Supersports 10 Mile International Run Series Thailand 2019 comes to Phuket

 

 

PHUKET, Thailand – A weekend of sporting fun the 5th Supersports 10 Mile International Run series Thailand 2018 Phuket Presented by Skechers. Held on 31st March, 2019 at the Thanyapura Health & Sports Resort, there was something for everyone with distances including a 500 metre Kids Run, 3 Mile (4.8km), 5 Mile (8km) and the iconic 10 Mile (16km) run, all part of a “Thailand series” concept that has seen the event grow to become one of Phuket& leading sports events.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1085731-supersports-10-mile-international-run-series-thailand-2019-comes-to-phuket/

Bangkok ex-teacher hit with second charge of selling cannabis

By The Nation

 

 

A former English teacher out on bail for allegedly selling home-grown “organic marijuana” was arrested on Sunday on the same charge.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086275-bangkok-ex-teacher-hit-with-second-charge-of-selling-cannabis/

Computer engineer arrested for allegedly selling porn clips online

By The Nation

 

 

A computer engineer has been arrested for allegedly running a website and a closed LINE group to sell subscriptions for watching secretly taken pornographic clips, mostly of girls aged under 18.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086327-computer-engineer-arrested-for-allegedly-selling-porn-clips-online/

Thai cueist triumphant in snooker "Shoot-Out"

 

 

Thailand's Thepchaiya Un-nooh won his maiden ranking title in the snooker "Shoot-Out" in Watford in England on Sunday. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086419-thai-cueist-triumphant-in-snooker-shoot-out/

 

Baht's strength reflects robust Thai economic fundamentals - Deputy PM

 

New baht banknotes featuring Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn are unveiled during a news conference at Bank of Thailand headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, July 3, 2018. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai baht's strength reflects the country's robust economic fundamentals and the central bank has its limitations in intervening in the currency market, a deputy prime minister said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086422-bahts-strength-reflects-robust-thai-economic-fundamentals-deputy-pm/

 

Students caught up in violence can resit exam

By THE NATION

 

 

A DOZEN students who suffered when a Bangkok school was attacked on Sunday by a group of 50 angry men will be given a chance to resit the important examination they were taking at the time.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086424-bangkok-students-caught-up-in-violence-can-resit-exam/

 

Controversial Rice Bill back in NLA after tweaks

By KHANITTHA THEPPHAJORN 
THE NATION 

 

 

AD HOC panel says concerns addressed but NGO maintains it fails to protect farmers’ rights
 

THE National Legislative Assembly (NLA) will today consider a draft law that could impact millions of rice farmers across the country. 

 

The Rice Bill, which was abruptly withdrawn from an NLA meeting last week in the face of stiff opposition from farmers and academic networks, is scheduled for its second and third readings by the NLA today.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086425-controversial-rice-bill-back-in-nla-after-tweaks/

 

Relatives of late royal oppose building of condo block next door

By The Nation

 

 

Descendants of a famous Thai prince yesterday lodged a complaint with the Central Administrative Court over a committee’s controversial decision to allow a condo building to be built next to his residence.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086426-relatives-of-late-royal-oppose-building-of-condo-block-next-door/

 

Prayut urged to join PM debates, but EC yet to rule on legality 

By KAS CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION

 

FILE photo

 

AMID UNCERTAINTY over premier General Prayut Chan-o-cha’s participation in prime ministerial debates, a political scientist yesterday urged the junta leader as well as all PM candidates to take part in the exercise in order to help voters decide. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086427-prayut-urged-to-join-pm-debates-but-ec-yet-to-rule-on-legality/

 

 

Couple arrested for allegedly defrauding 19 people out of Bt16m

By The Nation

 

 

A couple have been arrested for allegedly deceiving 19 people into investing a total of Bt16.8 million with promises of high monthly returns, and later ceasing payments to the investors after just three months.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086428-couple-arrested-for-allegedly-defrauding-19-people-out-of-bt16m/

 

Exporters up in arms against plan to hike daily minimum wage

By The Nation

 

 

EXPORT companies in more than 40 provinces are voicing loud opposition to plans of raising the minimum daily wage.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086429-exporters-up-in-arms-against-plan-to-hike-daily-minimum-wage/

 

Culture Ministry launches book on King’s Coronation

By The Nation

 

Nation/Vorawit Pumpuang

 

The Culture Ministry launched the book “The Royal Coronation Ceremony” at Government House on Monday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1075563-thai-king-to-be-crowned-in-coronation-ceremonies-may-4-6-palace/?do=findComment&comment=13882105

 

NGOs seek slowdown of Group worries about environmental impact of speedy development on lives of local people

By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation 

 

Chachoengsao//FILE photo

 

Environmentalists are urging the government to slow down the development of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) in order to protect locals from environmental impacts and related conflicts.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086430-environmentalists-are-urging-the-government-to-slow-down-the-development-of-the-eastern-economic-corridor-eec/

 

Ministerial officials in 9 northern provinces ordered to join forest fire-tackling efforts

By Tossapol Boonpat 
The Nation

 

 

FOLLOWING unsafe levels of PM2.5 in Mae Hong Son province for four consecutive days due to forest fires, a senior official has called on all ministerial offices in nine haze-affected provinces in the North to jointly fight the fires and explain operational progress to the media.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086431-ministerial-officials-in-9-northern-provinces-ordered-to-join-forest-fire-tackling-efforts/

 

Board of Investment gives the nod to five projects worth Bt40 bn

By PHUWIT LIMVIPHUWAT 
THE NATION

 

BoI secretary-general Duangjai Asawachintachit

 

THE BOARD of Investment (BoI) yesterday approved five investment projects worth a total of Bt40.462 billion during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086432-board-of-investment-gives-the-nod-to-five-projects-worth-bt40-bn/

 

Thai AirAsia adds new route to tap Vietnam market, offers 5 destinations in 7 routes

By SIRIVISH TOOMGUM 
THE NATION

 

FILE photo

 

BUDGET AIRLINE Thai AirAsia is further expanding in the Vietnam market by adding a new route – Chiang Mai-Da Nang.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086433-thai-airasia-adds-new-route-to-tap-vietnam-market-offers-5-destinations-in-7-routes/

 

Ao Nang dog attack: Round-up to expand, Eemi out of hospital

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Krabi Livestock officials move some of the dogs that have already been caught. Photo: Krabi Livestick Office

 

KRABI: The last remaining stray dogs at Ao Nang Beach, Krabi, will be caught and removed from the area, and the campaign to remove all stray dogs from tourist areas will be expanded, the national Director-General of the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) has announced.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086435-ao-nang-dog-attack-round-up-to-expand-finnish-boy-eemi-out-of-hospital/

 

Black water flows across Kamala Beach

By The Phuket News

 

The black water flowed across Kamala Beach and darkened the water and the sand at the beach. Photo: Icecy Aticha

 

PHUKET: The Kamala Tambon Administrative Organisation (OrBorTor) has vowed to raise the issue of the black water running across the sand and into the sea southern end Kamala Beach with the Phuket Governor while the local authority works to clear the water and find the source of the pollution.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086436-black-water-flows-across-kamala-beach/

 

Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif, architect of nuclear deal, resigns

By Parisa Hafezi

 

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif waves after a plenary session at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria July 14, 2015. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

 

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the urbane, U.S.-educated architect of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, announced his resignation unexpectedly on Monday on Instagram.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086438-irans-foreign-minister-zarif-architect-of-nuclear-deal-resigns/

 

UK's Labour says it will back call for second Brexit referendum

By Kylie MacLellan and William James

 

FILE PHOTO: Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, gives a speech at the EEF National Manufacturing conference, in London, Britain, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party said on Monday it would back calls for a second referendum on Brexit if parliament rejects its alternative plan for leaving the European Union.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086439-uks-labour-says-it-will-back-call-for-second brexit-referendum/

 

Venezuela hit with new U.S. sanctions after clashes over food aid on border

By Roberta Rampton and Luis Jaime Acosta

 

A group of demonstrators takes part in a protest against the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who many nations have recognized as the country's rightful interim ruler, as a meeting of the Lima Group takes place in Bogota, Colombia, February 25, 2019. The placards read "No to the war, we defend life". REUTERS/Carlos Julio Martinez

 

BOGOTA (Reuters) - The United States targeted Venezuela's government with new sanctions on Monday and called on allies to freeze the assets of its state-owned oil company PDVSA after deadly violence blocked humanitarian aid from reaching the country over the weekend.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086440-venezuela-hit-with-new-us-sanctions-after-clashes-over-food-aid-on-border/

 

U.S. Democrats face hurdles in bid to get full Mueller report

By Jan Wolfe

 

FILE PHOTO: William Barr testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be attorney general of the United States on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers have vowed a court fight if necessary to secure the public release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's full report on his investigation into possible coordination between President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086441-us-democrats-face-hurdles-in-bid-to-get-full-mueller-report/

 

Brexit to harm UK's cherished health service, experts say

By Kate Kelland

 

FILE PHOTO: EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier walks behind European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and British Prime Minister Theresa May at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium February 7, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman

 

LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A British exit from the EU without a deal would have "an immediate and drastic" impact on availability of medicines and vaccines as well as affecting health system funding and staffing, experts warned on Monday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086445-brexit-to-harm-uks-cherished-health-service-experts-say/

 

Vatican Treasurer Pell found guilty of abusing two choir boys 22 years ago

By Sonali Paul

 

FILE PHOTO - Vatican Treasurer Cardinal George Pell is surrounded by Australian police as he leaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court in Australia, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Dadswell

 

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian court has found Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican Treasurer and a former top adviser to Pope Francis, guilty on five charges of child sexual offences committed more than two decades ago against 13-year-old boys.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086449-vatican-treasurer-pell-found-guilty-of-abusing-two-choir-boys-22-years-ago/

 

Palang Pracharat launches PM Prayut’s biography

 

 

The Palang Pracharat party on Monday published a new pocket-sized biography of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s. Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said the book will help people understand the true character of the Prime Minister.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086450-palang-pracharat-launches-pm-prayut’s-biography/

 

In his grandfather's footsteps, Kim Jong Un due in Vietnam

By James Pearson and Khanh Vu

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks at the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces on occasion of the 71st anniversary of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in Pyongyang, North Korea in this February 8, 2019 KCNA Photo. KCNA via REUTERS

 

HANOI (Reuters) - When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Hanoi on Tuesday for his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump later this week, he will be the first leader of the isolated country to visit Vietnam since his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, visited in 1964.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086452-in-his-grandfathers-footsteps-kim-jong-un-due-in-vietnam/

 

After Putin's warning, Russian TV lists nuclear targets in U.S.

By Andrew Osborn

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony marking the Defender of the Fatherland Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in central Moscow, Russia February 23, 2019. Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool via REUTERS

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state television has listed U.S. military facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike, and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086453-after putins-warning-russian-tv-lists-nuclear-targets-in-us/

 

Manafort asks judge for sentence far below the maximum - court filing

 

FILE PHOTO: Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for arraignment on a third superseding indictment against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on charges of witness tampering, at U.S. District Court in Washington, June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst//File Photo/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Monday asked a federal judge in Washington to impose a prison term "significantly below the statutory maximum" when he is sentenced on March 13, according to a court filing.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086454-manafort-asks-judge-for-sentence-far-below-the-maximum-court-filing/

 

UPDATE:

 

North Korea's Kim arrives in Vietnam for summit; Trump on his way

By Khanh Vu and Jeff Mason

 

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un waves as he arrives at the Dong Dang railway station, Vietnam, at the border with China, February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

HANOI/ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump where they will try to reach an agreement on a North's Korean pledge to give up its nuclear weapons programme.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086452-in-his-grandfathers-footsteps-kim-jong-un-due-in-vietnam/?do=findComment&comment=13882748

 

Chinese tourist rescued after choking on water in Koh Similans

By The Thaiger

PHOTOS: DNP

 

 

A female Chinese tourist was rescued after choking on water at Koh Payu, in the middle of the Similan National Park island group, yesterday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1086462-chinese-tourist-rescued-after-choking-on-water-in-koh-similans/