School criticized for allowing "sweety" hazing ritual

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A school in Sakon Nakhon has been criticized online after pictures emerged of male and female recruits passing boiled sweets from mouth to mouth in a hazing ritual.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044351-school-criticized-for-allowing-sweety-hazing-ritual/

 

Man drowns in Phuket jet-ski accident

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

A man has died after falling off from a jet-ski at a lagoon in Thalang yesterday (June 21)

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044352-man-drowns-in-phuket-jet-ski-accident/

 

North and South Korea discuss reunion meetings for divided families

 

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, South Korea, April 27, 2018. Korea Summit Press Pool/Pool via Reuters

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - Delegations from North and South Korea met on Friday for talks to arrange the first reunions in about three years for families separated by the Korean War, with the Red Cross paving the way.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044354-north-and-south-korea-discuss-reunion-meetings-for-divided-families/

 

Video: Army recruit high on Ya Ba shoots friend then goes to attack him at hospital with a knife

 

Pictures (2): Thai Rath

 

CCTV footage caught an army recruit on leave in a murderous drug fueled rampage in southern Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044355-video-army-recruit-high-on-ya-ba-shoots-friend-then-goes-to-attack-him-at-hospital-with-a-knife/

 

UPDATE:

 

Police intercept 41 pipe bombs smuggled in from Malaysia

By The Nation

 

Forty-one pipe bombs intercepted on Thursday by Narathiwat police on the Thai side of the Malaysian border were intended for an attack on security officers and were made in Malaysia, police saidon Friday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044322-40-pipe-bombs-and-other-equipment-seized-at-a-road-checkpoint-in-narathiwat/?do=findComment&comment=13101487

 

Well done! Kindergarten teachers taking positive steps to avert more car tragedies

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

Kindergarten teachers at a school in Bang Plee south east of Bangkok have been praised online for conducting training for little children in how to exit a vehicle if they are locked in alone.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044357-well-done-kindergarten-teachers-taking-positive-steps-to-avert-more-car-tragedies/

 

Mother cries foul after teacher humiliates son over unpaid school fee

By The Nation

 

Photo from Red Skull Phatthalung Facebook page.

 

A mother has cried foul after her young son was humiliated by a teacher who put a note on his shirt that he owed Bt700 for the school fee.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044358-mother-cries-foul-after-teacher-humiliates-son-over-unpaid-school-fee/

 

Petchaburi Brit tops the overstay list in latest crackdown on foreign criminals

Pictures: Thai Tourist Police Bureau

 

 

A 70 year old British pensioner was named at the top of the list of overstaying foreigners in the 15th "X-Ray Outlaw Foreigner" nationwide crime sweep.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044361-petchaburi-brit-tops-the-overstay-list-in-latest-crackdown-on-foreign-criminals/

 

Bedridden 5-year-old girl with ALS needs help from public

By The Nation

 

FILE photo

 

The Nong Khai governor on Thursday visited a bed-ridden five-year-old girl after learning that she is left under the care of her 69-year-old grandmother.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044362-nong-khai-bedridden-5-year-old-girl-with-als-needs-help-from-public/

 

Bill Speakman, Altrincham’s great war hero and the first person to receive a Victoria Cross from Queen Elizabeth, dies aged 90

By David Prior

 

 

 

Bill Speakman, Altrincham’s great war hero who was the only living Victoria Cross holder from the Korean War, has died at the age of 90.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044363-bill-speakman-altrincham’s-great-war-hero-and-the-first-person-to-receive-a-victoria-cross-from-queen-elizabeth-dies-aged-90/

 

17 Thai prostitutes nabbed in northern Taiwan's Keelung

By Keoni Everington,Taiwan News, Staff Writer

 

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- Police arrested 31 people, including 17 Thai nationals, three Taiwanese women and 11 customers, after raiding a brothel in Keelung City on Wednesday night (June), reported CNA.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044365-17-thai-prostitutes-nabbed-in-northern-taiwans-keelung/

 

Neighbors built shelter for burned-out couple

PATTAYA:--Neighbors and police came to the aid of an impoverished couple whose shack burned down in the South Pattaya woods.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044364-neighbors-built-shelter-for-burned-out-couple/

 

Teacher assaulted, robbed at Banglamung School

PATTAYA:--Police are searching for a man who assaulted and robbed a Banglamung School teacher in her classroom after classes ended.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044366-teacher-assaulted-robbed-at-banglamung-school/

 

Health volunteers mobilize in Pattaya dengue ‘red zone’

PATTAYA:--The Banglamung Village Health Volunteer Club mobilized members to combat dengue fever in the Pattaya area, much of which has been declared a “red zone” for the disease.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044367-health-volunteers-mobilize-in-pattaya-dengue-‘red-zone’/

 

Residents complain about 4 years of sewage overflow

PATTAYA:--A group of Nongprue homeowners have turned to the media after sub-district officials have spent the past four years brushing off their complaints about sewage backups.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044369-residents-complain-about-4-years-of-sewage-overflow/

 

Pattaya installs pipe to relieve Floating Market-caused flooding

PATTAYA:--City hall has come to the rescue of residents near the Pattaya Floating Market, which has been flooding their neighborhood by improperly managing vacant land next door.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044370-pattaya-installs-pipe-to-relieve-floating-market-caused-flooding/

 

No telescope needed to see Saturn on June 27

By The Nation 

 

Photo Courtesy of the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand

 

Saturn, with its remarkable rings, will be visible to the naked eye on June 27 and astronomers are urging people to have a look.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044372-no-telescope-needed-to-see-saturn-on-june-27/

 

Roaches join rats, sewage on list of Pattaya Beach blemishes

PATTAYA:--The rats endemic on Pattaya Beach have new neighbors: cockroaches.

 

Kanrapa Mukdasanit of the Disease Control Department on June 13 blamed tourists and locals for the insect scourge by improperly disposing of their food, trash and other waste.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044373-roaches-join-rats-sewage-on-list-of-pattaya-beach-blemishes/

 

Najomtien cleans up after tide of trash hits Baan Amphur Beach

PATTAYA:--Najomtien officials organized a big cleanup of Baan Amphur Beach after waves of rubbish forced swimmers and sunbathers off the sand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044375-najomtien-cleans-up-after-tide-of-trash-hits-baan-amphur-beach/

 

Multimillion-baht facelift washes away at neglected Yim Yom Beach

PATTAYA:--Four years after Pattaya poured tens of millions of baht into renovating Yim Yom Beach, the Pratamnak Hill shoreline is a mess again, a victim of neglected maintenance.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044376-multimillion-baht-facelift-washes-away-at-neglected-yim-yom-beach/

 

Doctor shortage leaves Nongprue locals aching

PATTAYA:--Nongprue residents are complaining that local clinics are suffering unscheduled closures due to a shortage of doctors.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044377-doctor-shortage-leaves-nongprue-locals-aching/

 

High Court Dismisses Insurrection Case Against Prayuth

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha takes a stroll Thursday at a park in London. Photo: Government House

 

BANGKOK — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an attempt by pro-democracy activists to prosecute junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha for armed insurrection by staging his coup four years ago.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044383-high-court-dismisses-insurrection-case-against-prayuth/

 

Would you pay to join a Facebook group? Social network begins charging to access content

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Files

 

Soon you may have to pay if you want to access your favourite Facebook group.

 

Source: https://tech.thaivisa.com/pay-join-facebook-group-social-network-begins-charging-access-content/29256/

YouTube pushes memberships, merchandise as alternatives to ads

BY REUTERS 

 

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – YouTube said on Thursday that video uploaders with more than 100,000 followers could start paid fan clubs on the service, one of several new features aimed at helping itself and its users diversify revenue after a turbulent year.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/youtube-pushes-memberships-merchandise-alternatives-ads/29259/

NACC axes 2010 crackdown probe

By The Nation

 

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) on Thursday voted unanimously not to revive the case of the violent 2010 crackdown on the red-shirt demonstration, citing no new evidence.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044398-nacc-axes-2010-crackdown-probe/

 

UPDATE:

 

Supreme Court dismisses Resistant Citizen’s high treason case against military junta

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Supreme Court today upheld the earlier ruling of two lower courts to dismiss a lawsuit filed by 15  activists accusing junta chairman Gen  Prayut  Chan-o-cha and four military top brass of high treason for staging a coup d’etat against an elected government in 2014.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044383-high-court-dismisses-insurrection-case-against-prayuth/?do=findComment&comment=13102364

 

UPDATE:

 

List of jobs reserved for Thais trimmed

By The Nation

 

 

Foreigners as of July 1 will be permitted to work in 12 professions previously reserved for Thais, though 28 other kinds of jobs remain off limits, including traditional Thai-style massage.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044277-11-‘forbidden’-careers-opened-to-foreigners/?do=findComment&comment=13102371

 

Nine arrested in Phuket drunk-driving campaign

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

Nine people have been arrested during random checks last night (June 21)around Phuket Town.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044400-nine-arrested-in-phuket-drunk-driving-campaign/

 

Two motorbike taxi drivers arrested in public transport drug crackdown

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

A team of officials led by the Provincial Police Region 8 Police have conducted drug and alcohol tests in a campaign at the new Phuket Bus terminal in Rassada yesterday (June 21). The campaign ran from 3-5pm.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044402-two-motorbike-taxi-drivers-arrested-in-public-transport-drug-crackdown/

 

Executed Man Guilty – But Other Suspect Still At Large: Police

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Amnesty Thailand stages a protest Tuesday at Bang Kwang Central Prison one day after Teerasak Longji was executed there.

 

TRANG — A local police investigator Friday downplayed the significance of new claims that an inmate executed earlier this week did not murder a high school student six years ago but acknowledged another perpetrator is still on the run.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1044404-executed-man-guilty-–-but-other-suspect-still-at-large-police/