Video: Two drunk soldiers and a wedding - deserter "pulls rank"

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A woman posted a three minute video of two drunk men at a Thai wedding one in a green shirt and one in white.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088979-video-two-drunk-soldiers-and-a-wedding-deserter-pulls-rank/

 

A permanent solution for Thailand’s straying dogs

Written by ThaiVisa interning journalist: Sara Mellouk

 

 

Anyone who has spent time in Thailand will be familiar with the sight of soi dogs roaming the streets. But just how serious is Thailand’s soi dog problem and what can be done to solve it?

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088981-a-permanent-solution-for-thailand’s-straying-dogs/ 

 

Motorbike driver killed after SUV runs red light in Koh Kaew, Phuket

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

A motorbike driver has died after he collided with an SUV that ran a red light in Koh Kaew last night.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088983-motorbike-driver-killed-after-suv-runs-red-light-in-koh-kaew-phuket/

 

Historical heart of Bangkok "not an appropriate place for prostitution"

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai officials are determined to stop street walking prostitution in the heart of Bangkok's historical "Ratanakosin Island " area. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088985-historical-heart-of-bangkok-not-an-appropriate-place-for-prostitution/

 

Big Joke: Nabs two Nigerian scammers on overstay

 

Picture: INN

 

Immigration chief Lt-Gen Surachate Hakparn has announced the arrest of two Nigerian scammers who posed as officials at a financial institution to defraud investors. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088988-big-joke-nabs-two-nigerian-scammers-on-overstay/

 

Video: More crazy driving - minivan does unexpected U-turn

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Dash cam footage posted to the "Hia" site on Facebook showed a minivan make a sudden U-turn in front of an approaching vehicle. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088990-video-more-crazy-driving-minivan-does-unexpected-u-turn/

 

Zidane promises changes at Real as he replaces Solari

By Rik Sharma

 

Soccer Football - Real Madrid Press Conference - Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - March 11, 2019 New Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane during the press conference REUTERS/Susana Vera

 

MADRID (Reuters) - Real Madrid reappointed Zinedine Zidane as coach on a three-year contract on Monday following the sacking of Santiago Solari with the Frenchman promising wholesale changes after the deposed European champions saw their season collapse inside a week.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088992-zinedine-zidane-returns-to-real-madrid/

 

German yachtsman inflates trousers to survive 3 hours in sea

 

A man who used his jeans as a makeshift flotation device, after being knocked off a yacht and stranded at sea, is rescued by a helicopter, off Tolaga Bay in Gisborne, New Zealand, in this still from a handout video taken March 6, 2019. Handout video taken March 6, 2019. Lowe Corporation Rescue Helicopter Service/Handout via REUTERS

 

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Knocked overboard in rough seas off New Zealand, a German yachtsman credited his jeans with saving his life after fashioning them into a make-shift life jacket that kept him afloat for over three hours before his rescue by coastguards.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088994-german-yachtsman-inflates-trousers-to-survive-3-hours-in-sea/

 

Hakeem Al-Araibi 'happy to be safe' after becoming Australian citizen

By Caroline Schelle

 

Hakeem Al-Araibi (right) with Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the citizenship ceremony. CREDIT:AAP IMAGE/DANIEL POCKETT

 

Footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi feels he is finally safe after being welcomed as an Australian citizen at a ceremony in Melbourne.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088996-refugee-footballer-hakeem-al-araibi-becomes-australian-citizen-after-thai-bahrain-ordeal/

 

UPDATE:

 

'I'm an Aussie': refugee footballer Araibi granted Australian citizenship

 

Refugee footballer Hakeem Al Araibi receives his Australian citizenship during a ceremony at Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia, March 12, 2019. AAP Image/David Crosling/via REUTERS

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A refugee footballer who fled Bahrain and was held in a Thai prison for months during a tense extradition stand-off between Australia and the Gulf state was granted Australian citizenship on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088996-refugee-footballer-hakeem-al-araibi-becomes-australian-citizen-after-thai-bahrain-ordeal/?do=findComment&comment=13930214

 

New York attorney general is investigating Trump projects: New York Times

 

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs to visit storm-hit areas of Alabama from the White House in Washington, U.S., March 8, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

(Reuters) - The New York attorney general's office is looking into ties between Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank and several Trump Organisation projects, the New York Times reported late Monday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089018-new-york-attorney-general-is-investigating-trump-projects-new-york-times/

 

Chiang Mai has world’s worst air as fires continue to rage in the North

By The Nation

 

Phayao

 

Chiang Mai on Tuesday morning had the world’s worst air quality.
 

The northern tourist city, Thailand’s second city, was ranked the number 1 air-polluted city with a 209 air quality index score on airvisual.com, before the air then worsened to an AQI of 234 around noon.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089023-chiang-mai-has-world’s-worst-air-as-fires-continue-to-rage-in-the-north/

 

HARV THE WORLD AWAY 

Katie Price leaves son Harvey at her hairdresser’s house for a week so she can party in Thailand with boyfriend Kris Boyson

The mother-of-five, 40, has jetted to South East Asia for a week-long luxury getaway, leaving her brood behind in the UK

EXCLUSIVE

By Dan Cain, Associate Digital Showbiz Editor

 

Katie Price has left teen son Harvey with her hairdresser as she parties in Thailand with boyfriend Kris Boyson//BACKGRID

 

KATIE Price has left teen son Harvey with her hairdresser as she parties in Thailand with boyfriend Kris Boyson.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089025-katie-price-leaves-son-harvey-at-her-hairdresser’s-house-for-a-week-so-she-can-party-in-thailand-with-boyfriend-kris-boyson/

 

UPDATE: Regulators ground the Boeing 737 Max 8, but not in Thailand

By The Thaiger

 

PHOTO: Thai Lion Air won’t be grounding their Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft

 

-- The digital flight data recorder for Flight ET302 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Nairobi, Kenya was located yesterday morning

-- Citizens of 35 countries are among the 157 people killed, including 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians and eight passengers each from China, Italy and the US

-- Multiple airlines have grounded Boeing’s 737 Max 8 aircraft

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089031-regulators-ground-the-boeing-737-max-8-but-not-in-thailand/

 

Democrat withdraws suits against three former red-shirt leaders after out-of-court settlement

By The Nation

 

From left (front row) : Nattawut Saikua, Veerakarn Musikapong and Jatuporn Prompan showed up at the Supreme Court buildings on Tuesday.//kunlaphun Siripimamporn

 

A senior Democrat Party member has agreed to withdraw his defamation lawsuits against three former red-shirt leaders after the parties were able to settle the matter out of court.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089036-democrat-withdraws-suits-against-three-former-red-shirt-leaders-after-out-of-court-settlement/

 

British motorcyclist dies in Rawai crash
By Waranya Prompinpiras

 

 

PHUKET: A 70-year-old British man has died after his motorbike hit a pickup truck in Rawai yesterday afternoon (Mar 11).

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089046-british-motorcyclist-dies-in-rawai-crash/

 

Five foreigners spend their holidays cleaning up rubbish along Krabi Beach

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

Five foreign tourists have spent their holidays today collecting rubbish along Laem Pong Beach in Krabi. They say they say they are very sad to see rubbish strewn all over the beaches and felt compelled to clean it up.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089059-five-foreigners-spend-their-holidays-cleaning-up-rubbish-along-krabi-beach/

 

Bohemian Rhapsody 'in talks for a SEQUEL

By LILY WADDELL

 

'It will start with Live Aid': Bohemian Rhapsody could land a second movie after it bagged four Academy Awards at the Oscars recently, according to Queen's music video director

 

Bohemian Rhapsody could land a second movie after it bagged four Academy Awards at the Oscars recently, according to Queen's music video director.  

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089062-bohemian-rhapsody-in-talks-for-a-sequel/

 

The Big Bang Theory's super-sized series finale date is revealed

BY JUSTIN HARP

 

GETTY IMAGES / CBS

 

Sorry The Big Bang Theory fans, the countdown to the last-ever episode has officially begun.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089065-the-big-bang-theorys-super-sized-series-finale-date-is-revealed/

 

Family of Olympic Cyclist, 23, Who Died by Suicide Speaks Out: She Was 'Tortured Mentally'

 

By CHAR ADAMS 

 

Kelly Catlin / EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty

 

Weeks before her death, 23-year-old Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin told her sister that she was struggling.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089068-family-of-olympic-cyclist-23-who-died-by-suicide-speaks-out-she-was-tortured-mentally/

 

Jordanian charged with murder after confessing to throwing son into sea: police

By The Nation

 

 

A Jordanian tourist has reportedly admitted to tying his son to a pram and tipping it along with the toddler into the sea off a pier in South Pattaya.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1088966-jordanian-father-tips-his-two-year-old-tied-to-a-pram-into-the-sea-in-pattaya/?do=findComment&comment=13931130

 

Sterling plummets after UK attorney general says legal risks of Brexit unchanged

 

FILE PHOTO - Wads of British Pound Sterling banknotes are stacked in piles at the Money Service Austria company's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The pound fell sharply on Monday after Britain’s Attorney General Geoffrey Cox said the legal risks to the United Kingdom of the Brexit backstop remained unchanged despite assurances from the European Union.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089078-sterling-plummets-after-uk-attorney-general-says-legal-risks-of-brexit-unchanged/

 

NSB to file charges against two doctors for helping weight-loss entrepreneur obtain controlled drugs

By Khanathit Srihirundaj 
The Nation

 

 

The chief of the Royal Thai Police’s Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) on Tuesday said his agency planned to file criminal charges against two doctors, who had allegedly helped a wealthy entrepreneur get hold of controlled substances for use in her weight-loss product business.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089081-nsb-to-file-charges-against-two-doctors-for-helping-weight-loss-entrepreneur-obtain-controlled-drugs/

 

Cabinet nod for ‘Nora’ dance drama’s nomination for UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list

By The Nation

 

File photo: Nora dance

 

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved Nora, the southern Thai dance drama, being nominated for inclusion in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage representatives list, government assistant spokesman Colonel Athisit Chaiyanuwat announced at Government House.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089087-cabinet-nod-for-‘nora’-dance-drama’s-nomination-for-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list/

 

Elderly monk charged with rape of a pre-schooler

By Kornkamon Aksorndech 
The Nation

 

 

A 74-year-old monk was arrested on Tuesday morning in Kanchanaburi’s Muang district and charged with raping a four-year-old girl on several occasions in 2016.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089089-elderly-monk-charged-with-rape-of-a-pre-schooler/

 

AMLO confiscates Bt40m worth of Lao drug convict Xaysana's assets

By The Nation

 

File photo: Xaysana

 

The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has temporarily confiscated 43 assets worth Bt40.9 million belonging to Lao drug convict Xaysana Keopimpa, according to an order published on Tuesday on the agency’s website.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089090-amlo-confiscates-bt40m-worth-of-lao-drug-convict-xaysanas-assets/

 

Phuket police mobilise in pre-election security campaign

By The Phuket News

 

The security campaign comes as the polls will open for early voting this weekend. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET:-- A total of 245 Phuket police, law-enforcement officers and volunteers assembled at Phuket City Police Station in Phuket Town yesterday evening (Mar 11) to receive their orders to suppress crime and keep the peace as the country goes to the polls on March 24.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089092-phuket-police-mobilise-in-pre-election-security-campaign/

 

New trend ‘Challenge for Change’ rubbish cleanup

By The Thaiger

 

PHOTO: We Don’t Deserve This Planet

 

A Facebook page named ‘We Don’t Deserve This Planet’ is running a campaign ‘Challenge for Change’ for rubbish cleanups. The site is an international page.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089093-new-trend-‘challenge-for-change’-rubbish-cleanup/

 

Police announce details of two major drug busts

By Khanathit Srihirundaj 
The Nation

 

 

Police in recent months seized a large haul of narcotics, including more than 200 kilograms of crystal meth – or “ice” – and 1,792,000 methamphetamine pills, in two separate drug busts, deputy national police chief General Chalermkiat Srivorakan told a press conference at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau in Bangkok on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089095-police-announce-details-of-two-major-drug-busts/

 

Thai arrested for allegedly conning 3 women out of Bt212,000 with promise of jobs abroad 9 years ago

By The Nation

 

File photo: Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Surachet Hakpal

 

A 60-year-old Thai man, wanted for allegedly duping three women out of Bt212,000 with a false promise of jobs abroad nearly a decade ago, was arrested in Bangkok’s Khlong Sam Wa district last Thursday, Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Surachet Hakpal told a press conference on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1089096-thai-arrested-for-allegedly-conning-3-women-out-of-bt212000-with-promise-of-jobs-abroad-9-years-ago/