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PMO minister tells ASEAN youth representatives of Thai people's attachment to monarchy

  

BANGKOK, 6 October 2016 (NNT) - Prime Minister's Office Minister M.L. Panadda Disakul delivered a speech to youth representatives from 10 ASEAN countries on the topic of ''Thai people's attachment to the monarchy.'' 

The Prime Minister's Office minister told a total of 70 ASEAN youth representatives that the Thais have learned of the philosophy of sufficiency economy initiated by His Majesty the King and marked the significance of the theory on occasion of the 70th anniversary of His Majesty's ascension to the throne on 9 June 2016, as well as Her Majesty the Queen's seventh-cycle birthday anniversary on 12 August 2016. 

He said the monarchy is the people's major institute to which they revere, adhere and uphold at all times. His Majesty has bestowed the kindnesses and devotions to the Thais and visited villagers in all parts of the country, the minister said. 

His Majesty initiated the philosophy of sufficiency economy for the people at all levels and in all places to follow and live a happy, simple and debt-free life, he said.

 

-- nnt 2016-10-06

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Private city bus operators want government to waive their 400 million baht debt

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Seventy-five private bus operators providing bus service in Bangkok under the supervision of the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority have asked the government to waive their 400 million baht debt owed to the state.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947225-private-city-bus-operators-want-government-to-waive-their-400-million-baht-debt/

 

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1,000 baht/day minimum overhead charge set for Chinese tourists

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Effective as of Wednesday October 5, the lowest overhead charge for a Chinese tourist to be levied by package tour operators is 1,000 baht/day, said Deputy Prime Minister Thanasak Patimaprakorn on Wednesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947226-1000-bahtday-minimum-overhead-charge-set-for-chinese-tourists/

 

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PTT Plc ranks the topmost company that most people want to work with

 

 

BANGKOK: -- PTT Public Company, Siam Cement Group or SCG and Toyota Motors Thailand rank the three top companies that most people want to work with, according to an opinion survey conducted by Jobs DB (Thailand) employment service.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947227-ptt-plc-ranks-the-topmost-company-that-most-people-want-to-work-with/

 

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CDC assures parties will not be dissolved before the next election

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Constitution Drafting Committee spokesman Udom Rath-amarit assured on Wednesday existing political parties would not be disbanded “to set zero” for a fresh start of political landscape before the next election as widely feared.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947228-cdc-assures-parties-will-not-be-dissolved-before-the-next-election/

 

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THAI president made clarification over controversial Hawaii flight

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Thai Airways International president Charamporn Jotikasthira clarified on Wednesday that the price quoted by the airline to the office of the prime minister’s secretary-general for chartered flight service for General Prawit Wongsuwan’s delegation to Hawaii was just an estimated price between government agencies and the actual price would be quoted by the airline once the trip was completed.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947229-thai-president-made-clarification-over-prawits-controversial-hawaii-flight/

 

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SINO-THAI RELATIONS

Thailand bows to deportation request

KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN,
WASAMON AUDJARINT
THE NATION 

 

Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong acknowledges journalists upon his arrival at Hong Kong Airport in Hong Kong, China October 5, 2016, after being deported from Bangkok. Photo From Reuters

 

“It’s China’s business,” says PM, after Hong Kong pro-democracy leader turned away at Suvarnabhumi

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947230-joshua-wong-thailand-bows-to-chinas-deportation-request/

 

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ZIKA

Abortion legal in some Zika cases, child health unit says

Puangchompoo Prasert
The Nation 

 

Photo Credit: WHO/PAHO

 

ABORTION is a legal choice for Zika-infected women.

 

BANGKOK: -- "A panel of at least two doctors will provide close consultation to parents in discussing the option of pregnancy termination in microcephaly cases

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947231-abortion-legal-in-some-zika-cases-child-health-unit-says/

 

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INUNDATION

BMA district offices told to clear sluice gates to tackle floods

Tanatpong Kongsai,
Samrit Jiamcharoenpornkul
The Nation 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha hands out relief bags to flood-affected |residents during his visit to Ayutthaya’s Sena district yesterday.

 

BANGKOK: -- BANGKOK Metropolitan Administration (BMA) offices in the districts of Don Muang, Lak Si, Sai Mai, Bang Khen and Chatuchak were told to remove obstacles that blocked water drainage via the Bang Khen, Bang Pho and Bang Sue sluice gates, deputy governor Amorn Kitchawengkul said yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947232-inundation-bangkok-district-offices-told-to-clear-sluice-gates-to-tackle-floods/

 

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HONOLULU MEET

TV anchor denies joining trip to Hawaii

THE NATION 

 

Chonratsamee

 

BANGKOK: -- A CONTROVERSY has shrouded anchorwoman Chonratsamee Ngathaweesuk of the Army-run Channel 5, who has denied taking part in Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan’s recent trip to Hawaii.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947156-oag-denies-female-tv-announcer-among-gen-prawit’s-entourage-to-hawaii/?do=findComment&comment=11215076

 

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Committee concludes probe into Tawatchai death mystery

Pratch Rrujivanarom
Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A SPECIAL Justice Ministry committee investigating the suspicious death of land-deeds scam suspect Tawatchai Anukul while in custody announced it had completed its report yesterday, but did not disclose any details on how he died.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947233-thai-committee-concludes-probe-into-tawatchai-death-mystery/

 

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Niece of killed Army conscript presents evidence in defamation case

Pratch Rujivanarom
The Nation 

 

Narissarawan

 

BANGKOK: -- THE niece of a man beaten to death in an Army camp yesterday filed documents with Narathiwat’s provincial public prosecutor as evidence that she did not defame Major Phuri Perksopon.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947234-niece-of-killed-army-conscript-presents-evidence-in-defamation-case/

 

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Body-in-freezer eyewitness ‘important part of jigsaw’: police

The Nation 

 

Sanit

 

BANGKOK: -- Bangkok police chief Lt-General Sanit Mahathaworn said a key eyewitness who flew in from abroad was an “important piece of the jigsaw” in the investigation into the death of a man whose dismembered body was found in a freezer in Bangkok last month.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947235-body-in-freezer-eyewitness-‘important-part-of-jigsaw’-police/

 

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Police hunt scavenger after couple found brutally murdered

The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Pathum Thani police have issued an arrest warrant for a scavenger in his 20s who is suspected of brutally stabbing to death a fellow scavenger and the victim’s female partner

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947236-thai-police-hunt-scavenger-after-couple-found-brutally-murdered/

 

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BURNING ISSUE

More turbulence, but junta on autopilot

Attayuth Bootsripoom 
 

Prayut

 

BANGKOK: -- Over the past few weeks, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has been mired in a series of controversies involving people close to him.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947237-thai-politics-more-turbulence-but-govt-on-autopilot/

 

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NACC denies claims of bias against Pheu Thai

THE NATION 

 

Sansern

 

BANGKOK: -- THE National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) yesterday set out to clarify public criticism it had focused its energies on chasing only corruption cases involving Pheu Thai figures, while ignoring the Democrats.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947238-nacc-denies-claims-of-bias-against-pheu-thai/

 

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THAI TALK

How the US ‘pivot to Asia’ can help Thailand keep the balance

Suthichai Yoon
The Nation 

 

BANGKOK: -- Not surprisingly, there was no mention of the “pivot to Asia” or “rebalancing” of US foreign policy during the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump last week.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947239-how-the-us-‘pivot-to-asia’-can-help-thailand-keep-the-balance/

 

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Mystery body discovered in Banglamung

Report by Pattaya One News Team

 

 

PATTAYA: -- On the afternoon of October 5 Banglamung police station received reports of an unidentified body laying face down in a marsh on Sukhumvit Road outside Banglamung Temple.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947240-mystery-body-discovered-in-banglamung/

 

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'We'll be back.' Siam Square sidewalk sellers swear

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen, Staff Reporter -

 

A sign seeking the attention of a specific city official is temporarily set up Wednesday where vendors usually sell goods in front of Siam Square in Bangkok.

 

BANGKOK — Sidewalk vendors outside Siam Square protested briefly Wednesday on the second night they were blocked by municipal officers and officials from setting up their stalls.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947241-well-be-back-siam-square-sidewalk-sellers-swear/

 

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Thailand at core in Bosch’s 1.2 bn euro plan

KWANCHAI RUNGFAPAISARN
THE NATION 

 

Tyroller

 

BANGKOK: -- ROBERT Bosch has upped its Asia-Pacific business focus with the allocation of 1.2 billion euro (Bt46.9 billion) worth of capital investment for the region this year.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947242-thailand-at-core-in-bosch’s-12-bn-euro-plan/

 

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Probe into terror links in Thailand-based fake passport racket

Nirmal Ghosh Indochina Bureau Chief In Bangkok

 

Pakistanis involved said to have links to man suspected of supplying passports to Al-Qaeda

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947244-probe-into-terror-links-in-thailand-based-fake-passport-racket/

 

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‘Thriller’ songwriter Rod Temperton dies

 

 

LOS ANGELES: -- English musician and songwriter Rod Temperton has died at the age of 68.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947246-‘thriller’-songwriter-rod-temperton-dies/

 

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Afghan peace process to be revived, says EU Foreign Policy Chief

 

 

BRUSSELS: -- Efforts are to be made to revive Afghanistan’s stalled peace process following nearly four decades of conflict, the EU’s Foreign Policy Chief says.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947248-afghan-peace-process-to-be-revived-says-eu-foreign-policy-chief/

 

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Portugal’s António Guterres to be the new UN secretary general

Chris Cummins

 

 

NEW YORK: -- Former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres looks set to be installed as the new UN secretary general.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947249-portugal’s-antónio-guterres-to-be-the-new-un-secretary-general/

 

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Kaine and Pence trade blows and barbs at the vice-presidential debate

 

 

WASHINGTON: -- In a debate that at times lost political focus Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence delivered a calm and assured performance.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947250-kaine-and-pence-trade-blows-and-barbs-at-the-vice-presidential-debate/

 

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Paris climate agreement to take effect Nov. 4

By MICHAEL ASTOR

 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after being pushed past a key threshold Wednesday by a coalition of the world's largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947252-paris-climate-agreement-to-take-effect-nov-4/

 

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For Clinton, election likely to be won or lost in October

By JULIE PACE and HOPE YEN

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Each night, Hillary Clinton's data experts head to a conference room on the 11th floor of her Brooklyn headquarters, to start counting votes.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947253-for-clinton-election-likely-to-be-won-or-lost-in-october/

 

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VIDEO: Boat of pro-Palestinian activists blocked by Israeli forces from entering Gaza

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947251-video-boat-of-pro-palestinian-activists-blocked-by-israeli-forces-from-entering-gaza/

 

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NSA contractor accused of taking classified information

By TAMI ABDOLLAH and ERIC TUCKER

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A contractor for the National Security Agency has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his home and car, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947255-nsa-contractor-accused-of-taking-classified-information/

 

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Syria's military to reduce airstrikes for Aleppo evacuations

By PHILIP ISSA and JAMEY KEATEN

 

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's military command said it would scale back its bombardment of the contested city of Aleppo on Wednesday to allow civilians to evacuate besieged rebel-held neighborhoods.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/947256-syrias-military-to-reduce-airstrikes-for-aleppo-evacuations/