THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Friday 13 Jul 2018

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Garlands, certificates, thanks and visa extensions greet Koh Tao hero divers!

 

 

Local government turned out in force at Surat Thani airport last night to greet two foreign Koh Tao divers instrumental in the rescue of the 12 boys and their coach from the Tham Luang cave.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048131-garlands-certificates-thanks-and-visa-extensions-greet-koh-tao-hero-divers/

 

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Street-racer crackdown nets 203 arrests

PATTAYA:--Regional police arrested more than 200 people for racing or selling parts for modified motorcycles in a province-wide sweep.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048134-street-racer-crackdown-nets-203-arrests/

 

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Chonburi governor donates motorcycles, jet skis to police

 

PATTAYA:--Chonburi’s governor donated motorcycles, jet skis and safety equipment to the province’s police to bolster safety for tourists.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048135-chonburi-governor-donates-motorcycles-jet-skis-to-police/

 

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Pattaya shopping spree swindlers rounded up - two Myanmar women and three Chinese

 

Picture: INN

 

A gang of fraudsters buying goods in Pattaya with stolen debit cards from China has been arrested.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048138-pattaya-shopping-spree-swindlers-rounded-up-two-myanmar-women-and-three-chinese/

 

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Sukhumvit bridge ‘safe’ despite shock claim, Pattaya says

PATTAYA:--Pattaya officials insist a pedestrian overpass near School No. 5 is safe, despite a report that a 10-year-old boy suffered a serious electric shock when he touched a steel handrail.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048136-sukhumvit-bridge-‘safe’-despite-shock-claim-pattaya-says/

 

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Sukhawadee House cited again for encroachment

PATTAYA:--Even as contractors demolish 13 percent of tourist mansion Sukhawadee House for encroaching on public property, Pattaya officials have discovered the operator of the Sukhumvit Road mansion has built another staircase on land it doesn’t own.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048137-sukhawadee-house-cited-again-for-encroachment/

 

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Media pressure gets Nongprue neighbors relief from sewage backup

PATTAYA:-- After four years of having their complaints ignored by Nongprue officials, a group of Nongprue homeowners got the media to solve their problem with sewage backups.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048140-media-pressure-gets-nongprue-neighbors-relief-from-sewage-backup/

 

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Belgian loses watch to foreign grifter

PATTAYA:-- A Belgian tourist said he was robbed by a Middle Eastern man he befriended in a Jomtien restaurant and took back to his hotel room.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048141-belgian-loses-watch-to-foreign-grifter/

 

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Bully who slapped old man at 7/11 fined 500 baht - says it was all in good fun!

 

Pictures (2): Daily News

 

A Thai man who assaulted an old man at a convenience store in Thonburi and caused a social media storm has apologized but said it was only a small slap and he does it all the time.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048148-bully-who-slapped-old-man-at-711-fined-500-baht-says-it-was-all-in-good-fun/

 

 

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1,000 Pattaya residents unplugged by wire fire

PATTAYA:-- Utility companies were called out to reconnect about 1,000 Pattaya residents to their televisions and internet after wires caught fire near the Sawangfa Temple Bridge.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048143-1000-pattaya-residents-unplugged-by-wire-fire/

 

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Fantastic! School kids collect thousands of ring pulls for those less fortunate

 

Halle and her brother Buddy with the ring pulls the collected

 

Two children in Nakhon Si Thammarat have collected more than 8,000 aluminium ring pulls that will be used to help create prosthetics for amputees in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048147-fantastic-school-kids-collect-thousands-of-ring-pulls-for-those-less-fortunate/

 

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Myanmar worker crushed to death by service lift at Bangkok company

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A 30 year old worker from Myanmar was crushed to death in an accident in a service lift in Soi Charoen Krung 109 yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048150-myanmar-worker-crushed-to-death-by-service-lift-at-bangkok-company/

 

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One Bangkok driver faces 16 lane changing fines - but he hasn't paid one yet!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Traffic police in Bangkok have revealed that one driver has broken the law a whopping sixteen times in the same location at the same time.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048153-one-bangkok-driver-faces-16-lane-changing-fines-but-he-hasnt-paid-one-yet/

 

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German allegedly overstayed visa for nine years, 55 other foreigners arrested

By The Nation

 

Pictures (4): Thai Tourist Police Bureau

 

A German man who allegedly overstayed his entry visa for nine years was caught in a weekly operation that also nabbed 55 other foreigners who were living illegally in the kingdom.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048156-german-allegedly-overstayed-visa-for-nine-years-55-others-arrested-in-latest-x-ray-outlaw-foreigner-raids/

 

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Prayut visits Sri Lanka to ink bilateral deals

By The Nation

 

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha (C) walks with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (L) during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo on July 12, 2018. /AFP

 

PM Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday left for Sri Lanka, where he is expected to witness the signing of four bilateral agreements on justice process, economy, academics and sustainable developments.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048157-prayut-visits-sri-lanka-to-ink-bilateral-deals/

 

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Ghostly particles give scientists new understanding of universe

By Will Dunham

 

Artist's impression of the active galactic nucleus shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the accretion disk sending a narrow high-energy jet of matter into space, perpendicular to the disc in this image by Science Communication Lab in Kiel Germany, released on July 12, 2018. Courtesy DESY, Science Communication Lab/Handout via REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A breakthrough in the study of ghostly particles called high-energy neutrinos that traverse space, zipping unimpeded through people, planets and whole galaxies, is giving scientists an audacious new way to expand our understanding of the cosmos.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048161-ghostly-particles-give-scientists-new-understanding-of-universe/

 

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Cathay Pacific lands first Airbus A350-1000 at Suvarnabhumi

By The Nation

 

FILE photo

 

Staff of Cathay Pacific, led by Kendrick Ko, country manager for Thailand and Myanmar, and sales and marketing manager Yongyut Lujintanon welcomed the first of its new Airbus A350-1000 aircraft to Suvarnabhumi Airport this week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048163-cathay-pacific-lands-first-airbus-a350-1000-at-suvarnabhumi/

 

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‘Dom’ Recounts Cave Survival, Coach’s Heroism

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

Duangpetch “Dom” Promtep, 13, while in Luang Cave.

 

CHIANG RAI — Football practice had ended when Dom and his teammates followed their coach into the Luang Cave. They had planned to stay only an hour, so he didn’t bring many snacks in his backpack.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048167-‘dom’-recounts-cave-survival-coach’s-heroism/

 

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Appeals Court upholds death sentence on Spaniard for murder

By Thai PBS

 

FILE photo

 

The Appeals Court today upheld the death sentence handed down on a Spanish man for murdering a fellow Spaniard and dumping the dismembered body in the Chao Phraya River in 2016.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048175-appeals-court-upholds-death-sentence-on-spaniard-for-murder/

 

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“Wild Boars” expected to return home next week

By Thai PBS

 

Photo credit: The Secretariat of the Prime Minister

 

The state of health of the 12 Wild Boars Academy football team members and their coach has continued to improve and they are expected to be allowed to go home next week, Public Health Ministry’s inspector-general Dr Thongchai Lertwilairattanapong said on this morning.

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048176-“wild-boars”-expected-to-return-home-next-week/

 

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No Favor In Granting Citizenship To Cave Trio: Governor

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Photo: Ekkapol Chantawong / Facebook

 

CHIANG RAI — The provincial governor on Friday denied any favoritism in considering citizenship for three members of the football team rescued from Luang cave, as the government pledges to speed up the process.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048179-no-favor-in-granting-citizenship-to-cave-trio-governor/

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Grit, daring and beating terror - how Thailand's cave boys were rescued

By John Geddie and Patpicha Tanakasempipat

 

FILE PHOTO: Rescued schoolboys are moved from a military helicopter to an awaiting ambulance at a military airport in Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 9, 2018. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

 

MAE SAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Two days after 12 boys and their soccer coach disappeared inside a cave complex in Thailand's mountainous north, a team of Thai Royal Navy SEALs headed before sunrise into the pitch-black maze of muddy passages to find them.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048181-grit-daring-and-beating-terror-how thailands-cave-boys-were-rescued/

 

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After cave ordeal, Thai boys now face battle with fame

By James Pearson and Patpicha Tanakasempipat

 

FILE PHOTO: A screen grab shows people looking through glass at the boys rescued from the Thai cave at a hospital in Chiang Rai, Thailand from a July 11, 2018 handout video. Government Public Relations Department (PRD) and Government Spokesman Bureau/Handout via REUTERS TV

 

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) - After their traumatic ordeal deep inside a dark and flooded mountain cave, Thailand's 12 rescued boys and their young soccer coach will now have to navigate a fresh challenge: Fame.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048183-after-cave-ordeal-thai-boys-now-face-battle-with-fame/

 

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Thai soccer team planned to be inside the cave for only an hour

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat

 

Rescue personnel work at the Tham Luang cave complex in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand July, 2018 in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media. THAI NAVY SEAL/via REUTERS

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Twelve boys and their soccer coach rescued from a flooded cave in Thailandplanned to explore the cavern complex for only about an hour before treacherous flood waters rose to trap them for more than two weeks, one of the boys' fathers said.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048184-thai-soccer-team-planned-to-be-inside-the-cave-for-only-an-hour/

 

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Families allowed to visit boys up close

By The Nation

 

 

The 13 footballers rescued from a flooded cave in Chiang Rai province continued their good progress in physical and mental recovery from the ordeal at Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital, Public Health Ministry inspector-general Dr Thongchai Lertwilairattapong said on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048185-families-allowed-to-visit-boys-up-close/

 

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Cave documentary to air this weekend

By The Nation

 

The Discovery Channel will broadcast the first documentary feature chronicling the rescue operation of Thailand’s Wild Boar football team from Chiang Rai's Tham Luang cave.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048004-that-didn’t-take-long-discovery-channel-documentary-operation-thai-cave-rescue-to-air-this-friday/?do=findComment&comment=13169584

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Large arms cache seized in Phuket, two arrested

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Sanakorn Jirayut, 51, was arrested with various firearms, ammunition and even TNT. Photo:

 

PHUKET: A team of military and police officers have arrested two men and seized a cahe of firearms, ammunition and explosives.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048187-large-arms-cache-seized-in-phuket-two-arrested/

 

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Mu Pa backers unveil football vision

By Sakaorat Sirima 
The Nation

 

 

The two Chiang Rai businessmen behind the Mu Pa Academy Mae Sai football club, whose 13 young members were trapped in a flooded cave, say they hope sponsorship and aid will help enable the club to produce professional footballers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048189-mu-pa-backers-unveil-football-vision/

 

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New Governor Visits Elderly Rape Victim

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – At around 5pm on July 13th, the new Chiang Mai Governor, Supachai Iamsuwan paid a visit to the elderly sexual assault victim earlier this week.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048197-new-governor-visits-elderly-rape-victim/

 

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We're no heroes, says UK cave diver Volanthen

 

 

John Volanthen, one of the British divers who spearheaded the daring mission to rescue Wild Boards football team and their assistant coach from the Chiang Rai cave in Mae Sai district played down his heroics when he arrived in London from Thailand on Thursday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1048098-thailand-cave-rescue-british-diver-john-volanthen-says-we-are-not-heroes/?do=findComment&comment=13170029