Schooling in Thailand Expat Survey

 

 

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Renewed appeal for British man missing in Thailand who posted concerning video on Facebook

 

 

Friends and relatives have stepped up their online appeal for information about a British man missing in Thailand.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041838-renewed-appeal-for-british-man-missing-in-thailand-who-posted-concerning-video-on-facebook/

Russian credit card fraudster taken down by crime buster Big Joke

 

 

Tourist police deputy commissioner Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal led a team of police in taking down a Russian credit card fraudster in Thailand's north east.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041846-russian-credit-card-fraudster-taken-down-by-crime-buster-big-joke/

Video: Tragedy just averted as school song thaew driver slapped with 5,000 baht fine and suspension

 

 

CCTV footage from an intersection near Kabinburi show

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041844-video-tragedy-just-averted-as-school-song-thaew-driver-slapped-with-5000-baht-fine-and-suspension/

THAI eyes boost from engine repair centre

By JINTANA PANYAARVUDH 
THE NATION

 

 

THAI Airways International (THAI) and Rolls-Royce yesterday signed a cooperation agreement with a view to equipping its maintenance facilities at Don Mueang airport to service the British engineering giant’s line of Trent aircraft engines.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041873-thai-eyes-boost-from-engine-repair-centre/

 

Constituency designation after election law comes into effect: EC

By THE NATION

 

Democrat Party deputy leader Jurin Laksanavisit, far left, and Pheu Thai Party key figure Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, far right, are among the speakers at a panel discussion held by the Election Commission yesterday.

 

THE ELECTION Commission (EC) will have to wait until the new law on the election of MPs becomes effective before it can designate constituencies for the next general election, the agency’s chief said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041874-constituency-designation-after-election-law-comes-into-effect-ec/

 

UNHRC expresses concern over crackdown

By WASAMON AUDJARINT, 
KAS CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION 

 

A police officer provides an escort as pro-democracy activist Rangsiman Rome marches with his supporters from the United Nations office in Bangkok to Nang Loeng Police Station yesterday.

 

THE United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) yesterday made public the letters it had sent to the Thai junta government about alleged rights violations even as the council holds its 38th session on June 18.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041875-unhrc-expresses-concern-over-crackdown/

 

Arrest warrants issued for five suspected of helping monk flee

By THE NATION

 

File photo: Phra Prommedhi

 

FIVE SUSPECTS, including three Laotians, face arrests for allegedly helping Phra Prommedhi flee from Thailand after the Nakhon Phanom Provincial Court approved warrants for them yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041876-arrest-warrants-issued-for-five-suspected-of-helping-monk-flee/

 

UPDATE:

 

Kanchanaburi court move may delay Premchai trial

By THE NATION

 

File photo: Premchai Karnasuta

 

THE POACHING case linked to construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta may be delayed, after the Thong Pha Phum Provincial Court in Kanchanaburi on Wednesday asked the Appeals Court to rule if the case should be handled by the Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases Region 7 in Samut Songkhram province.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041810-prosecutor-objects-to-premchai’s-request-for-transfer-of-illegal-hunting-case/?do=findComment&comment=13056844

 

Making garbage count

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION

 

File photo

 

New waste tech firms offer better ways to convert them into fuel but critics say prevention and segregation must come first.

 

NEW ADVANCED waste-to-energy techniques are being touted to the Thai business sector and related government agencies as being more efficient and less environmentally damaging choices to manage the country’s waste.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041877-making-garbage-count/

 

Banyin gets Bt2m bail

By Kesinee Taengkhieo 
The Nation

 

File photo: Banyin Tangpakorn

 

Former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn, indicted by prosecutors on charges of colluding in the premeditated killing of billionaire Chuwong Sae-tang in an apparent 2015 car accident, was granted a Bt2-million bail release on Thursday with a condition not to leave the country without a court's permission and not to tamper with evidence.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041878-premeditated-murder-of-chuwong-banyin-gets-bt2m-bail/

 

UPDATE:

 

Two immigration officers face probe over Phra Prommethi’s escape

By Thai PBS

 

 

National police chief Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda has ordered the Immigration Bureau to set up a committee to investigate two immigration officers based at Nakhon Phanom-Kammouen border checkpoint for allowing Phra Prommethi to leave the country for Laos on the night of May 24.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041876-arrest-warrants-issued-for-five-suspected-of-helping-monk-flee/?do=findComment&comment=13056863

 

Governors told to tighten controls of school lunch program

By Thai PBS

 

 

An urgent circular was distributed to all provincial governors on Thursday by the director-general of the Local Administration Promotion Department instructing them to ensure transparency in the management of fund for the scandal-tainted school lunch program in their respective provinces.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041879-governors-told-to-tighten controls-of-school-lunch-program/

 

Student celebrates graduation with stunning round to lead Thailand Open

By LERPONG AMSA-NGIAM 
THE NATION

 

Natipong Srithong

 

Natipong lays down THE LAW  

 

THAMMASAT University law student Natipong Srithong carded an unblemished 64 to grab a one-stroke lead over countrymen Jazz Janewattanananond, Sarit Suwannarut and India’s Chikkaranggappa S after round one of the US$300,000 Thailand Open at the Thai Country Club in Chachoengsao yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041880-student-celebrates-graduation-with-stunning-round-to-lead-thailand-open/

 

OPINION

Why the Safety Zone concept has failed to secure peace in South

By Don Pathan 
Special to The Nation 
Part one of a two-part series

 

Deep down inside, all sides knew that the “Safety Zone” pilot project in Thailand’s South wasn’t much to brag about.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041881-why-the-safety-zone-concept-has-failed-to-secure-peace-in-south/

 

Economic prospects sound – if we hold steady

By The Nation

 

 

Foreign investors, skittish of political unrest, need to be lured back to ensure Thailand can progress

 

The international community is closely watching political and economic trends in Thailand, a country governed by the National Council for Peace and Order-backed government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha for the past four years.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041882-economic-prospects-sound-–-if-we-hold-steady/

 

Trump dangles prospect of North Korean leader visit if summit successful

By James Oliphant

 

U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a question while meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque?

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday held out the prospect of inviting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the White House if he deemed next week's summit a success while also signalling he was willing to walk away if he thought talks did not go well.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041883-trump-dangles-white-house-visit-for-north-korea’s-kim-if-summit-goes-well/

 

Dutch queen's sister found dead at Buenos Aires home

 

The younger sister of Queen Maxima of the Netherlands has died at her home in the Argentine capital, reports say.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041884-dutch-queens-sister-found-dead-at-buenos-aires-home/

 

Report on FBI's Clinton email probe coming next week - Inspector General

 

FILE PHOTO: Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies during a Judiciary Committee hearing into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's internal watchdog into the agency's handling of an enquiry into the management of emails by former U.S. presidential candidate Hilary Clinton will be released next week, the agency said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041886-report-on-fbis-clinton-email-probe-coming-next-week-inspector-general/

 

Britain proposes one-year Brexit backstop plan to EU

By Elizabeth Piper

 

Britain's Secretary of State for Departing the EU David Davis and Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox leave 10 Downing Street in London, June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled a one-year backstop plan for the Irish border after Brexit on Thursday, finding a compromise that may paper over differences in her government but may also struggle to win over the European Union.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041887-britain-proposes-one-year-brexit-backstop-plan-to-eu/

 

German finance minister seeks to reassure Germans on Italy concerns

 

Germany's Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz walks back to his hotel after meetings at the G7 Finance Ministers Summit in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, June 1, 2018. REUTERS/Ben Nelms

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz late on Thursday sought to assuage German citizens about Italy's financial outlook as the new coalition government in Rome called for tough negotiations with Europe over the economy.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041890-german-finance-minister-seeks-to-reassure-germans-on-italy-concerns/

 

Media under fire over NLA napping pics

By The Nation

 

 

A junta-appointed legislator raged at the media for showing his fellow legislators sleeping in a session deliberating the Bt3-trillion national budget for the next fiscal year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041893-media-under-fire-over-nla-napping-pics/

 

FDA boss warns against fat-busting jabs

By The Nation

 

Photo from: www.reproduccion-asistida.com/page/30/?lang=ru

 

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) secretary-general Dr Wanchai Sattayawuthipong has warned consumers against using fat-reducing injections.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041896-fda-boss-warns-against-fat-busting-jabs/

 

Trump attacks EU and Canada on trade amid backlash ahead of G7 summit

By David Ljunggren and Jean-Baptiste Vey

 

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) meets with European Council President Donald Tusk (C) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (L) prior to the G7 Summit in the Charlevoix town of La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

 

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations headed for a summit in Canada on Thursday more divided than at any time in the group's 42-year history, as U.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" policies risk causing a global trade war and deep diplomatic schisms.

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041897-trump-attacks-eu-and-canada-on-trade-amid-backlash-ahead-of-g7-summit/

 

Govt unveils Bt600 bn EEC projects

By Wichit Chaitrong 
The Nation

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s will make high-profile trip to Europe later this month.

 

As PM prepares for Europe visit, ministers assure diplomats of continuity after poll

 

In what is seen as a economic road show before Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s high-profile trip to Europe later this month, the government said yesterday it was accelerating six key investment projects worth Bt600 billion in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041898-govt-unveils-bt600-bn-eec-projects/

 

Exclusive - U.S. sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons

By Sarah N. Lynch and Kristina Cooke

 

FILE PHOTO: The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Fugitive Operations team is seen in Santa Ana, California, U.S., May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the country illegally.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041899-exclusive-us-sending-1600-immigration-detainees-to-federal-prisons/

 

Mob of villagers attack man who tried to rape autistic girl, 19

 

Pictures (3): Manager Online

 

A mob of around 100 villagers took matters into their own hands before police arrived at a village in southern Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041900-mob-of-villagers-attack-man-who-tried-to-rape-autistic-girl-19/

 

DLT introduces electronic driving test

 

 

BANGKOK, 8th June 2018 (NNT) - The Department of Land Transport (DLT) is raising the overall standard of driving tests by introducing an e-driving system developed by vocational students to ensure standardized assessment.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041903-dlt-introduces-electronic-driving-test/

 

DPM Wissanu: Local election laws 90% complete

 

 

BANGKOK, 8th June 2018 (NNT) - A deputy prime minister in charge of legal affairs has confirmed significant progress in the drafting of laws governing local and provincial elections. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041906-dpm-wissanu-local-election-laws-90-complete/

 

Schoolboy pimp, 16, was selling his schoolmates into sex - six adults arrested for buying sex

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Following investigations by teachers at a school in Nakorn Sawan police have busted a 16 year old boy for human trafficking and six men who bought sexual services with school boys.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1041907-schoolboy-pimp-16-was-selling-his-schoolmates-into-sex-six-adults-arrested-for-buying-sex/