An audience with former Arsenal and England legend Paul Merson in Bangkok!

 

 

Walking Street to be cleaned up! But it's not what you might think.

 

 

Raunchy Walking Street in South Pattaya is facing its biggest makeover in decades early next year.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040768-walking-street-to-be-cleaned-up-but-its-not-what-you-might-think/

Gang rape/murder of "Nong Gift": She knew one of her attackers

 

 

Information from a popular fan page on Facebook shows that the young woman gang raped and murdered in Chantaburi at the weekend knew one of the men who abducted her.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040769-gang-rapemurder-of-nong-gift-she-knew-one-of-her-attackers/

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Junta rejects Amnesty plea to end action against protesters

By THE NATION

 

 

THE JUNTA yesterday rejected an Amnesty International call for the government to end legal action against pro-election protesters, saying that sparing lawbreakers was beyond its power.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040743-junta-rejects-amnesty-appeal-for-protesters/?do=findComment&comment=13035374

 

Election ‘11 months away’

The Nation

 

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam

 

BUT WISSANU DOES NOT RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF POLL BEING HELD EVEN EARLIER

 

THE NEXT election will take place about 11 months from now, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Kreangam said yesterday after the Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled the organic bill on the election of MPs as constitutional.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040793-election-‘11-months-away’/

 

US-Thailand meet agrees on cybersecurity cooperation

By WASAMON AUDJARINT 
THE NATION 

 

 

THAILAND AND the US agreed to expand cooperation on cybersecurity yesterday as top Thai officials hosted a meeting with US Senator Cory Gardner yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040794-us-thailand-meet-agrees-on-cybersecurity-cooperation/

 

Draft plan to allow foreigners to work in 11 ‘reserved’ occupations

By THE NATION

 

 

Labour ministry proposal would allow them in engineering, architecture and accountancy.

 

A PLAN by the Labour Ministry would allow foreigners to enter 11 of the 39 occupations that are now reserved for Thais. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040795-draft-plan-to-allow-foreigners-to-work-in-11-‘reserved’-occupations/

 

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Firefighters battle major factory blaze

 

 

For more than four hours, a huge fire has raged at a factory in Bang Khunthien district but firefighters have yet to extinguish the blaze.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040742-factory-fire-in-southwest-bangkok-injures-2/?do=findComment&comment=13035394

 

 

Doctors call off protest after off-budget hiring rule scrapped

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION

 

 

THE FINANCE Ministry has managed to prevent a mass demonstration by the Rural Doctors Society (RDS) and the networks for patients with 17 chronic diseases by postponing the enforcement of its new and controversial budgetary regulation on the hiring of off-budget workers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040796-doctors-call-off-protest-after-off-budget-hiring-rule-scrapped/

 

Another senior monk surrenders in corruption case

By KAMPANART LA-ONG, 
KORNKAMON AKSORNDECH 
THE NATION

 

Phra Medhisuttikorn

 

THE former assistant abbot of Bangkok’s Sa Ket Temple, Phra Medhisuttikorn, yesterday surrendered to police at the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) after a warrant was issued last week for his arrest over alleged embezzlement of the National Buddhism Office (NBO) funds to temples.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040797-another-senior-monk-surrenders-in-corruption-case/

 

EEC juggernaut finally picks up steam

By The Nation

 

 

Contracts should be signed this year for the massive infrastructure project in the East

 

Thailand is gearing up its much-heralded Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) mega-development programme ahead of the general election expected to be held early next year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040798-eec-juggernaut-finally-picks-up-steam/

 

Junta Files Complaints Against 41 More Protesters

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

With a sign decrying the draft as "outdated and unnecessary," activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal defers enlistment for one year in 2017.

 

BANGKOK — Police on Thursday revealed an additional 41 people the military junta want charged for violating its ban on political gatherings among others.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040800-junta-files-complaints-against-41-more-protesters/

 

Confusion reigns ahead of Maya Bay closure, June 1

The Phuket News

 

Maya Bay off Phi Phi Island will be closed to all boats for four months from tomorrow (June 1) through Sept 30. Photo: Dr Thon Thamrongnawasawat

 

PHUKET: With Thailand’s renowned Maya Bay off Phi Phi Island, east of Phuket, to close to all boats for four months starting tomorrow (June 1), officials are at a loss of how to enforce the new restricted number of tourists visiting the bay.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040801-confusion-reigns-ahead-of-maya-bay-closure-june-1/

 

PM meets with Austrian ambassador to Thailand

 

 

JUNE 1, 2018, (NNT) - H.E. Mrs. Eva Hager, the ambassador of Austria to Thailand, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on occasion of her assumption of the post, said Deputy Government Spokesperson Lt. Gen. Werachon Sukondhapatipak. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040802-pm-prayut-meets-with-austrian-ambassador-to-thailand/

 

U.S. hits EU, Canada and Mexico with steel, aluminium tariffs

 

FILE PHOTO: An operator uses a hoist to lift a coil of aluminium at the Neuf-Brisach Constellium aluminium products company's production unit in Biesheim, Eastern France, April 9, 2018. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday said it was moving ahead with tariffs on aluminium and steel imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union, ending a two-month exemption and potentially setting the stage for a trade war with some of America's top allies.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040803-us-hits-eu-canada-and-mexico-with-steel-aluminium-tariffs/

 

Italy's anti-establishment leaders revive governing coalition

By Steve Scherer and Gavin Jones

 

Italy's Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte talks to the media at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, Italy, May 31, 2018. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

 

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's anti-establishment parties revived coalition plans on Thursday, ending three months of political turmoil by announcing a government that promises to increase spending, challenge European Union fiscal rules and crack down on immigration.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040807-italys-anti-establishment-leaders-revive-governing-coalition/

 

Trump plays down chances of quick breakthrough, North Koreans bring letter

By Yara Bayoumy and Steve Holland

 

 

North Korea's envoy Kim Yong Chol shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during their meeting in New York, U.S., May 31, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Segar

 

NEW YORK/ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday played down the chances of a quick breakthrough in getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear arms as a delegation from Pyongyang headed to meet him, carrying a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un which suggested a proposed summit may be back on.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040808-trump-plays-down-chances-of-quick-breakthrough-north-koreans-bring-letter/

 

Danish parliament bans the wearing of face veils in public

By Emil Gjerding Nielson and Teis Jensen

 

Women in niqab are pictured after the Danish Parliament banned the wearing of face veils in public, at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31, 2018. Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen/via REUTERS

 

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark has banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and other European countries in outlawing the burqa and the niqab worn by some Muslim women to uphold what some politicians say are secular and democratic values.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040809-danish-parliament-bans-the-wearing-of-face-veils-in-public/

 

Trump pardons conservative, says lifestyle maven Stewart may be next

By Doina Chiacu and Steve Holland

 

President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a pardon to conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to U.S. campaign finance law violations, and said he was considering pardoning lifestyle maven Martha Stewart.

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned a conservative commentator and said he was considering pardoning lifestyle maven Martha Stewart and commuting a former Illinois governor's prison sentence, prompting critics to accuse him of subverting the rule of law.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040810-trump-pardons-conservative-says-lifestyle-maven-stewart-may-be-next/

 

Alleged German fraudster arrested in Pattaya after 6 years

 

Picture: Banmuang

 

Immigration police in Pattaya have arrested a 74 year old German man wanted on a warrant issued in 2012 for fraud and defamation.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040811-alleged-german-fraudster-arrested-in-pattaya-after-6-years/

 

Video: Nigerian studying "International Business" caught dealing cocaine

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

Video footage from the second floor car park of Central Lat Prao in northern Bangkok showed the arrest of a Nigerian man for dealing in cocaine.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040812-video-nigerian-studying-international-business-caught-dealing-cocaine/

 

Make-up artist stabbed to death in rented room in Bangkapi - male lover suspected

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Makkasan police called to an eight story block of flats in the Rama 9 area of Bangkok last night found a 43 year old man stabbed to death.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040813-make-up-artist-stabbed-to-death-in-rented-room-in-bangkapi-male-lover-suspected/

 

Telegram says Apple has prevented it from updating since April

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin/Files

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Apple has prevented the Telegram messaging service from updating globally ever since Russia ordered Apple to remove the service from its stores, Telegram’s CEO and founder said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/telegram-says-apple-prevented-updating-since-april/29007/

Brexit secretary plans to give Northern Ireland joint UK, EU status - The Sun

 

FILE PHOTO - Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union David Davis, leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, May 22, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

 

(Reuters) - Brexit Secretary David Davis is creating a Brexit plan that would give Northern Ireland joint UK and European Union status so it could trade freely with both, as well as a buffer zone to eliminate the need for border checkpoints with Ireland, The Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040814-brexit-secretary-plans-to-give-northern-ireland-joint-uk-eu-status-the-sun/

 

Police patrolling Beach Road, Pattaya, in wake of ladyboy "bad image" case

 

FILE photo

 

Channel 7 reported from Pattaya that the local police were out in force on Beach Road in the wake of the case where several ladyboys were filmed by Chinese tourists doing lewd acts.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040816-police-patrolling-beach-road-pattaya-in-wake-of-ladyboy-bad-image-case/

 

Thai woman tells media Pattaya cops extorted 20,000 baht over drink driving charge - then had a kiss and grope

 

video screenshot

 

A Thai woman from Chaiyaphum has told the media what she claims happened to her after an accident on Beach 2 road on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040817-thai-woman-tells-media-pattaya-cops-extorted-20000-baht-over-drink-driving-charge-then-had-a-kiss-and-grope/

 

Sixty gamblers arrested playing "Hi-Lo" in downtown Udon

 

Picture: TNA

 

Police, military and local officials raided a godown in Udon Thani last night and arrested 60 gamblers and staff playing Hi-Lo.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040823-sixty-gamblers-arrested-playing-hi-lo-in-downtown-udon/

 

Video: Isaan sausage seller urinates while cooking up his wares

 

video screenshot

 

A video caught an elderly seller of Isaan sausage urinating into a plastic bottle while grilling his wares with the other hand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040827-video-isaan-sausage-seller-urinates-while-cooking-up-his-wares/

 

44 foreigners arrested in ongoing tourist police crackdowns

By The Nation

 

Pictures (3): Thai Tourist Police

 

A multi-force raid has arrested another 44 foreigners in a weekly use of police resources that continues to mainly discover people overstaying their visas or lacking an entry permit to Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040828-44-foreigners-arrested-in-ongoing-tourist-police-crackdowns/

 

Ugandan woman arrested for luring compatriots into prostitution in Bangkok

By The Nation

 

 

Tourist police have arrested a woman from Uganda for having allegedly lured women from her country into forced prostitution in Bangkok, a senior police officer said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040830-ugandan-woman-arrested-for-luring-compatriots-into-prostitution-in-bangkok/