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Online advance booking of train tickets now requires credit or debit card

 

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From today (Thursday), passengers who make online advance bookings for train tickets, through the D-Ticket website of the State Railway of Thailand or through its application, must pay for the tickets with their credit or debit cards.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286728-online-advance-booking-of-train-tickets-now-requires-credit-or-debit-card/

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British woman, 20, left for dead in hit and run motorbike crash faces being thrown out of Thai hospital despite horrifying injuries after being hit with £40,000 medical bill


Ruby Spry has been crowdfunding for her £40,000 hospital bill after accident 
 

By MADELEINE ROSS

 

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Ruby Spry, 20, was riding a motorbike when a bike travelling in the opposite direction ploughed into her, leaving her with several broken bones and skin lacerations

 

A British traveller has been left with a hospital bill of approximately £40,000 after she was left for dead on the side of the road in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286785-british-woman-20-left-for-dead-in-hit-and-run-motorbike-crash-faces-being-thrown-out-of-thai-hospital-despite-horrifying-injuries-after-being-hit-with-£40000-medical-bill/

 

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Viral Bangla Road Fight Between Foreign Motorbike Racers and Local Thais in Phuket Draw Police Attention
By Goongnang Suksawat

 

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VIDEO: Daynis Skorsez


Patong – A group of foreign motorbike racers were reportedly warned of being a public nuisance before a fight with locals broke out on Bangla Road in Patong.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286787-viral-bangla-road-fight-between-foreign-motorbike-racers-and-local-thais-in-phuket-draw-police-attention/

 

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At Least Five People Dead, Five Seriously Injured after Pickup Trucks Collide in Krabi
By Goongnang Suksawat

 

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PHOTO: Krabi Pitak Pracha Rescue Foundation


Krabi – At least five people have been pronounced dead at the scene while another five sustained serious injuries after two pickup trucks collided in Krabi.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286788-at-least-five-people-dead-five-seriously-injured-after-pickup-trucks-collide-in-krabi/

 

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Krabi Checking Modified Long-Tail Boats After 3 Capsizes In 2 Months
by TNR Staff

 

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AROUND 70-80 modified long-tail boats have been called in for inspection by the Marine Department’s office in Krabi after three of them capsized in two months killing two foreign tourists with many others injured, Matichon newspaper said this afternoon (Feb. 16).

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286792-krabi-checking-modified-long-tail-boats-after-3-capsizes-in-2-months/

 

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Naked man smashes up convenience store before "mumbling in Arabic"

 

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Picture: Thai Rath

 

Muang Ratchaburi police responded at 11.30 last night to a call from a convenience store that a naked man was smashing things and scaring staff and customers.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286800-naked-man-smashes-up-convenience-store-before-mumbling-in-arabic/

 

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Ex-con repays Southern couple's kindness by murdering woman for money - but he's soon caught

 

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Picture: Thai Rath

 

That Rath reported on a case of kindness shown by a couple in Phangnga province, southern Thailand, to a man out of prison after serving time for drugs.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286805-ex-con-repays-southern-couples-kindness-by-murdering-woman-for-money-but-hes-soon-caught/

 

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Beautician goes to the police after eye surgery from "Thailand's #1 ophthalmologist" goes wrong

 

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A 45 year old lady who is a businesswoman with a beauty clinic went to the Consumer Protection Division police with her lawyer "Pong" after surgery to correct the corners of her eyes went awry.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286806-beautician-goes-to-the-police-after-eye-surgery-from-thailands-1-ophthalmologist-goes-wrong/

 

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Rural action groups protest against Anutin and BJT

By Kan Sangthong

 

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A coalition of rural action groups is protesting against the Ministry of Public Health and the Bhumjaithai Party in Bangkok for its decision to transfer a popular doctor from his post in the south.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286808-rural-action-groups-protest-against-anutin-and-bjt/

 

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Monkey Business! Police arrest gang selling Thai monkeys abroad for medical research - 100K each

 

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Daily News Thai Caption: Gang trading in monkeys

Daily News reported on the busting of a gang catching and selling Thai monkeys abroad to be "lab rats" in medical research and for "energy" food.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286810-monkey-business-police-arrest-gang-selling-thai-monkeys-abroad-for-medical-research-100k-each/

 

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Like 'em or not, there's huge money in Durian - winds destroy crops worth 5 MB in east

 

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Daily News Thai Caption: He fell to his knees

 

Like them or hate them, there is huge money in growing what are often referred to as the King of Fruits - the famously smelly and, for some, delicious Durian.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286816-like-em-or-not-theres-huge-money-in-durian-winds-destroy-crops-worth-5-mb-in-east/

 

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How “no-vote censure” can guard against post-election implausibility

By Tulsathit Taptim

 

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It’s the Pheu Thai Party who has done much of the talking in Parliament this week, but it’s Move Forward who stands to benefit the most. The biggest opposition camp, it seems, is lecturing its way out of a possible marriage with the Palang Pracharath Party after the general election.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286819-how-“no-vote-censure”-can-guard-against-post-election-implausibility/

 

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German expat, daughter have lucky escape after fire caused by cigarette butt destroys home in Cha-am
By Online Reporter

 

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A German man and his young daughter had a lucky escape after fire quickly spread through their home in Cha Am on Friday morning.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286821-german-expat-daughter-have-lucky-escape-after-fire-caused-by-cigarette-butt-destroys-home-in-cha-am/

 

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Boy, 4, given emergency surgery at private hospital without an xray, say parents - it wasn't a ruptured appendix after all

 

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Siam Rath said they were contacted by the parents of a child and the four year old boy's grandmother after they were unhappy with the service at a private hospital in Rangsit, north of the Thai capital Bangkok. The hospital was not named.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286823-boy-4-given-emergency-surgery-at-private-hospital-without-an-xray-say-parents-it-wasnt-a-ruptured-appendix-after-all/

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Ferry fares to Samui and Phangan cheaper after diesel price fall/levy cut- effective yesterday

 

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Picture: Siam Rath

 

Siam Rath reported that ferry fares from the mainland to Koh Samui and Koh Phangan in southern Thailand had been reduced after a fall in the price of diesel.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286824-ferry-fares-to-samui-and-phangan-cheaper-after-diesel-price-falllevy-cut-effective-yesterday/

 

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Video: Woman stabs 11 year old child in the neck: "I was just waving my knife around and was angry" she claims

 

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Sanook Thai Caption: You really didn't mean to do it?

 

Sanook and other Thai media reported on a horrendous case of stabbing of a completely innocent child out walking with her mother in the Bang Khen area of northern Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286826-video-woman-stabs-11-year-old-child-in-the-neck-i-was-just-waving-my-knife-around-and-was-angry-she-claims/

 

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Necrotising Fasciitis Awareness – Ed’s Scary Story
By Editor 

 

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A Dutchman living in Nakhon Ratchasima is on a mission to spread awareness about “flesh-eating disease" (necrotising fasciitis) after a mosquito bite became infected, then inflamed and painful, with no signs of healing.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286832-necrotising-fasciitis-awareness-–-ed’s-scary-story/

 

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Security officials defend visit to Islamic school in South

 

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Spokesman of ISOC’s regional forward unit Col Kiatisak Neewong insists that none of the soldiers visiting the Islamic school in Narathiwat was armed.

 

Local security officials have come in defense of last weekend’s visit to an Islamic school, in the strife-torn southern Thai province of Narathiwat, by a group of soldiers accompanied by a Buddhist monk. The visit touched off a strong reaction from some quarters in the local Muslim community.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286854-security-officials-defend-visit-to-islamic-school-in-south/

 

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Two senior Finance Ministry officials under suspicion for insider trading

 

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The directors-general of the Treasury and Comptroller-General departments are suspected of involvement in insider trading, in violation of the code of conduct of the Finance Ministry, in connection with the purchase and sale of the shares in Bangchak Corporation.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286856-two-senior-finance-ministry-officials-under-suspicion-for-insider-trading/

 

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33 lecturers pass off purchased research papers as their own work

 

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Thirty-three lecturers at eight of Thailand’s universities have been found to have submitted research papers bought from some overseas institutes, claiming that they are their own work, Professor Dr. Sirirurg Songsivilai, permanent secretary of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovations, told the media today (Friday).

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1286857-33-lecturers-pass-off-purchased-research-papers-as-their-own-work/

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