Decision on inter-province bus fare hike deferred to September

By The Nation

 

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The Transport Ministry will make a decision on whether to increase inter-province bus fares in September, an assistant to the transport minister said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052213-decision-on-inter-province-bus-fare-hike-deferred-to-september/

 

Tennessee executes man for 1985 rape, murder of seven-year-old girl

By Jon Herskovitz

 

Death row inmate Billy Ray Irick, appears in a booking photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Corrections, August 8, 2018. Tennessee Department of Corrections/Handout via REUTERS

 

(Reuters) - Tennessee conducted its first execution in nearly a decade on Thursday, administering a lethal injection to a man convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl he was babysitting.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052214-tennessee-executes-man-for-1985-rape-murder-of-seven-year-old-girl/

 

Bangkok's traffic nightmare: Capital is now clogged by 3 million cars and even more motorbikes

 

Picture: Mcot

 

Thai media MCOT reported that Bangkok now has 3 million vehicles registered.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052215-bangkoks-traffic-nightmare-capital-is-now-clogged-by-3-million-cars-and-even-more-motorbikes/

 

Video: Blame the pink Fino! Motorcycle named and shamed for road accident in Ratchaburi

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

CCTV footage from a U-turn in Ratchaburi showed what happened when a car swerved to avoid a motorcycle crossing the road.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052216-video-blame-the-pink-fino-motorcycle-named-and-shamed-for-road-accident-in-ratchaburi/

 

Tourist police plan criminal checks on 1,400 Nigerians

By The Nation

 

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Tourist police plan to visit 1,400 Nigerians in Thailand next week to check that they have no connection with criminal activities, deputy tourist police chief Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal said on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052218-tourist-police-plan-criminal-checks-on-1400-nigerians/

 

U.S. judge apologizes to prosecutors in former Trump aide Manafort's trial

By Karen Freifeld, Sarah N. Lynch and Nathan Layne

 

Television cameras are positioned outside the U.S. District Courthouse where former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is being tried on charges stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S., August 7, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

 

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - The federal judge in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort expressed contrition on Thursday to jurors after berating prosecutors for allowing a witness to watch the proceedings, despite having given his earlier approval.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052219-us-judge-apologizes-to-prosecutors-in-former-trump-aide-manaforts-trial/

 

Big Joke turfs out more than 70 foreigners - champion had near six year overstay

Pictures: Thai Tourist Police Bureau

 

 

The latest "X-Ray Outlaw Foreigner" campaign - number 20 in the series - has turned up dozens of foreigners on overstay and illegal entry charges.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052221-big-joke-turfs-out-more-than-70-foreigners-champion-had-near-six-year-overstay/

 

Mother of all holes! Woman goes on Facebook to ask who is responsible

 

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A woman went on Facebook to show what happened when she was driving in the rain on Tuesday along Suwinthawong Road leading from Minburi to Chacherngsao.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052223-mother-of-all-holes-woman-goes-on-facebook-to-ask-who-is-responsible/

 

Parts of Krabi flooded as heavy rains continue

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

The Than Bok Khorani National Park in Krabi has been temporarily closed due to strong water flows. More than 50 families are suffering from flooding around the area.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052224-parts-of-krabi-flooded-as-heavy-rains-continue/

 

Child bride sent back to Thailand

by loh foon fong

 

KUALA LUMPUR: The 11-year-old Thai girl who married a 41-year-old Malaysian man has been sent back to Thailand and she is now in Narathiwat, according to a Thai source.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052227-child-bride-sent-back-to-thailand/

 

Thais Can Visit National Parks For Free This Mother’s Day

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

Photo: Erawan National Park / Facebook

 

BANGKOK — National parks nationwide will waive entry fees on Mother’s Day – but only for Thais.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052228-thais-can-visit-national-parks-for-free-this-mother’s-day/

 

UPDATE:

 

Police To Investigate ‘All Nigerians’ In Thailand

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Tourist Police chief Maj. Gen. Surachet Hakpal, standing at center, at a Friday press briefing on Khaosan Road.

 

BANGKOK — Police on Friday said they will target all Nigerians in Thailand for investigation in a move a top human rights official warns could amount to illegal and discriminatory policing.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052218-tourist-police-plan-criminal-checks-on-1400-nigerians/?do=findComment&comment=13255122

 

UPDATE:

 

72 foreigners arrested on visa and other charges

By The Nation 

 

Picture: Thai Tourist Police Bureau

 

Seventy-two foreigners were arrested on Thursday for allegedly overstaying their visa and other charges after tourist police and other agencies searched 75 locations across Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052221-big-joke-turfs-out-more-than-70-foreigners-champion-had-near-six-year-overstay/?do=findComment&comment=13255132

 

U.S. reunions of immigrant families grind to a near halt

By Tom Hals

 

FILE PHOTO: An attendee holds her new country's flag and her naturalization papers as she is sworn in during a U.S. citizenship ceremony in Los Angeles, U.S., July 18, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

 

WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - The number of immigrant children in U.S. care who have still not been reunited with their families after being separated at the Mexican border has barely budged in the past week, as the government struggles to locate parents no longer in the United States.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052230-us-reunions-of-immigrant-families-grind-to-a-near-halt/

 

Thai Airports Confused About Which Chinese Are Chinese

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Police pose with a sign for the Chinese tourists fast-track lane on Aug. 3 at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

 

BANGKOK — Those who want independence for Hong Kong and Taiwan won recognition from an unlikely source this week: Thai immigration police.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052231-thai-airports-confused-about-which-chinese-are-chinese/

 

At 'America First Energy Conference', solar power is dumb, climate change is fake

By Collin Eaton

 

Literature left on a chair during the America First Energy Conference 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., August 7, 2018. Picture taken August 7, 2018. REUTERS/Edmund D. Fountain

 

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Pumping carbon dioxide into the air makes the planet greener; the United Nations puts out fake science about climate change to control the global energy market; and wind and solar energy are simply "dumb".

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052232-at-america-first-energy-conference-solar-power-is-dumb-climate-change-is-fake/

 

Slain teen activist’s family demands to see ‘missing’ tapes

By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation

 

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The family of a teenage ethnic Lahu activist killed at a Chiang Mai military checkpoint last year wants to know what happened to CCTV camera recordings from the scene, the existence of which the Army has officially denied.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052236-slain-teen-activist’s-family-demands-to-see-‘missing’-tapes/

 

Lone gunman robs Phuket bank

By The Nation

 

 

A lone gunman, his face concealed behind a full-size helmet, robbed a branch of Government Housing Bank in Phuket on Friday morning and made off with Bt26,900.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052246-lone-gunman-robs-phuket-bank/

 

Elderly Pattaya couple dies in apparent murder-suicide

PATTAYA:-- Murder-suicide is suspected in the death of an elderly couple in central Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052242-elderly-pattaya-couple-dies-in-apparent-murder-suicide/

 

Pattaya Motor Show draws big crowd

PATTAYA:-- Cars, bikes and models drew large crowds for the 9th Pattaya Motor Show at Central Festival Pattaya Beach.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052237-pattaya-motor-show-draws-big-crowd/

 

Pattaya cleans, repairs Sukhumvit Road sewers

PATTAYA:-- Pattaya scraped out drains under Sukhumvit Road to better handle endemic flooding.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052233-pattaya-cleans-repairs-sukhumvit-road-sewers/

 

Unlit construction zone creates deathtrap at highways 36-7 interchange

 

PATTAYA:-- Motorists say roadwork to widen Highway 36 in Kratinglai has created a deathtrap where large holes and drop-offs are invisible in the dark.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052239-unlit-construction-zone-creates-deathtrap-at-highways-36-7-interchange/

 

Massive job loss seen if Thailand doesn’t upgrade education – EEC advisor

PATTAYA:--Thailand will gain about 30,000 short-term jobs as the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor project ramps up, but will lose hundreds of thousands of jobs long-term unless the country improves its education system, an EEC board meeting was told.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052234-massive-job-loss-seen-if-thailand-doesn’t-upgrade-education-–-eec-advisor/

 

Nongprue sets Soi Mabyailia 43 drainage project

PATTAYA:-- Nongprue has earmarked 9.4 million baht to build a new drainage system under Soi Mabyailia 43.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052240-nongprue-sets-soi-mabyailia-43-drainage-project/

 

16 houses burned down in Bangkok community

By The Nation

 

 

A fire swept through a community in Bangkok's Bangkok Yai district early Friday, burning down 16 wooden houses.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052252-16-houses-burned-down-in-bangkok-community/

 

Thai bodies to be sent back from Israel

By The Nation

 

The Royal Thai Embassy, Tel Aviv group// Thai Embassy

 

The labour attache to the Thai embassy in Tel Aviv was told on Friday by the labour minister to facilitate the transport of bodies of two Thai workers from Israel.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052260-thai-bodies-to-be-sent-back-from-israel/

 

PP Commission approves investment in two transport hubs

 

 

BANGKOK, 10th August 2018 (NNT) – The Public Private Partnership (PPP) Commission has approved two more investment projects to build transport stations worth a combined 4.19 billion baht, allowing the proposal to be put before Cabinet for further consideration. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052261-pp-commission-approves-investment-in-two-transport-hubs/

 

Minister Arkhom holds talks on rail project in Northern region

 

 

BANGKOK, 10th August 2018, (NNT) - The Transport Minister has hosted discussions on a dual rail project to link Den Chai district of Phrae province and Chiang Rai’s capital and Chiang Khong districts. It's believed such a project would boost the local economy and tourism. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052262-minister-arkhom-holds-talks-on-rail-project-in-northern-region/

 

BMA to legalize vending on footpaths of Khao San road

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has decided to allow vendors to sell their merchandises on the footpaths of Khao San road between 4pm-midnight, said Bangkok deputy governor Sakolthee Pattiyakul today.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052263-bma-to-legalize-vending-on-footpaths-of-khao-san-road/

 

8 large-sized dams now under watch

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Office of National Water Resources is keeping a close watch on eight large-sized dams which are holding water at alarming levels, ONWR secretary-general Somkiat Prajumwong said on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1052264-8-large-sized-dams-now-under-watch/