THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Wednesday 24 Apr 2019

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Street gangs brawl on Pattaya Beach

 

 

PATTAYA:--Four gang members were hurt when rival factions brawled in the middle of Pattaya Beach.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096743-street-gangs-brawl-on-pattaya-beach/

 

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20 robbed on Songkran finale

 

 

PATTAYA:--Pattaya’s police chief said only 12 tourists were robbed on Songkran’s biggest day.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096742-20-robbed-on-songkran-finale/

 

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Car washes boom after Songkran

 

 

PATTAYA:--Car washes are cashing in now that Songkran is finished, with owners of motorbikes and cars eager to get all the powder off their vehicles.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096745-car-washes-boom-after-songkran/

 

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Centara Grand Mirage hosts Easter for Father Ray kids

 

 

The Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort made Easter festive for children of the Father Ray Foundation.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096747-centara-grand-mirage-hosts-easter-for-father-ray-kids/

 

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Bangkok-based Filipino visa service provider arrested over alleged fraud

By The Thaiger

 

 

The administrator of a Facebook group SWD Kapamilya Thailand (has more than 30,000 Filipino members), Ernest Rey Basilio Salarza (aka. Rhey Keen Ayala), was arrested yesterday (Tuesday) in Bangkok after the court issued an arrest warrant.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096748-bangkok-based-filipino-visa-service-provider-arrested-over-alleged-fraud/

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Asia-Pacific economies to slow, Thailand’s growth rate lower than regional average: World Bank projection

By The Nation

 

 

Economic growth in developing East Asia and the Pacific is projected to soften to 6 per cent in 2019 and 2020, down from 6.3 per cent in 2018, largely reflecting global headwinds and a gradual policy-guided slowdown in China, the World Bank said on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096749-asia-pacific-economies-to-slow-thailand’s-growth-rate-lower-than-regional-average-world-bank-projection/

 

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Two killed as truck plunges down Chiang Rai ravine

By The Nation

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Two men were killed when their six-wheel truck fell off a roadside into a ravine in Chiang Rai’s Muang district on Tuesday evening.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096751-two-killed-as-truck-plunges-down-chiang-rai-ravine/

 

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No bacteria contamination found in Bangkok’s drinking water dispensers

By The Nation

 

 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has announced it found no bacteria contamination during checks on the city’s coin-operated drinking water dispensing machines. The finding comes amid public concern about the higher rate of bacteria growth during the hot season.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096752-no-bacteria-contamination-found-in-bangkok’s-drinking-water-dispensers/

 

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Hunt continues for seastead couple

By The Phuket News

 

Phuket Provincial Police Chief Maj Gen Wisarn Phanmanee (centre) confirmed that an arrest warrant fro American Chad Elwartowski will not be requested until the Public Prosecutor’s Office has completed their initial investigation. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: Police are continuing their hunt for American American Chad Elwartowski, 46, and his Thai partner Supranee Thepdet, who as of yesterday had been tracked to the southern island of Tarutao, on the Malaysian border, police have confirmed.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096758-hunt-continues-for-seastead-couple/

 

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Mains water supply to be shut off in Thalang

By The Phuket News

 

The Phuket News / file

 

PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Waterworks Authority (PWA) has announced that the mains water supply will be shut off in parts of Thalang on Thursday (Apr 25).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096759-mains-water-supply-to-be-shut-off-in-thalang/

 

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Govt advances four major EEC projects

 

   

BANGKOK, 24 April 2019(NNT) - The government is advancing four infrastructure projects in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). All projects will be able to be included in the joint venture signing in May. They will promote Thailand as an important trade hub in Asia.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096760-govt-advances-four-major-eec-projects/

 

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Final touches being applied to grand coronation scene at Rattanakosin

By The Nation

 

 

Landscaping work on Bangkok's Rattanakosin Island in preparation for His Majesty the King's coronation procession will be capped this month with a "Big Cleaning Day" on April 26.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1075563-thai-king-to-be-crowned-in-coronation-ceremonies-may-4-6-palace/?do=findComment&comment=14073961

 

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Fire-fighters enter third day of battle at Chiang Rai dump

 By The Nation

 

 

Fire-fighters returned to battle at a rubbish dump in Chiang Rai's Chiang Khong district on Wednesday, as efforts continued to douse a three-day-old blaze.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096772-fire-fighters-enter-third-day-of-battle-at-chiang-rai-dump/

 

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Thai League 1 Review – Brazilian scores 5 goals for Chonburi in 12 goal thriller!

 

Each week ex-England and Spurs International Gary Stevens speaks to Jonathan Fairfield to review Thailand’s Football League 1 matches via the Dan about Thailand podcast service.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096774-thai-league-1-review-–-brazilian-scores-5-goals-for-chonburi-in-12-goal-thriller/

 

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US tourist arrested over theft, damage to speedboat in Krabi

By The Nation

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

An American tourist was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday night for allegedly stealing and damaging a speedboat belonging to an operator at Koh Phi Phi Lae in Krabi, police said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096783-us-tourist-arrested-over-theft-damage-to-speedboat-in-krabi/

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Thai woman arrested for robbing Chinese tourist in Pattaya

 

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

A Thai woman was arrested in Pattaya early on Monday after she allegedly stole a bag containing an iPhone 10, cash and credit cards from a Chinese tourist.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096803-thai-woman-arrested-for-robbing-chinese-tourist-in-pattaya/

 

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100 swept up in post-gang fight raid on Pattaya Beach

By Boonlua Chatree

 

  

Police swept up street thugs and prostitutes after gangs brawled on Pattaya Beach.

About 100 Pattaya, Tourist and Immigration police officers, soldiers and volunteers blanketed the Pattaya shoreline April 22 to restore order after four gang-bangers left one dead and three bleeding in the street the day before, causing panic among tourists.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096805-100-swept-up-in-post-gang-fight-raid-on-pattaya-beach/

 

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Durian farmers face devastation as trees die from extreme heat in Uttaradit

By Boonpim Baiya 
The Nation 
Uttaradit

 

Long Laplae durians

 

The current drought and extreme summer heat could damage half of Uttaradit’s crop of iconic Long and Lin Laplae durians, the provincial governor and farmers fear.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096806-durian-farmers-face-devastation-as-trees-die-from-extreme-heat-in-uttaradit/

 

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Armed forces told not to train conscripts under scorching sun

By The Nation

 

FILE photo

 

Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan, who is also deputy prime minister, said on Wednesday that he has instructed the armed forces to stop training conscripts under the blazing sun, warning that they might suffer heastroke.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096808-armed-forces-told-not-to-train-conscripts-under-scorching-sun/

 

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Joint forces raid 18 foreign-owned Koh Samui hotels for operating without licences

By The Nation

 

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Army officers, police and district officials have checked and found 18 hotels that they say are illegally owned by foreigners on a mountain on the tourist destination of Koh Samui, officials said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096810-joint-forces-raid-18-foreign-owned-koh-samui-hotels-for-operating-without-licences/

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EC issues ‘orange card’ to Pheu Thai candidate

By The Nation 

 

File photo : Surapon Kietchaiyakorn//radioparliament.com

 

The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday issued an “orange card” to a Pheu Thai candidate for allegedly buying votes to win a parliamentary seat in Chiang Mai province.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096811-ec-issues-‘orange-card’-to-pheu-thai-candidate/

 

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Companies, including media, need sexual-harassment policies, experts tell seminar

By The Nation

 

 

Anti-sexual harassment advocates and legal experts have called on society and the media to stand up against sexual harassment by refusing to tolerate it, and to introduce a new code of conduct against harassment as well as against media malpractice within media organisations.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096813-companies-including-media-need-sexual-harassment-policies-experts-tell-seminar/

 

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Journalist couple at war over young daughter

By Khanathit Srihirundaj 
The Nation 

 

 

A former TV reporter filed a complaint with the Police Crime Suppression Division (CSD) in Bangkok on Wednesday alleging that her husband, also a journalist, has been subjecting her to physical and mental attack since she was four months into her pregnancy three years ago.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096814-journalist-couple-at-war-over-young-daughter/

 

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Lost Bob Marley live recordings rescued from hotel basement

by Mark Brown

 

Bob Marley at the Rainbow theatre in Finsbury Park. Photograph: Graham Wiltshire/Redferns

 

Live recordings of Bob Marley and the Wailers, which were found by chance after spending 40 years in a damp hotel basement, are to appear at auction.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096834-lost-bob-marley-live-recordings-rescued-from-hotel-basement/

 

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Will Smith plays an elite assassin in the official trailer for Ang Lee's Gemini Man

By HEIDI PARKER

 

Tricky: Will Smith has an epic battle in the upcoming movie Gemini Man. The official trailer for Ang Lee's futuristic sci-fi drama was released on Tuesday at it shows the actor, who plays an elite assassin, take on himself

 

Will Smith has an epic battle in the upcoming movie Gemini Man.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096835-will-smith-plays-an-elite-assassin-in-the-official-trailer-for-ang-lees-gemini-man/

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Kanye West 'launching own church to tackle debt' as Sunday Service 'explained'

By Mirror.Co.Uk

 

 

Kanye West's Sunday Service has been a weekly feature on the Kardashian Klan's Instagram pages recently, thanks to his wife Kim.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096836-kanye-west-launching-own-church-to-tackle-debt-as-sunday-service-explained/

 

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British national and five Burmese arrested in Krabi over working illegally

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

Koh Phi Phi Police have been cracking down on illegal workers on the island’s and have arrested a British national along with five Burmese yesterday in Krabi.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096839-british-national-and-five-burmese-arrested-in-krabi-over-working-illegally/

 

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Phayao villager drowns while collecting oysters

By The Nation

 

 

A villager drowned on Wednesday morning while collecting oysters in a pond in Phayao’s Dok Kham Tai district, police said.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096840-phayao-villager-drowns-while-collecting-oysters/

 

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‘The Great Bake Off’ to get first Asian version in Thailand

By Tim Dams

 

 

The Great Bake Off  is to be remade in Thailand, marking the format’s first version in Asia.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096848-‘the-great-bake-off’-to-get-first-asian-version-in-thailand/

 

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VIDEO: Chaos outside Central World as armed man releases snakes bringing traffic to a standstill

 

 

A truly bizarre incident caused chaos and brought traffic to a standstill outside Central World in Bangkok on Wednesday evening.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1096851-video-chaos-outside-central-world-as-armed-man-releases-snakes-bringing-traffic-to-a-standstill/