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Security forces muzzle torture discussion with arrest threats

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter -

 

Cover image of 'Make Him Speak by Tomorrow,' a report on the use of torture by the military in Thailand released Wednesday by Amnesty International.

 

BANGKOK — When representatives of Amnesty International gathered at a Bangkok hotel Wednesday morning to talk about the military regime’s use of torture, plainclothes security forces told them they would be arrested if they so much as opened their mouths.

 

A panel discussion at the Four Wings Hotel of a new Amnesty International report on the use of torture since the 2014 coup was shut down when military officers warned foreign speakers would be arrested and prosecuted for violating labor laws if they spoke.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2016/09/28/security-forces-muzzle-torture-discussion-arrest-threats/

 

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Driver chopped by blade-wielding motorist in Bangkok

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter -

 

Nuttawut Nuanjun, 33, rehabilitating yesterday after a swordsman attacked him Monday.

 

BANGKOK — Police were hunting Wednesday for an unidentified man suspected of trying to take another motorist’s head with a long blade earlier this week.

 

 Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945380-driver-chopped-by-blade-wielding-motorist-in-bangkok/

 

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Thailand rules out Zika link in two microcephaly cases; investigating two

 

BANGKOK: -- Thailand ruled out on Wednesday Zika as the cause of two cases of microcephaly but is investigating two other cases that could be the first linked to Zika in Southeast Asia of the condition that results in babies being born with small heads.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945384-thailand-rules-out-zika-link-in-two-microcephaly-cases-investigating-two/

 

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Thai women feel exploited by Norwegian employer

by Maria Jønsson

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Two Thai women, Maneesita Jaidee and Wilaiwan Donkeawprai, claim that they have been working ten hours a day and have not been paid since they arrived at the world’s most northern Thai restaurant, Taste of Thai, in Longyearbyen in Norway.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945389-thai-women-feel-exploited-by-norwegian-employer/

 

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Senate poised to override Obama's veto of 9/11 legislation 
RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to reject President Barack Obama's veto of a bill that would allow the families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia even as lawmakers express fears the legislation could backfire on the United States.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945393-senate-poised-to-override-obamas-veto-of-911-legislation /

 

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Pol Gen Wuthi Liptapallop transferred to PM’s Office as an inspector-general

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Deputy national police chief Pol Gen Wuthi Liptapallop has been removed from his post and transferred to the Prime Minister’s Office as an inspector-general.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945395-pol-gen-wuthi-liptapallop-transferred-to-pm’s-office-as-an-inspector-general/

 

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PM says he uses Sec 44 to facilitate cases against corruption in rice scheme

 

  

BANGKOK, 28 September 2016 (NNT) - Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has insisted that his administration seeking damages from the previous administration's rice pledging scheme was not a matter of personal vengeance. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945396-pm-prayut-says-he-uses-sec-44-to-facilitate-cases-against-corruption-in-rice-scheme/

 

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The Americans: Head forgery ring suspect ran from FBI

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter -

 

A 2001 FBI bulletin seeking fugitive fraud suspect Herbert La Fon. Photo: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation

 

BANGKOK — One was an oil exploration specialist who resigned from an executive-level position at a Texas-based energy firm and moved to Southeast Asia eight years ago. Another was settled here with a Thai wife and young child.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945364-body-in-the-freezer-gang-fbi-confirm-all-three-are-americans-and-peter-is-really-herbert/?do=findComment&comment=11190451

 

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Crackdown looms as 60% of Pattaya hotels deemed illegal

By Jetsada Homklin

 

Anawat Burapachon, a civil engineer with the Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning and the Interior Ministry.

  

PATTAYA: -- About 60 percent of Pattaya’s hotels and guesthouses are operating illegally, with government officials about to launch a crackdown to either bring them into compliance or shut them down.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945399-crackdown-looms-as-60-of-pattaya-hotels-deemed-illegal/

 

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Thai Hells Angels trial verdict due in Nov

Ron Corben - AAP 

 

A Thai provincial court is expected to hand down its verdict in November against an Australian man accused of the murder of an Australian motorbike gang leader in Thailand last year, court officials say.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945405-pattaya-hells-angels-trial-verdict-due-in-nov/

 

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Thai cops making home visits to fill ‘invasive’ immigration forms, foreigners say

By Asian Correspondent Staff 

 

THREE foreigners living in Thailand have complained of receiving visits by policemen asking them to furnish personal details, purportedly as part of a controversial immigration policy mooted by the authorities for national security reasons.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945350-thai-police-visiting-foreigners-at-home-asking-for-yet-more-personal-info-via-new-controversial-form/?do=findComment&comment=11190581

 

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Supreme Court clears former director and 3 staffers of Wachiraprakan hospital over alleged illegal kidney removal

 

 

BANGKOK: -- After 14 years of legal battle through three courts, the Supreme Court has finally cleared the former director, former manager and two surgeons of Wachiraprakan hospital of murder and forgery charges concerning with the removal of kidneys from two dead patients to be transplanted to other patients.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945412-supreme-court-clears-former-director-and-3-staffers-of-wachiraprakan-hospital-over-alleged-illegal-kidney-removal/

 

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The Naked Truth: Bare it all with owners of Bangkok’s only nudist resort

By Prae Sakaowan

 

Members participate in Thailand’s first international naturist conference on Koh Rin, an island off Pattaya’s coast. Photo: Courtesy of Naturist Association of Thailand

 

From the outside, Barefeet Naturist Resort appears just like any other Thai home in the residential area of Lad Phrao — large traditional wooden doors, white paint and tree ferns —  but the obvious difference is that there are no windows, seemingly to ensure the privacy of the guests.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945426-the-naked-truth-bare-it-all-with-owners-of-bangkok’s-only-nudist-resort/

 

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Ms Yingluck pleads for review of her civil liability over rice pledging scheme loss

 

 

Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has petitioned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha to review the investigation process and decisions of the panels charged with determining the loss form the rice pledging scheme and the civil liability of those involved in implementing the scheme.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945427-ms-yingluck-pleads-for-review-of-her-civil-liability-over-rice-pledging-scheme-loss/

 

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Bad Vibrations: Bomb disposal unit deployed to inspect mysterious 'vibrating' suitcase

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

Photo: Treerapat Singtong/ Facebook

 

A Chiang Mai to Bangkok flight was delayed by five minutes this morning as the bomb disposal unit was deployed to inspect a mysterious vibrating object inside a passenger's suitcase.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945429-bad-vibrations-bomb-disposal-unit-deployed-to-inspect-mysterious-vibrating-suitcase/

 

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This giant snake ate 5 chickens. Now they hope it will make them rich.

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

A ravenous python with an appetite for poultry suffers a humiliating moment after his capture Wednesday morning in the Chai Prakan district of Chiang Mai province.

 

CHIANG MAI — A Chiang Mai community turned its loss into a gain Wednesday morning when it captured a python with a voracious appetite for their chickens.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945444-this-giant-snake-ate-5-chickens-now-they-hope-it-will-make-them-rich/

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AEDs to be installed at public phone booths to help sudden cardiac arrest patients

 

 

The National Institute for Emergency Medicines in cooperation with TOT public Company plan to install automated external defibrillator (AED) at public telephone booths to help people suffering from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA).

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945446-aeds-to-be-installed-at-public-phone-booths-to-help-sudden-cardiac-arrest-patients/

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Arrest warrants issued for ATM hackers

Kongleaphy Keam

 

 

PHUKET:-- Police issued two more arrest warrants on September 26 for Russian suspects wanted in connection with the nation-wide ATM fraud that ripped off over 12 million baht from Government Savings Bank (GSB) ATMs.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945447-arrest-warrants-issued-for-atm-hackers/

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