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Thaivisa Photography Competition (September 2016)
 

 
Enter the Thaivisa Photography Competition where you can win a two night stay at the luxury Palm Grove Resort in Pattaya, worth an estimated 10,000 Baht.
 
Submit your photos here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/940594-thai-visa-photo-competition-september-2016/

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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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INUNDATION

No fear of flooding crisis, top official says

Chularat Saengpassa
The Nation

 

Water from the Chulalongkorn water gate is pumped out to Rangsit Canal, from where it is drained out into the sea via Chao Phraya River to prepare for the increase in discharge from Chao Phraya Dam.

 

Irrigation chief sees no threat of 2011 Bangkok flood calamity repeating itself

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945487-no-fear-of-flooding-crisis-topthai-official-says/

 

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NEW CHARTER

Revised draft charter against will of referendum, court rules

KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE Constitutional Court yesterday ruled that the revised draft charter made by the Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC) was against the will of the August 7 referendum.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945488-revised-draft-charter-against-will-of-referendum-thai-court-rules/

 

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THE CHAN-O-CHAS

Anti-graft centre not probing case of PM’s nephew

THE NATION 

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha poses for a photo inside Government House with his younger brother, General Preecha Chan-o-cha, to mark the latter’s upcoming retirement. Preecha, whose wife and sons have recently drawn criticism

 

BANGKOK: -- JUSTICE MINISTER General Paiboon Koomchaya has kept the Anti-Corruption Operation Centre (ACOC) away from an ongoing scandal concerning Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s nephew over alleged irregularities in construction contracts awarded by the Army.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945489-anti-graft-centre-not-probing-case-of-pm’s-nephew/

 

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty report on torture blocked

PRATCH RUJIVANAROM
THE NATION 

 

Yuval Ginbar

 

Authorities warn human rights officials of arrest as they did not have work permit.

 

BANGKOK: -- EVEN AS state authorities maintained that reports of torture in the country had no credibility, foreign speakers from Amnesty International were yesterday barred from presenting the results of their study on the grounds that they did not have a work permit.

Amnesty International yesterday launched at a Bangkok hotel its report "Make Him Speak by Tomorrow: Torture and Other Ill-Treatment in Thailand"

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Amnesty-report-on-torture-blocked-30296470.html

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2016-09-29

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Alleged leader of passport forgery gang confirmed as US citizen

The Nation 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE ALLEGED leader of a passport forgery gang, who was arrested along with two other Americans during a police raid in Bangkok on Friday, has been identified as Herbert Grey Lefron, 63, from Baltimore, Maryland, Tourist police chief Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpan said yesterday.

 

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=11191982

 

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Mahanakan community shuts all four gates to fort

Thanapat Thongpaiwan,
Thanatpong Kongsai
The Nation 

 

More than 100 members of the Mahakan Fort community sit along the walkway yesterday after blocking the community’s four entrances with metal sheets and wood to prevent BMA officials from entering. No demolition will be allowed on the site until a multilat

 

BANGKOK: -- THE MAHAKAN Fort community has sealed itself off after thwarting the latest raid by authorities to demolish more houses.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945490-bangkoks-mahanakan-community-shuts-all-four-gates-to-fort/

 

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Activist hopeful of justice for men shot dead in deep South

Chularat Saengpassa
The Nation 

 

File Photo. A team of officials is in the process of gathering evidence to determine why four men died during security officials’ operation in Pattani’s Thung Yang Daeng district last year. 

 

PATTANI: -- ALTHOUGH A court has yet to deliver its verdict against security officials who shot dead four innocent men in the deep South, a local activist says she sees justice finally coming.

 

Full story:  http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945491-activist-hopeful-of-justice-for-men-shot-dead-in-deep-south/

 

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CU launches innovation hub

Chuleeporn Aramnet
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Chulalongkorn University has joined forces with business sectors and the Nation Group to officially launch the CU Innovation Hub this week.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945492-chulalongkorn-university-launches-innovation-hub/

 

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BURNING ISSUE

Preecha revelations are eroding public faith in his brother

Attayuth Bootsripoom
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Critics of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha seem to have found a weakness - his younger brother, Defence Ministry permanent secretary General Preecha Chan-o-cha. Preecha and his family are being accused of nepotism, conflicts of interest and “unusually high wealth” after a series of controversial revelations.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945493-thai-politics-preecha-revelations-are-eroding-public-faith-in-his-brother/

 

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Small parties find MP election fees to high

Kasamakorn Chanwanpen 
The Nation

 

Nikorn

 

BANGKOK: -- Minor parties yesterday complained that the Bt10,000 fee for registering MP candidates was too high, and asked that it be reduced to Bt1,000 as members of small parties were mostly underprivileged and would have trouble covering the cost.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945494-small-parties-find-mp-election-fees-to-high/

 

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Court hits Democrat with jail term in defamation case

Kesinee Tangkhiew,
Sakda Samerphop
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Supreme Court yesterday slapped Democrat Party spokesperson Chawanon Intarakomalyasut with a two-year suspended jail term and a fine of Bt100,000 in a defamation lawsuit filed by former foreign minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945496-court-hits-democrat-with-jail-term-in-defamation-case/

 

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THAI TALK

What is a news hound to do when everybody can be a (watch) dog?

Suthichai Yoon
The Nation 

 

BANGKOK: -- When I was asked to talk to members of the Radio and TV Reporters Association recently, the suggested topic was something along these lines: Now that everybody can be a reporter, how should professional journalists adapt to survive?

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945497-thai-opinion-what-is-a-news-hound-to-do-when-everybody-can-be-a-watch-dog/

 

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Locked Up Abroad! Help Repay Bribes – Samui resident asks for help!

 

SAMUI: -- A resident of Koh Samui recently found herself locked up in jail after papers she thought were legal and correct and allowed her to run a backpacker resort were correct. However they were not. Loren has shared her story on a Go Fund Me page – here is what it says.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945499-locked-up-abroad-help-repay-bribes-–-samui-resident-asks-for-help/

 

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Phuket Portuguese man o’ war warning stands as tourist stung at Patong

Yutthawat Lekmak

 

One Phuket tourist suffered a mild sting from a Portuguese man o’ war at Patong Beach, but did not suffer an allergic reaction. Photo: Phuket Lifeguards Service

 

PHUKET: -- The lifeguard warning for tourists to beware dangerous Portuguese man o’ war stingers at Phuket beaches remained in effect today, following news that a Thai female tourist suffered a small sting at Patong Beach on Monday (Sept 26).

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945500-phuket-portuguese-man-o’-war-warning-stands-as-tourist-stung-at-patong/

 

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Phuket underpass road-safety complaints spur Ombudsman inspection, confirms B200mn fine

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Phuket Highways Office Project Engineer Chalermpon Wongkietkun (left) explains details of the Sam Kong Underpass construction project with Raksagecha Chaechai, Secretary-General of Office of the Ombudsman of Thailand.

 

PHUKET: -- Complaints over the dangerous state of the roads at and around the Sam Kong Underpass spurred Raksagecha Chaechai, Secretary-General of Office of the Ombudsman of Thailand, to inspect the Phuket construction site first-hand on Tuesday (Sept 27).

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945501-phuket-underpass-road-safety-complaints-spur-ombudsman-inspection-confirms-b200mn-fine/

 

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Congress rebukes Obama, overrides veto of 9/11 legislation

By RICHARD LARDNER

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a resounding rebuke, Democrats joined with Republicans Wednesday to hand Barack Obama the first veto override of his presidency, voting overwhelmingly to allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for its alleged backing of the attackers.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945504-congress-rebukes-obama-overrides-veto-of-911-legislation/

 

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“Aleppo is worse than a slaughterhouse” – Ban Ki-moon

Catherine Hardy

 

 

NEW YORK: -- Warplanes, thought to be Russian or Syrian, knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on Wednesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945505-“aleppo-is-worse-than-a-slaughterhouse”-–-ban-ki-moon/

 

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Dutch investigation into MH17 crash ‘biased and politically-motivated’ says Russia

 

 

MOSCOW: -- Moscow has denounced as ‘biased’ an investigation into the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945506-dutch-investigation-into-mh17-crash-‘biased-and-politically-motivated’-says-russia/

 

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Shimon Peres and the Oslo Accord

 

 

JERUSALEM: -- Twenty three years ago, on 13 September in Washington DC there was widespread euphoria. The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin sealed a peace agreement. Since 1948 Israel and Palestine had been locked in deadly territorial disputes. Shimon Peres, then Chief Israeli Diplomat was one of the accord’s principal architects.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945507-shimon-peres-and-the-oslo-accord/

 

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Palestinians express mixed reactions over death of Shimon Peres

 

 

WEST BANK: -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was one of many world leaders to pay tribute to the late Shimon Peres, whom he hailed as “a man of peace.”

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945508-palestinians-express-mixed-reactions-over-death-of-shimon-peres/

 

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Five suspected ISIL members arrested in pan-European police operation

 

 

MADRID: -- Five suspected members of an ISIL terror cell have been arrested after coordinated police raids in Spain, Belgium and Germany.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945509-five-suspected-isil-members-arrested-in-pan-european-police-operation/

 

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Despite harsh reviews, Trump resists new debate approach

By STEVE PEOPLES and LISA LERER

 

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Unmoved by harsh debate reviews, a defiant Donald Trump showed no sign Wednesday of making any big changes before his second faceoff with Hillary Clinton, pressing ahead with a strategy focused on speaking directly to his white working-class loyalists across the Midwest.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945510-despite-harsh-reviews-trump-resists-new-debate-approach/

 

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Black man shot dead in California just after police arrived

By JULIE WATSON and ANDREW DALTON

 

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — Police in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon shot and killed a black man a minute after arriving near a strip mall to investigate a report of a mentally unstable person walking in and out of traffic, an official said Wednesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945511-us-black-man-shot-dead-in-san-diego-just-after-police-arrived/

 

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Saudi Arabia has ways to hit back at 9/11 lawsuit effort

By AYA BATRAWY

 

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and its allies are warning that U.S. legislation allowing the kingdom to be sued for the 9/11 attacks will have negative repercussions.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945512-saudi-arabia-has-ways-to-hit-back-at-911-lawsuit-effort/

 

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Trump's stance on nuclear restraint is ambiguous

By ROBERT BURNS

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's ambiguous answer to a debate question on nuclear restraint raised doubts about his understanding of the issue. On the other hand, his words — by design or coincidence — mirror the nub of a policy argument the administration is wrestling with in the final months of Barack Obama's presidency.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945513-trumps-stance-on-nuclear-restraint-is-ambiguous/

 

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German tourists robbed on Bangkok to Chiang Mai bus

 

Image: Thairath

 

CHIANG MAI: -- Two German tourists were robbed of 550 Euros taken from their bags on a Bangkok to Chiang Mai bus on Wednesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945514-german-tourists-robbed-on-bangkok-to-chiang-mai-bus/

 

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With an escape like that maybe it's time to buy a lottery ticket!

 

Image: Thairath

 

PRACHINBURI: -- Our picture shows a very lucky motorcyclist who ended up under the wheels of a minivan.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945515-with-an-escape-like-that-maybe-its-time-to-buy-a-lottery-ticket/

 

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Two cops dead as trailer ploughs into drugs checkpoint in Ubon

 

 

UBON RATCHATHANI: -- Two police officers on duty at a drugs checkpoint in Ubon were mown down when the brakes failed on an 18 wheel truck.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/945517-two-cops-dead-as-trailer-ploughs-into-drugs-checkpoint-in-ubon/