Major changes coming to your MacBook and iMac as Apple reveals new macOS Mojave

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

 

Apple has unveiled sweeping changes to its operating system for Macbooks and iMacs.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/major-changes-coming-macbook-imac-apple-reveals-new-macos-mojave/29064/

Australia criticises China pressure for Qantas to change website on Taiwan

By Colin Packham

 

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Tuesday criticised China for pressuring Qantas Airways Ltd to change its website to refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory, in comments likely to ramp up tensions between the two countries.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041469-australia-criticises-china-pressure-for-qantas-to-change-website-on-taiwan/

 

Beat Plastic Pollution

By Hua Hin Today

 

Beat Plastic Pollution

 

‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ is the theme for World Environment 2018’ urging governments, industry, communities, and individuals to come together and explore sustainable alternatives and urgently reduce the production and excessive use of single-use plastic polluting our oceans, damaging marine life and threatening human health.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041486-beat-plastic-pollution/

 

Brian’s Vision for Hua Hin: ‘Thailand’s Most Wheelchair-Friendly City’

By Hua Hin Today

 

 

Brian’s Vision for Hua Hin: ‘Thailand’s Most Wheelchair-Friendly City’

 

Brian Jensen, or ‘Brian Wheelchair’ as many Hua Hin locals call him, is a staunch advocate for disability access. Apart from personal experience, he has the training and industry background to become Hua Hin’s most able disability access consultant.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041487-brian’s-vision-for-hua-hin-‘thailand’s-most-wheelchair-friendly-city’/

 

MSG Good or Bad?

By Hua Hin Today

 

MSG Good or Bad?

 

For nearly 50 years, the “infamous” monosodium glutamate, best known as MSG, has received a bad rap although the scientific evidence concludes that it is “general recognised as safe”. MSG is a variant of glutamate, created when sodium and glutamate combine. It is naturally occurs in foods such as tomatoes, parmesan cheese, meat, walnuts, asparagus, mushrooms, clams and sardines.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041488-msg-good-or-bad/

 

VIDEO: Foreigners attacked by ladyboys in Phuket

 

 

A video clip shared to social media appears to show a group of foreigners being attacked by a gang of ladyboys in Phuket.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041489-video-foreigners-attacked-by-ladyboys-in-phuket/

 

Southeast Asia's plastic 'addiction' blights world's oceans

By Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Juarawee Kittisilpa

 

FILE PHOTO: Children float on a makeshift raft made of discarded boards and styrofoam as they collect recyclable plastic bottles drifting with garbage along the coast of Manila Bay at the slum area in the Baseco Compound in metro Manila, Philippines October 16, 2017. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco/File Photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - On her lunch break, Bangkok office worker Chinapa Payakha emerges from a 7-Eleven store with two plastic bags.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041492-southeast-asias-plastic-addiction-blights-worlds-oceans/

 

Local elections likely later this year: Anupong

 

 

Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda said today local elections, including the one for Bangkok, are likely to be held before the end of this year as the Council of State, the agency which advises state agencies on legal issues, is in the process of wrapping up amendments of six related laws.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041493-local-elections-likely-later-this-year-anupong/

 

Environmentalists demand govt ban weed killer

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Protesters stage a performance against the use of a toxic weed killer Tuesday near the Government House.

 

BANGKOK — Environmental activists marched on the Government House on Tuesday to demand a toxic chemical be banned from farms.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041494-environmentalists-demand-govt-ban-weed-killer/

 

Thailand to spend billions on satellites from unknown company

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

 

Marketing visualization of a satellite network by commercial space firm SpaceX. It is similar to one Thailand has committed upward of 64 billion baht to invest in by a virtually unheard of company. Image: SpaceX

 

BANGKOK — In a presentation that would put a glimmer in the eye of any James Bond villain, officials spell out the capabilities of a future satellite system to blanket the entire planet in unceasing surveillance.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041495-thailand-to-spend-billions-on-satellites-from-unknown-company/

 

Initial probe identifies three factors behind Kalasin pagoda collapse

By Jakkapong Rawiwan 
The Nation

 

 

The collapse of an ancient pagoda under restoration at Wat Kud Wa in Kalasin’s Kuchinarai district on Monday, which resulted in the death of one worker and four others being injured, stemmed from three main causes, the authorities said on Tuesday following an initial investigation.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041497-initial-probe-identifies-three-factors-behind-kalasin-pagoda-collapse/

 

U.S. developer Simon Property, Siam Piwat to invest $313 mln in Thailand

Reuters Staff

 

 

BANGKOK, June 5 (Reuters) - U.S. mall operator Simon Property Group Inc and Thai retailer Siam Piwat Group will invest 10 billion baht ($313.28 million) in three retail projects to tap into the country’s booming tourism industry, the companies said on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041498-us-developer-simon-property-siam-piwat-to-invest-313-mln-in-thailand/

 

Drug mules caught at Krabi resort

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The 250,000 meth pills were presented to the press in Phuket today (June 5). Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET:-- Region 8 Police held a press conference at Phuket Provincial Police headquarters in Phuket Town this morning (June 5) to announce the arrest of two drug suspects in Krabi alleegedly found in possession of 250,000 tablets of methamphetamine (ya bah).

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041499-drug-mules-caught-at-krabi-resort/

 

Thai Red Cross ‘Missing Type’ project urges donors to give blood more often

By The Nation

 

 

Only 55 per cent of blood donors give blood annually, with just 8 per cent of them doing so every three months, the director of the Thai Red Cross Society’s National Blood Centre said on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041501-thai-red-cross-‘missing-type’-project-urges-donors-to-give-blood-more-often/

 

Kids aged six and seven among callers swamping tourist police emergency line with hundreds of bogus calls

By The Nation

 

 

Three children aged just six and seven were among eight callers having made nearly 650 calls in total to the tourist police’s emergency line, keeping the 1155 number needlessly occupied, deputy tourist police chief Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpal said on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041502-kids-aged-six-and-seven-among-callers-swamping-tourist-police-emergency-line-with-hundreds-of-bogus-calls/

 

Workers pull all-nighters as Phuket Town power cables go underground

The Phuket News

 

The current project to install power cables underground will affect Phang Nga Rd and Rassada Rd in the heart of Phuket Town. Image: Google Maps

 

PHUKET:-- Workers began their all-night shifts along Phang Nga Rd in Phuket Town last night (Jane 4) as the project to install power cables underground throughout the Old Town quarter continued.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041503-workers-pull-all-nighters-as-phuket-town-power-cables-go-underground/

 

Greenpeace flagship ‘Rainbow Warrior’ to visit Phuket

The Phuket News

 

The ’Rainbow Warrior’ will be in Phuket this Saturday (June 9) Photo: Salvatore Barbera

 

PHUKET:-- The Greenpeace flagship “Rainbow Warrior” will arrived in Phuket this Saturday (June 9) as part of its world tour to raise awareness of key environmental issues.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041506-greenpeace-flagship-‘rainbow-warrior’-to-visit-phuket/

 

Woman arrested for allegedly cheating 200 people out of auto insurance premiums

By The Nation

 

 

Bangkok police have arrested a woman for having allegedly lured 200 victims into buying vehicle insurance, but then embezzling their money.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041507-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-cheating-200-people-out-of-auto-insurance-premiums/

 

Songkhla drug suspect arrested after making wrong turn into temple full of police officers

By The Nation

 

 

A suspected drug user tried to flee from a patrol policeman by riding his motorcycle into a Hat Yai temple on Tuesday, only to be arrested by a large group of police officers manning the funeral of the father of a former Songkhla MP.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041508-songkhla-drug-suspect-arrested-after-making-wrong-turn-into-temple-full-of-police-officers/

 

20 ministries kick off campaign to reduce use of plastic bags

 

 

 

Led by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, 20 ministries and the private sector today launched a campaign to reduce the use of plastic bags to mark the World Environment Day, which falls on June 5 of every year.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041509-20-ministries-kick-off-campaign-to-reduce-use-of-plastic-bags/

 

Woody Allen thinks he should be the “poster boy” for the #MeToo movement

By Will Butler

 

Image: Getty

 

Woody Allen has spoken out about his support of the #MeToo movement, congratulating himself for a “wonderful record” with women in the film industry.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041511-woody-allen-thinks-he-should-be-the-“poster-boy”-for-the-metoo-movement/

 

9 TV show crossovers you'd forgotten happened

BY IAN SANDWELL

 

Image: ITV SABAN/UNIVERSAL

 

Shared universes are all the rage these days and TV show crossovers have been happening for years, sometimes in baffling ways.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041512-9-tv-show-crossovers-youd-forgotten-happened/

 

Celebrity deaths in 2018: Famous faces lost this year

By Stacey Williams, Fionn Shiner Assistant Community Manager & Lewis Knight

 

Image: NBCUniversal

 

2017 was a tough year, as we said goodbye to some of our best known and well-loved figures - from Sir Bruce Forsyth and Keith Chegwin to John Hurt and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041513-celebrity-deaths-in-2018-famous-faces-lost-this-year/

 

Honorary French consul makes courtesy call to Prajuab Khiri Khan authority 

 

 

Honorary French Consul Anne-Marie Toudic paid a courtesy call on Panuchat Sawatdichai of the Prajuab Khiri Khan authority yesterday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041519-honorary-french-consul-makes-courtesy-call-to-prajuab-khiri-khan-authority/

 

Video: "Quick Somchai...flush!" - Ya Ba gang's toilet panic!

 

 

A video doing the rounds of Thai social media showed a Ya Ba gang in a desperate effort to get rid of the evidence.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041521-video-quick-somchaiflush-ya-ba-gangs-toilet-panic/

 

Nobody told Pattaya Tuesday was World Environment Day

 

 

Manager reported that as activities were being held all over Chonburi province to mark World Environment Day on Tuesday, no one seem to have told Pattaya.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041523-nobody-told-pattaya-tuesday-was-world-environment-day/

 

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