Nong Khai man arrested for allegedly raping autistic girl

By The Nation

 

Police have arrested a 50-year-old man for allegedly having lured and raped an autistic girl, 10, before returning her to her home in Nong Khai’s Muang district.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043168-nong-khai-man-arrested-for-allegedly-raping-autistic-girl/

 

81-year-old store owner fights off robber

By The Nation

 

An 81-year-old owner of a Chon Buri grocery store fought off a robber who eventually grabbed Bt1300 and fled on Thursday evening, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043170-81-year-old-chon-buri-store-owner-fights-off-robber/

 

Video: Nifty footwork as Burmese guy gets 'up-skirt' videos on the BTS

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A Burmese restaurant worker was arrested at Mo Chit BTS station yesterday after security guards saw him taking up-skirt pictures with a mobile phone.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043173-video-nifty-footwork-as-burmese-guy-gets-up-skirt-videos-on-the-bts/

 

Big Joke at the double! Crime buster smashes call center gang in Manila!

Pictures: Thai Tourist Police

 

 

There is no hiding from Thailand's number one crime buster.

 

Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal was pictured running to a house in the leafy suburbs of a Manila residential district to bust a Thai-staffed call center gang.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043177-big-joke-at-the-double-crime-buster-smashes-call-center-gang-in-manila/

 

Phuket marks World Blood Donor Day

By The Thaiger

 

 

The Phuket Red Cross is continuing its donation promotion under the slogan ‘Be there for someone else. Give Blood, Share Life.’

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043179-phuket-marks-world-blood-donor-day/

 

Thai woman gambled away all the foreigner's money - so she went armed to get more before he came back!

 

Pictures (2): TNA

 

A north-eastern Thai woman who was sent 200,000 baht by her foreign husband gambled it all away on an online lottery.

 

Source: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043180-thai-woman-gambled-away-all-the-foreigners-money-so-she-went-armed-to-get-more-before-he-came-back/

 

Koh Larn survey details tourism, environmental woes

Koh Larn:--Consultants have completed their long-awaited survey of Koh Larn’s tourist capacity, the first step toward new zoning laws to protect the island’s ecosystem.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043181-koh-larn-survey-details-tourism-environmental-woes/

 

Litter, parking crackdown set for Banglamung Beach

PATTAYA:--Banglamung District will deploy officers to regulate parking and stop littering on a Pattaya-area beach popular with Thais.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043183-litter-parking-crackdown-set-for-banglamung-beach/

 

Thais and English: Stop the rote learning, be brave to speak, get better jobs and be happy!

 

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TNA reported that Thais who can speak English and converse with foreigners comfortably have a big advantage in the workplace.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043186-thais-and-english-stop-the-rote-learning-be-brave-to-speak-get-better-jobs-and-be-happy/

 

Pattaya cop fired for bribery, sexual assault

PATTAYA:--A Pattaya police officer has been fired on charges he bribed and sexually assaulted a Chaiyaphum woman.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043184-pattaya-cop-fired-for-bribery-sexual-assault/

 

Pattaya Floating Market accused of flooding neighbors, blocking road

PATTAYA:--Huay Yai residents say the Pattaya Floating Market is flooding their neighborhoods by improperly managing vacant land next to the Pattaya tourist attraction.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043187-pattaya-floating-market-accused-of-flooding-neighbors-blocking-road/

 

Najomtien ignoring deadly traffic light failure outside Ambassador

PATTAYA:--A broken traffic light outside the Ambassador City Hotel in Jomtien Beach is being blamed for dangerous traffic and accidents, including the death of a Russian pedestrian last year.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043188-najomtien-ignoring-deadly-traffic-light-failure-outside-ambassador/

 

CAT, TOT seek rate hikes to pay for Pattaya wire-burying project

PATTAYA:--Internet providers are threatening to raise rates on customers to cover their costs to bury their cables underground in Pattaya.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043189-cat-tot-seek-rate-hikes-to-pay-for-pattaya-wire-burying-project/

 

Chinese factory raided for environmental, labor offenses

PATTAYA:--Banglamung officials raided an illegal Chinese recycling plant for pollution, tax and labor-code violations.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043191-chinese-factory-raided-for-environmental-labor-offenses/

 

Thai mobile operator DTAC will skip 1800 MHz spectrum auction

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s third-largest mobile operator Total Access Communication PCL (DTAC) said on Friday it will not participate in the upcoming 1800-megahertz spectrum auction.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/thai-mobile-operator-dtac-will-skip-1800-mhz-spectrum-auction/29188/

Football fans in Thailand warned of World Cup cyber threat

BY THE NATION 

 

 

Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cyber security solutions, has cautioned ardent football fans in Thailand to stay vigilant against cyber-attacks during the FIFA World Cup 2018 Tournament.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/football-fans-thailand-warned-world-cup-cyber-threat/29186/

Major adds ‘on demand’ film service

BY THE NATION

 

 

MAJOR Cineplex Group yesterday announced the launch of a Movie on Demand service, claiming it as a first for Thailand.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/major-adds-demand-film-service/29183/

Eight road accident heroes set to meet the prime minister next Tuesday

 

Pictures (3) Manager Online

 

Eight people who helped a family after an accident in Si Khiw district of Nakorn Ratchasima on Tuesday have been invited to meet PM Prayut Chan-ocha at government house next week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043194-eight-road-accident-heroes-set-to-meet-the-prime-minister-next-tuesday/

 

Fundraiser organised for Phuket light aircraft crash survivor

Chutharat Plerin

 

Adel Samae’s mother and father, Mahason and Saowanee, are hoping to give their son the best level of care they can while he remains immobile from the neck down and needs to undergo physiotherapy every day. Photo: Supplied

 

PHUKET: A fundraiser has been organised for this Sunday (June 16), with funds raised being donated to one of the two students injured in the light air aircraft crash in Pa Khlok in March.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043197-fundraiser-organised-for-phuket-light-aircraft-crash-survivor/

 

Cor blimey! "Tasty" Pattaya noodle vendor packing them in

 

Pictures (2): Pattaya News

 

Pattaya News reported that an attractive noodle vendor in Bang Lamung was getting a big clientele.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043200-cor-blimey-tasty-pattaya-noodle-vendor-packing-them-in/

 

UPDATE:

 

Thai, Philippine police crack down on call centre gang in Manila

By The Nation

 

 

Thai and Philippine police joined hands to crack down on call-centre scamsters operating from Manila who had duped Thais for over a year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043177-big-joke-at-the-double-crime-buster-smashes-call-center-gang-in-manila/?do=findComment&comment=13080039

 

VIDEO: Backpacker rapping in Bangkok begs for plane ticket home

 

video screenshot

 

A video shared to social media showed a foreign backpacker begging outside Hua Mak stadium in Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043204-video-backpacker-rapping-in-bangkok-begs-for-plane-ticket-home/

 

Time Running Out To Indict ‘Oligarch Huntress’

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Image: Nastya Rybka / Instagram

 

CHONBURI — A Belarusian woman and her Russian “sex instructor” associates could be freed from ongoing detention if charges against them are not brought to court in the next few weeks, a court official said Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043206-time-running-out-to-indict-‘oligarch-huntress’/

 

UPDATE:

 

Tourist Police work with Philippine Immigration agents to bust call center scamming Thais from Manila

 

 

BANGKOK, 15 June 2018 (NNT) – Thai Tourist Police have worked with the Philippines’ Immigration Bureau to bring down a scam call center based in Manila of the Philippines that has been targeting Thais for over a year, finding 16 Thais working at the center under three Taiwanese operators. 

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043177-big-joke-at-the-double-crime-buster-smashes-call-center-gang-in-manila/?do=findComment&comment=13080470

 

Pick-pocket gang used fake passports to steal in Thailand, sell items in Vietnam: police

By Suriya Patathayo 
The Nation

 

 

Many of the 17 suspects of a Vietnamese pick-pocket gang arrested last week in Bangkok’s Din Daeng district were carrying counterfeit passports and using fake names and had stayed in Thailand for 30 years, and another three were found to have overstayed their visas, the Tourist Police Bureau told a press conference on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043221-pick-pocket-gang-used-fake-passports-to-steal-in-thailand-sell-items-in-vietnam-police/

 

Burmese woman arrested with drugs in sting operation

By The Thaiger

 

 

Police have arrested a Burmese woman with methamphetamine pills and crystal methamphetamine.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043224-burmese-woman-arrested-with-drugs-in-sting-operation/

 

Major Chinese electric auto-maker keen to invest in EEC 

By Thai PBS

 

 

Chinese investors are keen to invest  in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) as well as in Phuket and Chiang Mai.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043226-major-chinese-electric-auto-maker-keen-to-invest-in-eec/

 

TDRI to  propose surcharge for taxi travel  

By Thai PBS

 

 

Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) says it will propose to the Land Transport Department a surcharge on taxi fare to help cab-drivers cope with higher costs due to traffic jams.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043228-tdri-to -propose-surcharge-for-taxi-travel/

 

City bus service introduces QR code ticketing on 2 routes today 

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority’s (BMTA) today officially launched QR Code ticketing system for its Airport Bus service from Don Mueang airport to the heart of the capital.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043229-city-bus-service-introduces-qr-code-ticketing-on-2-routes-today /

 

Phuket ice delivery driver unscathed after high-speed wipeout

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The driver of the ice delivery pickup truck, Tanakrit Chaiyabal, escaped serious injury despite the force of the impact. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: A man driving an ice delivery pickup truck amazingly escaped serious injury after his pickup levelled a young mango tree then slammed into the back of a parked truck at high speed early this morning (June 15).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1043230-phuket-ice-delivery-driver-unscathed-after-high-speed-wipeout/