High court sides with Samsung in patent dispute with Apple

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court unanimously sided with smartphone maker Samsung on Tuesday in its high-profile patent dispute with Apple over design of the iPhone.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/high-court-sides-with-samsung-in-patent-dispute-with-apple/18907/

Google Maps update on iOS brings a host of useful new features

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

 

Google has been quietly overhauling Google Maps on both Android and iOS throughout 2016.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/google-maps-update-on-ios-brings-a-host-of-useful-new-features/18909/

Earthquake rocks Indonesia's Aceh province, several dead 

 

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong undersea earthquake rocked Indonesia's province of Acehearly Wednesday, causing several deaths and buildings to collapse in a district near the epicenter.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957354-earthquake-rocks-indonesias-aceh-province-several-dead/

 

Trump son-in-law's family donated to Israeli settler groups

By DANIEL ESTRIN

 

JERUSALEM (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law co-directs a family foundation that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Jewish settlement organizations in the West Bank, according to tax records.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957357-trump-son-in-laws-family-donated-to-israeli-settler-groups/

 

Critics worry after Trump security chief fuels conspiracies

By STEVE PEOPLES

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — On issues of national security and intelligence, no one is likely to have more influence in Donald Trump's White House than retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957358-critics-worry-after-trump-security-chief-fuels-conspiracies/

 

Film director Roman Polanski ‘cannot be extradited to US’

Chris Harris

 

 

WARSAW: -- Filmmaker Roman Polanski cannot be extradited to the US over a 1977 child sex conviction, Poland’s supreme court has ruled.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957360-film-director-roman-polanski-‘cannot-be-extradited-to-us’/

 

Police chief says Dhammachayo will not be granted bail if arrested

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Phra Dhammachayo will not be granted bail if he was arrested because police have given a chance to turn himself in to acknowledge the charges against him, Pol Gen Chakthip Chaichinda, the chief of the Royal Thai Police Office, said today.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957362-police-chief-says-dhammachayo-will-not-be-granted-bail-if-arrested/

 

Emergency ward full to overflowing - this time its young students in Thai road carnage

 

Picture: Thai News Agency

 

CHAIYAPHUM: -- Yet more carnage on the Thai roads yesterday saw 20 students from kindergarten to secondary hospitalized after a pick-up overturned.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957365-emergency-ward-full-to-overflowing-this-time-its-young-students-in-thai-road-carnage/

 

Bangkok teenager borrows granddad's revolver and shoots himself dead

 

Picture: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- A 15 year old Bangkok youth calmly went to his room after dinner with his family yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957368-bangkok-teenager-borrows-granddads-revolver-and-shoots-himself-dead/

 

More "FIT" tourists - so let's put the prices of hotels up!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- The Thai Hotelier's Association is recommending that its members increase prices from between 5 and 10% as tourists come to the kingdom in greater numbers.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957370-more-fit-tourists-so-lets-put-the-prices-of-hotels-up/

 

Phuket trams - plans to be revealed "this month"

 

Picture: Thai News Agency

 

PHUKET: -- Thirty billion baht plans for a light tram network in Phuket will be revealed this month.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957371-phuket-trams-plans-to-be-revealed-this-month/

 

Thailand's Central Bank Stands Ready for Global Risks

by Suttinee Yuvejwattana

 

• Economy expanding well below potential growth rate of 4.5%
• Central bank intervenes in fx market if excessive volatility

 

BANGKOK: -- Thailand’s central bank is keeping enough ammunition in store to respond to a downturn in world trade amid a wave of anti-globalization sentiment that’s swept from the U.K. to the U.S.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957373-thailands-central-bank-stands-ready-for-global-risks/

 

Music to the ears as noisy street racing Thai youths see their exhausts crushed

 

Picture: Thairath

 

CHANTHABURI: -- Police in Chanthaburi invited young street racers to watch their noisy exhausts being crushed by a steamroller at a police station yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957375-music-to-the-ears-as-noisy-street-racing-thai-youths-see-their-exhausts-crushed/

 

UPDATE:

 

Phuket feels Aceh strong quake

 

 

JAKARTA: -- People living in several areas of Phuket felt the strong 6.5-magnitude quake that hit Aceh, Indonesia, killing one and injuring many this morning.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957354-earthquake-rocks-indonesias-aceh-province-several-dead/?do=findComment&comment=11401932

 

Police seize 84,000 yaa baa pills from two students

 

 

KANCHANABURI: -- Two college students were arrested in Kanchanaburi’s Tha Muang district on Sunday after police found 84,000 methamphitamine tablets hidden in their sedan.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957376-police-seize-84000-yaa-baa-pills-from-two-students/

 

Jeng Dokjik banished from politics for 5 years

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A former core member of the red-shirt movement Yossawarit Chuklom, alias Jeng Dokjik, was on Tuesday banished from politics for five years after he was found guilty of concealing his assets by the Supreme Court’s criminal division for political office holders.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957379-jeng-dokjik-banished-from-politics-for-5-years/

 

Scandal brewing as 100 of Thailand's new NGV busses are held by customs

 

Picture: Thairath

 

NGV buses stuck in the port: were they made in Malaysia or China?

 

BANGKOK: -- A potential mega scandal is brewing as the chief of the  company that won a huge contract to supply eco-friendly buses to the BMTA has complained to the treasury department.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957381-scandal-brewing-as-100-of-thailands-new-ngv-busses-are-held-by-customs/

 

Finance to table 15,000 baht shopping tax break for approval today

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Ministry of Finance today proposed a tax break of 15,000 baht per person in the ‘Shop for the Country’ campaign for the cabinet to approve today.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957384-finance-to-table-15000-baht-shopping tax-break for-approval-today/

 

Muay Thai gets provisional IOC recognition 

 

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Muay Thai and cheerleading have made their way into the Olympic movement.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957386-muay-thai-gets-provisional-ioc-recognition/

 

Woman, exhausted, rescued from filthy Phuket Town canal

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The woman was exhausted but uninjured when rescue workers recovered her from the filthy canal. Photo: Tan Promedic Phuket

 

PHUKET: -- Rescue workers recovered a woman exhausted but uninjured from the bottom of Bang Yai Canal in Phuket Town on Monday night (Dec 5).

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957391-woman-exhausted-rescued-from-filthy-phuket-town-canal/

 

Sumatra quake rattles Phuket

The Phuket News

 

The earthquake struck at a depth of 10km about 364km from Phuket.

 

PHUKET: -- Tremors from an earthquake north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra before dawn this morning (Dec 7) were reported felt by residents in Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957383-sumatra-quake-rattles-phuket/

 

Creepy update means Uber app now tracks your location even when your ride has finished

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

 

The fact that apps and websites collect data on users is no secret but a recent update to the Uber app is collecting more data than most users would like.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/creepy-update-means-uber-app-now-tracks-your-location-even-when-your-ride-has-finished/18912/

Police find no fake commemorative banknotes at Sam Peng

 

 

BANGKOK, 7 December 2016 (NNT) - Police visited Sam Peng Market to make sure that no vendors were selling fake commemorative banknotes and coins of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957394-police-find-no-fake-commemorative-banknotes-at-sam-peng/

 

Bangkok adult movie actress apologizes for filming sex in Lao college girl uniform

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Out of remorse, a Thai woman filmed herself apologizing to the entire country of Laos after she reportedly caused an uproar by appearing in a pornographic movie wearing the uniform of Lao university students.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957395-bangkok-adult-movie-actress-apologizes-for-filming-sex-in-lao-college-girl-uniform/

 

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Army chief in Indonesia's Aceh province says 54 people killed in earthquake.

UPDATE:

 

Deadly earthquake rocks northern Indonesia

 

 

A powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia’s northen Aceh province causing dozens of buildings to collapse but experts say there is no risk of a tsunami.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957354-earthquake-rocks-indonesias-aceh-province-several-dead/?do=findComment&comment=11402544

 

Chinese firm buys UK Prime Minister’s local pub

 

 

CADSDEN: -- A Chinese company has bought a British pub in the Buckinghamshire countryside just outside London.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957405-chinese-firm-buys-uk-prime-minister’s-local-pub/

 

Netanyahu statue toppled

 

 

TEL AVIV: -- A golden statue of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given a mixed reception by onlookers as it made a brief appearance in Tel Aviv.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957407-netanyahu-statue-toppled/

 

 

Dhammakaya’s digital TV channel ordered shutdown for 15 days

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) yesterday ordered the digital television channel of Wat Dhammakaya, DMC, to stop operation on a temporary basis with reason that it was used as a tool to mobilise followers to the temple to shield the controversial former abbot, Phra Dhammachayo.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957408-dhammakaya’s-digital-tv-channel-ordered-shutdown-for-15-days/

 

Army hunts down Phuket taxi driver for refusing airport tourist passenger

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Police check a metered taxi near Phuket International Airport. Photo: The Phuket News / file

 

PHUKET: -- Soldiers in Phuket have hunted down and arrested a taxi driver who has now been fined B1,000 for refusing to take a passenger from Phuket International Airport after a video of a Thai tourist’s conversation with the driver over taxi fares charged on the island started going viral online

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/957410-army-hunts-down-phuket-taxi-driver-for-refusing-airport-tourist-passenger/