Thailand Live Saturday 19 Mar 2016

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Visa overstayers get a watery warning from Immigration

Chutharat Plerin

PHUKET: Water bottles with labels displaying the newly implemented overstay rules will be handed out to attendees at a public meeting with Immigration Commissioner Natthorn Phrosunthorn next week.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904229-visa-overstayers-get-a-watery-warning-from-immigration/

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Kids don’t do education visa runs, says Phuket Immigration

The Phuket News

A woman carries her child up the stairs to the Phuket Immigration Office in Phuket Town. Photo: Tanyaluck Sakoot

PHUKET: Following concerns earlier this week that children might yet be included in the blacklist ban on re-entry on all “aliens” who overstay in the country, an officer at Phuket Immigration has urged parents not to confuse the issue with whether or not children were required to leave the country specifically to obtain “education visas” in order to stay in the country and attend schools.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904232-kids-dont-do-education-visa-runs-says-phuket-immigration/

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Commercial registrations will exceed 60,000 this year

BANGKOK: The Department of Business Development (DBD) remains confident that business registration this year will meet its speculated target of 60,000-65,000 new firms despite of the economic slowdown.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904235-commercial-registrations-will-exceed-60000-this-year/?p=10546504

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Lottery vendors may in future have to apply for licences, says GLO spokesman

BANGKOK: Lottery vendors will have to apply for official permits same as motorists to have driving licences as another effort by the government to prevent overpricing.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904237-lottery-vendors-may-in-future-have-to-apply-for-licences-says-glo-spokesman/

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TDRI forecast 2.8% growth this year

BANGKOK: Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) forecast the country's economic growth this year at 2.8%.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904238-tdri-forecast-28-growth-this-year/

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Indonesia’s Bulukumba coral reefs threatened with extinction

JAKARTA: Coral reefs in the waters off Bulukumba, South Sulawesi, are at great risk of dying off as more than half have been affected by coral bleaching caused by rising seawater temperatures, The Jakarta Post reported.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904243-indonesias-bulukumba-coral-reefs-threatened-with-extinction/?p=10546640

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Malaysia to announce heat emergency if temperature exceeds 40C for more than 7 days

KUALA LUMPUR: The government will announce a heat wave emergency if the temperature of an area in the country exceeds 40 degrees celsius for more than seven days, New Straits Times reported.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904244-malaysia-to-announce-heat-emergency-if-temperature-exceeds-40c-for-more-than-7-days/?p=10546662

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NLD leadership irked by media’s Htin Kyaw ‘driver’ gaff

YANGON: A source in the National League for Democracy said senior members of the party are embarrassed by international news outlets’ incorrect branding of President-elect Htin Kyaw as Aung San Suu Kyi's “former driver", said an NLD source, as reported by The Irrawaddy.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904245-nld-leadership-irked-by-medias-htin-kyaw-driver-gaff/?p=10546681

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Seven Abu Sayyaf, one soldier killed in Sulu clash

MANILA: Seven Abu Sayyaf gunmen and one soldier were killed while 23 others were wounded as fresh fighting erupted between government troops and the Al Qaeda-linked terror group in Sulu on Friday, according to Manila Bulletin.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904246-seven-abu-sayyaf-one-soldier-killed-in-sulu-clash/

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Singapore to step up its strategy to counter terrorism

SINGAPORE: Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam has revealed that a major upgrade of Singapore's strategy to counter terrorism is in the works, at a time when the threat of an attack is at the highest level it has ever been, The Straits Times reported.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904248-singapore-to-step-up-its-strategy-to-counter-terrorism/?p=10546743

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Vietnam calls for sustainable use of Mekong River water

Drought-ridden Vietnam is urging its neighbors to use water resources from the Mekong River in a sustainable manner as the country is waiting for discharge from a Chinese hydropower dam to reach its southern farming region, according to Thanh Nien News.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904250-vietnam-calls-for-sustainable-use-of-mekong-river-water/?p=10546758

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Elderly Swedish man found dead in Hua Hin

Kwaang Siripoom

Image: Kulsawek Sawekwannakorn

HUA HIN:-- A 70 year old Swedish man was found dead at an apartment in Hua Hin on Thursday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904251-elderly-swedish-man-found-dead-in-hua-hin/

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Checkpoint police nab 21 taxi drivers, most for poor dress sense

PHUKET: Police have arrested a total of 21 taxi drives at a checkpoint in Patong in the past two days, 19 of whom were fined for being inappropriately dressed.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904254-checkpoint-police-nab-21-taxi-drivers-most-for-poor-dress-sense/

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Belgian man, 80, dies of heart attack at Patong Hospital

Darawan Naknakhon

PHUKET: Doctors at Patong Hospital were unable to revive an elderly Belgian national who was said to suffer a heart attack yesterday evening at a Karon Hotel.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904256-belgian-man-80-dies-of-heart-attack-at-patong-hospital/

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Local small-time 'ice' dealer nabbed, drugs seized

Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: Cherng Talay Police yesterday (March 18) arrested a 27-year-old man in possession of multiple small 'baggies' of crystal meth, all in weighing in at more than 25 grammes.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904258-local-small-time-ice-dealer-nabbed-drugs-seized/

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Songkhla Cops Charged, Suspended for Extorting Malaysian Tourists

By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter

Songkhla police commander Krissakorn Plithanyawong apologizing to the Malaysian tourists on Friday at Sadao Police Station.

SONGKHLA — Two police officers in the border province of Songkhla are facing criminal charges for allegedly forcing a pair of Malaysian tourists to pay 20,000 baht for a bogus offense.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/904184-malaysian-tourists-fleeced-by-thai-police-end-up-getting-their-money-back-only-to-return-it-to-offi/?p=10546903

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Thailand Live Sunday 20 Mar 2016

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