THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Thursday 30 May 2019

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Thailand not on US watch list on currency manipulation

 

   

 

BANGKOK, 30 May 2019 (NNT) - The United States Treasury has published a watch list of countries with currency manipulation in order to hopefully gain a trade advantage with the United States and Thailand is not included in the watch list. However, the Bank of Thailand (BOT) stated that it is still necessary to closely monitor the situation because the United States has adjusted the rules for listing trading partner countries and the global trade is worrisome.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103660-thailand-not-on-us-watch-list-on-currency-manipulation/

 

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Path of new Govt still unclear

 

   

BANGKOK, 30 May 2019 (NNT) - The Chartthaipattana Party announced that it has yet to accept an invitation from the Palang Pracharath Party to join its political alliance. The Chartthaipattana Party will call a meeting of its executive members on Friday (May 31). The party insisted that it will choose to be an independent opposition if the next coalition government refuses to carry out the party’s policies.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103662-path-of-new-govt-still-unclear/

 

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Thai second quarter growth pace seen faster than Q1 - ministry

 

FILE PHOTO: A girl walks past a Skytrain (Bangkok Mass Transit System) construction site in Bangkok, Thailand May 13, 2018. Picture taken May 13, 2018. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's economy is expected to grow at a faster pace in the second quarter than in the first three months of the year as domestic consumption continues to increase and tourism improves, a finance ministry official said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103665-thai-second-quarter-growth-pace-seen-faster-than-q1-ministry/

 

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Teen suicides rose 13% in three months after Netflix show released

by Alex Matthews-King

 

 

The number of teenagers who took their own lives rose significantly after a popular Netflix series, criticised for its graphic depiction of a 17-year-old character taking her own life was broadcast, a study has said.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103681-teen-suicides-rose-13-in-three-months-after-netflix-show-released/

 

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T-series becomes first Youtube channel to pass 100 million subscribers

by Anthony Cuthbertson

 

The YouTube channel homepage for Indian record label T-Series, which overtook controversial Swedish vlogger PewDiePie in 2019 / AFP/Getty

 

Indian YouTube channel T-Series has become the first to pass 100 million subscribers on the platform.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103683-t-series-becomes-first-youtube-channel-to-pass-100-million-subscribers/

 

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Lost Beatles footage to be shown for first time in more than 50 years

 

The Beatles around the time of their 1966 Top of the Pops performance. Photograph: Roger Viollet Collection/Getty Images

 

Long-lost footage of a Beatles performance is to be shown for the first time in more than 50 years.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103684-lost-beatles-footage-to-be-shown-for-first-time-in-more-than-50-years/

 

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Fire damages appliance warehouse in Phitsanulok

By The Nation

 

 

A fire broke out in a warehouse filled with electric appliances in Phitsanulok’s Muang district on Thursday afternoon.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103686-fire-damages-appliance-warehouse-in-phitsanulok/

 

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BMA appeals for trees for green Bangkok project

By The Nation

 

 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is seeking public donations of trees for its project to turn the capital green by next year.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103687-bma-appeals-for-trees-for-green-bangkok-project/

 

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Watch : Splashing hippos spread joy on Twitter 

By The Nation

 

 

Twitter came alive on May 28 when a clip showing a hippopotamus family having fun in their new habitat in Chon Buri’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo was posted.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103689-watch-splashing-hippos-spread-joy-on-twitter/

 

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‘Furious aunts’ fined Bt12,000 each, handed suspended jail terms

By The Nation

 

 

The two so-called “furious aunts” were handed a suspended jail term, on top of a fine of Bt12,000 each, for taking a hammer to a car blocking the gate of their home in Bangkok’s Prawet district last year.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103691-‘furious-aunts’-fined-bt12000-each-handed-suspended-jail-terms/

 

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Govt deficit grows

By The Nation

 

Thailand’s fiscal budget deficit rose 12.7 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year (October 2018 to April 2019) to Bt619.88 billion, from Bt549.9 billion in the same period last year, according to Lavaron Sangsnit, Director–General of the Fiscal Policy Office and Ministry of Finance’s Spokesperson.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103692-govt-deficit-grows/

 

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Police find motorbike used by escaped convict in Bangkok

 

 

Police have found a motorcycle an inmate used in his escape from a Samut Songkram hospital in Bangkok’s Nong Kaem district which is about 22 kilometres from the crime scene.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103709-police-find-motorbike-used-by-escaped-convict-in-bangkok/

 

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Charity durian festival opens in Nonthaburi

By Surasit Singprasert 
The Nation

 

 

Durian lovers are invited to Nonthaburi Durian Festival and enter auctions of durians whose money will be donated to buy medical equipment for hospitals.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103712-charity-durian-festival-opens-in-nonthaburi/

 

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Four new baby meerkats melt hearts at a Thai zoo

 

 

SONGKHLA, Thailand (Reuters) - Four newly born meerkats are the star attractions at a zoo in Thailand as visitors come to catch a glimpse of the little furry pups with their big eyes and signature two-legged stand.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1103713-four-new-baby-meerkats-melt-hearts-at-a-thai-zoo/

 

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