THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Wednesday 25 Sep 2019

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Latest drugs' busts: Africans with coke in stomachs and Ecstasy in coffee

 

Picture: INN

 

Thailand's drug suppression police, customs, and tourist and immigration departments have announced the latest arrests of drug smugglers. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125294-latest-drugs-busts-africans-with-coke-in-stomachs-and-ecstasy-in-coffee/

 

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Haze in Yala improves after overnight rain

By The Nation

 

 

Heavy rain overnight in Yala on Tuesday improved the air quality and helped the residents breathe easier after pollution levels rose dramatically in the southern province as a result of the smog caused by forest fires burning in Indonesia since early this month.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125295-haze-in-yala-improves-after-overnight-rain/

 

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Education Ministry to spend Bt200m to repair flood-hit schools

By The Nation

 

 

Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan said his ministry has set aside Bt200 million to rehabilitate schools that have been hit by recent floods.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125297-education-ministry-to-spend-bt200m-to-repair-flood-hit-schools/

 

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Video: Rattle-bucket bus "going sideways" and still picking up passengers

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Netizens were calling on the authorities to act after a series of video clips showed a bus in a disgraceful state travelling between Chaiyaphum and Khon Kaen in Thailand's north east. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125298-video-rattle-bucket-bus-going-sideways-and-still-picking-up-passengers/

 

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House panel agrees 3 herbicides must be banned immediately

 

 

The House Committee to Explore Ways to Control Farm Chemicals has agreed to ban three herbicides, namely paraquat, glyphosate, and chlorpyrifos, with immediate effect.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125299-house-panel-agrees-3-herbicides-must-be-banned-immediately/

 

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Chiang Mai: Traders arrested for pigeon violations at Tha Phae gate

 

Picture: Workpoint News

 

Tessakit (municipal) officials in Chiang Mai arrested nine male and female traders at the Tha Phae gate in Chiang Mai on Tuesday for illegal trading. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125303-chiang-mai-traders-arrested-for-pigeon-violations-at-tha-phae-gate/

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Video: Ten year old in hospital after wrong way motorcyclist flees the scene

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

A ten year old girl on the way to school has ended up in hospital after a motorcyclist going the wrong way down a one way street in Bang Plee hit her on Monday. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125308-video-ten-year-old-in-hospital-after-wrong-way-motorcyclist-flees-the-scene/

 

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Company outing! Chinese firm takes 10,000 employees to Pattaya!

 

Thai caption: Chinese (company) chartered flights to Thailand

 

Executives at a large Chinese firm brought 10,000 employees on a company trip to Pattaya. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125310-company-outing-chinese-firm-takes-10000-employees-to-pattaya/

 

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Family Mart at Suvarnabhumi to shut its doors

By The Nation

 

 

The Family Mart branch at Suvarnabhumi airport will cease business on Friday (September 27), after its operator, Central Family Mart Co. Ltd and the Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT) were unable to reach agreement on an extension of the store’s contract.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125314-family-mart-at-suvarnabhumi-to-shut-its-doors/

 

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Permits for 2 Yi Peng events revoked over airport’s flight safety concerns

By Nisanart Kangwanwong

 

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Chiang Mai’s Muang District Office had scrapped the permits previously granted to organisers of two events that would have released a total of 5,000 flying lanterns during the upcoming Loy Krathong Festival.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125342-permits-for-2-yi-peng-events-revoked-over-airport’s-flight-safety-concerns/

 

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‘Nam Oon’ nabbed while fleeing over death of ‘pretty’ Lunlabelle

By The Nation

 

 

Male model Rachadech “Nam Oon” Wongthabutr has been brought into police custody under a court-issued arrest warrant over three criminal charges in relation to the death last week of a 25-year-old “pretties” model widely referred to by her nickname “Lunlabelle”.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125277-lanlabelle-latest-pretty-boy-ai-un-in-custody-after-charges-issued-by-court/?do=findComment&comment=14605671

 

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Electricity outage to hit Kamala

By The Phuket News

 

The affected area in Kamala tomorrow (Sept 26). Image: PEA / Google Maps

 

PHUKET: The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) has announced that the electricity supply will be temporarily shut off in parts of Kamala tomorrow (Sept 26) as work is carried out on installing new high-voltage cables.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125348-electricity-outage-to-hit-kamala/

 

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Three young female students injured in motorbike fall

By The Phuket News

 

Three students from Banbangneaw Municipal School were injured in a motorbike accident yesterday (Sept 24). Photo: Kusoldham Phuket Foundation

 

PHUKET: Phuket City Police have said they are yet to decide what action – if any – three young teenage female students will face after they were injured in a motorbike accident in Phuket Town yesterday afternoon (Sept 24).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125350-three-young-female-students-injured-in-motorbike-fall/

 

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Chaturon, Wattana and Chusak off the hook after prosecutors drop charges

 

Photo from Weeranan Gunha

 

Public prosecutors have dropped charges of incitement to public unrest against two core members of the Pheu Thai party and the former strategy chief of the defunct Thai Raksa Chart Party.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125351-chaturon-wattana-and-chusak-off-the-hook-after-prosecutors-drop-charges/

 

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Protesters against PM in New York can’t speak Thai or know Thailand’s location on a map

 

 

A small group of people, believed to be Mexicans and Peruvians, rallied in front of a hotel in New York, where Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Thai delegation were staying on Tuesday, to demand free and fair elections and the restoration of democracy in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125352-protesters-against-pm-in-new-york-can’t-speak-thai-or-know-thailand’s-location-on-a-map/

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Air unsafe for ‘sensitive’ people in Bang Phlat, Bangkok

By The Nation

 

 

Data from Pollution Control Department (PCD) monitoring stations in Bangkok on Wednesday showed the level of dangerous tiny particulates have exceeded the official Thai safety limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre of air.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125353-air-unsafe-for-‘sensitive’-people-in-bang-phlat-bangkok/

 

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Company registrations up 1% in first 8 months of 2019

 

   

BANGKOK(NNT) - The trade war between China and the United States has caused a worldwide economic slowdown. It has also decreased the number of registered new businesses. Even so, the average number of new business registrations grew in the first eight months.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125355-company-registrations-up-1-in-first-8-months-of-2019/

 

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Govt opens coordination administration center to help flood victims

 

   

BANGKOK(NNT) - The government has opened a coordination center to help flood victims, using the hotline 1111 to hear people’s problems, before coordinating with relevant agencies to urgently provide them with assistance.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125356-govt-opens-coordination-administration-center-to-help-flood-victims/

 

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Corbyn says priority is preventing no-deal Brexit

 

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during the Labour party annual conference in Brighton, Britain September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Wednesday that it would be appropriate to trigger a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson only when a no-deal Brexit has clearly been averted.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125374-corbyn-says-priority-is-preventing-no-deal-brexit/

 

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First commercial flights from Beijing's new $63 billion airport take off

By Stella Qiu and Ryan Woo

 

A worker walks inside the terminal hall of the Beijing Daxing International Airport under construction in Daxing district, Beijing, China June 19, 2019. Yin Liqin/CNS via REUTERS

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - The first commercial flights from Beijing's new Daxing International airport took off on Wednesday - an airport that cost $63 billion (50.7 billion pounds) to build, is roughly the size of 100 football fields and is expected to become one of the world's busiest.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125376-first-commercial-flights-from-beijings-new-63-billion-airport-take-off/

 

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MoU kicks off move to tidy up telecom cables

By The Nation

 

 

Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) Governor Sompong Preeprem and Pathum Thani Governor Pinit Boonlert signed a MoU today on regulating and tidying up telecommunication cables in all 74 provinces across the nation, starting with the central province of Pathum Thani.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125382-mou-kicks-off-move-to-tidy-up-telecom-cables/

 

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Thai Airways to take funding review for fleet-expansion plans

 

FILE PHOTO: Workers service a Thai Airways Airbus A380-800 aircraft at Bangkok International Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand September 3, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Airways International Pcl <THAI.BK> said on Wednesday it was reviewing its fleet-expansion plans to procure 38 new planes, as it considered funding sources, nearly two years after it announced the order.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125383-thai-airways-to-take-funding-review-for-fleet-expansion-plans/

 

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Thailand slashes growth and export forecasts again, holds key rate

By Orathai Sriring and Kitiphong Thaichareon

 

Thailand's central bank is seen at the Bank of Thailand in Bangkok, Thailand April 26, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD PACKAGE SEARCH BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD JUNE 27 FOR ALL IMAGES

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday while cutting its forecast for 2019 economic growth and predicting exports will shrink this year, hurting domestic demand.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125384-thailand-slashes-growth-and-export-forecasts-again-holds-key-rate/

 

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Mazda3 sales break record for dealer

By The Nation

 

 

Mazda Sales (Thailand) Co Ltd says it received more than 1,100 orders for the new Mazda3 within four days of its launch.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125385-mazda3-sales-break-record-for-dealer/

 

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First of Decha’s cannabis oil ready for hospital research

By The Nation

 

Nation/Korbphuk Phromrekha

 

Sri Prachan Hospital in Suphan Buri on Wednesday (September 25) became the first of 22 authorised hospitals to receive cannabis oil made with a formula developed by traditional-medicine practitioner Decha Siripat.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125393-first-of-decha’s-cannabis-oil-ready-for-hospital-research/

 

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Thais third most travelled, Agoda survey finds

By THE NATION

 

 

Britons lead the way for globetrotting, taking the top spot for the highest number of international countries visited according to the “Well Travelled Survey” commissioned by Agoda, a fast-growing digital platform. The survey showed that the average British traveller has visited 12 countries, followed by Australians who average 10 international destinations.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125394-thais-third-most-travelled-agoda-survey-finds/

 

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Airbnb launches destination drive for Buriram

By THE NATION

 

 

Ahead of World Tourism Day, Airbnb has reaffirmed its commitment to continue promoting Thailand’s emerging destinations on the global stage with its latest community-led destination marketing campaign in Buriram.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125395-airbnb-launches-destination-drive-for-buriram/

 

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Bangkok police nab ‘upskirt’ filmmaker

By THE NATION

 

Photo credit: Line Today

 

A man has been arrested for allegedly making “upskirt clips” after police spent one month observing BTS customers following complaints by many women.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125396-bangkok-police-nab-‘upskirt’-filmmaker/

 

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Phuket start line for 'Tour de Andaman' road cycling event

By The Phuket News

 

A special press conference was held in Bangkok to present “Tour de Andaman 2019”. Photo: PR

 

PHUKET:-- Recognising the rise of “Sports Tourism”, officials are gearing up for next months' “Tour de Andaman 2019” cycling event which includes both tour and race stages.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125397-phuket-start-line-for-tour-de-andaman-road-cycling-event/

 

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Thai Army buys eight attack choppers for Bt12 bn from US

By THE NATION

 

Photo credit: Twitter

 

The US has sold eight light attack helicopters and other military items for Bt12 billion to Thailand, according to a US government statement today.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1125399-thai-army-buys-eight-attack-choppers-for-bt12-bn-from-us/