THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Wednesday 17 Apr 2019

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Latest : Missing Thai boy in Japan found dead

By The Nation

 

Photo : Hokkaido Fanclub

 

The mother of a Thai teenage boy who went missing in Tokyo on Monday wrote on her Facebook wall that she has found her son but that he had passed away. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095519-online-plea-as-14-year-old-thai-boy-goes-missing-from-tokyo-hotel/?do=findComment&comment=14050180

 

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Video: World "Human Wave" record smashed in Khon Kaen!

 

 

The world record for the longest duration "Human Wave" was smashed in downtown Khon Kaen on Monday, the last day of the Songkran festival. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095526-video-world-human-wave-record-smashed-in-khon-kaen/

 

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Most U.S. Democratic presidential hopefuls still relying on large campaign donations

By Ginger Gibson, Amanda Becker and Grant Smith

 

FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2019. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. Democrats emphasize building their 2020 presidential campaigns on grassroots support, fewer than half amassed at least 50 percent of their early financial backing from small-dollar donations, a Reuters analysis found.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095527-most-us-democratic-presidential-hopefuls-still-relying-on-large-campaign-donations/

 

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Post-Songkran blues! Top doctor tells the Thais how to cope

 

Picture: INN

 

The head of Thailand's mental health department has told his compatriots how to cope with the post-Songkran holiday blues. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095528-post-songkran-blues-top-doctor-tells-the-thais-how-to-cope/

 

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Video: "The police are coming!" Songkran violence in Pattaya

 

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The Pattaya News reported that Thai and foreign tourists ran for cover as a group of 50 young Thai people fought and threw things in the Soi 7 and 8 Beer Bar areas. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095530-video-the-police-are-coming-songkran-violence-in-pattaya/

 

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Two children killed after driver fell asleep at wheel: Police

By The Nation

 

Picture: 77Jowo

 

Police say a tired motorist who had just driven friends home from Songkran celebrations dozed off at the wheel and crashed into a parked truck in Suphan Buri, killing two young children in the early hours of Wednesday.

 

Full story:  https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095534-two-children-killed-after-driver-fell-asleep-at-wheel-police/

 

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Incoming! Tourists hunker down as hailstorm hits Loei mountaintop

By The Nation

 

 

Visitors at Phu Kradueng National Park in Loei suffered an overnight bombardment when a hail storm hit the tourist destination on Tuesday, park officials said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095536-incoming-tourists-hunker-down-as-hailstorm-hits-loei-mountaintop/

 

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Satellite images may show reprocessing activity at North Korea nuclear site: U.S. researchers

By David Brunnstrom

 

A view of what researchers of Beyond Parallel, a CSIS project, describe as specialized rail cars at the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, in this commercial satellite image taken April 12, 2019 and released April 16, 2019. CSIS/Beyond Parallel/DigitalGlobe 2019 via REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images from last week show movement at North Korea's main nuclear site that could be associated with the reprocessing of radioactive material into bomb fuel, a U.S. think tank said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095538-satellite-images-may-show-reprocessing-activity-at-north-korea-nuclear-site-us-researchers/

 

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Queen Sirikit in hospital for bladder inflammation treatment

 

 

Her Majesty Queen Sirikit has been admitted to Chulalongkorn Hospital suffering cystitis, which is an inflammation of the bladder, according to the Bureau of the Royal Household today.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095547-queen-sirikit-in-hospital-for-bladder-inflammation-treatment/

 

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Day 6 of Seven Days road-safety campaign sees woman hospitalised in motorbike accident

By The Phuket News

 

Phuket suffered just one injury in an accident yesterday (Apr 16), according to official statistics. Photo: MK / 7 Days Line Group

 

PHUKET: According to official statistics, Phuket suffered just one injury during Day 6 of the Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign for the Songkran holidays, from midnight to midnight yesterday (Apr 16).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095562-day-6-of-seven-days-road-safety-campaign-sees-woman-hospitalised-in-motorbike-accident/

 

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Manhunt launched for American over ‘seastead’ fiasco

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

American Chad Elwartowski and his Thai partner Supranee ‘Nadia’ Thepdet are now wanted by the Thai military and the police for threeatening national security over a ‘seastead’ built 42 kilometres south of Phuket. Photo: Chad Elwartowski Facebook public profile photo

 

PHUKET: Phuket officials this morning confirmed that they are now searching for American Chad Elwartowski, whose permit to stay in Thailand has been revoked and is now wanted on criminal charges filed by the Royal Thai Navy.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095563-manhunt-launched-for-american-over-‘seastead’-fiasco/

 

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Filipino killed by drunk driver

By The Phuket News

 

The Mercedes Benz hit the motorbike at the intersection of Kwang Rd and Chao Fa West Rd in Wichit in the early hours of Wednesday morning (Apr 17). Photo: Wichit Police

 

PHUKET: A Filipino man has died after his motorbike was hit by a car in Wichit in the early hours of this morning (Apr 17).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095565-filipino-killed-by-drunk-driver/

 

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Piyabutr reports to police to answer charges

 

 

Future Forward party secretary-general, Piyabutr Sangkanokkul, reported to the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) police this morning (Wednesday) to acknowledge two charges filed against him by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).

 

Full story:  https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095570-piyabutr-reports-to-police-to-answer-charges/

 

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Rattanakosin roads closed for coronation rehearsal

By Jessada Chantharak 
The Nation

 

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Forty roads at Bangkok's Rattanakosin Island are being closed today (Wednesday) for a rehearsal for May’s coronation of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095571-rattanakosin-roads-closed-for-coronation-rehearsal/

 

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38 cats rescued from closed ‘cafe'

By The Nation

 

 

A Bangkok-based group has rescued 38 felines from a cat cafe in Watcharapol that had been closed since April 3 after the owner, a veterinarian, was reportedly arrested on fraud charges.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095576-38-cats-rescued-from-closed-‘cafe/

 

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Pheu Thai member demands re-election in Samut Prakan

By The Nation

 

Chatchai na Bangchang shows what he claimed as irregularities in Samut Prakarn province.//Photo : Rachanon Intharagsa

 

A Pheu Thai Party member on Wednesday demanded that the Election Commission (EC) organise a re-election in Samut Prakan province, citing irregularities in many constituencies.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095585-pheu-thai-member-demands-re-election-in-samut-prakan/

 

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348 die in Songkran road carnage

By The Nation

 

 

A total of 348 people were killed and 3,176 others wounded in 3,068 road accidents during the first six days of the “seven dangerous days” of Songkran, said the Road Safety Operations Centre (RSOC) on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095592-348-die-in-songkran-road-carnage/

 

 

 

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Thai teen found dead in Tokyo was polite, well-mannered

By Suwanee Bandisak 
The Nation 
Surat Thani

 

Tien and his mother

 

Tien Sukanonsawat, a teenager who was found dead after disappearing in Tokyo on Monday, was described as well-mannered and polite. 

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095519-online-plea-as-14-year-old-thai-boy-goes-missing-from-tokyo-hotel/?do=findComment&comment=14051713

 

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Stabbed Nong Khai soldier given posthumous promotion

By The Nation

 

Image: Siam Rath

 

The Royal Thai Army has posthumously promoted a private who was fatally stabbed while trying to end a brawl among Songkran revellers in Nong Khai’s Muang district.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095609-stabbed-nong-khai-soldier-given-posthumous-promotion/

 

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10 Iconic Horror Actors In Real Life

 

Universal

 

Horror monsters are some of the most creative and impressive expressions of art we have, even if they are usually exceptionally gross in their creation.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095611-10-iconic-horror-actors-in-real-life/

 

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Cannes 2019: 20 films we hope will be at the film festival

by Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

 

Croisette-bound? … Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Photograph: Andrew Cooper/Allstar/Columbia Pictures

 

Last year, Cannes did not cover itself in glory.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095613-cannes-2019-20-films-we-hope-will-be-at-the-film-festival/

 

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Drunk man wakes up in the wrong house after night out

By SOPHIE LAW

 

A drunken reveller was abruptly woken by a bewildered couple after he wandered into the wrong house and fell asleep on their sofa in a hilarious video

 

A drunken reveller was abruptly woken by a bewildered couple after he wandered into the wrong house and fell asleep on their sofa in a hilarious video. 

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095614-drunk-man-wakes-up-in-the-wrong-house-after-night-out/

 

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Sea-home pioneer’s visa cancelled

By The Nation

 

 

 

An American bitcoin investor who set up a floating “seasteading” structure off the coast of Phuket has had his visa revoked and he was put on a blacklist after the Thai Navy accused him of violating the country's sovereignty by building a waterborne homestead.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095623-sea-home-pioneer’s-visa-cancelled/

 

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Thailand Live Thursday 18 Apr 2019 
https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1095643-thailand-live-thursday-18-apr-2019/