Fire breaks out at Phuket condo under construction

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Condo under construction caught fire in Wichit earlier today (Aug 10). Photo: Tanyaluk Sakoot
 

PHUKET: Police have yet to determine the cause of a fire that broke out at a condominium under construction behind Central Phuket Floresta shopping mall earlier today (Aug 10), sending clouds of smoke billowing into the sky.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117120-fire-breaks-out-at-phuket-condo-under-construction/

The week that was in Thailand news: The moaner on the bar stool is at home on the internet!

 

 

Years ago when the internet was but a gleam in the eye of a few scientists, before we were bombarded with more information than was good for us, before our lives went irretrievably online....life seemed so much simpler.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117019-the-week-that-was-in-thailand-news-the-moaner-on-the-bar-stool-is-at-home-on-the-internet/

 

 

Sontirat plans renewed push for Napier grass energy plants

By The Nation

 

 

Energy Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong is pushing for the use of Napier grass as a source of energy.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117133-sontirat-plans-renewed-push-for-napier-grass-energy-plants/

 

Bank depositor protection cut to Bt5 million

By The Nation

 

 

Coverage amounts for protection of deposits has been reduced by half, from Bt10 million to Bt5 million per account per financial institution starting August 11, the government’s Deposit Protection Agency (DPA) said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117134-bank-depositor-protection-cut-to-bt5-million/

 

Govt relaxes policy on van service operators switching to microbus

By THE NATION

 

(Photo: thairath.co.th)

 

After talking with van operators in the Bangkok area, Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said that he would revisit the policy requiring public van services to switch from van to bus.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117135-govt-relaxes-policy-on-van-service-operators-switching-to-microbus/

 

AirAsia's long-haul operations get a boost with first A330neo

By THE NATION

 

 

AirAsia has taken delivery of its first A330neo aircraft, to be operated by its long-haul affiliate, AirAsia X Thailand.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117136-airasias-long-haul-operations-get-a-boost-with-first-a330neo/

 

Higher provision for retirement benefits dents CP All’s Q2 profit

By THE NATION

 

 

CP All Pcl has posted a profit of Bt4.795 billion for the second quarter of the year, up 0.3 per cent over the same quarter last year, according to the company’s filing with the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117137-higher-provision-for-retirement-benefits-dents-cp-all’s-q2-profit/

 

Real estate firm Teka takes the plunge in property development

By THE NATION

 

Peerawat Wanitwat, managing director of Teka Real Estate Co Ltd

 

Teka Real Estate is jumping into the property business with plans to develop three low-rise projects in five years. With more than 35 years’ experience in construction, the company has unveiled its five-year plan to develop three low-rise projects worth a combined Bt2.1 billion to Bt3 billion.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117138-real-estate-firm-teka-takes-the-plunge-in-property-development/

 

Chewathai goes ahead with 7 new property projects despite slump in market

By The Nation

 

 

Listed property firm Chewathai Plc has revised down its revenue target from Bt2.8 billion to Bt1.6 billion after demand for residential projects showed a slump in the first half of this year, the company’s managing director Boon Choon Kiet said on Friday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117139-chewathai-goes-ahead-with-7-new-property-projects-despite-slump-in-market/

 

Kiradech faces uphill battle after 73 at the Northern Trust

By The Nation

 

Kiradech Aphibarnrat

 

Jersey City - Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat stumbled to a 2-over 73 in the second round of US$9.75 million THE NORTHERN TRUST on Friday, knowing fully well he requires a good weekend to extend his run in the PGA TOUR’s FedExCup Playoffs.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117140-kiradech-faces-uphill-battle-after-73-at-the-northern-trust/

 

Torrential rains predicted for East, South

By The Nation

 

 

The eastern and southern regions of Thailand will face isolated torrential rains on Saturday and Sunday (August 10-11) due to the intense southwest monsoon across the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand and the monsoon across the upper North to the low-pressure cell over upper Laos, the Thai Meteorological Department said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117143-torrential-rains-predicted-for-east-south/

 

Agriculture deputy minister opens new plant propagation centre

By The Nation

 

 

The Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Praphat Pothisuthon, on Saturday (August 10) attended the opening ceremony of a new plant propagation centre in Suphanburi province.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117144-agriculture-deputy-minister-opens-new-plant-propagation-centre/

 

Sontirat unfazed by five parties leaving ruling coalition

By The Nation

 

 

Energy Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong played down worries about the government’s stability after five small parties left the ruling coalition and formed their own independent opposition. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117145-sontirat-unfazed-by-five-parties-leaving-ruling-coalition/

 

Yemen's pro-government coalition fractures as separatists grab control in Aden

By Mohammed Mukhashef

 

Members of UAE-backed southern Yemeni separatist forces stand atop a tank during clashes with government forces in Aden, Yemen August 10, 2019. REUTERS/Fawaz Salman

 

ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen's southern separatists have taken effective control of Aden, seat of the internationally recognised government, fracturing the Saudi-led coalition which is trying to break the grip of the Iran-aligned Houthi movement on the country.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117146-yemens-pro-government-coalition-fractures-as-separatists-grab-control-in-aden/

 

Norway mosque shooter may have killed family member first - police

By Lefteris Karagiannopoulos and Terje Solsvik

 

Emergency crews are seen near a stretcher after a shooting in al-Noor Islamic center mosque, near Oslo, Norway August 10, 2019. NTB Scanpix/Terje Pedersen via REUTERS

 

OSLO (Reuters) - The man suspected of a shooting at a mosque in Norway may also have killed a relative before launching the attack, police said late on Saturday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117147-norway-mosque-shooter-may-have-killed-family-member-first-police/

 

Tanzania tanker blast kills dozens as crowd siphons fuel

By Nuzulack Dausen and Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala

 

Fuel tankers queue on a road as smoke billows into air, following an explosion of a fuel tanker in Morogoro, Tanzania August 10, 2019. Channel Ten/Reuters TV via REUTERS

 

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A fuel tanker exploded in eastern Tanzania on Saturday killing at least 60 people, authorities said, as flames ripped through a crowd that had gathered to siphon petrol from it.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117148-tanzania-tanker-blast-kills-dozens-as-crowd-siphons-fuel/

 

Thousands defy crackdown in Moscow's biggest protest for years

By Maria Tsvetkova and Gleb Stolyarov

 

People attend a rally to demand authorities allow opposition candidates to run in the upcoming local election in Moscow, Russia August 10, 2019. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country's biggest political protest for eight years on Saturday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow's city legislature.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117149-thousands-defy-crackdown-in-moscows-biggest-protest-for-years/

 

Five-star City make statement, Kane seals late Spurs win

 

 

Soccer Football - Premier League - West Ham United v Manchester City - London Stadium, London, Britain - August 10, 2019 Manchester City's Raheem Sterling scores their fifth goal to complete his hat-trick Action Images via Reuters/John Sibley

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Champions Manchester City delivered an emphatic statement of intent with a 5-0 thrashing of West Ham United as they began their bid for a hat-trick of Premier League title on Saturday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117152-five-star-city-make-statement-kane-seals-late-spurs-win/

 

MotoGP leader Marquez takes record 59th pole in Austria

 

 

MotoGP - Czech Republic Grand Prix - Automotodrom Brno, Brno, Czech Republic - August 4, 2019 Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez celebrates on the podium after winning the MotoGP race REUTERS/David W Cerny

 

(Reuters) - Honda's world champion Marc Marquez celebrated a record 59th MotoGP pole position at the Austrian Grand Prix on Saturday to overtake retired Australian Mick Doohan in the all-time lists.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117153-motogp-leader-marquez-takes-record-59th-pole-in-austria/

 

Car bomb explodes in Libya's Benghazi, killing three U.N. staff

Ayman al-Warfalli

 

A security official inspects the site where a car bomb exploded in Benghazi, Libya August 10, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer

 

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A car bomb explosion in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed three U.N. staff members and two other mission members on Saturday, the United Nations said.The attack came as the United Nations was brokering a truce in the capital Tripoli, where the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) force launched a surprise attack in April, part of the chaos in Libya since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117155-car-bomb-explodes-in-libyas-benghazi-killing-three-un-staff/

 

EU's Juncker tells Britain: no-deal Brexit will hurt you the most

 

 

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne (not pictured) attend a joint news conference at the House of the Estates during the visit to the College of Commissioners of the European Commission in Helsinki, Finland, July 5, 2019. Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva via REUTERS/File Photo

 

VIENNA (Reuters) - A no-deal Brexit would hurt Britain more than the rest of Europe no matter how much Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government pretends otherwise, outgoing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in remarks published on Saturday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117156-eus-juncker-tells-britain-no-deal-brexit-will-hurt-you-the-most/

 

Disgraced money manager Jeffrey Epstein dead in apparent suicide

By Sarah N. Lynch and Karen Freifeld

 

Hospital staff is seen near a medical examiner car outside New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital, where Jeffrey Epstein's body was transported before being moved to a medical examiner's office in Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., August 10, 2019. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday after an apparent suicide in the New York jail cell where he was being held without bail on sex-trafficking charges, and a source said he was not on suicide watch at the time of his death.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117119-disgraced-us-financier-jeffrey-epstein-dies-by-suicide-media-reports/page/6/?tab=comments#comment-14450729

 

Deputy Agriculture Minister promises to ban 3 herbicides this year

 

 

Deputy Agriculture Minister Manunya Thaiseth has given an assurance that three hazardous herbicides, which are widely used in Thailand and are strongly opposed consumer and civic groups, will be banned within this year.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117159-deputy-agriculture-minister-promises-to-ban-3-herbicides-this-year/

 

Transport Ministry to build a bike lane linking Kasetsart U with Red Line

 

 

(Photo) Image captured from video presentation by Department of Highways

 

The Transport Ministry plans to build a 4km bicycle lane from Kasetsart University to Ratchayothin Road intersection to provide another means for people in the area to travel to the Red Line electric train service.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117162-transport-ministry-to-build-a-bike-lane-linking-kasetsart-u-with-red-line/

 

Embarrassing! Electronic Monitoring bracelets can be removed by soap

 

 

Image: Daily News

 

Thai officials were left red faced yesterday when it was discovered that the much vaunted EM (Electronic Monitoring) devices for drink drivers and other criminals could simple be removed with soap or a bit of washing up liquid. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117163-embarrassing-electronic-monitoring-bracelets-can-be-removed-by-soap/

 

Scotland's Carly Booth six shots adrift of Scottish Open leader Moriya Jutanugarn

 

 

Carly Booth posted a bogey-free 66 on day three at The Renaissance Club

 

Scotland's Carly Booth surged to a share of fifth place as Thailand's Moriya Jutanugarn claimed a one-shot lead at the Ladies Scottish Open.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1117170-scotlands-carly-booth-six-shots-adrift-of-scottish-open-leader-moriya-jutanugarn/

 

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