Family tragedy: Mum and dad hear a single gunshot from son's bedroom

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Police in the Bung Kum area of Bangkok were called after a Kasetsart University student shot himself in the head in his bedroom.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104834-family-tragedy-mum-and-dad-hear-a-single-gunshot-from-sons-bedroom/

 

beIN SPORTS to broadcast FIFA Women's World Cup in Thailand

PR NEWSWIRE ASIA

 

 

BANGKOK, June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- beIN Asia Pacific - part of beIN MEDIA GROUP, the global sports and entertainment group - ("beIN"), today announced a new media rights agreement that will see its flagship brand - beIN SPORTS broadcast the upcoming FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104836-bein-sports-to-broadcast-fifa-womens-world-cup-in-thailand/

 

"It's a miracle" say relatives as rescue team revive orchard worker in Sattahip

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Rescue foundation staff rushed to an orchard in Sattahip, Chonburi late last night after relatives of a 53 year old man found him unresponsive. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104837-its-a-miracle-say-relatives-as-rescue-team-revive-orchard-worker-in-sattahip/

 

Hard Rock Café Phuket hosts charity concert on June 17 featuring ‘Da Endorphine’

By The Thaiger

 

 

Award-winning Thai popular singer ‘Da Endorphine’ is set to headline an intimate performance at Hard Rock Café Phuket, where fans will get the chance to rock out to the GMM-Grammy singer’s biggest hits and support a good cause.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104841-hard-rock-café-phuket-hosts-charity-concert-on-june-17-featuring-‘da-endorphine’/

 

Revenge! Thai wife hangs herself and son, 2, at home of husband's mistress next door

 

Caption: Mother and son found hanged at home of her husband's mistress

 

A Thai wife - stressed that her husband was arranging for his mistress to move in next door - went there while it was unoccupied. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104843-revenge-thai-wife-hangs-herself-and-son-2-at-home-of-husbands-mistress-next-door/

 

UPDATE:

 

US tourists arrested in Pattaya for spraying graffiti on a car and walls in Bangkok – VIDEO

By The Thaiger

PHOTOS/VIDEO: Tourist Police Bureau

 

 

Tourist police have arrested two American tourists in Pattaya who have graffitied walls and a pickup truck in Bangkok last week.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104774-video-tourist-police-hunt-three-foreigners-after-property-vandalised-in-bangkok/?do=findComment&comment=14217185

 

Pillion passenger shunted into the wheel arch of a vehicle in front - she dies

 

Caption: Horrific! Stuck in a wheel arch

 

A pillion passenger died and a 16 year old motorcycle rider was severely injured after a pick-up went into the back of them on the Nakorn Sri Thammarat to Surat Thani road yesterday afternoon. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104850-pillion-passenger-shunted-into-the-wheel-arch-of-a-vehicle-in-front-she-dies/

 

Video: Netizens praise technical college students for helping out in road rage incident

  

Picture: Daily News

 

A video posted to Facebook from Mahachai in Samut Sakhon showed a taxi driver and a motorcyclist coming to blows amid heavy traffic yesterday. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104855-video-netizens-praise-technical-college-students-for-helping-out-in-road-rage-incident/

 

MRT’s Blue Line Tha Phra extension to be ready next year

By The Nation

 

File photo: MRT’s Blue Line Tha Phra

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104856-mrt’s-blue-line-tha-phra-extension-to-be-ready-next-year/

 

Two Indian tourists lose cash and a necklace to ladyboy thieves in Pattaya

By The Thaiger

PHOTOS: Pattaya Message

 

 

Pattaya police are hunting ladyboys who allegedly stole money and a necklace from two Indian tourists in Pattaya City this morning. Pattaya Message reports that at 3.30am the Pattaya Police were notified of the incident near a hotel in South Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104857-two-indian-tourists-lose-cash-and-a-necklace-to-ladyboy-thieves-in-pattaya/

 

Video: Driver going the wrong way near tunnel in Chiang Mai - police explain why

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Mobile phone footage from near the Ruam Choke intersection tunnel in Chiang Mai showed a car be driven completely the wrong way on a busy highway. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104858-video-driver-going-the-wrong-way-near-tunnel-in-chiang-mai-police-explain-why/

 

Thanathorn: “We were robbed of victory!”

 

 

Defiant Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has announced that the pro-democracy alliance has not conceded defeat but, he says, they were robbed of their victory as he vowed to work harder outside parliament to prove that to the people.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104859-thanathorn-“we-were-robbed-of-victory”/

Kindergarten child raped by fellow pupils in Ubon school 

 

Caption: Blood flowed from vagina: Kids rape kid

 

Sanook reported on an alarming case from a school in Ubon Ratchathani in Thailand's north east. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104860-kindergarten-child-raped-by-fellow-pupils-in-ubon-school/

 

Single Bhumjaithai MP abstains from voting for Prayut

 

Siripong Angkasakulkiat facebook

 

Bhumjaithai party leader Anutin Charnvirakul said late Wednesday night that he got hiccups when he found out that one of the party’s MPs, Mr. Siripong Angkasakulkiat, representing Si Sa Ket province, abstained from voting in the prime minister’s election in breach of the party’s resolution.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104870-single-bhumjaithai-mp-abstains-from-voting-for-prayut/

 

Chalong Underpass to close one lane nightly as works are completed
By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

One lane through the Chalong Underpass will be closed each night until the minor works have been completed. Photo: Phuket Highways office

 

PHUKET: One lane through the Chalong Underpass will be closed after 9pm every night while workers complete the finishing touches to the construction, Somkiet Yimpong, Project Manager at Phuket office of the Highways Department, has told The Phuket News.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104879-chalong-underpass-to-close-one-lane-nightly-as-works-are-completed/

 

Engineering student, 24, commits suicide

By The Nation

 

 

An engineering student shot himself to death in his house in Bangkok’s Bueng Koom district early on Thursday, police said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104882-engineering-student-24-commits-suicide-in-bangkok/

 

Central Retail steps up plastic bag reduction campaign

By The Phuket News

 

Customers pose with cotton bags in Central Phuket. Photo: Central Phuket

 

PHUKET: Central Retail, led by Central Department Store together with the group’s retail businesses, have stepped up their efforts to reduce plastic bags as of yesterday (June 5) with the start of their ‘Central Love the Earth “Say No to Plastic Bags”’ campaign.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104893-central-retail-steps-up-plastic-bag-reduction-campaign/

 

Thai junta chief vows to "do his best" as civilian PM

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um

 

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha gestures while speaking to media members at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand June 6, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha called on Thursday for national unity and thanked members of parliament after they voted him in as a civilian prime minister, five years after he seized power in a military coup.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104894-thai-junta-chief-vows-to-do-his-best-as-civilian-pm/

 

THAI Smile launches Smile Raining Deal, prices start at Bt900 /person/trip with full service

By The Nation

 

 

THAI Smile Airways has launched a special promotion “Smile Raining Deal, Flying Across Thailand”, encouraging travelers to visit places across Thailand during the rainy season.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104897-thai-smile-launches-smile-raining-deal-prices-start-at-bt900-persontrip-with-full-service/

 

UPDATE:

 

MP's vote abstention surprises Bhumjaithai party leader

By The Nation

 

Bhumjaithai party leader, Anutin Charnvirakul said on Thursday that he was surprised one of his MPs abstained from the vote in a Parliament for the new Prime Minister.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104870-single-bhumjaithai-mp-abstains-from-voting-for-prayut/?do=findComment&comment=14218059

 

Six injured in explosion as fireworks being made

By Tossapol Boonpat 
The Nation

 

 

An explosion that injured six people at the Mae Hong Son temple on Wednesday night may have been caused by flash powder being pounded into fireworks for the Bung Fai festival.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104908-six-injured-in-explosion-as-fireworks-being-made/

 

Crack in coalition as Sam Mitr group demands key economic portfolios

 

 

With the dust is yet to settle over the election of General Prayut Chan-o-cha as the next prime minister, signs of division have emerged in the Palang Pracharat-led coalition as the influential Sam Mitr faction, at the core of the party, has reportedly reasserted their demand for the agriculture, commerce and transport portfolios, already promised to the Democrat and Bhumjaithai parties.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104912-crack-in-coalition-as-sam-mitr-group-demands-key-economic-portfolios/

 

'Celebrities’ face charges over misleading adverts

By Suriya Patathayo 
The Nation

 

 

The police have called 13 Thai public figures to hear charges from June 11-13 linked to their roles in promoting unlicensed and substandard “Magic Skin” care and food supplements.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104916-celebrities’-face-charges-over-misleading-adverts/

 

Video: Police hunt tourists who stole bicycles from Songkhla restaurant - on consecutive nights

 

 

Police are hunting two foreign tourists who stole two bicycles from the same restaurant in Songkhla on consecutive nights.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104936-video-police-hunt-tourists-who-stole-bicycles-from-songkhla-restaurant-on-consecutive-nights/

 

100,000 extra doses of MMR vaccine approved to eliminate measles

By The Nation

 

 

The National Health Security Office (NHSO) board has approved 100,000 additional doses of MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine to help eradicate measles in Thailand in this fiscal year.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104939-100000-extra-doses-of-mmr-vaccine-approved-to-eliminate-measles/

 

Bhumjaithai boss defends MP who abstained in Prayut's PM vote

By Kanittha Theppajorn 
The Nation

 

File photo : Bhumjaithai Siripong Angkasakulkiat

 

Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul on Thursday said he was happy that one of his MPs abstained from voting for Prayut Chan-o-cha as prime minister yesterday.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104940-bhumjaithai-boss-defends-mp-who-abstained-in-prayuts-pm-vote/

 

Just 7kg of seized marijuana suitable for medicine: drugs bosses

By KHANATHIT SRIHIRUNDAJ 
THE NATION

 

 

THE AUTHORITIES say they plan to use seven kilograms of marijuana seized during drug busts to make medicinal oil and use two tonnes for medical research.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104943-just-7kg-of-seized-marijuana-suitable-for-medicine-drugs-bosses/

 

Govt holds responsible fishing workshop in Phuket

By Salinee Prap 
The Nation

 

 

The Fisheries Department joined the Royal Thai Police (RTP) organised a workshop in Phuket's Muang district on Thursday to provide training on fisheries laws to around 200 representatives of piers and fishing associations in Ranong, Phang Nga, Krabi, Phuket, Trang and Satun.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104944-govt-holds-responsible-fishing-workshop-in-phuket/

 

Charge for airport taxi driver in deadly wipeout finally handed to prosecutor

By Terence Chulavachana

 

The scene of the wipeout accident on Oct 30 last year. Photo: Seang Prachachon Kon Phuket / Facebook
 

PHUKET:-- More than seven months after a Phuket airport taxi driver wiped out six vehicles and killed a motorbike rider whilst driving a tourist from the airport during morning rush hour traffic, the lead police investigator has now handed the case over to the Phuket Public Prosecutor’s Office to proceed with legal action.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104945-charge-for-airport-taxi-driver-in-deadly-wipeout-finally-handed-to-prosecutor/

 

Samitivej opens 30-bed Japanese 'hospital'

 

 

Samitivej opened its "Japanese Hospital by Samitivej" this week to mainly serve Japanese customers with 30 beds on Sukhumvit 49, where many Japanese expats live.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1104946-samitivej-opens-30-bed-japanese-hospital/