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Govt plans to buy Chinese submarine this year: Prawit

By The Nation 

 

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan Tuesday confirmed the Royal Thai Navy would buy a Chinese-built submarine this year after the legislators approved an annual budget.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965455-govt-plans-to-buy-chinese-submarine-this-year-prawit/

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Phuket Governor warns illegal hotels ‘to be demolished’

Yutthawat Lekmak

 

Phuket Governor Chockchai Dejamornthan today warned operators who illegally rent out properties for periods of less than 30 days that their properties 'would be demolished' if they continued to ignore the order to register as hotels.

 

PHUKET:-- In a stunning development today, Phuket Governor Chockchai Dejamornthan warned operators who illegally rent out properties for periods of less than 30 days that their properties “would be demolished” if they continued to ignore the order to register as hotels.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965464-phuket-governor-warns-illegal-hotels-‘to-be-demolished’/

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Citizens' arrest in Pattaya - alleged Iranian thief stopped

 

Picture: Daily News

 

PATTAYA: -- Concerned members of the public in Pattaya made a citizen's arrest on Tuesday after they saw a man taking money from a bag.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965498-citizens-arrest-in-pattaya-alleged-iranian-thief-stopped/

 

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Police hunt woman after driver drugged in Lampang

 

Picture: Sanook

 

LAMPANG: -- Police are hunting for a woman who drugged a man she hired to travel from Chonburi to Lampang and back.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965499-police-hunt-woman-after-driver-drugged-in-lampang/

 

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Bangkok police in 5 million baht counterfeit good arrest

 

Picture: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- Met chief Sanit Mahathavorn said that Lumpini police had arrested two drivers who had made a delivery of nearly 7,000 counterfeit items from Aranyaprathet to Bangkok.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965500-bangkok-police-in-5-million-baht-counterfeit-good-arrest/

 

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Eight Thai prostitutes arrested in Taiwan were charging 2,500 baht for half an hour

 

Picture: Thairath

 

TAIPEI: -- Taiwanese police said Tuesday that they had arrested eight Thai women aged between 20 and 30 for prostitution in Taipei.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965501-eight-thai-prostitutes-arrested-in-taiwan-were-charging-2500-baht-for-half-an-hour/

 

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Probe ordered into electrical cable bribery

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Interior Minister Anupong Paochinda has ordered the Metropolitan Electricity Authority and Provincial Electricity Authority to set up separate panels to investigate alleged bribery taking by officials of the two state utilities over the procurement of electrical cables from US company, General Cable.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965502-probe-ordered-into-electrical-cable-bribery/

 

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PM wishes all parties to ink MoU on reconciliation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha said Tuesday he could not figure out how a political party which does not sign the government-proposed MoU on reconciliation will earn a place in the next government.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965503-pm-prayut-wishes-all-parties-to-ink-mou-on-reconciliation/

 

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Ford car buyers petition for justice from prime minister

 

BANGKOK: -- A group of Ford car buyers lodged a complaint at the Public Service Centre of the Government House to seek justice from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha over the allleged substandard cars they bought from Ford Company.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965504-ford-car-buyers-petition-for-justice-from-prime-minister/

 

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Media personnel to rally against “gag” bill on Sunday

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Members of the Thai media are to rally at the Thai Journalists Association this coming Sunday at 11 am in a “show of force” to demonstrate their strong opposition to a bill introduced by the National Reform Steering Assembly supposedly to protect the right and freedom and to promote the standard of media professionals.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965506-media-personnel-to-rally-against-“gag”-bill-on-sunday/

 

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Flood victims face new threat from uncollected garbage

 

 

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: -- People in Nakhon Si Thammarat do not only suffer from three rounds of flooding within about a month. They are now facing a new health threat from a mountain of garbage which has been spreading out of the dump site into natural waterways by flood water.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965507-flood-victims-in-nakhon-si-thammarat-face-new-threat-from-uncollected-garbage/

 

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FDA told to pull out Colistin anti-biotic from drug shelves

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Public Health Ministry is to propose the Food and Drugs Administration to remove oral Colistin anti-biotic drug from drug shelves to put a stop to widespread abuses of the drug which may lead to bacterial resistant to the drug.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965508-fda-told-to-pull-out-colistin-anti-biotic-from-drug-shelves/

 

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Cabinet approves Phra That Phanom temple Unesco candidacy

 

BANGKOK, 25 January 2017 (NNT) – The Cabinet has approved the documents for Phra That Phanom temple's Unesco candidacy nomination, which will be submitted to the World Heritage Committee in the Republic of Poland in July. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965509-thai-cabinet-approves-phra-that-phanom-temple-unesco-candidacy/

 

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Briton shot dead in his Porsche in Pattaya

 

 

A British businessman was shot dead in his Porsche at the parking lot of a sports club in Pattaya on Tuesday by lone gunman.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965406-british-man-assassinated-in-gangland-hit-in-pattaya/?do=findComment&comment=11555372

 

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Activists sue security forces over 2015 rally crackdown

By  Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Police on May 22, 2015, drag a student activist away from an anti-coup protest in front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.

 

BANGKOK — A group of pro-democracy activists on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the authorities alleging they used excessive force during a crackdown on a 2015 political gathering in the capital.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965510-activists-sue-security-forces-over-2015-rally-crackdown/

 

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Education gap too wide for leap to Thailand 4.0
By Lars Sondergaard, Dilaka Lathapipat
Special to The Nation

 

One million students in small schools are falling further behind

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965511-education-gap-too-wide for-leap-to-thailand-40/

 

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Former British PM Cameron to speak at global tourism summit in Bangkok
By   WATCHIRANONT THONGTEP
THE NATION

 

File photo : Cameron//AFP

 

BANGKOK: -- FORMER BRITISH prime minister David Cameron has been invited to deliver speeches about key issues that might influence global tourism at the “World Travel and Tourism Council Global Summit”, which is scheduled to be held in Bangkok in April.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965514-former-british-pm-cameron-to-speak-at-global-tourism-summit-in-bangkok/

 

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Police chief and ThaiBev get seven days to explain Bt50,000 adviser payment
By CHANIKARN PHUMHIRAN
THE NATION

 

Sanit

 

BANGKOK: -- METROPOLITAN Police chief Sanit Mahathavorn and Thai Beverage (“ThaiBev”) have been given seven days to explain how the senior policeman reportedly earned Bt50,000 a month as an adviser to the country’s biggest producer of alcoholic drinks.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965515-police-chief-and-thaibev-get-seven-days-to-explain-bt50000-adviser-payment/

 

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Payments delayed after law passed for increased Bt350 garbage bills
By MAYUREE SUKYINGCHAROENWONG
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- ALTHOUGH a new law is in effect for local administrators to charge a maximum of Bt350 per household per month for garbage collection and disposal, many residents do not have to pay the increased fee yet.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965516-payments-delayed-after-law-passed-for-increased-bt350-garbage-bills/

 

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Swallows caught in Silom tested for bird flu
By Thanis Sudto
The Nation

 

 

BARN swallows hovering over Silom Road in Bangkok were caught for random bird-flu checks this week.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965517-swallows-caught-in-silom-tested-for-bird-flu/

 

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NLA approves Bt13 billion for first submarine, Prawit confirms
By THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE Royal Thai Navy’s long-held dream to have submarines looks set to be realised as the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) has approved funding to buy the first of three vessels, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965455-govt-plans-to-buy-chinese-submarine-this-year-prawit/?do=findComment&comment=11556536

 

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State bodies in new bribe claim
By USANEE MONGKOLPORN
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The MEA, PEA and TOT embroiled in US cable firm’s admission it made illegal payments in Thailand and other countries.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965518-state-bodies-in-new-bribe-claim/

 

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Prayut rejects panel’s suggestion for Prem-era reconciliation policies
By WASAMON AUDJARINT
SAKDA SAMERPHOP 
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- ONE DAY after a reform panel suggested adopting measures similar to those practised in the Cold War era to reconcile political blocs, junta chiefs debunked the concept as irrelevant to current circumstances.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965519-prayut-rejects-panel’s-suggestion-for-prem-era-reconciliation-policies/

 

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British man shot dead in Chon Buri
By THEERAWAT THONGMA
THE NATION

 

 

POLICE in Chon Buri have called an urgent meeting to find the gunman who shot dead a British businessman in Bang Lamung district yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965406-british-man-assassinated-in-gangland-hit-in-pattaya/?do=findComment&comment=11556571

 

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Chinese Falun Gong activist faces court
By CHULARAT SAENGPASSA
THE NATION

 

Song arrested after boat capsizes near Chumphon; may face persecution by Beijing

 

BANGKOK: -- A PROMINENT Falun Gong member from China is facing a court battle in Thailand and the risk of repatriation over allegedly entering the country illegally. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965520-chinese-falun-gong-activist-faces-court/

 

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Gang guilty of plot to cheat |on police exam will face serious action: Adul
By THE NATION

 

Adul

 

BANGKOK: -- PEOPLE involved in cheating during police entrance exams last month have been found to have committed similar offences in tests for other state agencies, and will face serious action, deputy Bangkok police chief Pol Maj-General Adul Narongsak said yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965521-gang-guilty-of-plot-to-cheat-on-police-exam-will-face-serious-action-adul/

 

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New law mulled for 'transitional justice'
By Piyaporn Wongruang 
The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The criteria for differentiating and categorising politically motivated criminal offences and related legal procedures will for the first time be addressed by the lawmaking body of the National Legislative Assembly_as part of a bid to forge reconciliation in relation to those involved in demonstrations and unrest since 2005.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965522-new-law-mulled-for-transitional-justice/

 

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Thai exports could benefit, face risks from Trump policies
By Petchanet Pratruangkrai
The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- US President Donald Trump’s trade policies could result in both positive impacts and risks for Thai exporters, who should hedge the exchange rate to protect themselves from uncertainty, according to a study by the Commerce Ministry’s Trade Policy and Strategy Office.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965523-thai-exports-could-benefit-face-risks-from-trump-policies/

 

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SPD nominates Schulz to take on Merkel for German Chancellor

 

 

BERLIN: -- Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) have nominated Martin Schulz as their candidate to run against Angela Merkel to become chancellor, following Sigmar Gabriel’s decision to stand aside.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965524-spd-nominates-schulz-to-take-on-merkel-for-german-chancellor/

 

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Battle for Mosul: thousands of children in recaptured east go back to school

 

 

MOSUL: -- Thousands of children in Iraq are heading back to school in eastern areas of Mosul, recently cleared from ISIL control.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/965525-battle-for-mosul-thousands-of-children-in-recaptured-east-go-back-to-school/