Video: Eggstremely violent! Trader and local authority clash 

 

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A video posted by Thai Rath showed an egg seller clash violently with the local tessakit authority in Kanchanaburi. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079672-video-eggstremely-violent-trader-and-local-authority-clash /

 

Video: Reckless driving by driver of Bangkok bus #75 

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A dash cam video posted online showed the dangerous driving of a number 75 bus driver. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079674-video-reckless-driving-by-driver-of-bangkok-bus-75 /

 

Video: What happened when men double crossed a drug dealer

 

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A former associate of wanted drug dealer "Thep Lo So" has gone to the national police with video evidence of what happened when he was owed money or double crossed. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079678-video-what-happened-when-men-double-crossed-a-drug-dealer/

 

Video: Crazy driving at U-turn in Phitsanulok

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Dash cam footage posted on Facebook showed yet more evidence of crazy Thai driving. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079679-video-crazy-driving-at-u-turn-in-phitsanulok/

UK's May considering amending Good Friday deal to break Brexit impasse - Daily Telegraph

 

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at church, near High Wycombe, Britain, January 20, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

 

(Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is considering solving a Brexit deadlock by amending a 1998 agreement that ended 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland after ditching attempts to negotiate a cross-party deal, the Daily Telegraph reported late on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079682-uks-may-considering-amending-good-friday-deal-to-break-brexit-impasse-daily-telegraph/

 

Thanks for nothing! Play money left in funeral donations

 

Picture: Kapook

 

A daughter who had just cremated her mother was left wondering about human nature after she found kid's play money in donation envelopes. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079683-thanks-for-nothing-play-money-left-in-funeral-donations/

 

British expat says error on Thai Airways website resulted in 80,000THB of extra charges, then airline refused to refund

 

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A British expat in Thailand has told Thaivisa of his shock when he was charged £1,951.80, (79,825.13THB), by Thai Airways for adding 20kg additional baggage onto his London to Bangkok return flights.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079686-british-expat-says-error-on-thai-airways-website-resulted-in-80000thb-of-extra-charges-then-airline-refused-to-refund/

 

Tragic end to company party - young man dead on the coach

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Police were called by a driver after his last passenger had failed to get off the coach by the final stop. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079687-tragic-end-to-company-party-young-man-dead-on-the-coach/

 

 

While Thais just stare brave "farang" comes to the rescue in Chinatown stabbing

 

 

Police in the Yaowarat area of Bangkok praised the actions of a foreigner who came to the rescue of a man who had been stabbed repeatedly by a monk. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079688-while-thais-just-stare-brave-farang-comes-to-the-rescue-in-chinatown-stabbing/

 

Windless Bangkok strangles in smog, but forecast improves

By The Nation

 

 

Bangkok’s air pollution crisis worsened on Monday as predicted, with 23 locations along main roads and 16 other areas reporting unsafe levels of PM2.5, the health-threatening airborne particles 2.5 micrometres or less in diameter.
 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079689-windless-bangkok-strangles-in-smog-but-forecast-improves/

 

Premchai and wife in court over tusk charges

By The Nation

 

Photo : kunlaphun Siripimamporn

 

Premchai Karnasuta, the president of construction firm Italian-Thai Development who faces charges centred on illegal poaching in a Kanchanaburi wildlife sanctuary, appeared in Criminal Court in Bangkok on Monday on separate charges of smuggling and illegally possessing two pairs of tusks from African elephants.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079690-premchai-and-wife-in-court-over-tusk-charges/

 

Thailand Tourism Festival showcases 5 regions

 

Photo: Tourism Authority of Thailand

 

The Thailand Tourism Festival 2019 takes place from January 23-27 in Bangkok’s Lumpini Park with five ‘tourism villages’ representing the regions of Thailand plus two additional zones:

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079692-thailand-tourism-festival-showcases-5-regions/

 

Dutch tourist claims he was abused and had drugs planted on him by Pattaya police

 

Picture: Ruk Siam News

 

A Dutch tourist has accused police in Pattaya of planting drugs on him.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079705-dutch-tourist-claims-he-was-abused-and-had-drugs-planted-on-him-by-pattaya-police/

 

Thai tycoon resigns from Bangkok Dusit, Bangkok Airways after regulator's order

 

Bangkok Airways logo is seen at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok May 14, 2016. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai tycoon Prasert Prasarttong-osoth resigned on Monday as CEO of Bangkok DusitMedical Services <BDMS.BK> and Bangkok Airways <BA.BK> after the regulator barred him from holding executive positions in listed Thai firms citing share manipulation.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079749-thai-tycoon-resigns-from-bangkok dusit-bangkok-airways-after-regulators-order/

 

Student Furor Over Chula Prof’s Alleged Homophobic Comments

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

Photo: Undergraduate Student Council of Faculty of Education / Facebook

 

BANGKOK — Outrage spread Monday at one of the nation’s top universities over a veteran professor’s conduct and comments toward transgender women.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079750-student-furor-over-chula-prof’s-alleged-homophobic-comments/

 

Thailand claims world’s first cancer operation and intravenous chemotherapy for elephant

 

 

Thai veterinarians have successfully removed a 5-kg cancerous tumor from the intestines of a female elephant and, later, applied intravenous chemotherapy until the animal was cleared of cancer in what could be claimed as the world’s first case of successful cancer treatment of an elephant.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079753-thailand-claims-world’s-first-cancer-operation-and-intravenous-chemotherapy-for-elephant/

 

"Think about it again," German minister urges UK on Brexit

 

File picture: Germany's Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth listens to a journalist ask a question at the Western Balkans Summit in London, Britain, July 9, 2018. Matt Dunham/Pool via REUTERS

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Europe Minister Michael Roth urged Britain on Monday to think about reviewing its decision to leave the European Union.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079781-think-about-it-again-german-minister-urges-uk-on brexit/

 

Thai politics on table at Asean-EU meeting

By The Nation

 

Thailand's Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai (C) chairs the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, 18 January 2019. // EPA-EFE PHOTO

 

Ministers from Asean and European Union were meeting in Brussels on Monday to review past cooperation and further strengthen ties between the regions.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079782-thai-politics-on-table-at-asean-eu-meeting/

 

26 gamblers rounded up in Songkhla

By The Nation

 

 

Troops and police raided a gambling den in downtown Songkhla on Sunday night and arrested 26 suspected gamblers.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079806-26-gamblers-rounded-up-in-songkhla/

 

Pineapple plantation owner killed by wild elephants in Chachoengsao

By The Nation

 

 

The elderly owner of a pineapple plantation in Chachoengsao was killed by two wild elephants early Monday, local villagers said.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079807-pineapple-plantation-owner-killed-by-wild-elephants-in-chachoengsao/

 

Suspected underwear thief killed in motorcycle crash in Chon Buri

By The Nation

 

 

An unidentified suspected underwear thief was killed when his motorcycle crashed into a roadside tree on a Chon Buri road while he was allegedly fleeing after the latest theft.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079809-suspected-underwear-thief-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-in-chon-buri/

 

Temple novice found hanged in Ayutthaya

By The Nation

 

A novice monk was found hanged behind the crematorium of a temple in Ayutthaya’s Bang Pahan district on Monday morning in what believed to be a suicide.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079812-temple-novice-found-hanged-in-ayutthaya/

 

Body of Khon Kaen man found in Bangkok canal

By The Nation

 

 

The decomposed body of a man was found floating in Bang Lamphu Canal in Bangkok's Phra Nakhon district on Monday morning.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079813-body-of-khon-kaen-man-found-in-bangkok-canal/

 

Those behind Narathiwat temple attack ‘seek international attention, want us to use all-out suppression’, says PM 

By The Nation

 

Photo : Charoon Thongnual

 

The people behind the deadly attack at a temple in Narathiwat province last week wanted to upgrade the attention given to the violence in the South to the international level and lure officials into conducting forceful suppression, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Monday.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079814-those-behind-narathiwat-temple-attack-‘seek-international-attention-want-us-to-use-all-out-suppression’-says-pm/

 

110 Phuket drug users released from voluntary government rehab

By The Phuket News

 

The 110 ’volunteers’ completed the 12-day government rehab program. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET:-- A total of 110 people who undertook a “voluntary” government drug-rehabilitation program were released on Saturday (Jan 19) in the hopes that the users will discover a new way of life free from drugs.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079815-110-phuket-drug-users-released-from-voluntary-government-rehab/

 

Early-bird tourists treated to frost and golden mist on Doi Inthanon

By The Nation

 

 

Tourists who flocked to Doi Inthanon early Monday morning were treated to a beautiful white frost that blanked the mountaintop, as a new high-pressure front from China caused the mercury to fall to zero degrees Celsius.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079816-early-bird-tourists-treated-to-frost-and-golden-mist-on-doi-inthanon/

 

Russell Brand reveals he has never looked after his children for a 24-hour period

 

Russell Brand has revealed he has never looked after his children for a 24-hour period

 

Russell Brand has revealed he has never looked after his children for a 24-hour period in an interview where he talks about the "real awakening" of the #MeToo movement.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079819-russell-brand-reveals-he-has-never-looked-after-his-children-for-a-24-hour-period/

 

Fiji Water Girl Kelleth Cuthbert lands a role on a soap opera

By HEIDI PARKER

 

Role: She stood behind stars with a coy smile on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards. And it looks like Kelleth Cuthbert's sly move has paid off. Earlier this week the brunette actress revealed she has been working on the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful

 

She stood behind stars like Kaley Cuoco and Heidi Klum with a coy smile on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards earlier this month.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079820-fiji-water-girl-kelleth-cuthbert-lands-a-role-on-a-soap-opera/

 

Music is good for our health, so why are musicians suffering so much?

by Roisin O'Connor

 

Clockwise from top left: Demi Lovato, Nicki Minaj, Stormzy and Maggie Rogers have all been open about mental health issues ( Getty )

 

“Music was my refuge,” the writer Maya Angelou once said. “I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079822-music-is-good-for-our-health-so-why-are-musicians-suffering-so-much/

 

7,000 chosen as outstanding ‘One Tambon, One Quality Schools’

By The Nation

 

 

 

A total of 7,000 schools have been selected as “One Tambon, One Quality School” outstanding tambon-level schools by the Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec), in line with the government’s policy to promote equity in access to quality education, Obec secretary-general Boonrak Yodphetch said on Monday.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1079832-7000-chosen-as-outstanding-‘one-tambon-one-quality-schools’/