PRIME Minister Prawit Wongsuwan

 

DEPUTY PRIME Minister Prawit Wongsuwan discussed with the US Homeland Security under secretary Claire Grady issues related to cyber and maritime security, terrorism and transnational crimes as well as human trafficking during his visit to Washington this week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035583-security-issues-top-prawit’s-talks-in-the-us/

 

Reconciliation mascot reborn, but will it win over the public?

By Rachanon Charoonsak 
The Nation

 

 

The freshly-redesigned mascot for national reconciliation, Nong Kiew Koi, inspired smiles from some as she was shown off on Thursday at Siam Square One. But whether the second try at a mascot that wins public approval achieved it goal is another matter.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035585-reconciliation-mascot-reborn-but-will-it-win-over-the-public/

 

UPDATE:

Supreme Court renominates candidates rejected by NLA

By THE NATION

 

The Supreme Court. Photo credit: Court of Justice

 

JUDGES OF the Supreme Court yesterday re-elected their two previous nominees for the Election Commission despite both of them having been rejected by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035529-supreme-court-picks-election-commissioners/?do=findComment&comment=12930423

 

Minister calls for tough action over rabies vaccine irregularities

By THE NATION

 

Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Grisada Boonrach

 

Five livestock department officials face severe discplinary action for procuring 1 million doses without FDA certification
 

FIVE OFFICIALS OF the Department of Livestock Development are being investigated in connection with alleged irregularities in the purchase of uncertified rabies vaccines, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Grisada Boonrach disclosed yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035586-minister-calls-for-tough-action-over-rabies-vaccine-irregularities/

 

FDA warns celebrities about 3 laws restricting

By THE NATION

 

 

THE FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA) has nudged celebrities to pay attention to at least three laws governing the advertising of products, after several stars were summoned over product endorsements for “Magic Skin” on social media.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035587-fda-warns-celebrities-about-3-laws-restricting/

 

Southern centre rejects accusations of corruption in purchase of water purifiers

By Nakarin Chinworakomon, 
Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai 
The Nation 

 

SBPAC secretary-general Supanat Sirantawineti

 

THE SOUTHERN Border Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC) has dismissed allegations that its procurement of solar-powered water purification systems is mired in corruption.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035588-southern-centre-rejects-accusations-of-corruption-in-purchase-of-water-purifiers/

 

Ratchnok trips in second round but Thai hopes alive in doubles

By LERPONG AMSA-NGIAM 
THE NATION

 

Dechapol Puavaranurkoh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai

 

LAST YEAR’S finalists Dechapol Puavaranurkoh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai remained on track in their Asian Championship campaign but the other Thai contenders, including Ratchanok Intanon, bowed out in the second round in Wuhan on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035589-ratchnok-trips-in-second-round-but-thai-hopes-alive-in-doubles/

 

EDITORIAL

Where Thailand still trails behind

FILE photo

 

Alibaba’s expanding presence should spur policymakers to ready the skilled troops for a digital future

 

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has hyped up Thailand’s economy with an Bt11-billion investment plan for the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), where a digital business hub and logistic centre for Thai and neighbouring markets will be set up.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035590-where-thailand-still-trails-behind/

 

Police probe motorcyclist’s death linked to dangling cable

By Thai PBS

 

 

Khon Kaen’s Muang district police are coordinating with the provincial electricity authority to find out who is to be held accountable for a dangling telecom cable which led to the death of a female motorcyclist on Wednesday (April 25).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035591-khon-kaen-police-probe-motorcyclist’s-death-linked-to-dangling-cable/

 

OCPB vows to deal with unscrupulous property owners

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Office of Consumer Protection Board will adjust its announcement regarding utility fees charged on tenants by owners of hostels or apartments in case the owners of the premises are tricky and impose other charges on the tenants to compensate for lowering utility fees as laid down by the announcement.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035593-ocpb-vows-to-deal-with-unscrupulous-property-owners/

 

Phuket Panda Beauty raid nets B5mn in fake beauty creams

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The store near the Naka Market was found to be peddling fake brand-name beauty products. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: A police raid on a beauty outlet south Phuket Town this morning (April 26) netted an estimated B5 million in fake facial and beauty creams and several suspects for selling the counterfeit goods.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035594-phuket-panda-beauty-raid-nets-b5mn-in-fake-beauty-creams/

 

UPDATE:

 

Call to impose heavy penalties on drivers blocking ambulances

By KHANITTHA THEPPHAJORN 
THE NATION

 

File photo

 

MOTORISTS FAILING to make way for ambulances may face harsher punishments in addition to social ostracism for “endangerment to others” as netizens join with the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) and the police to get tough on offenders.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035525-motorists-failing-to-give-way-to-emergency-ambulances-to-face-severer-penalties/?do=findComment&comment=12930483

 

South, North Korea to hold first summit in decade at DMZ

By Soyoung Kim

 

South Korea has released a busy agenda for Friday, when North Korea's Kim Jong Un will cross the border into the South for a historic inter-Korean summit.

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is set to cross his country's heavily militarised border with South Korea on Friday for the first intra-Korea summit in more than a decade, as the old foes seek to end their decades-long conflict and ease tensions over the North's nuclear weapons programme.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035595-historic-summit-kim-jong-un-to-cross-border-into-south-korea-to-meet-moon-jae-in/

 

Merkel visits Trump without illusions, but with hope

By Paul Carrel and Jeff Mason

 

FILE PHOTO: Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

 

BERLIN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Germany's Angela Merkel visits U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday with no illusions of matching his "special relationship" with France's Emmanuel Macron, but hoping to foster a broader dialogue on trade - one of a batch of tricky topics likely to be addressed.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035596-merkel-visits-trump-without-illusions-but-with-hope/

 

Trump distances himself from his personal lawyer as probe moves forward

By Brendan Pierson and Doina Chiacu

 

U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen exits a hotel in New York City, U.S., April 15, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files

 

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump distanced himself from his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Thursday, hours before a judge ruled that documents seized from Cohen by the FBI should be reviewed by an independent court-appointed official.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035598-trump-distances-himself-from-his-personal-lawyer-as-probe-moves-forward/

 

Father of gravely ill UK child Alfie Evans seeks hospital truce

 

FILE PHOTO: Thomas Evans, father of terminally-ill child Alfie, attends Pope Francis' Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican, April 18, 2018. REUTERS/Max Rossi/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The father of gravely ill Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old boy whose plight has drawn international attention, said on Thursday he wanted to build bridges with staff at the British hospital he has been battling in the courts over his son's treatment.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035599-father-of-gravely-ill-uk-child-alfie-evans-seeks-hospital-truce/

 

Parents sue North Korea, saying Warmbier 'tortured and murdered'

By Ian Simpson

 

FILE PHOTO: American student Otto Warmbier's parents Fred and Cindy Warmbier cry as U.S. President Donald Trump talks about the death of their son after his arrest in North Korea during the State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. January 30, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The parents of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier sued North Korea on Thursday over their son's death in 2017 following his release from captivity there, according to the lawsuit which said their son was "brutally tortured and murdered."

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035600-parents-sue-north-korea-saying-warmbier-tortured-and-murdered/

 

Pompeo becomes U.S. secretary of state as N. Korea, Middle East issues await

By Patricia Zengerle and Lesley Wroughton

 

FILE PHOTO: CIA Director Mike Pompeo testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Pompeo’s nomination to be secretary of state on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as President Donald Trump's secretary of state on Thursday, and the former CIA director set off immediately on a trip to meet key allies in Europe and the Middle East.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035601-pompeo-becomes-us-secretary-of-state-as-n-korea-middle-east-issues-await/

 

Bill Cosby, once beloved 'America's Dad,' convicted of sexual assault

By David DeKok

 

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby exits the Montgomery County Courthouse after a jury convicted him in a sexual assault retrial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 26, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

 

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Comedian Bill Cosby was convicted on Thursday of drugging and sexually assaulting a onetime friend in 2004, marking the first such conviction of a celebrity since the #MeToo movement that has brought down rich and powerful men for their treatment of women.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035602-bill-cosby-once-beloved-americas-dad-convicted-of-sexual-assault/

 

Drunk tourist knocks tooth out of volunteer foreign policeman in Walking Street arrest

 

 

Siam Chon News reported that a drunk foreign tourist - arrested for not paying his bar tab - then attacked a Russian volunteer tourist policeman at the checkpoint by the entrance to Walking Street, South Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035607-drunk-tourist-knocks-tooth-out-of-volunteer-foreign-policeman-in-walking-street-arrest/

 

Thai man denies rape of 14 year old girl - but he admits to knowing her

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The man at the center of a "live broadcast" rape case in Chonburi is now in police custody and was shown at provincial headquarters yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035608-thai-man-denies-rape-of-14-year-old-girl-but-he-admits-to-knowing-her/

 

Volunteer cop who killed motorcyclist by kicking him off his bike fails to show up to the station

 

Pictures: Daily News

 

The case of a volunteer cop attached to Samrong Neua (North Samrong) police station who was shown on social media kicking a man off his motorcycle is developing into an intriguing spectacle.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035610-volunteer-cop-who-killed-motorcyclist-by-kicking-him-off-his-bike-fails-to-show-up-to-the-station/

 

"Justice for my mum": Daughter makes impassioned plea after seeing mum beheaded by hanging wire

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

The daughter of the woman virtually decapitated by a hanging wire while riding a motorcycle in Khon Kaen has made a heartfelt plea for those responsible to be brought to justice.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035612-justice-for-my-mum-daughter-makes-impassioned-plea-after-seeing-mum-beheaded-by-hanging-wire/

 

Tragedy as 16 year old hangs herself from Banyan Tree on Facebook Live

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A teenager who was suffering love problems has hanged herself from a tree near her home.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035618-tragedy-as-16-year-old-hangs-herself-from-banyan-tree-on-facebook-live/

 

"Please sir! Are you a foreign criminal?" 

Big Joke cracks down on "international schools"

Pictures: INN

 

Crime buster Surachet Hakpal has admitted that many of the targets of the latest crackdown on illegal foreigners in Thailand were Africans using the cover of work as language teachers at international schools.

 

Fu;; story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035619-tourist-police-crackdown-on-international-schools-employing-illegal-foreign-teachers/

 

UPDATE:

'A new history starts now' as leaders of two Koreas begin summit

By Christine Kim and Josh Smith

 

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, South Korea, April 27, 2018. Korea Summit Press Pool/Pool via Reuters

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - Smiling and holding hands, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met at the heavily fortified demilitarised zone between the countries on Friday in the first summit for the two Koreas in over a decade.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1035595-historic-summit-kim-jong-un-to-cross-border-into-south-korea-to-meet-moon-jae-in/?do=findComment&comment=12930922