THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Monday 26 Nov 2018

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A Gala Dinner with Frank Bruno in Hua Hin

 

A Gala Dinner with Frank Bruno Ex-Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World. Bruno fought some of the best fighters from the modern era which included twice with Mike Tyson. 

 

Info: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1068236-a-gala-dinner-with-frank-bruno-in-hua-hin/

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3 arrested for hiring Thais to work illegally in S Korea

By SURIYA PATATHAYO 
THE NATION

 

 

TWO THAI women and a Korean man were arrested for allegedly recruiting Thais to work illegally in South Korea, Immigration Police chief Maj-General Surachet Hakpal told the press at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070303-3-arrested-for-hiring-thais-to-work-illegally-in-s-korea/

 

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Worry over worsening conflicts after EEC land use changes

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION

 

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LAND CONFLICTS are likely to worse in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), academics warn, because the revised city plans for the three provinces involved will enlarge the industrial zone and swallow vast swaths of farmland, displacing farmers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070306-worry-over-worsening-conflicts-after-eec-land-use-changes/

 

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Govt urged to lift ban on e-cigarettes

By Jintana Panyaarvudh 
THE NATION

 

 

Allowing smoke-free products seen as more effective in discouraging tobacco smokers than plain packaging.

 

A NETWORK OF e-cigarette users and importers have suggested that lifting the ban on smoke-free products and issuing appropriate regulations would be a more-effective measure to discourage people from smoking rather than selling cigarettes in plain packages. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070308-thai-govt-urged-to-lift-ban-on-e-cigarettes/

 

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Border control gets hi-tech boost from Canada-funded initiative

By The Nation

 

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To ensure the safety of vulnerable migrant workers, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) last week gave the Royal Thai Police Cadet Academy an online learning portal to assist training in detecting fraudulent travel documents, people smuggling and transnational crime.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070309-border-control-gets-hi-tech-boost-from-canada-funded-initiative/

 

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One place where everyone wears a helmet

By The Nation

 

 

Chiang Mai’s Maejo University (MJU) has earned praise as a model educational institute for succeeding in getting all of its motorcycle-riding students to wear safety helmets.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070310-one-place-where-everyone-wears-a-helmet/

 

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Murder suspect allegedly commits suicide in police cell

By Jakkapong Rawiwan 
The Nation

 

 

A 55-year-old village defence volunteer, who was arrested on Saturday morning for allegedly shooting dead a 48-year-old widow, reportedly committed suicide in Kalasin province.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070311-murder-suspect-allegedly-commits-suicide-in-kalasin-police-cell/

 

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Rare multiple waterspouts observed in Andaman Sea

By The Nation

 

Photo from: Donwahah Khiaddech's facebook

 

Tourists were treated to a spectacular sight of four waterspouts off Satun’s resort island of Koh Lipe on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070312-rare-multiple-waterspouts-observed-in-andaman-sea/

 

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Minor groups hold balance of power

By SOMROUTAI SAPSOMBOON 
THE NATION

 

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DISPARATE PARTIES TO DECIDE AMONG ARCH RIVALS, THE JUNTA AND PHEU THAI, IN FORMING POST-ELECTION GOVERNMENT

 

THE POLITICAL scene in Thailand remains bipolar since the 2014 military coup, as the country heads towards a new election – the first since 2011.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070313-thai-politics-minor-groups-hold-balance-of-power/ 

 

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Just beauty will not always charm the voters during the national elections

By KAS CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION

 

 

THE INTERNET began exploding with comments after Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan showed up with her “cute” 19-year-old daughter Yossuda “Ginnie” Leelapanyalert to visit voters two weeks ago.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070315-just-beauty-will-not-always-charm-the-voters-during-the-national-elections/

 

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Five drug suspects shot dead in Chiang Rai

By Natthawat Laping 
The Nation

 

 

Soldiers in Chiang Rai killed five suspected drug traffickers near the Myanmar border on Saturday evening and seized 720,000 “yaba” (methamphetamine) pills, deputy commander of the Thai 3rd army region, Major General Bancha Suriyapan said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070316-five-drug-suspects-shot-dead-in-chiang-rai/

 

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Man, 54, wanted for allegedly raping ailing woman, 73

By The Nation

 

 

The Bangkok police are looking for a 54-year-old male suspect accused of raping a 73-year-old bed-ridden woman on the night of November 17.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070317-bangkok-man-54-wanted-for-allegedly-raping-ailing-woman-73/

 

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Probe on into weapons found hidden in bushes

By The Nation

 

 

Police are investigating the origin of three M4A rifles and 964 bullets that were discovered on Saturday inside large PVC pipes hidden in thick bushes within a tapioca plantation in Chacheongsao province.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070318-probe-on-into-weapons-found-hidden-in-bushes-in-chacheongsao/

 

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Aussie tourist robbed at gunpoint after dumped by Phuket taxi driver

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The Australian tourist, Terrance John White, 19, of Innisfail, Queensland, reported the incident to Thalang Police yesterday (Nov 24). Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Police are searching for four suspects who robbed a 19-year-old Australian tourist at gunpoint after he was dumped by the side of a dark road in Phuket by a taxi driver.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070320-aussie-tourist-robbed-at-gunpoint-after-dumped-by-phuket-taxi-driver/

 

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Poll shows Pheu Thai's Sudarat beats PM Prayut as most favoured candidate for prime minister

 

 

Pheu Thai partry’s election strategy chief Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan emerges a top favourite to become the next prime minister in an opinion survey conducted by Nida Poll of the National Institute of Development Administration.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070322-poll-shows-pheu-thais-sudarat-beats-pm-prayut-as-most-favoured-candidate-for-prime-minister/

 

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Over half a million informal debt cases settled with the help of military

 

 

The military has helped in mediating informal debts owed by over half a million people and has managed to return to the debtors over 5,000 land title deeds involving more than 20,000 rai of land held by their creditors as collateral.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070323-over-half-a-million-informal-debt-cases-settled-with-the-help-of-military/

 

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Agreement with CERN a boon to Thai education

By The Nation

 

 

The Swiss research organisation offers our students a chance to learn from the best – let’s make the best of it

 

In what was hailed as a highly positive move for scientific progress in Thailand, the Prayut government has signed an expanded cooperation agreement with CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070324-agreement-with-cern-a-boon-to-thai-education/

 

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TAT continues to promote second-tier cities in 2019

 

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BANGKOK, 26th November 2018 (NNT) - Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) reported that tourists have continued to visit the 55 second-tier provinces, and the TAT will continue to promote these destinations next year. 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070325-tat-continues-to-promote-second-tier-cities-in-2019/

 

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Riding on the grand station plan

By Somluck Srimalee 
The Nation 

 

 

New central business district seen in govt’s decision to develop a transport hub for all rail systems in Bang Sue
 

The surrounding areas of Bang Sue-Bang Pho interchange have become the latest destination of property companies amid high confidence in the government’s plan to develop Bang Sue as a grand station for rail transport systems in Bangkok. 

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070326-riding-on-the-bang-sue-grand-station-plan/

 

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Russia seizes Ukrainian ships near annexed Crimea after firing on them

By Andrew Osborn and Pavel Polityuk

 

Russian jet fighters fly over a bridge connecting the Russian mainland with the Crimean Peninsula with a cargo ship beneath it after three Ukrainian navy vessels were stopped by Russia from entering the Sea of Azov via the Kerch Strait in the Black Sea, Crimea November 25, 2018. REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov

 

MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia seized three Ukrainian naval ships off the coast of Russia-annexed Crimea on Sunday after opening fire on them and wounding several sailors, a move that risks igniting a dangerous new crisis between the two countries.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070327-russia-seizes-ukrainian-ships-near-annexed-crimea-after-firing-on-them/

 

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EU agrees 'best possible' Brexit deal, urges Britons to back May

By Gabriela Baczynska and Elizabeth Piper

 

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives with Britain's Permanent Representative to the EU Tim Barrow at an extraordinary EU leaders summit to finalise and formalise the Brexit agreement in Brussels, Belgium November 25, 2018. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders finally sealed a Brexit deal on Sunday, saying the package agreed with Prime Minister Theresa May was the best Britain will get in a warning to the British parliament not to reject it.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070328-eu-agrees-best-possible brexit deal-urges-britons-to-back-may/

 

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U.S.-Mexico border crossing closed after migrant protest halted in Tijuana

By Lizbeth Diaz

 

Migrants and members of the media run from tear gas released by U.S border patrol near the fence between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, November 25, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

 

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - The United States closed its busiest border crossing with Mexico on Sunday after Mexican police broke up a protest of Central American migrants massed in Tijuana, scattering some demonstrators toward the border where U.S. officers hurled gas canisters from the American side.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070330-us-mexico-border-crossing-closed-after-migrant-protest-halted-in-tijuana/

 

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Israel's Netanyahu tells Chad leader he will visit more Arab states soon

By Ori Lewis

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) delivers a joint statement with Chadian President Idriss Deby in Jerusalem November 25, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the visiting Chadian President on Sunday that he expects to make more trips to Arab countries in the near future after going to Oman last month.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070332-israels-netanyahu-tells-chad-leader-he-will-visit-more-arab-states-soon/

 

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California wildfire that killed at least 85 people fully contained

 

Firefighters move debris while recovering human remains from a trailer home destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, U.S., November 17, 2018. REUTERS/Terray Sylvester

 

(Reuters) - The deadliest wildfire in California history that destroyed the mountain town of Paradise and killed at least 85 people was 100 percent contained on Sunday, according to state fire officials.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070333-california-wildfire-that-killed-at-least-85-people-fully-contained/

 

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Thaksin’s son Panthongtae formally joins Pheu Thai party

 

 

After having sat on the sidelines for years, fugitive former prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s only son, Panthongtae “Oak”, has decided to formally join Pheu Thai party just as it continues to bleed from a mass defection which sees several of its former MPs joining the ranks of pro-Prayut Palang Pracharat.  

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070334-thaksin’s-son-panthongtae-formally-joins-pheu-thai-party/

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Iranian tourist chose to jump after preparing other suicide methods

 

 

Daily News reported that an Iranian tourist decided against poisoning himself and hanging, opting to jump to his death from a Din Daeng hotel. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070336-iranian-tourist-chose-to-jump-after-preparing-other-suicide-methods/

 

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Thinking of renting a motorcycle in Pattaya? Watch this first....

 

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We Love Pattaya posted a video of some of the latest accidents involving motorcycles in Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070338-thinking-of-renting-a-motorcycle-in-pattaya-watch-this-first/

 

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China heaps pressure on Taiwan president after election defeat

 

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen announces her resignation as chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after local elections in Taipei, Taiwan November 24, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang

 

TAIPEI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese state media heaped pressure on Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday after her ruling pro-independence party suffered heavy defeats at local elections at the weekend, saying Beijing would seek cooperation with newly elected officials.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070339-china-heaps-pressure-on-taiwan-president-after-election-defeat/

 

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Video: Lady boy waitress accepts 40,000 baht after slap from angry "top civil servant"

 

 

Sanook reported that a top civil servant had paid 40,000 baht to a lady boy waitress after he slapped him at an Ayuthaya restaurant.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070341-video-lady-boy-waitress-accepts-40000-baht-after-slap-from-angry-top-civil-servant/

 

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Khon Kaen: Rental house trashed after woman asked to live there with her pit bull

 

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A landlord in Khon Kaen was happy to rent his 3 million baht house to a seemingly respectable woman who paid 8,000 baht a month rent and was always on time with bills. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1070342-khon-kaen-rental-house-trashed-after-woman-asked-to-live-there-with-her-pit-bull/