First day back at school - pick-up with suspected drunk driver hits the school van

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Five children were injured in Ban Chang, Rayong, yesterday on their way home from the first day of the new term.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038444-first-day-back-at-school-pick-up-with-suspected-drunk-driver-hits-the-school-van/

 

Automated Postal Machines will be set up in 7 more airports

 

FILE photo

 

BANGKOK, 16th May 2018 (NNT) - The Airports of Thailand (AOT) and Thailand Post have collaborated to provide Automated Postal Machines (APM) in seven more airports nationwide. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038445-automated-postal-machines-will-be-set-up-in-7-more-thai-airports/

 

Vendor killed, 4 patrons injured as truck hits noodle stall

By The Nation

 

Picture: Komchadluek

 

A roadside noodle vendor was killed and four patrons were severely injured when a 10-wheel truck ploughed into a food stall on a Samut Prakan road early on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038446-vendor-killed-4-patrons-injured-as-truck-hits-noodle-stall/

 

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Phuket to hold public hearings on plan to isolate monkeys

By The Nation

 

The Phuket provincial administration will hold five public hearings on its plan to round up pig-tailed macaques and crab-eating macaques and isolate them on a small island.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038322-bon-voyage-–-phuket-prepares-to-move-monkeys-to-islands/?do=findComment&comment=12989081

 

"Step son" arrested in Bangkok for alleged multi million baht inheritance fraud

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Police in Samrong arrested a 37 year old Thai man on four warrants connected to an inheritance fraud.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038448-step-son-arrested-in-bangkok-for-alleged-multi-million-baht-inheritance-fraud/

 

Cabinet earmarks budget for 3 biomass power plants in Deep South

 

 

BANGKOK, 16 May 2018 (NNT) – The Cabinet has set aside a budget of over one billion baht for biomass power plant projects in the three southern border provinces, hoping to foster energy security and create jobs for locals. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038449-thai-cabinet-earmarks-budget-for-3-biomass-power-plants-in-deep-south/

 

BREAKING

 

North Korea casts doubt on Trump summit, suspends talks with South

By Josh Smith

 

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet flies over an apartment complex in Gwangju, South Korea, May 16, 2018. Yonhap via REUTERS

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea threw into question next month's unprecedented summit between Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, denouncing on Wednesday U.S.-South Korean military exercises as a provocation and calling off high-level talks with Seoul.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038451-north-korea-casts-doubt-on-trump-summit-suspends-talks-with-south/

 

Lunchtime drama on Bangkok sky-walk as woman threatens to jump

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Passersby watch in horror yesterday lunchtime as a Thai woman with financial worries threatened to jump from the sky-walk outside the National Police HQ.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038453-lunchtime-drama-on-bangkok-sky-walk-as-woman-threatens-to-jump/

 

Video: Motorcycle rider dead but his friend has remarkable escape

 

 

A collision between a motorcycle and a 6 wheel truck at an intersection in Pak Thongchai, Korat, killed the driver of the bike but the pillion passenger walked away only slightly hurt.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038454-video-motorcycle-rider-dead-but-his-friend-has-remarkable-escape/

 

Drug suspect killed in gunfight with police in Phitsanulok

By The Nation

 

 

A drug suspect was killed in a shootout with police in Phitsanulok’s Prom Phiram district late on Tuesday night.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038456-drug-suspect-killed-in-gunfight-with-police-in-phitsanulok/

 

New international bus services set to make better connections between Thailand and Laos

 

Picture: Manager online

 

Three new international bus services are set to make journeys between Thailand and Laos more convenient.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038457-new-international-bus-services-set-to-make-better-connections-between-thailand-and-laos/

 

Woman rescued from lake suicide bid

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Rescue workers attend to the woman as they take her to Thalang Hospital. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: A woman in a deep state of emotional distress was pulled from a lake in Srisoonthorn late yesterday afternoon (May 15) after what is believed to have been a suicide attempt.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038460-woman-rescued-from-lake-suicide-bid/

 

Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim pardoned, walks out of hospital

 

Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim waves as he leaves a hospital where he is receiving treatment, ahead of an audience with Malaysia's King Sultan Muhammad V, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Jailed Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim was granted a full pardon on Wednesday and walked free out of a hospital in Kuala Lumpur where he has been undergoing treatment.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038462-malaysias-anwar-ibrahim-pardoned-walks-out-of-hospital/

 

"The Right Stuff" author Tom Wolfe dead at 88

 

Image: REUTERS

 

Tom Wolfe, an early practitioner of "new journalism" who captured the mood and culture of America across five decades with books including "The Bonfire of the Vanities," "The Right Stuff," and "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," has died at the age of 88, his agent said.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038465-the-right-stuff-author tom wolfe dead-at-88/

 

Samui Regatta kicks off May 26

Asian Yachting Grand Prix Championship finishes this month in Samui.

By Tanutam Thawan

 

 

From May 26-June 2, the Samui Regatta is on at the Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui in the waters off the island’s Chaweng Beach. It’s the final event in the annual Asian Yachting Grand Prix Championship.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038467-samui-regatta-kicks-off-may-26/

 

Driven Frenchman Reviews 1,500 Thai Temples – And Counting

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Top: Loris Curtenaz poses May 7 in front of his ‘favorite Bangkok temple,’ Wat Hongrattanararm.

 

BANGKOK — A canalside temple tucked in a historic, western Bangkok community a temple has a treasure known only to a handful people.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038469-driven-frenchman-reviews-1500-thai-temples-–-and-counting/

 

Thailand Travel Mart 2018 in Pattaya this June

By Tanutam Thawan

 

PHOTO: CM108.com

 

Pattaya will be the host city for the 2018 ‘Thailand Travel Mart Plus Amazing Gateway to the Greater Mekong Subregion’ (TTM+), positioning the event in a new light as the country’s travel sector continues to grow from strength to strength. The event is hosted by the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038475-thailand-travel-mart-2018-in-pattaya-this-june/

 

Twitter changes strategy in battle against internet ‘trolls’

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo

 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Tuesday revised its strategy for fighting abusive internet “trolls,” saying it would use behavioral signals to identify harassers on the social network and then limit the visibility of their tweets.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/twitter-changes-strategy-battle-internet-trolls/28744/

 

 

Tobacco trade group urges delay in cigarette tax increase

By The Nation

 

Following the discovery of rampant use of contraband cigarettes in the seven lower southern provinces, the Thai Tobacco Trade Association on Wednesday called on the government to delay the next cigarette tax hike, scheduled for October.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038481-tobacco-trade-group-urges-delay-in-cigarette-tax-increase/

 

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

 

(Reuters) – Messaging service WhatsApp rolled out new group-chat features on Tuesday, including more controls for administrators as well as regular group members.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/whatsapp-rolls-new-group-chat-features/28746/

Over 3,000 new medical professionals dispersed across country

 

BANGKOK, 16 May 2018 (NNT) – Thailand's Ministry of Public Health has dispersed over 3,000 recently graduated physicians, dentists and pharmacists across the nation, reminding them to put citizens at the heart of their work. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038482-over-3000-new-medical-professionals-dispersed-across-country/

 

Thai Law: Landlord Not Playing By New Rules? Here’s What To Do.

By Wirot Poonsuwan, Attorney-at-Law

 

 

Two weeks after new consumer protections came into effect, few landlords have refunded security deposits collected in excess of the new legal limit. This despite the law, as of May 1, saying they must return to tenants anything over one month’s value following long-standing practice of collecting two – or more.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038483-thai-law-landlord-not-playing-by-new-rules-here’s-what-to-do/

 

Online fraud risk in Thailand an increasing cause for concern

BY THE NATION 

 

Image: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration

 

E-commerce in the Asia-PAcific region (APAC) is thriving,with 71 per cent of consumers having made online purchases, but the risk of online fraud for consumers is rocketing.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/online-fraud-risk-thailand-increasing-cause-concern/28748/

Cabinet Green-Lights Medical Weed – Opium And Kratom, Too

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Border patrol police show off their haul of confiscated marijuana Jan. 23, 2017, in Nakhon Phanom province.

 

BANGKOK — The first ever bill to allow limited use of cannabis for medical purposes was approved by the interim cabinet Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038485-thai-cabinet-green-lights-medical-weed-–-opium-and-kratom-too/

 

BMA Ordered To Tear Down Markets, Compensate Aunties

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Boonsri Saengyoktrakarn speaks to reporters Wednesday moments after the verdict was read.

 

BANGKOK — City Hall must demolish five illegal markets built around a residence in eastern Bangkok and pay compensation to the family living there, a court ruled Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038495-bma-ordered-to-tear-down-markets-compensate-aunties/

 

Court decides: AirBnB illegal in Thailand for daily and weekly rental

 

Picture: Manager online

 

A court in Hua Hin has effectively decided that people who rent out their rooms via AirBnB on a daily and weekly basis are acting illegally.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038496-court-decides-airbnb-illegal-in-thailand-for-daily-and-weekly-rental/

 

 

Nearly 150,000 caught lane changing in first week - but not all will face fines

 

video screenhot

 

A Thai Rath video on Facebook said that in the first seven days of the use of lane changing cameras in Bangkok there were a total of 149, 104 offenders.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038500-nearly-150000-caught-lane-changing-in-first-week-but-not-all-will-face-fines/

 

Start of school years doesn’t have to mean traffic jams

By The Nation

 

 

The start of the new school semester causes nightmarish traffic snarls in Thai cities, but Mater Dei School in downtown Bangkok has set a fine example for others with rules that greatly reduce congestion in the vicinity on Sukhumvit Road.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038508-start-of-school-years-doesn’t-have-to-mean-traffic-jams/

 

Ramadan set to start a day late, thanks to clouds across the South

The Phuket News

 

Failure to confirm the new lunar month means that Ramadan in Thailand will begin tomorrow (May 17). Main Photo: Ben Robinson / Flickr

 

PHUKET: Ramadan will begin in Thailand tomorrow (May 17) after heavy cloud cover across Southern Thailand thwarted efforts to confirm the lunar phase of a new moon in the South, the Chularatchamontri, formally known as the Sheikhul Islam Office for Thailand, has announced.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038510-ramadan-set-to-start-a-day-late-thanks-to-clouds-across-the-south/

 

COMMENT: What does it take to change driving habits?

12 year old Chinnarat Kajatroka's death was avoidable and unnecessary.

By Tanutam Thawan

 

  

Yesterday we had to report the sad news of 12 year old Chinnarat Kajatroka who fell off the motorbike he was driving whilst his 12 year old passenger had to watch in horro

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1038512-comment-what-does-it-take-to-change-driving-habits/