Thailand Live Wednesday 21 Oct 2015

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Fire at Khlong Thom market



BANGKOK: -- A night fire broke out shortly after midnight last night at Khlong Thom, Bangkok's largest and bustling market for electrical appliances and mobile phones from China, gutted two blocks of the row-shop stalls.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864534-fire-at-khlong-thom-market-bangkok/

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Police to hunt for perpetrators in the death of district militia



TAK BAI: -- Tak Bai district police began probing into the bomb explosion that killed a well-known militia yesterday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864535-thai-police-to-hunt-for-perpetrators-in-the-death-of-district-militia/

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Phuket Marine Office to play hard ball with foreign yachts
Phuket Gazette


Foreign-vessels must check in at the Phuket Yacht Control Center at Chalong Pier. Photo: Gazette file

PHUKET: -- The Phuket Marine Office has vowed to toughen its stance on foreign yachts needing to install Automatic Identification System (AIS) devices and report to the Phuket Yacht Control Center when arriving and departing the region.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864537-phuket-marine-office-to-play-hard-ball-with-foreign-yachts/

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Dolphins not connected to Taiji, says Phuket GM
Phuket Gazette


Trainers work with the new dolphins at the unopened Nemo Dolphinarium in Phuket. Photo: Dolphins Bay Phuket

PHUKET: -- The Nemo Dolphinarium dolphins, which recently arrived at the controversial facility on Phuket, were not poached from the wild and have no connection to the annual dolphin slaughter at Japan’s Taiji Cove, Dolphins Bay Phuket General Manager Supreecha Suthamanondh told the Phuket Gazette yesterday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864539-dolphins-not-connected-to-taiji-says-phuket-gm/

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Thailand's roads second deadliest in the world: World Health Organization
By Coconuts Bangkok


A Romsai rescue worker inspects a car crash on the side of a highway on the fifth night of Songkran 2015. The drunk driver was speeding and crashed his car head on into a light pole. Photo: Alexander Hotz

BANGKOK: -- Thailand has earned the dubious distinction as the country with the second most dangerous roads in the world.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864540-thailands-roads-second-deadliest-in-the-world-world-health-organization/

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Flying steel pipe pierces Toyota like a pig on a spit (PHOTOS)
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- A steel square pipe flew off a pickup truck and careened through the rear windshield of a Toyota all the way to its dashboard console on a highway in Bangkok’s Bang Khun Thian on Saturday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864541-flying-steel-pipe-pierces-toyota-like-a-pig-on-a-spit/

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Sondhi acquitted of insulting Thaksin



BANGKOK: -- The Supreme Court today acquitted Sondhi Limthongkul of insulting former premier Thaksin Shinawatra in an address to the yellow-shirt protesters at a political rally in 2006.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864543-sondhi-acquitted-of-insulting-thaksin/

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Texas teen arrested for homemade clock to move to Qatar

DALLAS (AP) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy who was arrested after a homemade clock he brought to school was mistaken for a possible bomb will be moving with his family to the Middle East so he can attend school there, his family said Tuesday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864550-texas-teen-arrested-for-homemade-clock-to-move-to-qatar/

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First Chapter of ‘Cyber War’ to Begin Thursday
By Sasiwan Mokkhasen
Staff Reporter


Speaking at Government House yesterday, junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha said taking control of the internet by implementing a single gateway system was necessary to end defamation of his government online.

BANGKOK — Online activists have announced they will launch attacks against the government beginning Thursday after the prime minister said the project to route all internet traffic through a single point of control is still alive.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864552-first-chapter-of-cyber-war-to-begin-thursday/

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More shootings and knife attacks add to Palestinian – Israeli bloodshed



HEBRON: -- Tuesday night in Hebron and two more Palestinians were shot dead after a stabbing attack that wounded an Israeli soldier .

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864553-more-shootings-and-knife-attacks-add-to-palestinian-israeli-bloodshed/

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French travellers cut road and rail links near Grenoble to demand prison release for funeral



MOIRAN: -- A group of around 30 travellers raided a scrapyard and blocked a road in the French alps in Moirans near Grenoble on Tuesday, setting the wrecks alight, to demand the authorities release a 17-year-old and his cousin from a nearby prison to attend the funeral of his brother.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864554-french-travellers-cut-road-and-rail-links-near-grenoble-to-demand-prison-release-for-funeral/

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UK gives a royal welcome to China's President Xi



LONDON: -- Nothing but the best for President Xi Jinping – the Chinese leader was treated to an extravagant banquet laid on by Queen Elizabeth in Buckingham Palace at the end of his first full day in the UK.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864556-uk-gives-a-royal-welcome-to-chinas-president-xi/

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Toyota Recalls 6.5 Million Vehicles for Power Window Switch
Masatsugu Horie

- Inconsistent greasing may cause switch to short circuit

- Toyota unaware of crashes caused by fault, has one burn report

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864578-toyota-recalls-65-million-vehicles-for-power-window-switch/

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Suit settled over car used in 'Back to the Future' films
By DAVID PORTER

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — In time for "Back to the Future" day, the widow of the automaker whose famous car traveled through time in the 1985 movie and its sequels has settled a lawsuit over the use of his name.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864580-suit-settled-over-car-used-in-back-to-the-future-films/

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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has held talks with Russia's President Putin on an unannounced visit to Moscow /BBC

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syrian TV: President Assad met with Russian leader in Moscow, in 1st trip abroad since 2011

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Syrian TV: President Assad meets Putin in Moscow

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media says President Bashar Assad has met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow, in the first known trip abroad for the embattled leader since war broke out in his country in 2011.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864586-syrian-tv-president-assad-meets-putin-in-moscow/

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40 deaths per day: New study says Thailand’s roads 2nd most dangerous in the world
By Kyle Lawrence Mullin

Thailand’s roads remain among the most dangerous in the world according to a World Health Organization report, which found that the Southeast Asian nation is second only to war-torn Libya in terms of per capita road fatalities.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864540-thailands-roads-second-deadliest-in-the-world-world-health-organization/#entry9988446

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Thailand plans new unit to curb online dissent after 150k sign petition opposing single gateway
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- efence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said the military is planning to form a new unit to counter online dissent.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864552-first-chapter-of-cyber-war-to-begin-thursday/#entry9988463

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Surin Public Relations Department issues travel safety measures

BANGKOK, 21 October 2015 (NNT) - The Public Relations Department of Surin Province has issued a public service announcement, urging commuters traveling during the end of the Buddhist lent to take short breaks and ensure that their vehicles have adequate airflow.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864594-surin-public-relations-department-issues-travel-safety-measures/

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Supreme Court says Thaksin has superstitious behaviors
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra really behaved in a way that indicated he believes in superstition so Sondhi Limthongkul, Manager Group owner, was not wrong to criticise his belief.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864543-sondhi-acquitted-of-insulting-thaksin/#entry9988597

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BRUSSELS (AP) - EU Commission calls a Brussels summit on Sunday on migrants with several EU, Balkan leaders.

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Thaivisa Video News - 21st October 2015



The Thaivisa Weekday News Bulletin brings you a daily dose of the biggest news stories from Thailand and around the world.

Today:


INSTANT BEER WARNING
CAT GATEWAY PLAN
ANGRY MOB RALLY
RUSSIANS IN PHUKET DRUG BUST


view the bulletin here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864597-thaivisa-video-news-21st-october-2015/

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Pessimism grows among Thai CEOs
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Nearly half of listed companies' leaders believed that the economic condition would deteriorate in the latter half of this year, according to a survey by the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864603-pessimism-grows-among-thai-ceos/

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BRUSSELS (AP) - EU says Starbucks, FIAT profited from illegal tax breaks, have to pay back millions of euros.

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PM says no more rubber subsidies or price intervention



BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has ruled out subsidizing rubber planters as a means to help them in the wake of low rubber price reasoning that this may risk violating the rules set by the World Trade Organisation.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864605-pm-prayut-says-no-more-rubber-subsidies-or-price-intervention/

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Well-known fortune teller, two others brought to military court
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Police Wednesday afternoon led a well-known fortune teller and two other suspects to the military court to seek an approval for the detention pending prosecution.

One of the three suspects in the lese majeste charges is Suriyan Sujaritpolwong, better known as Mor Yong.

The two other suspects are Pol Maj Prakrom Warunprapha and Jirawong Watanathewasilp.

They were brought to the court where an army of reporters were waiting.

The court approved the first detention period of 12 days during an investigation before they will be formally charged in court.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Well-known-fortune-teller-two-others-brought-to-mi-30271323.html


-- The Nation 2015-10-21

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Police admit difficulty of arresting remaining bombing suspects



BANGKOK: -- Police have admitted that the remaining suspects in the two bombing incidents in Bangkok may not be arrested because they are mostly foreigners and they do not have families in Thailand.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864608-thai-police-admit-difficulty-of-arresting-remaining-bombing-suspects/

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Man arrested after police find huge haul of yaba stashed in his car

Image: Dailynews.co.th

CHUMPHON : A man was arrested on Tuesday after police found 486,000 yaba pills hidden inside a secret compartment in his car.

Read more: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864617-man-arrested-after-police-find-huge-haul-of-yaba-stashed-in-his-car/

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to continue:

Thailand Live Thursday 22 Oct 2015

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864703-thailand-live-thursday-22-oct-2015/