9 years after promise, paper plane champ gets Thai ID

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Mong Tongdee smiles while holding his Thai ID card Friday at the Chiang Mai City district office.

 

CHIANG MAI — Nine years after a stateless boy who won the gold medal at a paper airplane championship in Japan was promised Thai citizenship, he received his ID card Friday.

 

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Electric tuk-tuk dealer seeks drivers

 

 

Loxley and Government Savings Bank have joined hands to offer loans for tuk-tuk drivers to purchase new electric three-wheelers to create a new career opportunity.

 

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The New Glass Trailer Makes You Believe Supervillains Are Real

By Germain Lussier

 

 

The second trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s highly anticipated film, Glass, is here, and with it, the curtain has been pulled back just a little bit more on a film almost two decades in the making.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1062195-the-new-glass-trailer-makes-you-believe-supervillains-are-real/

 

Aladdin's First Live-Action Trailer Introduces a Whole New World

by ZACH JOHNSON

 

Walt Disney Pictures

 

Ready to explore a whole new world? A dazzling place you never knew?

 

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'Textbook terror': How The Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror's rules

By Alison Flood

 

Paranoia and spectral dread … the trailer for Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House. / screen grab from youtube.com

 

As Shirley Jackson told it, the inspiration for The Haunting of Hill House came after she read about a group of 19th-century psychic researchers who moved into a supposedly haunted house in order to study it.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1062197-textbook-terror-how-the-haunting-of-hill-house-rewrote-horrors-rules/

 

Probe into woman's death at Bangkok plastic surgery clinic

By The Nation

 

 

Police is investigating the death of a 72-year-old Thai woman who suffered a severe allergic reaction to anesthesia while undergoing an operation at a newly-opened plastic surgery clinic in Soi "Town in Town" 6 in Bangkok's Wang Thong Lang district on Thursday afternoon.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1062052-woman-dies-at-bangkok-cosmetic-surgery-after-going-in-for-a-face-lift/?do=findComment&comment=13454457

 

Political party fundraising still banned: EC

By The Nation

 

File photo: Gen Prawit Wongsuwan

 

Political parties formed under the new law are allowed to collect only seed funding from founding members and membership fees from all members, the Election Commission (EC) and junta leader Gen Prawit Wongsuwan reaffirmed on Friday, following the Future Forward Party (FWP) controversy.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1062213-political-party-fundraising-still-banned-ec/

 

Former policeman arrested for alleged contract murder

By The Nation

 

Pansak Mongkolsin

 

A former police officer was arrested on Friday for the alleged contract murder of a petrol station owner and wounding his wife in Sa Kaew's Muang district last month.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1062214-former-policeman-arrested-for-alleged-contract-murder/

 

Keep Maya Bay closed to tourism, says DNP online poll

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

The poll was launched online at 4pm this afternoon (Oct 12 ). Image: Screengrab
 

PHUKET:-- An overwhelming 99.1% of people voting in an online poll by the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) have called for the department to keep both Maya Bay and Loh Samah Bay closed to tourism.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1062217-keep-maya-bay-closed-to-tourism-says-dnp-online-poll/

 

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