THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Monday 29 July 2019

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More info: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1113734-monday-curry-night-at-the-kiwi-pub/

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Expat group launches online petition calling for TM.30 to be scrapped

 

 

A group of expats based in Isaan have launched a petition lobbying for reform of Thailand’s Immigration Bureau and also for the abolition of the TM.30 form.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114466-expat-group-launches-online-petition-calling-for-tm30-to-be-scrapped/

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Irrigation chief eases fears of water shortage

By The Nation

 

 

There is no risk of Thailand suffering severe water shortage in 40 days as widely feared, Royal Irrigation Department (RID) chief Thongplew Kongchan affirmed, despite the low levels of usable water at the Chao Phraya River basin's four major dams.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114499-irrigation-chief-eases-fears-of-water-shortage/

 

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Police seek Lao assistance in gold shop robbery case

By Krissameth Loho,
Seksanti Kalayanawisut
The Nation

 

 

Thai police are contacting their Lao counterparts to help locate two men allegedly involved in the July 26 robbery of a gold shop in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen. The two suspects fled to Laos by crossing the natural border, a police source said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114500-khon-kaen-police-seek-lao-assistance-in-gold-shop-robbery-case/

 

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Heist to pay off gambling debt turns deadly

By Ratthachai Orachon
The Nation

 

 

Police in Nakhon Ratchasima claim a 20-year-old student told them he robbed a petrol station on Saturday morning because he needed cash to repay a football gambling debt – but he offered no justification for allegedly shooting dead a Cambodian man working there.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114502-heist-to-pay-off-gambling-debt-turns-deadly/

 

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Eleven Bangkok students in custody over fatal knifing

By Kornkamon Aksorndech
The Nation

 

 

Eleven male students have been arrested in connection with Saturday’s fatal stabbing of another student, age 21, and four teenage girls are being held as witnesses.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114503-eleven-bangkok-students-in-custody-over-fatal-knifing/

 

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Two injured as bus crashes into tree in Lampang

By Pratheep Nanthaparp
The Nation

 

 

Two people were seriously injured when a bus transporting some 40 employees of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) after a field trip to Chanthaburi province, lost control and crashed into a roadside tree in Lampang province early on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114504-two-injured-as-bus-crashes-into-tree-in-lampang/

 

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Kunlavut wins more glory for Thailand in Asian junior badminton 

Kunlavut Vitidsarn and his coach

By The Nation

 

 

World junior No 1 Kunlavut Vitidsarn thrashed local hope Liu Liang of China 21-14 21-13 to become the first Thai player to win a gold at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships in Suzhou, China on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114505-kunlavut-wins-more-glory-for-thailand-in-asian-junior-badminton /

 

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Phuket needs better tourism radar, says ex-minister

By The Nation

 

 

Former tourism and sports minister Weerasuk Kowsurat has offered advice to the Phuket tourism sector on taking the travel trade on the resort island to the next level.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114506-phuket-needs-better-tourism-radar-says-ex-minister/

 

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Thai king exempted from tax on some land properties

 

Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn attends the annual Royal Ploughing Ceremony in central Bangkok,Thailand, May 9, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/Files

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn will be exempt from tax on some of his land property, according to a government announcement.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114507-thai-king-exempted-from-tax-on-some-land-properties/

 

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Spanish tourist dies in plunge from waterfall on Koh Samui

 

 

A male Spanish tourist is believed to have accidentally fallen to his death as he attempted to descend from a waterfall on Samui Island in Thailand’s southern province of Surat Thani on Saturday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114508-spanish-tourist-dies-in-plunge-from-waterfall-on-koh-samui/

 

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Charter Court judge assures everyone of the court’s impartiality

 

 

The Constitutional Court will exercise caution and only when necessary will it hold an individual in contempt, said Constitution Court Judge Panya Udchachon today (Sunday).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114508-spanish-tourist-dies-in-plunge-from-waterfall-on-koh-samui/

 

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Thailand wins 2 golds in Asian mountain bike race in Lebanon

 

 

Vipavee “Petch” Deekaballes, 28, has won a gold medal for Thailand in women’s individual 2.1 km downhill cycle racing with a time of 4.44.125 min, beating Sirapassorn Chardkamnerd, who won silver and Indonesia’s Tiara Andini Prastika who won bronze, in the 25th Asian Mountain Bike Continental Championship in Kfardebian city of Lebanon.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114510-thailand-wins-2-golds-in-asian-mountain-bike-race-in-lebanon/

 

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Woman charged for role in official molesting friend’s underage daughters

By The Phuket News

 

Sakon Podee, 55, is presented the warrant for her arrest. Photo: Thai Muang Police (photo blurred by police)

 

PHUKET: A woman entrusted with caring for her friend’s two daughters has been charged for her role in allowing an official to sexually molest them, Thai Muang Police Chief Col Weerayuth Sitthirattanakul has confirmed.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114511-phang-nga-woman-charged-for-role-in-official-molesting-friend’s-underage-daughters/

 

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Deadline for hospitals to display medicine prices pushed back

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Wichai Pochanakit, Director-General of the Department of Internal Trade, explains the new regulation on May 29. Photo: DIT

 

PHUKET: The deadline for all hospitals to publicly display prices of medicines that passed last Saturday (July 20) has been deferred to Aug 15 at the earliest, The Phuket News has confirmed.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114512-deadline-for-hospitals-to-display-medicine-prices-pushed-back/

 

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Phuket Opinion: Somewhere in between

By The Phuket News

 

Passenger van driver Phuriphat Chankaew and Narumon Jumpatong are questioned by Phuket Tourist Police over at Karon Police Station. Photo: Tourist Police

 

PHUKET: The announcement by new Tourism and Sports Minister Pitak Ratchakitprakan last week that he will start working towards legalising ride-sharing and accommodation-sharing platforms – namely Grab and Airbnb – has got people’s attention.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114513-phuket-opinion-somewhere-in-between/

 

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Durian drives southern economy with new Chinese 700 million baht factory

By The Thaiger

 

 

A Chinese company has invested 700 million baht to establish a durian processing factory in Songkhla’s Thepha district. The establishment of the Kunming-based company in southern Thailand is an indication of the growing love for durian in China and a growing export potential for the ‘love-it-or-hate-it’ fruit.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114515-durian-drives-southern-economy-with-new-chinese-700-million-baht-factory/

 

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Thailand’s food delivery business up 14% in 2019

By Tim Newton

 

 

“Diners are increasingly ordering food online platforms, and eating out at restaurants less.”

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114517-thailand’s-food-delivery-business-up-14-in-2019/

 

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Suspected Islamists kill at least 65 in northeast Nigeria - state TV

 

FILE PHOTO - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari takes the oath of office during his inauguration for a second term in Abuja, Nigeria, May 29, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

 

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 65 people died in an attack by suspected Islamists on a group returning from a funeral in Nigeria's northeastern Borno region, state television reported on Sunday, one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in recent years.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114522-suspected-islamists-kill-at-least-65-in-northeast nigeria -state-tv/

 

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Ratcliffe tapped to replace Coats as U.S. spy chief

By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason

 

FILE PHOTO: Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testifies to the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about "worldwide threats" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 29, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would nominate Representative John Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican who strongly defended him at a recent congressional hearing, to replace Dan Coats as the U.S. spy chief.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114523-ratcliffe-tapped-to-replace-coats-as-us-spy-chief/

 

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Russian opposition leader Navalny may have been poisoned - doctor

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber

 

FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a rally in memory of politician Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated in 2015, in Moscow, Russia February 24, 2019. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hospitalised on Sunday after suffering an acute allergic reaction which one doctor said may have been the result of him being poisoned with an unknown chemical substance.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114524-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-may-have-been-poisoned-doctor/

 

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Cyprus police arrest Briton in rape claim, free Israelis

 

Journalists are seen in front a police bus transfering Israeli tourists, arrested over the alleged rape of a British tourist in the resort town of Ayia Napa, in the Famagusta courthouse in Paralimni, Cyprus July 26, 2019. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

 

ATHENS (Reuters) - Police in Cyprus said they arrested a 19-year-old British woman on Sunday on suspicion of filing a false complaint of gang rape for which a dozen Israeli teens had been detained as suspects.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114525-cyprus police-arrest-briton-in-rape-claim-free-israelis/

 

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Protesters clash in Hong Kong as cycle of violence intensifies

By James Pomfret and Simon Gardner

 

Demonstrators occupy the main road in Central district during a protest against police violence during previous marches, near China's Liaison Office, Hong Kong, China July 28, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

 

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police clashed with thousands of protesters on Sunday, as they sought to defend China's main representative office from crowds seething over what many see as an increasing cycle of violence against them.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114526-protesters-clash-in hong kong as-cycle-of-violence-intensifies/

 

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Dutch Blade Runner star Rutger Hauer dies at 75 - ANP

 

FILE PHOTO: Actor Rutger Hauer of the movie "The Mill and the Cross", poses for the media before the screening of the film during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 23, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

 

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, best known for his role in science fiction classic Blade Runner, died on July 19 after a short illness, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Wednesday, citing his family. He was 75.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114527-dutch-blade-runner-star rutger hauer dies-at-75/

 

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Assuming EU will not budge, Britain ramps up preparations for no-deal Brexit

By Kylie MacLellan

 

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during a speech on domestic priorities at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, Britain July 27, 2019. Lorne Campbell/Pool via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government is working on the assumption that the European Union will not renegotiate its Brexit deal and is ramping up preparations to leave the bloc on Oct. 31 without an agreement, senior ministers said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114533-assuming-eu-will-not-budge-britain-ramps-up-preparations-for-no-deal brexit/

 

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Video: Policeman hospitalized after hitting electrical lines in parachute jump

 

Thai caption: Parachuting accident..... man hits electric cable

 

A policeman is in serious condition after hitting electrical power lines during a training exercise at a camp in Cha-Am on Friday. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114535-video-policeman-hospitalized-after-hitting-electrical-lines-in-parachute-jump/

 

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Bernal claims Colombia's first Tour de France title

By Julien Pretot

 

Cycling - Tour de France - The 128-km Stage 21 from Rambouillet to Paris Champs-Elysees - July 28, 2019 - Team INEOS rider Egan Bernal of Colombia, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, in action in front of the Arc de Triomphe. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

 

PARIS (Reuters) - Egan Bernal became the first Colombian to win the Tour de France when he retained the overall leader's yellow jersey after Sunday's 21st and final stage won by Caleb Ewan of Australia.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114536-bernal-claims-colombias-first-tour-de france title/

 

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Back you go! Thirteen foreigners with no money denied entry to Thailand

 

Picture: Naew Na

 

Naew Na reported that Saturday was a busy day for the Region 2 immigration police at Suvarnabhumi airport.

 

Full story:  https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114537-back-you-go-thirteen-foreigners-with-no-money-denied-entry-to-thailand/

 

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Trump rejects racism charge, throws it at black lawmaker

By Lesley Wroughton

 

FILE PHOTO: House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) arrives at the committee contempt votes on whether to find Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for withholding Census documents on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 12, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday said disparaging comments he made about a prominent African-American lawmaker and his Baltimore district were not racist and, without citing any evidence for his claim, he called the congressman a racist.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114539-trump rejects-racism-charge-throws-it-at-black-lawmaker/

 

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Pigs with "elephant trunks" get the locals' lottery juices going!

 

Thai caption: Weird pigs inspire lottery fever

 

A stream of people were heading for village in Roi-Et in Thailand's north east at the weekend after two strange pigs were born. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1114540-pigs-with-elephant-trunks-get-the-locals-lottery-juices-going/