Russian woman, 29, dies 3 days after being hit by motorbike when crossing Phuket road
Yutthawat Lekmak

 

 

PHUKET: A 29-year-old Russian woman died in Vachira Phuket Hospital on Monday (Jan 16) three days after she was hit by a motorbike when crossing the road in Karon.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964830-russian-woman-29-dies-3-days-after-being-hit-by-motorbike-when-crossing-phuket-road/

Chinese credit card fraudsters arrested in Hua Mark, Bangkok

 

Image: Daily News

 

BANGKOK:-- Police in Hua Mark have announced the arrest of five Chinese nationals for credit card fraud.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964853-chinese-credit-card-fraudsters-arrested-in-hua-mark-bangkok/

 

Video: Speedy meter as Bangkok passengers run up 1600 baht bill for 700 baht journey

 

Image: Daily News

 

BANGKOK:-- Four passengers travelling across Bangkok in a taxi said the driver tried to fleece them with a faulty meter.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964854-video-speedy-meter-as-bangkok-passengers-run-up-1600-baht-bill-for-700-baht-journey/

 

Laotian people online have been reveling in the arrest of what the Thai authorities described as "ASEAN's most wanted drug dealer.

 

Image: Sanook

 

Chaichana Kaewphimpha, 42, a Laotian businessman was arrested at the departure lounge of Suvarnabhumi airport on Thursday. He had been on a holiday in Phuket after entering Thailand via the north east.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964856-laotian-people-online-have-been-reveling-in-the-arrest-of-what-the-thai-authorities-described-as-aseans-most-wanted-drug-dealer/

 

More arrests and seizures as city wide crackdown on illegal weapons for sale on the internet continues in Bangkok

 

Picture: Thairath 

 

BANGKOK:-- Police said Friday that another six suspects and a host of weapons were seized in city wide raids conducted in Bangkok.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964857-more-arrests-and-seizures-as-city-wide-crackdown-on-illegal-weapons-for-sale-on-the-internet-continues-in-bangkok/

 

Princess apologises for arriving late

By The nation

 

Says she had health woes before she met flood victims in Surat Thani

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964859-princess-apologises-for-arriving-late/

 

Police have no conflict with Justice Ministry over Mrs Jomsap’s case: Pol Gen Panya

 

 

The Royal Thai Police Office does not have any conflict with the Justice Ministry over the handling of Mrs Jomsap Saenmuangkote’s appeal for a retrial of her fatal hit-and-run case as both have been coordinating with each other all along, police inspector-general Pol Gen Panya Mamen said on Friday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964860-police-have-no-conflict-with-justice-ministry-over-mrs-jomsap’s-case-pol-gen-panya/

 

Chuwit in parliament to bid farewell to politics

 

 

BANGKOK:-- Former Rak Prathet Thailand (Thailand) party leader Chuwit Kamolvisit visited the parliament on Friday to declare his decision to quit politics as a politician.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964861-chuwit-in-parliament-to-bid-farewell-to-politics/

 

Thai Life insurance helps victims of southern floods

By The Nation

 

Thai Life Insurance has extended the grace period for premium payments by 60 days for flood victims.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964862-thai-life-insurance-helps-victims-of-southern-floods/

 

Municipalities in Narathiwat and Pattani are flooded

 

 

Non-stop rains since Thursday in Narathiwat and Pattani provinces on Friday have caused flooding in the municipalities and riverside areas of the two southern border provinces.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964863-municipalities-in-narathiwat-and-pattani-are-flooded/

 

Top retailers gear up for Chinese New Year shoppers

By THE NATION

 

Central Food Hall on the seventh floor of the CentralWorld shopping complex in Bangkok has prepared for the coming Chinese New Year festival with colourful offers and decorations.

 

MODERN RETAILERS have launched attractive Chinese New Year campaigns to cash in on the first major festival of 2017 that lures high shopper spending.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964865-top-retailers-gear-up-for-chinese-new-year-shoppers/

 

Over Bt100m in assets of suspected Lao drug lord frozen

By Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai,
Seksanti Kalayanawisut
The Nation

 

Laotian national, Xayasana Keopimpha, is escorted by police after his dramatic arrest in front of dozens of travellers at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Thursday. The man is suspected to be a major drug lord whose network spans across Asean count

 

THAI ANTI-NARCOTICS police have arrested a Laotian who is suspected to be a major drug lord with a network that spans Asean countries.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964866-over-bt100m-in-assets-of-suspected-lao-drug-lord-frozen/

 

BMA sued over lack of lifts for handicapped at Skytrain stations

By Pratch Rujivanarom,
Thanatpon Khongsai
The Nation

 

 

A CIVIL RIGHTS group for the handicapped filed a civil lawsuit against Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (the BMA) yesterday for failing to install lifts in all BTS Skytrain stations, which they say violates their right for equal access to public transport.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964867-bma-sued-over-lack-of-lifts-for-handicapped-at-skytrain-stations/

 

Events mark 100th day since Rama IX’s passing

By The Nation

 

HM King Maha Vajiralongkorn attends a royal merit-making ceremony yesterday marking the 100th day since the passing of his father, HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej, at the Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall, the Grand Palace.

 

Bangkok officials stage big cleanup at Sanam Luang as merit-making services go on

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964868-events-mark-100th-day-since-rama-ix’s-passing/

 

Trump, now president, vows to put 'America First' in nationalist speech

By Steve Holland

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday and pledged to end what he called an "American carnage" of rusted factories and crime in an inaugural address that was a populist and nationalist rallying cry.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964869-trump-now-president-vows-to-put-america-first-in-nationalist-speech/

 

Violence flares in Washington during Trump inauguration

By Jonathan Landay and Scott Malone

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America's political divisions turned violent on Washington's streets during U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, as black clad anti-establishment activists set fires and clashed with police while Trump supporters cheered the new chief executive.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964870-violence-flares-in-washington-during-trump-inauguration/

 

Trump admin targets violent Islamist groups as foreign policy priority

By Yeganeh Torbati

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on the West front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will make defeating "radical Islamic terror groups" its top foreign policy goal, according to a statement posted on the White House website moments after Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964871-trump-admin-targets-violent-islamist-groups-as-foreign-policy-priority/

 

 

Mexico drug lord 'El Chapo' pleads not guilty in U.S. court

By Nate Raymond and Jonathan Allen

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman appeared in a U.S. court on Friday after his surprise extradition from Mexico and pleaded not guilty to charges that he ran the world's largest drug-trafficking organisation during a decades-long criminal career.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964872-mexico-drug-lord-el-chapo-pleads-not-guilty-in-us-court/

 

Senate approves Mattis to lead Pentagon, first Trump cabinet member

 

Retired U.S. Marine Corps General and defense secretary-nominee James Mattis speaks with a Marine guard before the Inaugural parade in Washington, January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate confirmed the first member of Republican President Donald Trump's cabinet on Friday, voting overwhelmingly to approve retired Marine General James Mattis as secretary of defence just hours after Trump was sworn in as commander-in-chief.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964875-senate-approves-mattis-to-lead-pentagon-first-trump-cabinet-member/

 

7 southern provinces to be lashed with heavy torrential rains Saturday

 

 

Seven southern provinces were warned to brace for heavy and very heavy torrential rains as of Friday until Saturday as the direct result of the strong high pressure area from China which has covered the northeastern region Friday night.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964878-7-southern-provinces-to-be-lashed-with-heavy-torrential-rains-saturday/

 

Apple files $1 billion lawsuit against chip supplier Qualcomm

BY REUTERS

 

 

(Reuters) – Apple Inc filed a $1 billion lawsuit against supplier Qualcomm Inc on Friday, days after the U.S. government filed a lawsuit that accused the chip maker of resorting to anticompetitive tactics to maintain a monopoly over key semiconductors in mobile phones.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/apple-files-1-billion-lawsuit-against-chip-supplier-qualcomm/19452/

PTT under scrutiny over ‘bribes from Rolls-Royce’

By PRAPHAN JINDALERTUDOMDEE,
NATTHAPAT PHROMKAEW
THE NATION

 

 

NACC investigating Bt385 million allegedly paid to executives according to US justice dept.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964882-ptt-under-scrutiny-over-‘bribes-from-rolls-royce’/

 

PayPal teams with Centara for seamless hotel booking

By THE NATION

 

PAYPAL, a global online payments company, is collaborating with Centara Hotels & Resorts. Travellers looking to make a booking on Centara Hotels & Resorts’ websites and mobile application are now able to do so more securely and more quickly by checking out with PayPal, according to the two companies.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964885-paypal-teams-with-centara-for-seamless-hotel-booking/

 

Rolls-Royce details 3 alleged payment lots to THAI

By THE NATION

 

 

A STATEMENT of facts prepared in connection with a deferred prosecution agreement in the case involving Rolls-Royce’s conspiracy to corrupt, plus false accounting and its failure to prevent bribery shows there were three counts of alleged wrongdoing involving Thai Airways’ purchase of the British company’s Trent engines.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964888-rolls-royce-details-3-alleged-payment-lots-to-thai/

 

Trump will not abandon Southeast Asia, says US expert

By SUPALAK GANJANAKHUNDEE
THE NATION

 

 

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump, who formally took office yesterday, might create concerns in some parts of the world because of his harsh policies to “Make America Great Again” but he will not abandon Southeast Asia, a US expert said yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964891-trump-will-not-abandon-southeast-asia-says-us-expert/

 

Yingluck moves to have Bt35 bn damages order revoked

By The Nation

 

 

The Administrative Court is scheduled to hear on Thursday a petition filed by former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra against an administrative order for her to pay Bt35 billion in damages allegedly stemming from her government’s rice-pledging scheme.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964896-yingluck-moves-to-have-bt35-bn-damages-order-revoked/

 

New reconciliation panel not a stalling tactic, says General Chaichan

By JITTRAPORN SENAWONG,
NATTAPHAT PHROMKAEW,
PRAPASRI OSATHANON
THE NATION

 

THE DEFENCE MINISTRY permanent secretary charged with heading a new committee to facilitate reconciliation assured yesterday that the latest effort to achieve national harmony was not a trick to buy time or a political “put-up job”.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964899-new-reconciliation-panel-not-a-stalling-tactic-says-general-chaichan/

 

Haircut event to raise funds for flood victims

By The Nation

 

 

Volunteer hairdressers, including famous Somsak Chalachol, will be offering a haircut to any person donating at least Bt300 to flood victims in the South.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964902-haircut-event-to-raise-funds-for-flood-victims/

 

Samart eyes more revenue from sports-content arm

By USANEE MONGKOLPORN 
THE NATION

 

SET-LISTED telecom holding Samart Corp will focus more on the sports-content business this year, as the group targets total revenue of Bt20 billion for 2017.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964904-samart-eyes-more-revenue-from-sports-content-arm/

 

Mekong giant catfish being driven to extinction in natural habitat

By Pratch Rujivanarom
The Nation
Chiang Rai

 

 

SURVIVAL OF THE Mekong giant catfish is at a critical point, with the species on the brink of extinction in the wild due to development projects along the Mekong River, experts have warned.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/964915-mekong-giant-catfish-being-driven-to-extinction-in-natural-habitat/