Foreign Driver Crashes Car into Motorbike and Minivan in Patong

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Still no leads on fake bombs in Krabi

Phuket Gazette

 

Police said the 'device' was nothing more than wires connected to batteries and was intended to scare passersby. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

KRABI: Two devices, similar in design to the ones used in last month’s bombings, were found in Krabi Town last week. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941500-still-no-leads-on-fake-bombs-in-krabi/

 

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Thai monk tells story behind viral photos of elephants ‘making merit’ (PHOTOS)

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Photos of elephants kneeling and putting their offerings into a monk’s alms bowl went viral this week as the public questioned whether these unbelievable shots are legit. Yesterday, the Thai monk in the photo was identified and he told a story behind the photos.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941501-thai-monk-tells-story-behind-viral-photos-of-elephants-‘making-merit’ /

 

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Yellowshirt leader Sondhi jailed 20 years for fraud

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen, Staff Reporter -

 

Sondhi Limthongkul leaves the courtroom Aug. 7, 2014 after the Court of Appeals upheld his conviction for fraud.

 

BANGKOK — Years of legal maneuvering ended with one-time Yellowshirt leader Sondhi Limthongkul sent directly to prison Tuesday morning

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941503-yellowshirt-leader-sondhi-jailed-20-years-for-fraud/

 

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Hey, German, leave our dogs alone! Pattaya police nab man for attacking soi dogs

 

Image: Sanook

 

PATTAYA: -- Pattaya police were called to a Jomtien condo complex on Monday after Thai residents complained that a German man was attacking a bunch of dogs.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941515-hey-german-leave-our-dogs-alone-pattaya-police-nab-man-for-attacking-soi-dogs/

 

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'INHUMANE ATTACK'

Father, daughter killed in Narathiwat school blast

The Nation 

 

BY NationPhoto

 

NARATHIWAT: -- A Muslim father taking his five-year-old daughter to school in Narathiwat were killed along with her when Muslim insurgents detonated a homemade bomb hidden in a garbage bin in front of the school Tuesday morning.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941481-two-killed-and-eight-injured-in-bomb-attack-in-narathiwat/?do=findComment&comment=11121097

 

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Furious Chumphon residents warn motorists Thai style after serious accidents

 

Image: Manager Online

 

CHUMPHON: -- Angry residents in Chumphon in the south of Thailand took matters into their own hands after a potholed road caused several accidents.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941518-furious-chumphon-residents-warn-motorists-thai-style-after-serious-accidents/

 

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PM arrives in Vientiane for ASEAN summit

 

  

BANGKOK, 6 September 2016 (NNT) – The Prime Minister has joined other ASEAN leaders in traveling to Vientiane of Lao PDR to take part in ASEAN Leader Summit. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941521-pm-prayut-arrives-in-vientiane-for-asean-summit/

 

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Philippine president regrets 'son of a bitch' remark 
VIJAY JOSHI, Associated Press

 

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed regret Tuesday over his "son of a bitch" remark while referring to President Barack Obama, in a rare display of contrition by a politician whose wide arc of profanities has unabashedly targeted world figures including the pope and the U.N. chief.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941524-philippine-president-regrets-son-of-a-bitch-remark /

 

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"We're not running a hotel" Chiang Mai temple hits back at online "resort" claims

 

Image: Sanook

 

CHIANG MAI: --  Chiang Mai temple has hit back at claims made online that they are running a hotel on their site.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941527-were-not-running-a-hotel-chiang-mai-temple-hits-back-at-online-resort-claims/

 

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Final figures of loss from rice pledging scheme are to be sent to Finance Ministry

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The committee tasked with considering the civil liability of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra for the loss from her government’s controversial rice pledging scheme has already come up with the final figures of the loss.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941529-final-figures-of-loss-from-rice-pledging-scheme-are-to-be-sent-to-finance-ministry/

 

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Phuket court defers hearing on sea gypsy fight for ancestral land

The Phuket News

 

The Phuket Provincial Court has deferred a key hearing in the dispute over land at the Rawai sea gypsy village until April next year.

 

PHUKET: -- The Phuket Provincial Court has deferred hearing a claim to 12 rai of land in the sea gypsy village in Rawai until in April next year in a case that will likely define whether the entire village will have to be relocated from its age-old home on the Rawai beachfront.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941530-phuket-court-defers-hearing-on-sea-gypsy-fight-for-ancestral-land/

 

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Passengers run for their lives as tour bus destroyed in flames

 

Image: Sanook

 

CHIANG MAI: -- Forty passengers on a tour bus had a lucky escape after their vehicle burst into flames on the Chiang Mai to Lampang Road.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941531-passengers-run-for-their-lives-as-tour-bus-destroyed-in-flames/

 

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Tied up and beaten: Pantippers trade tales of harrowing discipline

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter -

   

Rescue workers on March 16 show caning marks on a 4-year-old girl’s body who was reportedly beaten by her stepfather and mother in Pathum Thani province.

 

BANGKOK — Tied to a tree and beaten unconscious. Slapped in the skull so hard an ear is partially sliced off. Forced to inhale smoke from a pot of hot coals mixed with spices.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941532-tied-up-and-beaten-pantippers-trade-tales-of-harrowing-discipline/

 

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Koh Phangan airport could open to next year to cater to full moon party revelers

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: Roslyn/Flickr

 

KOH PHANGAN: -- If everything goes according to plan (which it probably won’t), the Koh Phangan airport could be open by the end of 2017, after being pushed back from a 2014 projected opening.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941535-koh-phangan-airport-could-open-to-next-year-to-cater-to-full-moon-party-revelers/

 

 

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Trump and Clinton turn to battleground states in the South

By STEVE PEOPLES and KEN THOMAS

 

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — With Labor Day behind them, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are pushing ahead in top presidential battlegrounds in the South.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941537-trump-and-clinton-turn-to-battleground-states-in-the-south/

 

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Seminar agrees punishment for child molesters should be more severe

 

  

BANGKOK, 6 September 2016 (NNT) – The Office of the Attorney General has sought to more severely punish those convicted of child molestation in response to the growing prevalence of such cases. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941539-seminar-agrees-punishment-for-child-molesters-should-be-more-severe/

 

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Paralyzed American fall victim responsive after spine surgery

Phuket Gazette

 

Tourist police greeted Mr Gavios as he arrived at Phuket International Airport on the way to see his daughter, who is recovering in Phuket after falling off a cliff in Krabi. Photo: Phuket Tourist Police

 

KRABI: An American teacher who was critically injured when she fell down a 45-meter-high cliff at Railay Bay in Krabi is conscious and responsive after being rescued on Friday, but still cannot move her legs. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941542-paralyzed-american-fall-victim-responsive-after-spine-surgery/

 

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Thai man in love triangle shows his death live on Facebook

 

 

BANGKOK:-- A Thai man caught in a love triangle showed himself about to die as he prepared a noose in a Pahonyothin Road apartment.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941563-thai-man-in-love-triangle-shows-his-death-live-on-facebook/

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Prayut invites Jack Ma to build e-commerce system for Thai SMEs

The Nation

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has urged Alibaba Group CEO Jack Yun Ma to help develop e-commerce system for Thai SMEs so that they can sell their products online, Deputy Government Spokesman Major-General Werachon Sukondhapatipak said Tuesday.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941498-alibaba-group-ceo-meets-with-pm-prayut/?do=findComment&comment=11122218

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Prayut to attend G77 meeting in New York

Wasamon Audjarint
The Nation

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chanocha would attended the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York late September focusing on the conclusion of Thai chairmanship of the Group of 77.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941566-prayut-to-attend-g77-meeting-in-new-york/

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Tourists flee stinking trash on Koh Tao

Suchat Hankij

 

 

KOH TAO:-- Tourists are checking out of their hotels on Koh Tao in droves – fleeing the stink of a 45,000-ton mountain of garbage that is growing by the day after the island’s incinerator broke down three weeks ago.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941577-tourists-flee-stinking-trash-on-koh-tao/

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Boisterous bidding raises over B102.7mn at Tranlee auction

Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

PHUKET:-- More than 150 assets seized from embattled Tranlee Travel Co fetched 102,742,000 baht at auction today. 
 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941578-boisterous-bidding-raises-over-b1027mn-at-tranlee-auction/

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Phuket Governor confirms route for B5bn, 12-lane airport expressway

Darawan Naknakhon

 

Phuket Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada today confirmed that the Highways Department has decided on the route the planned B5.5 billion airport expressway will take. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET:-- Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada today confirmed that the Highways Department has decided on the route the planned 12-lane expressway from Koh Kaew to Phuket International Airport costing B5.5 billion will take.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941579-phuket-governor-confirms-route-for-b5bn-12-lane-airport-expressway/

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Police object to bail for five Thais accused of killing two Laotian women

The Nation

 

Kalasin police objected Tuesday to the release on bail of five Thais accused of being involved in the contract killing of two Laotian women last week.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941580-police-object-to-bail-for-five-thais-accused-of-killing-two-laotian-women/

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20 stolen cars returned to Malaysian authorities

The Nation

 

Thai police Tuesday returned 20 cars, which were stolen and smuggled into Thailand, to Malaysian authorities.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941582-20-stolen-cars-returned-to-malaysian-authorities/

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Cabinet Oks Golden Route monorail project

 

 

The cabinet on Tuesday approved in principle the Golden Route monorail project from Thonburi electric train station to Klongsarn district office-Prachathipok to facilitate the travelling of people in Thonburi side of the capital and to link up with the mass transit system.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941584-cabinet-oks-golden-route-monorail-project/

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CTH Cable TV ordered to pay 20,000 baht in fine each day

 

BANGKOK:-- CTH Cable TV Company has been ordered by the Broadcasting Board of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to pay fines amounting to 20,000 baht a day starting August 28 until the cable TV service provider fulfils the board’s order for it to refund its clients.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941588-cth-cable-tv-ordered-to-pay-20000-baht-in-fine-each-day/

 

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Thailand Live Wednesday 7 Sep 2016 

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/941601-thailand-live-wednesday-7-sep-2016/