Chonburi village evicts 48 HIV patients
By Coconuts Bangkok


131 ballots vote to evict HIV patients. Photo: The Glory Hut Foundation

CHONBURI: -- Lang Nern villagers of Chonburi's Banglamung district have voted to remove 48 HIV patients at a local charity because they were thought to be hurting land values and business.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784571-thai-village-evicts-48-hiv-patients/

More measures to ease traffic jams due soon



BANGKOK: -- In another effort to ease traffic jams in the capital due to construction of several electric train projects, the Transport Ministry will announce several measures that will see relocation of passenger drop-off areas on major roads and redirecting traffic on some roads to ease traffic problems.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784588-more-measures-to-ease-traffic-jams-in-bangkok-due-soon/

Stressed mother buries newborn alive
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- A 27-year-old mother who showed signs of post-partum depression admitted this morning to killing her baby by burying it alive in a shallow dirt hole by the Kwae Noi river in Phitsanulok province.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784591-stressed-thai-mother-buries-newborn-alive/

Do you know the woman stealing phones on the beaches of Samui?

KOH SAMUI: -- The Samui Times has had reports that there is a Thai woman who sells bikinis on the beach, but also does a neat sideline stealing phones and iPads from people who have gone swimming and left their valuables on the beach – wrapped in their towel more often than not.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784592-do-you-know-the-woman-stealing-phones-on-the-beaches-of-samui/

Special Needs School Samui Christmas Day



KOH SAMUI: -- This year, Nadimos Lebanese Restaurant is offering to host a Christmas party for the 15 kids from The Special Needs Schol of Samui,

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784593-special-needs-school-samui-christmas-day/

More than 100 people killed in Taliban attack on school in north-west Pakistan, 80 of them children, officials say /BBC

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Pakistan Taliban 'kill 100' in assault on Peshawar school

(BBC) At least 100 people, 80 of them children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistani officials say.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784596-taliban-kill-100-at-pakistan-school/

Failed 21/7 London bombers lose European court appeal

(BBC) Four men jailed over a failed plot to bomb the London transport network on 21 July 2005 have lost an appeal at the European Court of Human Rights.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784598-failed-217-london-bombers-lose-european-court-appeal/

Abbott: Why was Sydney siege gunman not on terror list?

(BBC) Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has questioned why the gunman in the Sydney cafe siege was not on the country's terror watch list.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784600-sydney-gunman-was-not-on-watch-list/

UPDATE:

Taliban Kill Scores in Attack on Pakistan Military School
By SALMAN MASOOD

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In one of Pakistan’s bloodiest attacks in recent years, scores of people were killed after a group of Taliban gunmen stormed a school in northwestern Pakistan, officials and rescue workers said on Tuesday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784596-taliban-kill-100-at-pakistan-school/#entry8811195

Problematic Red Line project way behind schedule
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- If you were counting the days until you could speed between Thammasat’s Rangsit campus and downtown on metro rail, you’ll have to add a few hundred more to go.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784611-bangkok-problematic-red-line-project-way-behind-schedule/

Prayut orders Tourism Ministry to hold tourism photo contest

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha Tuesday instructed the Tourism and Sports Ministry to organise tourism photo contest to promote tourism, Deputy Government Spokesman Maj Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd said.

He said the prime minister wanted the contest to be held in various categories, such as landscape and flowers.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Prayut-orders-Tourism-Ministry-to-hold-tourism-pho-30249964.html


-- The Nation 2014-12-16

PONGPAT'S SCANDALS
Hundreds of police reassigned

BANGKOK: -- Over 260 Thai police officers serving in the same unit as a disgraced former commander would be reassigned, police said Tuesday.

The 262 officers being transferred were part of the "network" of disgraced former Central Investigation Bureau chief Pongpat Chayapan, police chief Somyot Poompanmoung told reporters.

The reshuffle is the largest of its kind and is to include officers ranging from patrolmen to deputy commanders, he said. General Pongpat was arrested along with several senior officers in late November for charges of corruption, extortion and lese-majeste. Over Bt1 billion, in cash and other valuables were found in his home during a police search.

Local media reported that the lese-majeste charges were brought because Pongpat would claim he was acting on royal behalf to intimidate business connections. Pongpat is related to the wife of the crown prince, Sirasmi, who since the scandal came to light has renounced her royal titles and public role.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Hundreds-of-police-reassigned-30249949.html

-- The Nation 2014-12-16

UPDATE:

Pak Taliban gunmen attack Peshawar school, 104 killed
News Desk
Dawn

Five hundred students and teachers were believed to be inside the school at the time of the attack

(ANN) At least 104 -- majority of them students -- have been killed after militants from TPP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan) attacked the military-run Army Public School in Peshawar's Warsak road.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784596-taliban-kill-100-at-pakistan-school/#entry8811285

Water services in some areas of Sukhumvit Rd. will be cut / disrupted late tonight until 5 am. this Wed., Metropolitan Waterworks Authority said /The Nation

Government wants lese majeste offenders to be sent home to face justice

BANGKOK: -- The government will try to explain to foreign governments that offenders of the lese majeste law are a security threat to Thailand as several of them tend to spread rumours in the social media in a way which cause disunity in the country, said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha today (Tuesday).

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/784641-government-wants-lese-majeste-offenders-to-be-sent-home-to-face-justice/

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