Witness testimonies delay Krabi sex attack trial

The Phuket News

 

Apai Raingworchai, 28, is still being detained at Phang Nga Provincial Court until his trail begins. Photo: Darawan Naknakhon

 

KRABI: -- The trial of the man who carried out a sex attack on an American tourist in Krabi on Sept 1 has been delayed as Phang Nga Provincial Court is seeking further testimony from two local residents who saw the pair together prior to the attack.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944303-witness-testimonies-delay-krabi-sex-attack-trial/

 

MASTERCARD'S SURVEY

Bangkok edges out London as world's top travel destination

 

BANGKOK - The Thai capital of Bangkok has beaten London to be crowned the world's most popular travel destination this year, according to an annual ranking by global payments and technology company Mastercard released on Thursday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944304-bangkok-edges-out-london-as-worlds-top-travel-destination/

 

Govt to implement 3-stage traffic management policy

 

  

BANGKOK, 22 September 2016 (NNT) - The Deputy Prime Minister for security affairs said the government would launch a new policy aimed at encouraging people in Bangkok to rely on public transportation, in an effort to solve daily traffic congestion. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944305-thai-govt-to-implement-3-stage-traffic-management-policy/

 

MH370 Investigators cast doubt on catastrophic fire evidence 
ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press

 

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Accident investigators on Thursday cast doubt on the possibility that blackened debris found on Madagascar is evidence of a catastrophic fire aboard the missing Malaysian airliner that went down more than two years ago.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944314-mh370-investigators-cast-doubt-on-catastrophic-fire-evidence /

 

Yingluck again opposes Supha to head inquiry of mismanagement of major flooding in 2014

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Former prime minister Ms Yingluck Shinawatra today petitioned the chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) voicing her strong opposition to the appointment of Ms Supha Piyajitti to head inquiry of the mismanagement of flood prevention funds which she was indicted of malfeasance and corruption.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944318-yingluck-again-opposes-supha-to-head-inquiry-of-mismanagement-of-major-flooding-in-2014/

 

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Hells Angels beat Thai man senseless in Pattaya street (video)

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter -

 

PATTAYA — Pattaya police are looking for members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang who assaulted two Thai men Saturday in a road rage incident.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944229-video-foreign-bikers-gang-up-on-thais-in-shocking-pattaya-violence/?do=findComment&comment=11171731

 

 

CP board member didn't infringe on forest - his assistants did

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Officials from the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources on Wednesday inspect the property owned by CP executive Jaran Chiaravanont in Trat province.

 

TRAT — Though the holiday home of a board member of Thailand’s largest conglomerate infringes on protected forest area, he won’t be charged because the work was done without his knowledge, an official said Thursday.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944327-cp-board-member-didnt-infringe-on-forest-his-assistants-did/

Thailand to have a million Alzheimer’s patients in 13 years

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

Photo: David Robert Bliwas/Flickr

 

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) announced that the number of Alzheimer’s patients in Thailand is a little more than a half-million people.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944328-thailand-to-have-a-million-alzheimer’s-patients-in-13-years/

‘Mentally unstable’ father steals car to shield 3-year-old son from pouring rain

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A father who said he didn’t want his son to get soaked in the pouring rain stole a Toyota Vios at a car sales tent in the outskirts Bangkok and left his Honda motorbike in place of the car on Monday.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944329-‘mentally-unstable’-father-steals-car-to-shield-3-year-old-son-from-pouring-rain/

Join a public jam to celebrate Miles Davis in Bangkok

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

Miles Davis at the Nice Jazz Festival in 1989 in Nice, France. Photo: Oliver Nurock / Wikimedia

 

BANGKOK — Bangkok jazz musicians are welcome to bring their weapons of choice to join or just enjoy a jam session to commemorate American trumpeter Miles Davis 25 years after he died.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944330-join-a-public-jam-to-celebrate-miles-davis-in-bangkok/

Police hunt for Phuket Town thieves

Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

PHUKET:-- Police are hunting for suspects who broke into a car and stole 6,000 baht cash in Phuket Town early Sunday morning. 
 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944331-police-hunt-for-phuket-town-thieves/

Phuket police so far unable to trace parents of two abandoned babies

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

 

PHUKET:-- Police have so far been unable to trace the parents of two babies, the first left at a temple at Rawai on Aug 30, the second dumped in a bin in Patong last Saturday (Sept 17), but they will continue their search The Phuket News has been told today (Sept 22).

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944332-phuket-police-so-far-unable-to-trace-parents-of-two-abandoned-babies/

Passenger recalls Phuket runway accident

Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

PHUKET:-- Mongkunkit Phongnarisorn sat in a window seat aboard the Thai Airways flight that ran off the Phuket Airport runway last night.
 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/944334-passenger-recalls-phuket-runway-accident/

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