THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Tuesday 4 Oct 2016

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Phuket outflow pipe spills dirty water across Surin Beach – again
Yutthawat Lekmak

 

 

PHUKET:-- Health officials have promised to investigate the large volume of dirty water spewing out from a drainpipe directly onto Surin Beach, on to Phuket’s west coast, and turning water along the popular tourist beachfront brown.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946643-phuket-outflow-pipe-spills-dirty-water-across-surin-beach-–-again/

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RAINY SEASON

Storm on way but no major floods feared

PRATCH RUJIVANAROM,
TANATPONG KONGSAI
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- AT LEAST ONE STORM is forecast to reach Thailand by next week, weather experts said yesterday, but the Royal Irrigation Department assured the public the flood situation in the country had improved and was under control.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946683-storm-on-way-but-no-major-floods-feared/

 

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CONTROVERSIAL TRIP

Auditor General Office probing Prawit trip to Hawaii

JUTHATHIP LUCKSANAWONG, 
ANAPAT DEECHUAY
THE NATION 

 

 

Auditor reviewing Bt21 million cost of charter flight to US security conference.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946684-auditor-general-office-probing-prawit-trip-to-hawaii/

 

 

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Sondhi has no right to take leave to attend his wife’s funeral

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Imprisoned former media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul is not entitled to ask for leave to attend the funeral of his wife who died over the weekend of cancer.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946686-sondhi-has-no-right-to-take-leave-to-attend-his-wife’s-funeral/

 

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30,000 baht reward offered for information for the arrest of stone thrower

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Ayutthaya’s Bang Pahan district police on Monday offered a 30,000 baht reward for information which will lead to the arrest of the man who threw stones at a bus and a passenger car on Sunday night.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946687-30000-baht-reward-offered-for-information-for-the-arrest-of-stone-thrower/

 

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11 passengers injured in a bus accident in Narathiwat

 

 

NARATHIWAT: -- Eleven passengers of a bus shuttling between Koh Samui and Su-ngai Kolok slammed into a tree on a road island and flipped one-side up on a road in Narathiwat’s Muang district on Monday morning.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946689-11-passengers-injured-in-a-bus-accident-in-narathiwat/

 

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NEW CHARTER

Prayut ‘unlikely to scrap House in PM stalemate’

KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN
THE NATION 

 

Meechai

 

CDC chief says junta holds absolute power but may not use it to dissolve Parliament.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946692-prayut-‘unlikely-to-scrap-house-in-pm-stalemate’/

 

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Five guidelines for social security reforms

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Social Security Office has set five guidelines to pave the way for the reform of pension system for the elderly, said Dr Suradet Waleeithikul, secretary-general of the office, on Monday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946693-five-guidelines-for-thai-social-security-reforms/

 

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ZIKA VIRUS

All pregnant women to be tested in 16 ‘Zika provinces’

PUANGCHOMPOO PRASERT
THE NATION 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- ALL PREGNANT women living in 16 provinces where Zika outbreak has been detected will be tested for the virus

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946595-thailand-considers-zika-tests-for-all-pregnant-women/?do=findComment&comment=11207937

 

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NEW ARMY COMMANDER IN CHIEF

No coup under my command: new Army chief Chalermchai

THE NATION 

 

Chalermchai (L)

 

BANGKOK: -- THE NEW HEAD of the Army, General Chalermchai Sittisart, said yesterday that the army would not stage a coup under his leadership.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946694-no-coup-under-my-command-new-army-chief-chalermchai/

 

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BUSINESS

Digital TV stations to get tax break under new plan

WATCHIRANONT THONGTEP
THE NATION 

 

BANGKOK: -- BROADCASTERS will be able to deduct their expenses fully for digital-terrestrial TV transmission under the “must carry” rule

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946695-digital-tv-stations-to-get-tax-break-under-new-plan/

 

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Crackdown cuts Golden Week arrivals

SUCHAT SRITAMA
THE NATION 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE ATTEMPT to stamp out cheap tour packages from China has stalled arrivals from that market during Golden Week, but the travel industry believes this will save them over the long haul.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946696-crackdown-cuts-golden-week-arrivals/

 

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Thailand gave the world Bangkok Rules on women’s jail care. Time now for more law reform at home

Wasamon Audjarint
The Sunday Nation

 

Kittipong Photo from www.tijthailand.org

 

BANGKOK: -- As befits his position as executive director of the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ), veteran judge Kittipong Kittayarak is passionate about justice.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946697-thailand-gave-the-world-bangkok-rules-on-women’s-jail-care-time-now-for-more-law-reform-at-home/

 

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DSI death: Land official meets police

KORNKAMON AKSORNDECH,
PIYANUCH TAMNUKASETCHAI
THE NATION 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- INVESTIGATORS from Thung Song Hong Police Station in Bangkok yesterday summoned a former colleague of deceased land official Tawatchai Anukul to testify in a bid to find clues to the cause of his mysterious death.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946698-dsi-death-land-official-meets-police/

 

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800,000 students to learn exam tricks, techniques

THE NATION 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- ABOUT 800,000 students in four regions nationwide have joined the 19th Intensive Tutoring for Admission Exam campaign, hosted by Sahapatthanapibul and The Nation, over seven days.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946699-800000-students-to-learn-exam-tricks-techniques/

 

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Blessed yantra clothes distributed to park rangers

The Nation 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation has distributed over 100,000 sacred Buddhist-style yantra clothes

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946700-blessed-yantra-clothes-distributed-to-park-rangers/

 

 

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BURNING ISSUE

Military, govt must stop branding critics ‘political enemies’

Pratch Rujivanarom 

 

Narissarawan

 

BANGKOK: -- Hit by multiple controversies, the military is placing itself beyond the reach of public inspection by branding anyone who dares challenge its practices, a public enemy or slapping them with a lawsuit.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946701-military-govt-must-stop-branding-critics-‘political-enemies’/

 

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Green Space to Become A Park and Nature Study Area According to Chiang Mai Governor

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – The green space that was recently given to the people by the Finance Department will be soon put to use according to Chiang Mai Governor Prawin Chamniprasart after a meeting on October 1st to discuss what the land should best be used for.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946702-green-space-to-become-a-park-and-nature-study-area-according-to-chiang-mai-governor/

 

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Thai-UK business council convened for Brexit

YUKAKO ONO, Nikkei staff writer

 

BANGKOK -- Prominent companies from Thailand and the U.K. held their first joint business council meeting Monday to discuss how to increase investment between the two countries, including a possible free trade agreement, just as Britain confirmed its timetable for leaving the European Union by 2019.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946706-thai-uk-business-council-convened-for-brexit/

 

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Female pageant competitor wears male literary character costume, enrages netizens (PHOTOS)

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

A picture of her in the female Thotsakan costume. Photo: Miss Grand Thailand/Facebook

 

BANGKOK: -- It seems like Thai culture is on everyone’s mind these days after the Tiew Thai Me Hey MV fiasco. Now, it seems like another has just arisen.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946710-female-pageant-competitor-wears-male-literary-character-costume-enrages-netizens/

 

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Tourism and Sports Ministry celebrates 14th anniversary

  

BANGKOK, 4 October 2016 (NNT) - The Ministry of Tourism and Sports has organized its 14th anniversary celebration, announcing the goal to promote a stable, sustainable and excellent tourism industry. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946711-tourism-and-sports-ministry-celebrates-14th-anniversary/

 

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Trump may not have paid income tax for 18 years

 

 

WASHINGTON: -- Donald Trump’s taxes are back in the spotlight after The New York Times published the Republican nominees 1995 income tax returns.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946713-trump-may-not-have-paid-income-tax-for-18-years/

 

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Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel prize in medicine

 

 

STOCKHOLM: -- The 2016 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology has been awarded to Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi for research in the field of Autophagy.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946714-yoshinori-ohsumi-wins-nobel-prize-in-medicine/

 

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EU politicians mull Hungary referendum result

 

 

BRUSSELS: -- Both Brussels and Budapest are claiming victory over the migrant quotas referendum – the former the low turnout, the latter that a majority voted against the EU, leaving both sides at odds.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946715-eu-politicians-mull-hungary-referendum-result/

 

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‘Indifference is killing people’: Italy calls for help while marking migrant remembrance day

 

 

LAMPEDUSA: -- Italians on Lampedusa have marked the first official remembrance day for migrants, three years after a shipwreck half a mile from shore claimed the lives of more than 360 people seeking safety in Europe. Reports suggest 368 died, although a total of 386 people are said to be missing following the disaster.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946716-‘indifference-is-killing-people’-italy-calls-for-help-while-marking-migrant-remembrance-day/

 

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US-Russia relations plummet further over Syria, Ukraine

By MATTHEW LEE

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Already testy, relations between the United States and Russia plummeted Monday as Washington suspended diplomatic contacts with Moscow over failed efforts to end the war in Syria and President Vladimir Putin put on hold a deal with the U.S. on disposing weapons-grade plutonium.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946718-us-russia-relations-plummet-further-over-syria-ukraine/

 

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Among young voters, Obama's popularity may not transfer

By BILL BARROW

 

DURHAM, North Carolina (AP) — Paulos Muruts is set to cast his first presidential ballot for Hillary Clinton — if he makes it to the ballot box.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946719-among-young-voters-obamas-popularity-may-not-transfer/

 

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Kardashian detailed flashy Paris trip to the world

By LEANNE ITALIE

 

NEW YORK (AP) — "Can you guys guess where I'm at?"

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946720-kardashian-detailed-flashy-paris-trip-to-the-world/

 

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Clinton tears into Trump on taxes; he says he'll save nation

By KEN THOMAS and JONATHAN LEMIRE

 

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Hillary Clinton tore into Donald Trump's tax maneuvering, business skills and trustworthiness Monday as she sought to capitalize on news that the New York real estate mogul may have paid no federal taxes for years. Unfazed, he boasted of using U.S. tax laws "brilliantly" and cast himself as a savvy business survivor poised to save a reeling nation.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946713-trump-may-not-have-paid-income-tax-for-18-years/?do=findComment&comment=11208103

 

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Widespread flooding and traffic nightmares in Bangkok

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Torrential rains lashed Bangkok late Monday afternoon, causing widespread flooding and traffic nightmares on expressways and several main roads and sois.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/946721-widespread-flooding-and-traffic-nightmares-in-bangkok/