Trump likely to win whether or not Kavanaugh is confirmed

By John Whitesides

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump talks with his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, at his nomination announcement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, July 9, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ugly partisan brawl over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation remains undecided, but President Donald Trump appears likely to come out on top regardless of the outcome.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060460-trump-likely-to-win-whether-or-not-kavanaugh-is-confirmed/

 

Video: Minivan driver who dragged bike on expressway wais at the police station

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A video from Wednesday night showed a chase between two men on motorcycles and a fleeing minivan.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060461-video-minivan-driver-who-dragged-bike-on-expressway-wais-at-the-police-station/

 

PM to attend important international meetings throughout October

 

 

BANGKOK, 5 October 2018 (NNT) – Thailand's Prime Minister is scheduled to attend several important international meetings in October to strengthen Thailand’s foreign relations and drive development in accordance with ASEAN agendas. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060462-pm-prayut-to-attend-important-international-meetings-throughout-october/

 

9 state banks join to offer services at PTT gas stations

 

 

BANGKOK, 5 October 2018 (NNT) – Nine state financial institutions have signed on to work with PTT Oil and Retail Business Plc. and Thai Post Company to provide one stop financial services at gas stations nationwide. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060463-9-state-banks-join-to-offer-services-at-ptt-gas-stations/

 

Pattaya Vegetarian Festival opens Oct. 8

PATTAYA:--The Pattaya Vegetarian Festival turns back up the heat after a quiet event in 2017, kicking off Oct. 8 in Naklua.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060464-pattaya-vegetarian-festival-opens-oct-8/

 

South Pattaya residents billed 350,000 baht to get running water

PATTAYA:--Despite Pattaya’s booming growth, some South Pattaya residents still don’t have running water.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060465-south-pattaya-residents-billed-350000-baht-to-get-running-water/

 

Thai "Gang-nam" style: Korean gets mother of all padded bills - 160,000 baht!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Many people in Thailand have suffered a padded bill at a nightclub, bar or even a restaurant. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060467-thai-gang-nam-style-korean-gets-mother-of-all-padded-bills-160000-baht/

 

Sonthaya rolls back clock in Pattaya mayor’s office

PATTAYA:--The return of the Kunplome family to the Pattaya Mayor’s office has rolled back the clock to 2015 at city hall.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060466-sonthaya-rolls-back-clock-in-pattaya-mayor’s-office/

 

Pattaya OKs 197.4 million baht for 37 projects

PATTAYA:--The Pattaya City Council approved the spending of 197.4 million baht for 37 projects through 2019.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060468-pattaya-oks-1974-million-baht-for-37-projects/

 

Pattaya prepares lawsuit against Sukhawadee House

PATTAYA:--Pattaya’s outgoing deputy mayor spent his last day in office preparing the city’s lawsuit against Sukhawadee House for continued encroachment on public land.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060469-pattaya-prepares-lawsuit-against-sukhawadee-house/

 

Pattaya steps up marine safety efforts during monsoon

PATTAYA:--Pattaya has stepped up security precautions for boat passengers during the monsoon conditions nearing the end of rainy season.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060470-pattaya-steps-up-marine-safety-efforts-during-monsoon/

 

Pattaya’s garbage crisis floods city

PATTAYA:--Pattaya’s garbage crisis is never more evident than when it rains.

 

Throughout the city, plastic bags, foam containers, paper and bottles wash down and block sewers, preventing storm runoff from draining and exacerbating Pattaya’s already endemic flooding.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060473-pattaya’s-garbage-crisis-floods-city/

 

Another black eye for Pattaya’s sewer system

PATTAYA:--Pattaya officials said there is nothing they can do currently to prevent sewage from flowing directly into the sea in Naklua during heavy storms.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060474-another-black-eye-for-pattaya’s-sewer-system/

 

Illegal Chinese tour guide arrested

PATTAYA:--Pattaya Tourist Police arrested an illegal Chinese tour guide for allegedly extorting customers for extra packages.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060475-illegal-chinese-tour-guide-arrested/

 

Coppers nab copper thief cowering under the bed!

 

Pictures: Sanook

 

Sanook reported that "lightning" police work resulted in the capture of a career criminal stealing from businesses in the Nonthaburi area north of west of Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060477-coppers-nab-copper-thief-cowering-under-the-bed/

 

West accuses 'pariah state' Russia of global hacking campaign

By Guy Faulconbridge, Anthony Deutsch and Lisa Lambert

 

Dutch Minister of Defence Ank Bijleveld, general Onno Eichelsheim, director of Netherlands Defence Intelligence and Security Service and British Ambassador to the Netherlands Peter Wilson attend a news conference in The Hague, Netherlands, October 4, 2018. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

 

LONDON/THE HAGUE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Western countries issued coordinated denunciations of Russia on Thursday for running what they described as a global hacking campaign, targeting institutions from sports anti-doping bodies to a nuclear power company and the chemical weapons watchdog.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060480-west-accuses-pariah-state-russia-of-global-hacking-campaign/

 

Hundreds Of Foreigners Arrested In Record Raids

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Maj. Gen. Surachet Hakpan, right, at a Friday press briefing with foreigners arrested from across country.

 

BANGKOK — Police on Friday said hundreds of foreigners were arrested in another round of national raids targeting schools, hotels and restaurants.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060484-hundreds-of-foreigners-arrested-in-record-raids/

 

Thai government should act to stop Thais using images of "Mr Hitler"

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported that foreign media was laying into the Thais for knowing nothing about history in the furor about a short time sex room in Nonthaburi having images of Adolf Hitler on the walls. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060486-thai-government-should-act-to-stop-thais-using-images-of-mr-hitler/

 

Big Joke: Thai police team have been to England to interview woman who claims rape on Koh Tao

 

 

The head of the Immigration police Maj-Gen Surachate Hakparn revealed to TNA yesterday that the Royal Thai Police team investigating a rape claim by an English tourist on Koh Tao will be back in Thailand tomorrow (Saturday). 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060488-big-joke-thai-police-team-have-been-to-england-to-interview-woman-who-claims-rape-on-koh-tao/

 

Prayuth Exercises With Park Goers, Denies Campaigning

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Junta leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha exercises Friday at Lumphini Park in Bangkok.

 

BANGKOK — Junta leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha made a surprise Friday morning appearance to exercise in the capital’s Lumpini Park.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060489-prayuth-exercises-with-lumphini-park-goers-denies-campaigning/

 

North Korea joins South Korean protest over Japan's 'Rising Sun' flag

By Joyce Lee

 

A sailor raises the Japanese naval ensign on the deck of Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga before its departure for naval drills in the Indian Ocean, Indonesia September 22, 2018. Picture taken on September 22, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan should refrain from flying the "Rising Sun" flag on a warship in a fleet review planned in South Korea next week, a North Korean propaganda website said on Friday, joining South Koreans in the latest spat over the countries' colonial history.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060492-north-korea-joins-south-korean-protest-over-japans-rising-sun-flag/

 

Seven injured in Bangkok as sleepy motorist ploughs into motorcyclists

By The Nation

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A motorist nodding off after a night shift ploughed into six motorcyclists on a Bangkok road on Friday morning, injuring seven people.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060497-seven-injured-in-bangkok-as-sleepy-motorist-ploughs-into-motorcyclists/

 

One of two tsunami warning buoys not working since October last year

By The Thaiger

 

 

One of the tsunami buoys, part of the warning system for the Andaman Coast, has been broken since last year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060499-one-of-two-tsunami-warning-buoys-not-working-since-october-last-year/

 

Tube strike on two lines to disrupt London travel

 

A traveller stands at the closed entrance to the Underground station at Waterloo during a strike by members of two unions in protest at ticket office closures and reduced staffing levels, in London, Britain January 9, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

 

LONDON (Reuters) - London commuters face disruption on Friday as drivers on two underground train lines go on strike as part of a dispute over working conditions.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060562-tube-strike-on-two-lines-to-disrupt-london-travel/

 

South Korea jails former president Lee Myung-bak for 15 years on corruption charges

 

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - A Seoul court on Friday jailed former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for 15 years for corruption, making him the latest in a string of high-profile political and business leaders ensnared by graft charges.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060568-south-korea-jails-former-president-lee-myung-bak-for-15-years-on-corruption-charges/

 

Thailand's biggest shopping mall set to open in Bangkok

Siam Piwat's $1.6bn project heralds new magnet for consumers

MARIMI KISHIMOTO, Nikkei staff writer

 

video screenshot

 

BANGKOK -- Thai shopping mall developer Siam Piwat opens the country's largest commercial complex on Nov. 9 in Bangkok, a $1.6 billion project dubbed Iconsiam that also boasts high-rise condominiums.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060600-thailands-biggest-shopping-mall-set-to-open-in-bangkok/

 

Ko-ee Mimee, Evicted Karen Spiritual Leader, Dies At 107

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

 

PHETCHABURI — Having failed to fulfil his last wish of returning to his birthplace, Karen community’s spiritual leader Ko-ee “Grandpa Ko-ee” Mimee died early Friday. He was 107.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060604-ko-ee-mimee-evicted-karen-spiritual-leader-dies-at-107/

 

Wiang Kaen official calls on police to expedite probe into killing of wife and son

By Suriya Patathayo 
The Nation

 

 

Thaweesak Yodmaneebanphot – the former kamnan and Hmong leader in Chiang Rai's Wiang Kaen district who along with his immediate family members was caught in a hail of gunfire on April 24 – has petitioned to national police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda to speed up the investigation.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060605-wiang-kaen-official-calls-on-police-to-expedite-probe-into-killing-of-wife-and-son/

 

Homeless man found dead in Bangkok canal

By The Nation

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The body of an unidentified homeless man was found floating in a small drainage canal in Bangkok's Chatuchak district on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060607-homeless-man-found-dead-in-bangkok-canal/

 

Heavy rainfall expected in Bangkok and South of Thailand

 

FILE photo

 

BANGKOK, 5th October 2018 (NNT) - The Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rainfall in Bangkok and the southern region on October 5th, while temperatures have begun to drop in the northern and northeastern regions. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1060609-heavy-rainfall-expected-in-bangkok-and-south-of-thailand/