Thai police arrest international Aussie fugitive in Bangkok

 

 

BANGKOK:-- Bangkok crime suppression police have announced the arrest of well known international fugitive Guido James Eglitis.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954194-thai-police-arrest-international-aussie-fugitive-in-bangkok/

Do you know this foreign bicycle thief - Chiang Mai police want a word

 

 

A Caucasian foreigner was caught on CCTV lifting an expensive bike from a shop in Chiang Mai while the owner was out to lunch.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954203-do-you-know-this-foreign-bicycle-thief-chiang-mai-police-want-a-word/

Vayupak Fund makes 33 percent returns from its investments in 10 months

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Vayupak Mutual Fund has earned 33.2 percent returns or 77,567 million baht from its investments during the first ten months of this year, bringing the Fund’s total assets under its management to 310,773 million baht compared to last year’s 233,206 million baht, said a well-placed source in the Finance Ministry.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954215-vayupak-fund-makes-33-percent-returns-from-its-investments-in-10-months/

 

Kuchinarai district police plant their own rice and farm their own fish for consumption

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Kalasin provincial governor Natthapat Suwanprateep and the acting provincial police chief Pol Col Montri Charunpong on Thursday went to Kuchinarai district to participate in the harvesting of rice crops in a 15-rai plot cultivated by the district policemen.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954216-kuchinarai-district-police-plant-their-own-rice-and-farm-their-own-fish-for-consumption/

 

Woman acquitted for involvement in bombing incident in Nonthaburi’s apartment

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A woman who was suspected to be involved in the bombing incident at Samarn Metta Mansion apartment in Nonthaburi six years ago was on Thursday acquitted by the Criminal Court due to insufficient evidence.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954217-woman-acquitted-for-involvement-in-bombing-incident-in-nonthaburi’s-apartment/

 

Car export is expected to reach 1.25 million this year

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Thailand is expected to export 1.25 million cars this year compared to last year’s 1.2 million cars, thanks to demand growth in the markets in North America, Australia and Oceania Asia, said Mr Ong-art Pongkitvorasin, president of the automobile cluster of the Federation of Thai Industries.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954219-car-export-is-expected-to-reach-125-million-this-year/

 

 

Sweden PM Olof Palme murder: New prosecutor appointed

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN

 

File photo

 

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated on a Stockholm street in 1986.

 

(CNN)Sweden has named a new chief prosecutor to lead the inquiry into the 1986 unsolved murder of the country's then-Prime Minister Olof Palme.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954220-sweden-pm-olof-palme-murder-new-prosecutor-appointed/

 

Govt's vigorous law enforcement makes Thailand go up to Tier 2

 

BANGKOK, 18 November 2016 (NNT) - Former spokesman of the Command Center for Combating Illegal Fishing Admiral Chumpol Lumpikanon has said Thailand has been upgraded from Tier 3 to Tier 2 mainly due to the government’s policy to enforce the laws vigorously. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954221-thai-govts-vigorous-law-enforcement-makes-thailand-go-up-to-tier-2/

 

Police reveal illegal weapon crackdown

 

NAKHON SI THAMAMRAT, 18th November 2016 (NNT) – The Royal Thai Police is undertaking a search to find the manufacturing origin of illegal firearms as weapons seized in raids were clearly self-made, says a deputy police chief. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954222-police-reveal-illegal-weapon-crackdown/

 

Education Minister to ask DSI to handle OTEP corruption as special case

 

BANGKOK, 17 November 2016 (NNT) – The Minister of Education will ask the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to investigate allegations regarding the Office of the Welfare Promotion Commission for Teachers and Educational Personnel's (OTEP) involvement with corruption. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954223-education-minister-to-ask-dsi-to-handle-otep-corruption-as-special-case/

 

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Media in Mozambique say 73 people killed and more than 100 wounded in fuel tanker explosion.

Thailand's Richest Man Is Set to Buy This American Food Giant in a $1B Deal

by Reuters

 

It makes single-serve frozen entrees from brands such as Atkins, Boston Market, and Chili’s

 

BANGKOK: -- Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) said it will acquire U.S. frozen-food producer Bellisio Parent for $1.075 billion, paving the way for an entry into the world’s largest food market.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954224-thailands-richest-man-is-set-to-buy-this-american-food-giant-in-a-1b-deal/

 

HM the Queen in Chulalongkorn hospital for treatment of lung inflammation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Her Majesty the Queen has been admitted to Chulalongkorn Hospital for medical treatment of lung inflammation since Wednesday and her condition is improving, the Bureau of the Royal Household announced on Thursday night.

 

According to the announcement, HM the Queen had fever on Wednesday and blood test showed sign of inflammation. She was then admitted to Chulalongkorn hospital as advised by a team of Royal doctors.

Radiological examination confirmed the Queen suffered from lung inflammation and she was administered with anti-biotic.

 

On Thursday, the Queen’s fever has subsided and can breathe normally and can eat well. However, she will be further treated with anti-biotic and undergo rehabilitation.

 

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/185674-2/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-11-18

Court rejects Jatuporn’s request for bail

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Criminal Court on Thursday rejected Jatuporn Promphan’s third request for bail, claiming that there was no reason to change its earlier order to withdraw his bail.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954225-court-rejects-jatuporn’s-request-for-bail/

 

Pak Moon dam’s committee resigns en masse

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The 7-member committee to resolve the Pak Moon dam problem has resigned en masse to protest against the unilateral closure of the sluice gate of the dam in violation against the joint agreement of all stakeholders that the opening or closing of the sluice gate must be based on technical consideration.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954226-pak-moon-dam’s-committee-resigns-en-masse/

 

Official Optimism On Tourism Tempered By The Numbers

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter -

 

Visitors weave baskets to be floated in the Chao Phraya River on Monday at Santi Chai Prakan Park in Bangkok.

 

BANGKOK — “Life goes on” was the key message Thailand’s top tourism official conveyed Wednesday night at a public forum on how the country’s tourism is weathering the death of its longest-reigning monarch.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954228-official-optimism-on-tourism-tempered-by-the-numbers/

 

Why Thailand Should Worry About An Improved(?) Computer Crime Act

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen, Staff Reporter -

 

 

BANGKOK — For the past year, Wirada Saelim lived under a cloud of anxiety that she and her colleagues would be tried as criminals for doing journalism about a community poisoned by a gold mine.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954229-why-thailand-should-worry-about-an-improved-computer-crime-act/

 

In meeting with Prajin, Facebook reiterates firm stand on users’ privacy
By THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- FACEBOOK yesterday reaffirmed its policy of protecting users’ privacy in a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Prajin Juntong.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954230-in-meeting-with-prajin-facebook-reiterates-firm-stand-on-users’-privacy/

 

Prayut orders 50 new posts in PM’s Office for officials investigated for corruption
By WASAMON AUDJARINT 
THE NATION

 

Panita

 

PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha, head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), has issued a new order setting aside 50 new positions at the Prime Minister’s Office for officials accused of corruption or under investigation.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954231-prayut-orders-50-new-posts-in-pm’s-office-for-officials-investigated-for-corruption/

 

Trang arson suspect brought to military court
By The Nation

 

 

Srivara

 

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: -- Deputy police chief General Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul yesterday brought Trang arson suspect Abdul-Kadae Salae to the Military Court of 43rd Military Circle in Nakhon Si Thammarat, where it was recommended that prosecutors indict Abdul-Kadae and two alleged accomplices who remained at large.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954232-trang-arson-suspect-brought-to-military-court/

 

G2G deals in Q4 to boost rice exports 
By   PETCHANET PRATRUANGKRAI 
THE NATION 
 

BANGKOK: -- THE COMMERCE Ministry’s Foreign Trade Department expects rice exports to reach 9 million tonnes next year, while this year they will surge beyond 9.5 million tonnes thanks to government-to-government contracts fulfilled in the final quarter.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954234-g2g-deals-in-q4-to-boost-rice-exports /

German who cut up wife then holidayed in Thailand guilty of murder

 

Augsburg, Germany - A German man who killed his sleeping wife, cut the body up and hid it, and then went on a weeklong sex adventure holiday in Thailand was found guilty of murder in Germany on Thursday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954235-german-who-cut-up-wife-then-holidayed-in-thailand-guilty-of-murder/

 

At least 16 dead and 340 missing in the Med

Catherine Hardy

 

 

LAMPEDUSA: -- At least six migrants have died and up to 100 more are missing and feared dead after their rubber boat sank in the Mediterrranean on Thursday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954237-at-least-16-dead-and-340-missing-in-the-med/

 

Europe comes closer to its own GPS

Catherine Hardy

 

 

Europe has launched four more Galileo satellites.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954238-europe-comes-closer-to-its-own-gps/

 

Jean-Marie Le Pen to remain Front National’s ‘honorary president’

 

 

PARIS: -- A court has upheld Jean-Marie Le Pen’s exclusion from France’s Front National party, but has allowed him to remain honorary president.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954240-jean-marie-le-pen-to-remain-front-national’s-‘honorary-president’/

 

US racist and bigoted hate crimes explode after Trump election victory

 

 

INDIANAPOLIS: -- Swastikas and homophobic insults:graffiti dubbed on a church in the US state of Indiana. Just one example of 437 reports of hate crimes recorded in the United States since Donald Trump’s election victory.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954241-us-racist-and-bigoted-hate-crimes-explode-after-trump-election-victory/

 

US Intelligence Chief James Clapper resigns

 

 

WASHINGTON: -- America’s top spy, the US’ Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, has resigned.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954242-us-intelligence-chief-james-clapper-resigns/

 

US Jews grapple with election-year eruption of anti-Semitism

By RACHEL ZOLL

 

NEW YORK (AP) — American Jews gathered Thursday to wrestle with how they should confront an election-year surge in anti-Semitism, a level of bias not seen in the U.S. for decades.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954243-us-jews-grapple-with-election-year-eruption-of-anti-semitism/

 

Trump reassuring the world he's focusing on foreign policy

By KEN THOMAS and CATHERINE LUCEY

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump sought to reassure nervous leaders around the globe with his most public foray into foreign policy since the election, welcoming Japan's prime minister to Trump Tower on Thursday. On Capitol Hill, his incoming vice president aimed to project unity at home.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954244-trump-reassuring-the-world-hes-focusing-on-foreign-policy/

 

Obama, nudging Trump, says he must 'stand up' to Russia

By JOSH LEDERMAN and DAVID RISING

 

BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Donald Trump on Thursday to take a tougher approach toward Russia, urging the president-elect to "stand up" to Moscow when it violates global norms. The Kremlin accused Obama of trying to lock in bad relations before Trump takes office.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/954246-obama-nudging-trump-says-he-must-stand-up-to-russia/