THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Friday 28 Sep 2018

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Two arrested with nearly 2,000 methamphetamine pills at Phuket Checkpoint

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

Two people have been arrested with 1,952 methamphetamine pills at the Phuket Checkpoint at Tha Chatchai, far north of the island.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059263-two-arrested-with-nearly-2000-methamphetamine-pills-at-phuket-checkpoint/

 

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If you fancy a bit of "slap and tickle" don't let your wife see otherwise divorce looms, says top lawyer

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A top online lawyer has told Thai men: If you play away don't rub your wife's face in it. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059264-if-you-fancy-a-bit-of-slap-and-tickle-dont-let-your-wife-see-otherwise-divorce-looms-says-top-lawyer/

 

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Canada legislators, in symbolic move, vote to strip Myanmar's Suu Kyi of citizenship

By David Ljunggren

 

FILE PHOTO - Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is seen while she waits for a meeting with Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang (not pictured) at the Presidential Palace during the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Hanoi, Vietnam September 13, 2018. REUTERS/Kham/Pool

 

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian legislators, in a symbolic move, on Thursday voted unanimously to strip Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship in response to crimes committed against the Rohingya minority.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059266-canada legislators-in-symbolic-move-vote-to-strip-myanmars-suu-kyi-of-citizenship/

 

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Snap for Stray exhibition @ Limelight Avenue

By The Thaiger

 

 

The Soi Dog Foundation has mounted the ‘Snap for Stray’ Photo Exhibition which will run until September 29 at Limelight Avenue in Phuket Town. The exhibition gathers 40 beautiful photographs from contestants of the Snap for Stray Photo Contest held earlier last month.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059267-snap-for-stray-exhibition-limelight-avenue/

 

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"Sorry dad, I need to become a nun" - shamed celeb "graaps" the feet of foreign father

 

Picture:  Manager online

 

The shamed celebrity Ameria Jacobs who escaped jail on drugs charges has become a nun.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059271-sorry-dad-i-need-to-become-a-nun-shamed-celeb-graaps-the-feet-of-foreign-father/

 

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Luca the police Beagle is a superstar at Don Mueang airport

 

 

TNAMCOT reported on the latest addition to the tourist police in their fight against drugs. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059277-luca-the-police-beagle-is-a-superstar-at-don-mueang-airport/

 

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Please arrest me officer - I want to see what life is like in prison

 

 

Sanook reported that a 44 year old Thai man is fed up living in Thai society. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059281-please-arrest-me-officer-i-want-to-see-what-life-is-like-in-prison/

 

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Tourism minister backs double-entry visa for Chinese tourists

By The Nation

 

FILE photo

 

Tourism and Sports Minister Weerasak Kowsurat has expressed support for the idea of granting double-entry visas for Chinese tourists to encourage them to return to the Kingdom.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059286-thai-tourism-minister-backs-double-entry-visa-for-chinese-tourists/

 

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Ford still in the wars as pick-up owners complaining online about their vehicles

 

 

Sanook reported that two posts on Facebook featured people who had bought Ford Ranger Raptor pick-ups that had developed mechanical difficulties soon after driving away from the showroom. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059289-ford-still-in-the-wars-as-pick-up-owners-complaining-online-about-their-vehicles/

 

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Chiang Mai still "Champion" of the north with 16 foreign deaths on the roads this year

 

Picture: Chiang Mai News

 

Chiang Mai News said that the province still had an unwanted accolade - that of being the "champ" of road accidents in the north.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059290-chiang-mai-still-champion-of-the-north-with-16-foreign-deaths-on-the-roads-this-year/

 

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Believe It Or Not, Mangmoom Cards Coming To Buses: Official

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

 

BANGKOK — Although they’ve yet to materialize as promised, Mangmoom cards will definitely work on buses after yet another delay of five months, a Bangkok transport official said Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059293-believe-it-or-not-mangmoom-cards-coming-to-buses-official/

 

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OSMEP: Muay Thai generates 100 billion baht a year

 

 

BANGKOK, 28th September 2018, (NNT) - According to an estimate by the Office of Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion (OSMEP), Muay Thai generates revenue of 100 billion baht yearly. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059295-osmep-muay-thai-generates-100-billion-baht-a-year/

 

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Luang Cave Complex Re-Opens To Public In December

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

Rescue personnel on June 28 walk out of the entrance to a cave complex where it's believed that 12 soccer team members and their coach went missing. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press

 

CHIANG RAI — The complex of the northern cave where an epic 17-day rescue enraptured the world will re-open to the public later this year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059296-luang-cave-complex-re-opens-to-public-in-december/

 

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Arr! Anti-Junta Party Barred From Meeting Because Pirate

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Sombat Boonngamanong and his team at Friday event.

 

BANGKOK — Officials on Friday kicked out a group of pro-democracy politicians and election hopefuls from a elections conference, citing their inappropriate outfits.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059297-arr-anti-junta-party-barred-from-meeting-because-pirate/

 

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Nakhon Sawan villagers call for help as village flooded for more than a month

By The Nation

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Residents of a village in Nakhon Sawan's Muang district complained on Friday that they have been ignored by authorities for more than a month since their houses were flooded.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059302-nakhon-sawan-villagers-call-for-help-as-village-flooded-for-more-than-a-month/

 

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Chiang Mai holds birthday party for panda Lin Hui

By The Nation

 

 

Lin Hui, one of the stars of Thailand’s panda frenzy a decade ago, turned 17 on Friday and fans duly assembled at the Chiang Mai Zoo to sing “Happy Birthday”.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059303-chiang-mai-holds-birthday-party-for-panda-lin-hui/

 

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Drunk Phuket Tuk Tuk driver charged after running red lights

By The Thaiger

 

PHOTO/VIDEO: Nicky phukettour / Newshawk Phuket

 

The drunk driver’s behaviour was bad enough. The police pursuit also poses questions….

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059304-drunk-phuket-tuk-tuk-driver-charged-after-running-red-lights/

 

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Final public hearing organized on draft law on promotion of journalistic ethics

 

 

BANGKOK, 28th September 2018, (NNT) - The Public Relations Department and the committee for the urgent implementation of reform plans have jointly held a final public hearing in the central region on a draft law concerning the promotion of media ethics before submitting feedback to the Cabinet and the National Legislative Assembly (NLA). 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059306-final-public-hearing-organized-on-draft-law-on-promotion-of-journalistic-ethics/

 

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Passengers safe after Air Niugini flight crashes into sea in Micronesia

 

People are evacuated from an Air Niugini plane crashed in the waters in Weno, Chuuk, Micronesia, September 28, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. James Yaingeluo/via REUTERS

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A flotilla of small boats rescued all 47 passengers and crew from an Air Niugini flight that crashed into the sea short of the runway at an airport in the tiny South Pacific nation of Micronesia on Friday, the airport's manager said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059307-passengers-safe-after-air-niugini-flight-crashes-into-sea-in-micronesia/

 

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Australian man shoots self in head at Phuket shooting range
By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

 

PHUKET: A 24-year-old Australian man shot himself in the head at a shooting range in northern Phuket today (Sept 28).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059324-australian-man-shoots-self-in-head-at-phuket-shooting-range/

 

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Drug-crazed man allegedly kills stranger in Chumphon

By The Nation

 

A man apparently high on methamphetamines was arrested after he allegedly killed a stranger by hitting him on the head with a stone mortar and a stick in a grocery store in Chumphon's Tha Sae district on Thursday night.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059328-drug-crazed-man-allegedly-kills-stranger-in-chumphon/

 

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Mum’s plea after ‘big-hearted’ son, 29, who rescues Thai dogs, struck with brain tumour and needs £15,000 to fly home

By Claudia Tanner

 

George Gannons’s girlfriend was distraught to find him unable to walk to talk (Photo: George Gannon)

 

A mother has made a desperate appeal for help after her son who lives in Thailand was diagnosed with a large brain tumour after he woke up unable to walk or talk.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059330-mum’s-plea-after-‘big-hearted’-son-29-who-rescues-thai-dogs-struck-with-brain-tumour-and-needs-£15000-to-fly-home/

 

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NBTC board backs revisions to draft rules for 900MHz licence auction

By THE NATION

 

THE National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission’s (NBTC) board yesterday endorsed the latest revised version of the draft rules for the re-auction of a 900MHz licence.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059331-nbtc-board-backs-revisions-to-draft-rules-for-900mhz-licence-auction/

 

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Chinese woman’s waterfall death a murder, probe expands to China

By Suriya Patathayo 
The Nation

 

File photo

 

An investigation into the mysterious death of a Chinese woman at a waterfall in Thailand has had its scope expanded.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059252-big-joke-trying-to-prove-murder-in-fall-of-chinese-tourist-at-hat-yai-falls/?do=findComment&comment=13409361

 

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Tim Allen talks Toy Story 4’s emotional ending

By Paul Bradshaw

 

 

The first Toy Story made us cry when Woody and Buzz became best friends at the end.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059333-tim-allen-talks-toy-story-4’s-emotional-ending/

 

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Tom Hanks Is Mister Rogers in First Look at You Are My Friend

by CORINNE HELLER

 

Sony Pictures; AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

 

Tom Hanks, won't you be our neighbor?

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059335-tom-hanks-is-mister-rogers-in-first-look-at-you-are-my-friend/

 

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Cher's Malibu mansion raided by police executing search warrant as 'assistant's son is arrested'

By Zoe Shenton

 

Police executed a search warrant at the icon's house

 

Police descended on Cher's Malibu mansion on Thursday afternoon and arrested the son of one of her assistants, according to US reports.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059336-chers-malibu-mansion-raided-by-police-executing-search-warrant-as-assistants-son-is-arrested/

 

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Police bust Phuket toy car drug gang

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The drugs were smuggles into Phuket by being hidden in remote-controlled cars delivered by a parcel delivery service. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET:-- Police have arrested three suspects, including a Thai-British man, who were found with 39,820 methamphetamine (ya bah) pills hidden in toy remote-controlled cars that were delivered to Phuket from Bangkok by a private parcel delivery service.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1059341-police-bust-phuket-toy-car-drug-gang/

 

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