Video: Surat Thani tour company owner gets a slap on the wrist for threatening taxi driver with sword

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A tour company owner was fined 2,000 baht by police in Surat Thani after threatening a taxi driver with a sword. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068898-video-surat-thani-tour-company-owner-gets-a-slap-on-the-wrist-for-threatening-taxi-driver-with-sword/

 

Trash men back at Tesco North Pattaya

PATTAYA:--Pattaya’s trash collectors were back behind Tesco-Lotus on North Road which has been suffering chronic problems with illegal dumping.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068899-trash-men-back-at-tesco-north-pattaya/

 

Health Department hunts rats at Bali Hai Pier

PATTAYA:--The Public Health Department brought more traps and poison to the Bali Hai Pier area to tame the rat population.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068901-health-department-hunts-rats-at-bali-hai-pier/

 

Chinese, English marine-safety signs go up in Pattaya

PATTAYA:--Pattaya tourist police have erected banners in Chinese and English to improve safety of swimmers and boat passengers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068902-chinese-english-marine-safety-signs-go-up-in-pattaya/

 

Nongprue dredges smelly canal

PATTAYA:--Nongprue dredged a public canal after receiving complaints about its stench.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068900-nongprue-dredges-smelly-canal/

 

Taiwanese tourist praises Thailand and airport staff after getting her lost bag back

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A 23 year old Taiwanese tourist burst into tears of joy after getting her lost bag back at Suvarnabhumi airport. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068904-taiwanese-tourist-praises-thailand-and-airport-staff-after-getting-her-lost-bag-back/

 

Marine Department issues safety rules for Loy Krathong

PATTAYA:--The Marine Department issued safety guidelines to keep people safe around the water on Loy Krathong.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068903-marine-department-issues-safety-rules-for-loy-krathong/

 

UNDP trains Thai police on transgender rights

PATTAYA:--The United Nations Development Program in cooperation with the Rights and Liberties Protection Department and Sisters Foundation have written a manual to be given to police stations to improve interaction between officers and transgender people in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068905-undp-trains-thai-police-on-transgender-rights/

 

Thappraya police booth upgraded

PATTAYA:--The National Police Board approved the spending of 200,000 baht to upgrade the Thappraya police booth to increase efficiency and support patrol officers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068906-thappraya-police-booth-upgraded/

 

Mum blames ghost for possessing son who was electrocuted at football pitch

 

Pictures: Sanook

 

The mother of a boy who was electrocuted after climbing to bash a faulty light at a municipal football pitch has blamed a ghost.

 

Source: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068909-chonburi-mum-blames-ghost-for-possessing-son-who-was-electrocuted-at-football-pitch/

 

Friday News From Thailand - 16th November 2018 fabulous TV Pattaya

 

 

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068911-friday-news-from-thailand-16th-november-2018-fabulous-tv-pattaya/

 

Phuket Tourist Police asks night clubs to take care of foreign female customers

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

Tourist Police are asking Phuket night club operators to be responsible and look after female tourist customers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068912-phuket-tourist-police-asks-night-clubs-to-take-care-of-foreign-female-customers/

 

Chiang Rai shudders with three mild quakes

By The Nation

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068915-chiang-rai-shudders-with-three-mild-quakes/

 

Activist Protests Higher Salaries For Generals

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Generals observe a military parade in Bangkok on Sep. 28, 2018.

 

BANGKOK — A transparency activist on Friday slammed plans to increase salaries for top military brass.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068918-activist-protests-higher-salaries-for-generals/

 

Uni student accepts 10,000 baht as police just fine "pervert" for bus molestation

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A university student who was repeatedly molested on a Bangkok bus took pity on her attacker and refused to press charges. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068923-uni-student-accepts-10000-baht-as-police-just-fine-pervert-for-bus-molestation/

 

Phatthalung collision leaves 18 injured, mostly students

By The Nation

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Fifteen students and three adults were injured when a cold-storage truck collided with a song-taew bus on a Phatthalung road on Friday morning.
 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068927-phatthalung-collision-leaves-18-injured-mostly-students/

 

Chinese tourist dies after being swept out to sea in Koh Samet

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A 37 year old Chinese man was swept out to sea by a large wave while playing in the water with his wife at Nai Na bay on Koh Samet on Thursday. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068931-chinese-tourist-dies-after-being-swept-out-to-sea-in-koh-samet/

 

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Fury builds in Nakhon Sawan as rape accusations mount against gynaecologist

By The Nation

 

Public Health Ministry permanent secretary Dr Sukhum Kanchanapimai affirmed on Friday that a doctor accused of raping a female patient at a state hospital in Nakhon Sawan would face disciplinary punishment if found guilty, noting it was a criminal offence.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068747-lawyer-vows-to-pursue-rape-claim-against-doctor/?do=findComment&comment=13568310

 

U.S. prosecutors get indictment against Wikileaks founder Assange - court document

By Mark Hosenball

 

FILE PHOTO: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London, Britain, May 19, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American prosecutors have obtained a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose website published thousands of classified U.S. government documents, a U.S. federal court document showed on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068944-us-prosecutors-get-indictment-against-wikileaks-founder-assange-court-document/

 

Where have all the Chinese gone? Thai media say TAT in denial about tourism numbers in Pattaya

 

Pictures: Sophon Cable

 

Thai media Sophon Cable TV has suggested that tourism officials in Chonburi are in denial about a crisis facing Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068949-where-have-all-the-chinese-gone-thai-media-say-tat-in-denial-about-tourism-numbers-in-pattaya/

 

Worker taken to hospital after getting his head impaled on a railing

 

 

A Facebook user under the name of Niroch Potong posted pictures of a worker who fell during construction of an extension at a two story house in the Klong Phasi Charoen area of Bangkok on Thursday evening. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068951-worker-taken-to-hospital-after-getting-his-head-impaled-on-a-railing/

 

Now Thais get their lottery numbers from "the spirit of the kilometer marker"

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Superstitious Thais on Petchkasem road south are convinced that a kilometer stone is possessed by a benevolent spirit. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068953-now-thais-get-their-lottery-numbers-from-the-spirit-of-the-kilometer-marker/

 

Tri-party agreement signed to aid people with mental disorders

By The Nation

 

 

The Mental Health Department, Mahidol University (MU) and Advanced Wireless Network Co (AWN) signed a five-year Memoradum of Agreement on Thursday for the use of technology, research and knowledge to aid people with intellectual disabilities and forensic psychiatric patients in Thailand, said Mental Health Department director-general Dr Kiatipumi Wongrajit.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068956-tri-party-agreement-signed-to-aid-people-with-mental-disorders/

 

Chinese tourists still number one visitors to Phuket

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

The Deputy Director of the Phuket Tourism Authority of Thailand, Montri Manator, says, “Numbers of Chinese tourists visiting Phuket in tour groups have been continuing to decrease after the Phoenix sinking on July 5 this year.”

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068957-chinese-tourists-still-number-one-visitors-to-phuket/

 

BREAKING: Major incident aboard Koh Samui ferry

 

A Fire broke out on a ferry shortly after it left Koh Samui this afternoon.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068959-breaking-major-incident-aboard-koh-samui-ferry/

 

State of emergency extended in deep South

By The Nation

 

FILE photo

 

The government on Friday extended the state of emergency on three southern border provinces for three more months.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068963-state-of-emergency-extended-in-deep-south/

 

Abhisit objects to attempt to delay election by small parties

 

 

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva today raised strong objection to an attempt by a group of newly-emerged political parties to petition the Election Commission to postpone the election tentatively scheduled for February 24.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068966-abhisit-objects-to-attempt-to-delay-election-by-small-parties/

Commerce minister admits difficult to scrap applications for marijuana patents 

 

 

Commerce Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong has admitted that it is difficult to cancel all the applications for patent registration for  marijuana extracts because many of the applications have been submitted to the Department of Intellectual Property since 2010.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068968-thai-commerce-minister-admits difficult-to-scrap-applications-for-marijuana-patents/

 

Thai proposal for all-powerful cyber agency alarms businesses, activists

By Patpicha Tanakasempipat

 

FILE PHOTO: A man is silhouetted onto an electronic screen displaying prohibited website in Bangkok, Thailand, in this June 19, 2017 illustration photo. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/Illustration/Files

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A proposed cybersecurity law in Thailand would give a new government agency sweeping powers to spy on internet traffic, order the removal of content, or even seize computers without judicial oversight, alarming businesses and activists.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068971-thai-proposal-for-all-powerful-cyber-agency-alarms-businesses-activists/

 

Jack Reacher: With Tom Cruise out, who will play the action hero next?

by Clémence Michallon

 

screen grab from independent.co.uk

 

Tom Cruise is out as Jack Reacher – so who will play the action hero in a forthcoming reboot?

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068975-jack-reacher-with-tom-cruise-out-who-will-play-the-action-hero-next/