THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Saturday 25 March 2023

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Intoxicated Danish Man in Pattaya Allegedly Refuses to Pay for Kebabs

 

A foreign man believed to be intoxicated reportedly assaulted a female kebab shop owner in Pattaya. The victim said her attacker refused to pay for the food he had ordered.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290201-intoxicated-danish-man-in-pattaya-allegedly-refuses-to-pay-for-kebabs/

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Thai and Chinese Women Seriously Injured in Drive-by Shooting

 

 

Two women were shot, one in the cheek, after leaving a pub in Pattaya last night in a brutal drive-by shooting. Police believed the shooter shot the wrong people.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290198-thai-and-chinese-women-seriously-injured-in-drive-by-shooting/

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Italian businessman killed as motorcycle taxi collides with forklift

 

 

An Italian man tragically died this morning after he was impaled by a forklift in Samut Prakan province, just south of Bangkok in central Thailand, near the factory where he worked as sales manager. He was riding a motorbike taxi when the incident happened.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290212-italian-businessman-killed-as-motorcycle-taxi-collides-with-forklift/

 

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Prayut Warns Pheu Thai Might ‘Slide Off Course’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Photo: Matichon

 

CARETAKER PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha today (Mar.24) ironically cautioned one might probably “slide off course” during an ongoing campaign toward the May 14 general election.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290213-prayut-warns-pheu-thai-might-‘slide-off-course’/

 

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Amnesty Urges Thai Govt To Not Deport Myanmar People After Many Quizzed
by TNR Staff 

 

The commercial complex in Mae Sot where a large number of Myanmar people live was raided by Thai authorities. Photo: Matichon

 

FOLLOWING the interrogation of around a hundred Myanmar people found residing in buildings at a commercial complex in Mae Sot Amnesty International today (Mar. 24) urged the Thai government to not deport them as they face imprisonment, torture or execution on the orders of the Myanmar junta, Matichon newspaper said.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290214-amnesty-urges-thai-govt-to-not-deport-myanmar-people-after-many-quizzed/

 

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Naruemon Declines To Run As Palang Pracharath Party-Listed Candidate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters

 

Palang Pracharath treasurer Naruemon Pinyosinwat, left in above photo, and the party’s secretary-general Santi Prompat, right. Photo: Matichon

 

PALANG PRACHARATH treasurer Naruemon Pinyosinwat today (Mar.24) staged a quiet protest by declining to contest the May 14 general election in party-listed mode.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290215-naruemon-declines-to-run-as-palang-pracharath-party-listed-candidate/

 

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Three new monkeypox cases found in Thailand
 

This 2003 electron microscope image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

Three new monkeypox cases were found in Thailand between March 13th and 23rd, bringing the number of cases to 18 since last year.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290216-three-new-monkeypox-cases-found-in-thailand/

 

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Trailer Truck Plunges from Elevated Road in Bangkok, Driver Killed
By Tanakorn Panyadee

 

 

Bangkok — A trailer truck on Thursday accidentally plunged from an elevated road in Bangkok and crushed the driver to his death.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290220-trailer-truck-plunges-from-elevated-road-in-bangkok-driver-killed/

 

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10 trains will be added to North and Northeast routes for Songkran, railway agency says

 

 

Ten more trains will be added on the northern and northeastern routes for Bangkok residents visiting and returning from their hometowns during the Songkran festival, the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) said on Friday.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290224-10-trains-will-be-added-to-north-and-northeast-routes-for-songkran-railway-agency-says/

 

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Ex-PM Thaksin vows to return to Thailand post-election, face jail time
By Chananthorn Kamjan, KYODO NEWS

 

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gives an interview at a Tokyo hotel on March 24, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

 

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Friday he is ready to return and serve his prison term in Thailand provided he is allowed to spend the remainder of his life with his family, regardless of the results of an upcoming general election.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290225-ex-pm-thaksin-vows-to-return-to-thailand-post-election-face-jail-time/

 

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Tourists on Samui Island Give Thumbs Down Over Contaminated Oil in Sea Water
By Goongnang Suksawat

 

PHOTO: MGR online

Samui Island, Surat Thani – Foreign tourists on Samui Island were disappointed and gave a big thumbs down after they found contaminated oil with a bad smell in the sea water.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290229-tourists-on-samui-island-give-thumbs-down-over-contaminated-oil-in-sea-water/

 

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Baraku seized from Restaurant Near Hotel in Thalang
By Goongnang Suksawat

 

 

Thalang – A restaurant manager was arrested with Baraku seized near a hotel in Thalang.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290231-baraku-seized-from-restaurant-near-hotel-in-thalang/

 

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Fear-mongering, fake news and disinformation being stoked in China against visiting Thailand
by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

A negative and ignorant campaign has gone viral on Chinese social media sites this week warning off people holidaying or travelling to Thailand by raising fears of kidnapping, extortion and even outlandish claims raising proven fake news reports about organ harvesting at the hands of criminal gangs. Counter efforts undertaken by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports in Bangkok led to the Director-general of the Department of Tourism Mr Chaturon Phakdeewanich (right) reaching out to Chinese officials and a statement being issued by the Thai Embassy in Beijing on the blogging site Weibo.

Thai officials through the Royal Thai Embassy in Beijing were forced this week to issue a reassurance to potential Chinese visitors to the country regarding their safety and security following a damaging viral campaign which reached millions of online readers

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290232-fear-mongering-fake-news-and-disinformation-being-stoked-in-china-against-visiting-thailand/

 

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A missing radioactive cylinder, concealed information, and the public fallout

 

 

Most Thais are trying to piece together patchy information about the Cesium-137 cylinder that went missing from a plant in Prachin Buri and the possible impacts after radiation was detected in the furnace of a recycling plant nearby.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290234-a-missing-radioactive-cylinder-concealed-information-and-the-public-fallout/

 

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Thailand is safe for Chinese travellers, embassy says amid online trafficking claims
 

Embassy offers assurance to ‘clarify misconceptions’ about the country being a travel risk

Comments follow Chinese vlogger’s warning about the sudden popularity online of videos of restaurants with attractive male waiters.

 

by Cyril Ip

 

Thailand has sought to assure Chinese travellers that it is safe to visit. Photo: Xinhua

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290232-fear-mongering-fake-news-and-disinformation-being-stoked-in-china-against-visiting-thailand/?do=findComment&comment=17976242

 

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Robust Phuket tourism numbers in Q4 2022 and high winter season to lead to recovery by year-end 2023
By Kanchan Nath
TD Editor
 

Thailand’s leading resort island of Phuket’s post-pandemic tourism recovery has been headlined by a surge in Russian travellers in the high season. But the backstory is how a spike in regional visitors from India, Malaysia, and Singapore set the stage in Q4 of last year that pushed hotels and the service sector back into action.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290242-robust-phuket-tourism-numbers-in-q4-2022-and-high-winter-season-to-lead-to-recovery-by-year-end-2023/

 

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Airbnb sees strong international travel rebound in Thailand
By TTG Asia

 

Bangkok, pictured, is the top destination of choice for global travellers on Airbnb

 

Airbnb’s latest data revealed that bookings in Thailand on Airbnb more than doubled last year from 2020, with Bangkok emerging as the top destination of choice for global travellers on Airbnb.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290243-airbnb-sees-strong-international-travel-rebound-in-thailand/

 

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THAI cancels flights to Frankfurt and Munich from 26 to 27 March
By TTR WEEKLY 

 

 

THAI Airways International cancels flights to Frankfurt and Munich from 26 to 27 March 2023 due to the mass transit labour strikes in Germany on 27 March.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290244-thai-cancels-flights-to-frankfurt-and-munich-from-26-to-27-march/

 

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Foreigner Filmed Stealing Money From Exchange Booth in Pattaya
by TNR Staff 

 

THE OWNER of a money exchange booth in Pattaya filed a police report about a foreign man stealing a coin box early yesterday morning with the theft captured in surveillance camera clips, Naewna newspaper said this morning (Mar. 25).

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290247-foreigner-filmed-stealing-money-from-exchange-booth-in-pattaya/

 

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PM Prayut Pleased with Thailand's Rank in World Happiness Report 2023

 

 

Prime Minister and Defense Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha was pleased with Thailand's rank in the World Happiness Report 2023, said Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister and Acting Government Spokesperson Anucha Burapachaisri.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290248-pm-prayut-pleased-with-thailands-rank-in-world-happiness-report-2023/

 

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Thailand will feature the world’s largest solar rooftop
by Marta Pacheco

 

 

The work is is currently under construction in the Falken Tyre manufacturing facility, in Thailand, and it will feature the largest rooftop installation worldwide: a solar panel the size of 18 football pitches.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290251-thailand-will-feature-the-world’s-largest-solar-rooftop/

 

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Advance voting registration begins today and lasts until April 9th

 

 

Eligible voters in Thailand, who are unable to vote on election day on May 14th, can register for advance voting in their constituencies, in other constituencies or abroad from today until April 9th, according to the Election Commission (EC).

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290256-advance-voting-registration-begins-today-and-lasts-until-april-9th/

 

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30 students at a school near Kabin Buri’s foundry fall ill

 

 

About 30 students at a school within three kilometres of the foundry where a metallic cylinder, containing caesium-137, is thought to have been melted down, have fallen sick, most of them have with a high fever, cough and runny nose, as the radiation scare intensifies.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1290257-30-students-at-a-school-near-kabin-buri’s-foundry-fall-ill/

 

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Thailand Live Monday 27 March 2023
https://aseannow.com/topic/1290342-thailand-live-monday-27-march-2023/