THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Monday 31 Oct 2016

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Hom Mali rice price plunges to the lowest in ten years

 

 

The price of milled Hom Mali rice for the month of December as quoted by rice exporters at 15,800 baht per tonne or 8,000 baht per tonne of paddy which is the lowest in a decade.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951178-hom-mali-rice-price-plunges-to-the-lowest-in-ten-years/

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Government will resolve rice price issue on sustainable basis: government spokesman

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The government is trying to resolve the rice price problem on a sustainable basis and will not just hand out money to help the farmers because that is not the right way to solve the problem but, besides, it will hurt the economy as a whole, government spokesman Lt-Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd told the media on Sunday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951222-thai-govt-will-resolve-rice-price-issue-on-sustainable-basis-government-spokesman/

 

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Broadcasting board may scrap CTH company’s operating license

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The broadcasting board of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission is to meet on Monday to consider whether it should revoke the operating license of CTH cable TV company whose operations were already suspended by the board for 30 days.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951223-broadcasting-board-may-scrap-cth-company’s-operating-license/

 

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Palace issues dress code for mourners paying respects before royal urn

 

  

BANGKOK, 31 October 2016 (NNT) – The Bureau of the Royal Household (BRH) has issued guidelines to the general public on appropriate dress for people who wish to enter the Grand Palace to pay their respects to the late King. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951224-palace-issues-dress-code-for-mourners-paying-respects-before-royal-urn/

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Chiang Mai welcomes tourists and miss universe china 2016 contestants

  

CHIANG MAI, 31 October 2016 (NNT) – Chiang Mai has organized an annual activity entitled Check in Chiang Mai to High Season 2017 to welcome visitors to its high season. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951225-chiang-mai-welcomes-tourists-and-miss-universe-china-2016-contestants/

 

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Officers step up efforts to prevent missing people at Sanam Luang

  

BANGKOK, 31 October 2016 (NNT) - A security joint operations command for the areas surrounding the Grand Palace has increased security after it found that there were criminals among mourners. Measures have been imposed to prevent missing people. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951226-officers-step-up-efforts-to-prevent-missing-people-at-sanam-luang/

 

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Samut Songkhram warns public on potential river overflow

  

SAMUT SONGKHRAM, 31 October 2016 (NNT) – Samut Songkhram Provincial Irrigation Project has warned the general public residing by river banks to be cautious of potential overflows caused by continuous rains. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951227-samut-songkhram-warns-public-on-potential-river-overflow/

 

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He Ate Children: The Serial Killer Who Still Terrorizes Thailand Today

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter -

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Late on a Monday afternoon decades back, 8-year-old Somboon Boonyakan went to buy some vegetables for his family to cook dinner from a local Chinese gardener. He never returned.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951228-he-ate-children-the-serial-killer-who-still-terrorizes-thailand-today/

 

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Crane Topples Onto Sidewalk At BTS Phra Khanong

By Khaosod English -

 

Workers remove a fallen crane from across the sidewalk at BTS Phra Khanong on Sukhumvit Road on Sunday in Bangkok.

 

BANGKOK — A construction crane came crashing down Sunday onto the sidewalk of Sukhumvit Road.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951229-crane-topples-onto-sidewalk-at-bts-phra-khanong/

 

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Villagers protest against plan to close, merge small Nakhon Phanom school
By The Nation

 

This school in Buri Ram province, Ban Khao Kradong, faces similiar problems to the one in Nakhon Phanon. Authorities are preparing to merge it with another school soon with the aim to boost educational quality.

 

NAKHON PHANOM: -- A PROJECT to merge small schools with larger ones is facing objections from teachers and village residents.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951230-villagers-protest-against-plan-to-close-merge-small-nakhon-phanom-school/

 

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Rangers kill alleged insurgent in gun battle in Narathiwat

By Narong Nuansakul 
The Nation 
Narathiwat 

 

People stand and watch whilst Thai police inspect the body of a suspected militant after a gunfight with Thai rangers in the Rueso district of Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat on October 30, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / MADAREE TOHLALA

 

NARATHIWAT: -- A SUSPECTED leading member of the armed insurgency group the RKK was shot dead during a gunfight with the military in Narathiwat’s Rusoh district early yesterday, authorities said.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951231-rangers-kill-alleged-insurgent-in-gun-battle-in-narathiwat/

 

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UPDATE:

 

Lowest rice prices in 10 years force farmers to seek new sales ideas

October 31, 2016 01:00 
By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation

 

 

Organic crops claim higher premium; scheme promoted for direct sales to consumers

 

BANGKOK: -- FARMERS ARE struggling to survive the lowest rice prices in a decade. For many, profits from selling paddy to rice millers are not sufficient to pay their debts and income from directly retailing their produce to consumers is unreliable. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951178-hom-mali-rice-price-plunges-to-the-lowest-in-ten-years/?do=findComment&comment=11284079

 

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Will the Alpine ghost be put to rest forever?
By The Nation

 

Land grabbing by those in power is a major cause of political ills

 

BANGKOK: -- Another scandal that is emblematic of the major ills plaguing Thai politics has been dug up and put on show. By arraigning former Pheu Thai Party leader Yongyuth Wichaidith over the Alpine Golf Course controversy

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951232-thai-editorial-will-the-alpine-ghost-be-put-to-rest-forever /

 

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Maize farmers plan court action to suspend imports of wheat
By PETCHANET PRATRUANGKRAI 
THE NATION

 

BANGKOK: -- A GROUP of maize farmers from the Central and Northern regions plan to file a petition with the Administrative Court calling for the suspension of wheat imports as a way to combat a dramatic decline in the market price of their produce.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951233-maize-farmers-plan-court-action-to-suspend-imports-of-wheat/

 

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TOT seeks backing for 10-digit numbers
By USANEE MONGKOLPORN 
THE NATION

 

BANGKOK: -- STATE TELECOM agency TOT has asked private telecom operators and the government to help financially support its plan to upgrade nationwide fixed-telephone numbers to 10 digits from the current nine digits, TOT president Montchai Noosong said.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951234-tot-seeks-backing-for-10-digit-numbers/

 

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Sickening beating of sobbing young Buddhist monk caught on camera in vile temple video

BY KEYAN MILANIAN

 

An appeal to trace the monk has been made

 

Netizens are trying to hunt down the monk responsible for the beating so that he faces disciplinary action

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951236-sickening-beating-of-sobbing-young-buddhist-monk-caught-on-camera-in-vile-temple-video/

 

 

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“Rome was woken by shaking” – eyewitnesses describes Italy’s huge earthquake

Catherine Hardy

 

 

What has happened?

 

Central Italy has been shaken by another powerful earthquake.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951237-“rome-was-woken-by-shaking”-–-eyewitnesses-describes-italy’s-huge-earthquake/

 

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Italy quake: ‘We are taking care of those affected,’ Civil Protection chief tells euronews

 

 

ROME: -- Italy’s Civil Protection authorities find themselves responding to a fourth natural disaster in three months. Euronews’ Sabrina Pisu found out the latest from department head Fabrizio Curcio.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951238-italy-quake-‘we-are-taking-care-of-those-affected’-civil-protection-chief-tells-euronews/

 

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“We will rebuild everything”, Renzi tells Italy

Catherine Hardy

 

 

Quake of magnitude 6.6 strikes in Le Marche and Umbria regions

Strongest for 36 years

Historic basilica of St Benedict destroyed

 

ROME: -- Italy’s Prime Minister is promising that the homes, churches and properties destroyed in a string of earthquakes over the past two months will be rebuilt.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951239-“we-will-rebuild-everything”-renzi-tells-italy/

 

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The EU and Canada sign historic CETA trade treaty

 

 

It was an historic moment in Brussels

 

BRUSSELS: -- After seven years of negotiations, the European Union and Canada signed the landmark Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) on Sunday (October 30).

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951240-the-eu-and-canada-sign-historic-ceta-trade-treaty/

 

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Official: FBI knew for weeks about newly discovered emails

By ERIC TUCKER

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI investigators in the Anthony Weiner sexting probe knew for weeks about the existence of newly discovered emails potentially related to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server, a law enforcement official said Sunday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951241-official-fbi-knew-for-weeks-about-newly-discovered-emails/

 

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Clinton says she won't be 'knocked off course' in final week

By JULIE PACE and KEN THOMAS

 

WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — Hillary Clinton vowed Sunday that she would not be "knocked off course" in the election's final days, as she sought to push past a new FBI email inquiry in a sexting probe that delivered a late jolt to her race against Republican Donald Trump.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951242-clinton-says-she-wont-be-knocked-off-course-in-final-week/

 

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If elected, Clinton faces awkward coexistence with Comey

By ERIC TUCKER

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The relationship between James Comey and Hillary Clinton was never going to be tension-free, not when Comey's FBI had conducted an election-year criminal investigation into the Democratic presidential candidate's email practices.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951243-if-elected-clinton-faces-awkward-coexistence-with-comey/

 

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Iraq's Shiite militias join Mosul push; bombs rock Baghdad

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BRIAN ROHAN

 

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of fighters flocked to join Iraq's state-sanctioned, Iran-backed Shiite militias on Sunday, advancing to cut off Islamic State extremists holed up near Mosul in northern Iraq while bombers killed at least 17 people in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951244-iraqs-shiite-militias-join-mosul-push-bombs-rock-baghdad/

 

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Money pours in for anti-pipeline protest, but will it last?

By REGINA GARCIA CANO

 

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — The crowdsourcing goal was modest: $5,000, enough to help a few dozen people camping in North Dakota to protest the nearby construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. The fund has since topped a staggering $1 million.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951245-us-money-pours-in-for-anti-pipeline-protest-but-will-it-last/

 

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Jury selection begins for officer in death of black motorist

By BRUCE SMITH

 

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A jury being chosen this week in Charleston will have to decide whether a white former police officer is guilty of murder in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist that shocked the nation after a bystander released cellphone video of the confrontation.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951246-us-jury-selection-begins-for-officer-in-death-of-black-motorist/

 

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Pornhub offers to buy Vine and turn it into 6 second porn site

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

 

Adult website Pornhub claims that it can buy and save the ailing video sharing app Vine.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/pornhub-offers-to-buy-vine-and-turn-it-into-6-second-porn-site/18284/

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Top Senate Dem says FBI chief may have broken law on emails 
DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Senate Democrat said Sunday that FBI Director James Comey may have broken the law when he disclosed 11 days before the election that investigators had newly discovered emails that may be relevant to the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951258-top-senate-dem-says-fbi-chief-may-have-broken-law-on-emails /

 

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UNICEF: Air pollution kills 600,000 children yearly

By Ralph Ellis, CNN

 

(CNN)UNICEF is calling on world leaders to reduce air pollution, saying it leads to the deaths of more children yearly than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951261-unicef-air-pollution-kills-600000-children-yearly/

 

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Thailand ranked the world’s 46th best destination for “ease of doing business”

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Thailand was ranked the world's 46th best destination for ease of doing business, according to the World Bank’s flagship publication ‘Doing Business 2017’. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/951262-thailand-ranked-the-worlds-46th-best-destination-for-ease-of-doing-business/