Crackdown on tattoo shops after death of four women

By THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK governor Pol General Aswin Kwanmuang has instructed officials and related agencies to inspect tattoo shops at markets, following the shocking report that four female friends recently died of AIDS-related illnesses after having tattoos together at Klong Lot market near the Grand Palace in March.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055731-crackdown-on-tattoo-shops-after-death-of-four-women/

Thai man, 29, dies in high speed crash, not known if street racing to blame

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Sarawut Madkul, 29, was still alive inside the vehicle when police arrived at the scene. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET:-- A 29-year-old Thai man died on Saturday night when he crashed his car into a power pole at high speed on Thapkrasattri Rd in Thalang.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055707-thai-man-29-dies-in-high-speed-crash-not-known-if-street-racing-to-blame/

Police charge three youths in connection with fatal shooting of poly college student

By Kornkamon Aksorndech 
The Nation

 

 

Police have arrested and charged three suspects linked to the August 28 fatal shooting of a 19-year-old polytechnic college student, Noppakao Sukhontharat, at Soi Rat Uthit 23 in Bangkok’s Min Buri district, deputy city police chief Pol Maj-General Sompong Chingduang said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055699-bangkok-police-charge-three-youths-in-connection-with-fatal-shooting-of-poly-college-student/

Serious flood warning along major rivers

By THE NATION

 

 

PEOPLE LIVING on the banks of major rivers in Thailand have been warned they face a serious risk of flooding.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055749-serious-flood-warning-along-major-rivers-in-thailand/

 

Thais can still go to Taiwan without a visa, but for 14 days

By THE NATION

 

 

THAI NATIONALS can still visit Taiwan without a visa despite reports that the number of visa-free entries per year would be slashed after some Thai nationals were found to be involved in the sex trade there.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055750-thais-can-still-go-to-taiwan-without-a-visa-but-for-14-days/

 

UN climate talks ‘flawed’, could sabotage efforts

By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation 

 

Environment activists from developing countries speak at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand yesterday ahead of the UN conference to be held today.

 

Activists say inequality is built into negotiation system, smaller countries being drowned out

 

AN UNDEMOCRATIC and unfair negotiation mechanism in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will eventually lead to the failure of the landmark Paris Agreement, civic groups said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055751-un-climate-talks-‘flawed’-could-sabotage-efforts/

 

Worry stalks streets over cases of mental illness

By THE NATION

 

 

People urged to help patients get immediate medical help.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055752-worry-stalks-streets-over-cases-of-mental-illness/

 

Ministry plans to cover 1m more informal-sector workers for social security

By The Nation

 

Labour Minister Pol General Adul Sangsingkeo

 

THE LABOUR Ministry hopes to cover an additional one million informal-sector workers as voluntarily-insured people for social security payments starting in 2019.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055753-ministry-plans-to-cover-1m-more-informal-sector-workers-for-social-security/

 

Business sentiment edges down, but confidence in continued economic expansion remains: BOT

By The Nation

 

 

The Business Sentiment Index (BSI) in August slightly decreased to 51.4 points from the previous month’s 52.0, due mainly to declines in employment and investment sub-indices, the Bank of Thailand said in a press release on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055755-business-sentiment-edges-down-but-confidence-in-continued-economic-expansion-remains-bot/

 

Dying with dignity

By Parinyaporn Pajee 
The Nation

 

 

A patient room in one of the hospice buildings at Baan Phing Phak (Pink Park Village), a comfortable and comforting place where an underprivileged terminally ill women suffering from stage 4 breast cancer can spend her last days in peace.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055756-pink-park-village-dying-with-dignity/

 

Cooking gas cylinders from toppled six-wheeler cause injury, traffic chaos in Udon Thani

By The Nation

 

 

Dozens of cooking-gas cylinders spilled out of an overturned six-wheel truck in the middle of Mitraparp Highway in Tambon Nong Phai, in Udon Thani’s Mueang district, on Monday, prompting the police to seal off the scene as a safety precaution, and hence causing severe traffic jams.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055757-cooking-gas-cylinders-from-toppled-six-wheeler-cause-injury-traffic-chaos-in-udon-thani/

 

Couple arrested with drugs hidden inside snack boxes in Krabi

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

A Thai couple has been arrested with crystal methamphetamine and methamphetamine pills in Krabi yesterday (September 2).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055758-couple-arrested-with-drugs-hidden-inside-snack-boxes-in-krabi/

 

Prachachat Party debuts with credibility crisis

By The Nation

 

 

No longer under Thaksin’s spell, the members say, and yet they’re silent about current realities

 

It seems like old wine in a new bottle, but the recently launched Prachachat Party maintains it is free from the clutches of Thaksin Shinawatra. Its key members, however, maintain close personal and political ties to the former premier.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055759-prachachat-party-debuts-with-credibility-crisis/

 

Gen Chatchai is confident current flooding is not a serious problem

 

Gen Chatchai

 

Deputy Prime Minister Chatchai Sarikalaya today tried to play down the impact of floods that have been hitting many provinces as the average amount of rainfalls across the country this year are still below normal level.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055760-gen-chatchai-is-confident-current-flooding-is-not-a-serious-problem/

 

Hundreds stranded as Purple Line train service disrupted during evening rush hours

 

 

Several hundreds of mostly office workers were stranded at Taopoon train station of the Purple Line train this evening after its service was temporarily suspended due to technical problems.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055761-hundreds-stranded-as-purple-line-train-service-disrupted-during-evening-rush-hours/

 

PM orders Big Data collected on rice market

 

FILE photo

 

BANGKOK, 4 September 2018 (NNT) – The Prime Minister has ordered Big Data on rice demand, be collected more accurately so as to calculate production, while the National Rice Policy and Planning Commission has approved an increase in the quota of organic rice for sale to Europe to 5,000 tons. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055762-pm-prayut-orders-big-data-collected-on-rice-market/

 

On Labor Day, Trump hits back at largest union leader

By Michelle Price

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at campaign fundraising luncheon for Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) and GOP congressional candidate Mark Harris at Carmel Country Club in Charlotte, NC, U.S., August 31, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Labor Day hit back at Richard Trumka, president of the United States' largest federation of labour unions, after Trumka said on Sunday that the president's policies had hurt American workers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055764-on-labor-day-trump-hits-back-at-largest-union-leader/

 

Trump accuses Sessions of hurting U.S. Republican congressional races

By Michelle Price and David Shepardson

 

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens as President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 16, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday launched a fresh attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, accusing him of jeopardizing the chances of re-election for two Republican congressmen by bringing criminal charges against them just before the midterm elections.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055765-trump-accuses-sessions-of-hurting-us-republican-congressional-races/

 

Russia's VTB bank apologises for CEO who called Boris Johnson a 'jerk'

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state bank VTB apologised for its CEO Andrey Kostin who made what it called an "emotional comment" on Monday when he described former British foreign minister Boris Johnson as a "jerk".

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055766-russias-vtb-bank-apologises-for-ceo-who-called-boris-johnson-a-jerk/

 

Israel signals it could attack Iranian weaponry in Iraq

By Dan Williams

 

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman visits an army drill in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights near the border with Syria, Aug. 7, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo

 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel signalled on Monday that it could attack suspected Iranian military assets in Iraq, as it has done with scores of air strikes in war-torn Syria.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055767-israel-signals-it-could-attack-iranian-weaponry-in-iraq/

 

Reuters poll: Chance of hard Brexit holds at 25 percent, economists say

 

An anti-Brexit protester waves an EU flag opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain June 8, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

 

LONDON (Reuters) - There is a one chance in four that Britain will leave the European Union in March without a deal, a Reuters poll found, while the Bank of England will wait until after Brexit before raising borrowing costs again.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055773-reuters-poll-chance-of-hard-brexit-holds-at-25-percent-economists-say/

 

Thai boyfriend faints in tears as Frenchman, 80, leaps to his death

 

Picture: Pattaya Eastern News

 

Thai media Pattaya Eastern News reported that police in Pattaya suspect that an 80 year old French man ended his own life by jumping from the 17th floor balcony of his condominium.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055774-thai-boyfriend-faints-in-tears-as-frenchman-80-leaps-to-his-death/

 

Rain chaos in Pattaya as district chief on scene of tour bus that fell down a hole

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Just an hour of rain left Pattaya in chaos yesterday with many roads submerged under floodwaters.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055779-rain-chaos-in-pattaya-as-district-chief-on-scene-of-tour-bus-that-fell-down-a-hole/

 

Tablet stolen from Bangkok turns up in Maha Sarakham after a year

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A Bangkok woman who lost her tablet after a break in from her car in Laksi last October never gave up seeing her property again.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055784-tablet-stolen-from-bangkok-turns-up-in-maha-sarakham-after-a-year/

 

Dancing traffic cop lowering stress levels in Thailand's south

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported on a dancing cop who was doing his bit to create good feelings between the police and the public while on traffic duty near a Pangnga kindergarten.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055785-dancing-traffic-cop-lowering-stress-levels-in-thailands-south/

 

Don't panic Mr Mainwaring! says top lawyer if your bank savings go missing

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Top online lawyer Ratchaphon Sirisakhon has told the Thai public not to stress out if their bank savings go missing.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055787-dont-panic-mr-mainwaring-says-top-lawyer-if-your-bank-savings-go-missing/

 

Two crocodiles on a stick, please - and make it snappy!

 

Picture: Manager online

 

The plunging price of crocodiles has caused a farm in Ratchaburi to come up with a novel idea.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055788-two-crocodiles-on-a-stick-please-and-make-it-snappy/

 

Nakhon Pathom woman shot dead in her car after meeting man

By The Nation

 

Picture: Channel 3

 

A divorced woman was shot dead in her car in Nakhon Pathom's Muang district early on Tuesday after she was asked by a man to meet and discuss their relationship, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055791-nakhon-pathom-woman-shot-dead-in-her-car-after-meeting-man/

 

Teenager commits suicide in his Pathum Thani home

By The Nation

 

Image: Bright TV

 

A 12th grader was found dead in his home on Monday night in Pathum Thani with a gunshot wound to his head, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055794-teenager-commits-suicide-in-his-pathum-thani-home/

 

Mobile passport issuing office proving a hit with Thais in Prachuap

 

Picture: Ban Muang

 

Ban Muang said that the passport office hopes to have between 3000 and 4000 Thais apply for passports at their mobile issuing office set up at the provincial HQ in Prachuap Khiri Khan this week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1055795-mobile-passport-issuing-office-proving-a-hit-with-thais-in-prachuap/