Win 2 tickets to Jimmy Carr live in Bangkok this FRIDAY

 

As exclusive media partners Thaivisa and Inspire have 2 tickets to Jimmy Carr live in Bangkok on Friday 29th March.

 

To enter send us your funniest joke but it must be Thai related. 

 

Email [email protected] before Thursday 28th 5pm.

 

The winner will be announced thereafter. 

 

Cash strapped farang launches Go Fund Me to pay for wedding to Thai fiance

 

 

A cash strapped Australian man has launched a Go Fund Me appeal in a bid to help for the wedding to his Thai girlfriend.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091930-cash-strapped-farang-launches-go-fund-me-to-pay-for-wedding-to-thai-fiance/

British man sentenced to 50 years in Thai jail on drug charges set to be transferred to UK

 

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A British man who was sentenced to 50 years in prison in Thailand for ecstasy possession is set to be transferred to the UK to serve the remainder of his sentence.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091901-british-man-sentenced-to-50-years-in-thai-jail-on-drug-charges-set-to-be-transferred-to-uk/

EC told to review decision on NZ votes

By THE NATION

 

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Expat voters demand their right to be counted; thai airways issues statement to explain delay in delivery of ballots.
 

THAIS living in New Zealand have slammed the Election Commission (EC) for voiding their ballots and are demanding that their rights as Thai citizens be respected. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091977-ec-told-to-review-decision-on-nz-votes/

 

Anti-junta camp says it has numbers to form govt

By Kas Chanwanpen 
The Nation

 

Leaders of six parties, led by Pheu Thai, who claim to have the support of at least 255 MPs gather at a hotel in Bangkok yesterday to issue a joint statement that they will block the junta’s moves to remain in power.

 

Pheu Thai-LED coalition claims the support of at least 255 MPs
 

AS THE TUG of war between the pro-junta and anti-junta camps continues after the elections, with both sides declaring victory and claiming the right to form the government, a scholar said the principles of parliamentary system favoured the party with the most seats, rather than the popular vote winner. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091979-anti-junta-camp-says-it-has-numbers-to-form-govt/

 

EC seeks delay in final results amid ongoing probes

By THE NATION

 

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THE ELECTION Commission (EC) said yesterday that the results after counting the remaining 5 per cent of votes could not be announced due to complaints of irregularities in some constituencies even as political parties and activists piled pressure on the agency to announce the final tally to endorse the winners.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091980-ec-seeks-delay-in-final-results-amid-ongoing-probes/

 

Vaccines being readied to avert flu outbreak

By The Nation

 

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THAI authorities are preparing 7 million flu vaccines for distribution among seven at-risk groups as well as 400,000 doses for medical personnel and people whose jobs expose them to flu as part of measures to control influenza outbreak this year.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091981-vaccines-being-readied-to-avert-flu-outbreak/

 

Officials risking public health by playing down smog

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION

 

Fires ravage the Doi Phu Kha National Park in Nan province.

 

THE authorities’ strategy of playing down the serious smog situation in the North is making their measures to tackle dangerous PM2.5 levels a case of “too little too late”, experts said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091984-officials-risking-public-health-by-playing-down-smog/

 

Public hospitals get training to recover payments from foreigners

By THE NATION

 

 

THE PUBLIC Health Ministry’s Department of Health Service Support has provided training to public hospitals in tourist provinces to help them collect fees from foreigners, director-general Dr Nattawuth Prasertsiripong said yesterday.

 

Dull story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091985-public-hospitals-get-training-to-recover-payments-from-foreigners/

 

Police volunteer charged with wounding toddler

By THEERAWAT THONGMA, 
DETHAWEE THEEWARANGKOOL 
THE NATION

 

 

A POLICE volunteer who wounded a two-year-old boy as his parents tried to flee a traffic checkpoint in Chon Buri province has been charged with assault and suspended from duty.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091986-pattaya-police-volunteer-charged-with-wounding-toddler/

 

Supachai left red-faced by red card

By Lerpong Amsa-ngiam 
The Nation

 

 A downcast Supachai Jaided admits his shame at his costly dismissal.

 

Thailand’s key striker Supachai Jaided expressed his apology to fans after he was sent off for punching a Vietnamese player in the last game of the AFC U23 Championship Qualifiers in Hanoi on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091987-supachai-left-red-faced-by-red-card/

 

Parliament to miss lots of spices

 

 

Due to the fact that the Pheu Thai Party is not getting MPs from the proportional system, the post-election Parliament will miss a big number of veterans who are on its party list. Chalerm Yoobamrung, Snoh Thienthong, Bokhin Palakula and Plodprasop Surasawadee are among them.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091990-thai-parliament-to-miss-lots-of-spices/

 

Palang Pracharat will not rush to form government — Uttama

 

 

Palang Pracharat party leader Uttama Savanayana announced today that there is no need for the party to rush to form a government because the official election results have yet to be announced by the Election Commission.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091992-palang-pracharat-will-not-rush-to-form-government-—-uttama/

Thaksin removed from list of outstanding alumni

 

 

Thailand’s fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been removed from a list of outstanding alumni of the Armed Forces Preparatory School, due to his sentencing to a term of imprisonment, his escape from punishment and the stripping of his police rank.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091995-thaksin-removed-from-list-of-outstanding-alumni/

 

Early morning accidents kill vehicles, drivers safe

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Lt Kietsak Chaichana, 42, of the Royal Thai Army, suffered an injury to his right leg, but was otherwise unaffected by the impact when his car slammed into a roadside power pole in Koh Kaew,. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Two accidents within 20 minutes early this morning saw a car driven by an Army lieutenant and two pickup trucks, one carrying fruit, wrecked as they slammed into roadside poles, but luckily resulted in no deaths or serious injuries, police confirmed today (Mar 20).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091998-early-morning-accidents-kill-vehicles-drivers-safe/

 

Sea turtle saved after eating fishing net and plastic off Pattaya coast

By The Thaiger

 

PHOTOS: Sea Turtles Conservation Centre of the Royal Thai Navy

 

A Green Sea Turtle has been saved after eating bits of a fishing net and plastic in Pattaya last week.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1091999-sea-turtle-saved-after-eating-fishing-net-and-plastic-off-pattaya-coast/

 

Brunei’s ‘vicious’ new Islamic criminal laws – Amnesty International

By The Thaiger

 

 

Brunei, an ASEAN country, has announced the introduction of draconian sharia criminal laws.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092000-brunei’s-‘vicious’-new-islamic-criminal-laws-–-amnesty-international/

 

Britain's May offers to quit to get her Brexit deal over the line

By Elizabeth Piper, Kylie MacLellan and Andrew MacAskill

 

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street, as she faces a vote on alternative Brexit options, in London, Britain, March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May offered on Wednesday to quit if her European Union divorce deal passes at the third attempt, making a last-ditch sacrifice to try to win over dozens of rebels within her Conservative party.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092001-britains-may-offers-to-quit-to-get-her-brexit-deal-over-the-line/

 

Trump says he can produce a better healthcare plan than Obamacare

By Susan Cornwell

 

FILE PHOTO: A sign on an insurance store advertises Obamacare in San Ysidro, San Diego, California, U.S., October 26, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump pledged on Wednesday to deliver a better healthcare system than Obamacare if the Supreme Court tosses out his predecessor's signature domestic achievement, a potentially hazardous claim as he seeks re-election.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092002-trump-says-he-can-produce-a-better-healthcare-plan-than-obamacare/

 

Trump tells Russia to get its troops out of Venezuela

By Steve Holland and Lesley Wroughton

 

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Fabiana Rosales, wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and said that "all options" were open to make that happen.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092003-trump-tells-russia-to-get-its-troops-out-of-venezuela/

 

Northern Irish DUP says will not support UK PM May's Brexit deal

 

Northern Ireland's DUP leader Arlene Foster holds her notes after meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, outside Stormont Parliament Building in Belfast, Northern Ireland February 6, 2019. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The Northern Irish party which props up Prime Minister Theresa May's government said on Wednesday it would not support her Brexit divorce deal.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092004-northern-irish-dup-says-will-not-support-uk-pm-mays-brexit-deal/

 

Despite Congress' ire, Pentagon to transfer $1 billion for Trump wall

By Phil Stewart

 

Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan testifies to the House Armed Forces Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

MIAMI (Reuters) - Acting U.S. Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Wednesday he would push ahead with plans to transfer $1 billion (£757.5 million) to help fund President Donald Trump's wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, even as he acknowledged a likely backlash from Congress.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092005-despite-congress-ire-pentagon-to-transfer-1-billion-for-trump-wall/

 

Saudi women activists detail torture allegations in court

By Stephen Kalin

 

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators from Amnesty International hold placards outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy to protest on International Women's day to urge Saudi authorities to release jailed women's rights activists Loujain al-Hathloul, Eman al-Nafjan and Aziza al-Yousef in Paris, France, March 8, 2019. The placard reads: "Honk for women's rights". REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

 

RIYADH (Reuters) - Prominent women activists on trial in Saudi Arabia told a court on Wednesday they had been subjected to torture during more than nine months of detention, sources familiar with the matter said, in a case that has sharpened Western criticism of the kingdom.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092006-saudi-women-activists-detail-torture-allegations-in-court/

 

North Korea nuclear, missile activity 'inconsistent' with denuclearisation - U.S. general

By Idrees Ali

 

FILE PHOTO: Missiles are driven past the stand with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other high-ranking officials during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of the country's founding father Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagoli/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's activity on nuclear weapons and missiles is inconsistent with its pledge to denuclearize, the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea said on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092009-north-korea-nuclear-missile-activity-inconsistent-with-denuclearisation-us-general/

 

U.S. approves secret nuclear power work for Saudi Arabia

By Timothy Gardner

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorisations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092013-us-approves-secret-nuclear-power-work-for-saudi-arabia/

 

Modi hails India as military space power after anti-satellite missile test

By Sanjeev Miglani and Krishna N. Das

 

A man watches Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing to the nation, on TV screens inside a showroom in Mumbai, March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

 

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India shot down one of its own satellites in low-Earth orbit with a ground-to-space missile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, hailing his country's first test of such weaponry as a breakthrough establishing it as a military space power.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092017-modi-hails-india-as-military-space-power-after-anti-satellite-missile-test/

 

Boeing rolls out software fix to defend 737 MAX franchise, awaits U.S. regulator's approval

By Eric M. Johnson and David Shepardson

 

 

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: An aerial photo shows Boeing 737 MAX airplanes parked on the tarmac at the Boeing Factory in Renton, Washington, U.S. March 21, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo/File Photo

 

SEATTLE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co on Wednesday took its most aggressive moves yet to defend its core 737 airliner franchise, saying it had developed software fixes to prevent failures of an automated flight control system that is being scrutinized after two deadly crashes in the past five months.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092019-boeing-rolls-out-software-fix-to-defend-737-max-franchise-awaits-us-regulators-approval/

 

Big Joke: Promises easier, faster and more "watertight" Immigration rules

 

Picture: TNA

 

As immigration officials prepared to present proposals for a new Immigration Act to a ministerial committee yesterday chief Lt-Gen Surachate Hakparn outlined what it would mean to visitors and expatriates in Thailand. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092023-big-joke-promises-easier-faster-and-more-watertight-immigration-rules/

Nigerian scammer has a bit of explaining to do - despite his shirt

 

Image: TNA

 

An alleged Nigerian Romance Scammer appeared at tech police HQ with a message on his back.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092029-nigerian-scammer-has-a-bit-of-explaining-to-do-despite-his-shirt/

Big Joke: Sharing fake news has "damaged the trust in Thailand"

 

Image: INN

 

A video on the INN site showed Immigration chief Lt-Gen Surachate Hakparn reading the riot act to a group of people arrested after they shared fake news that damaged the Election Commission. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1092032-big-joke-sharing-fake-news-has-damaged-the-trust-in-thailand/