"My Mate Nate" sickens Thai animal lovers with latest "anti- Buddhist" YouTube stunt

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- An American man living in Thailand has drawn the ire of Thai animal lovers with his latest YouTube video.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966701-my-mate-nate-sickens-thai-animal-lovers-with-latest-anti-buddhist youtube-stunt/

 

Phuket school assembly disrupted by parked car

Phuket Gazette

 

The school kids looked extra sad during the morning assembly. Photo: Pairat Kamliang

 

PHUKET: -- A picture of a car parked in the middle of a school assembly in Phuket is making the rounds on the internet this morning.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966702-phuket-school-assembly-disrupted-by-parked-car/

 

Thai government: Women arrested in Malaysia may have been victims of "human trafficking"

 

Picture: Sanook

 

BANGKOK: -- The Thai government is looking into suggestions that Thai women may have been the victims of human trafficking in Malaysia.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966703-thai-government-women-arrested-in-malaysia-may-have-been-victims-of human-trafficking/

 

This gadget wants to help you with your long distance relationship

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

 

A new gadget known as Kissenger replicates your partner’s kiss in real time.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/this-gadget-wants-to-help-you-with-your-long-distance-relationship/19627/

Bangkok man's poorly devised ATM abduction story falls apart

By  Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

Srawut Pungprasop, shows police the ATM he claimed to be using when he was allegedly robbed Tuesday night in Bang Khen.

 

BANGKOK — A man reportedly confessed Tuesday to fabricating a story that he was abducted and robbed of 80,000 baht by men wearing police vests.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966503-thai-police-dubious-about-mans-atm-abduction-by-cop-story/?do=findComment&comment=11580205

 

Many passengers stranded as Khon Kaen - Chiang Mai flight aborts takeoff

 

Image: Thairath

 

KHON KAEN: -- Passengers were left with an extra night in Khon Kaen after the captain of a Kan Air flight aborted takeoff Tuesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966710-many-passengers-stranded-as-khon-kaen-chiang-mai-flight-aborts-takeoff/

 

Prayut upbeat on peace talks after insurgent leader's death

By  Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Hospital workers in Yala province rush Friday to assist Chak Kraithong, an undercover police officer, after he was struck by a roadside bomb on his way home from work - one of the near-daily attacks authorities attributed to the separatists.

 

BANGKOK — Junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters Tuesday he has seen progress in an ongoing peace dialogue with separatists in the Deep South following the death of their “spiritual leader” last month.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966711-prayut-upbeat-on-peace-talks-after-insurgent-leaders-death/

 

Six workers injured in explosion

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Six workers were injured after an air tank exploded.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966713-six-workers-injured-in-explosion-in-pathumthani-province/

 

Wildfire forces tourists to flee hill temple in panic

 

 

LOPBURI: -- Hundreds of tourists were forced to flee the hill temple in Khok Samrong district of Lopburi province last night after a wild fire broke out and quickly raced uphill towards the temple.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966715-lopburi-wildfire-forces-tourists-to-flee-hill-temple-in-panic/

 

UPDATE:

 

NOGEO: TrueVisions to drop 11 more channels: NBTC

By  Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

  

BANGKOK — Subscribers of the country’s largest cable provider will have even less to watch with news emerging it plans to drop nearly a dozen more major channels.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966667-truevisions-to-drop-discovery-science-and-national-geographic-9-more-channels-supinya/?do=findComment&comment=11580406

 

Former U.N. chief Ban says not running for president of South Korea - media

REUTERS

 

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during his news conference in Seoul, South Korea January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he will not run to become president of South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966727-former-un-chief-ban-says-not-running-for-president-of-south-korea-media/

 

170,000 Thai Baht stolen from tourist for a New Nose

By Danny Boy 

 

  

A tourist wakes up to find bed and wallet empty

 

PATTAYA: -- An English tourist called Pattaya police for assistance regarding the theft of money from his hotel room recently.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966730-170000-thai-baht-stolen-from-english-tourist-for-a-new-nose/

 

Phuket-bound Dutchman dies aboard flight from Qatar

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Dutch national Jean Gustave Gruter, 88, was pronounced dead on arrival at Thalang Hospital after his flight landed at Phuket international Airport early this morning (Feb 1). Photo: Mark Knowles

 

PHUKET: -- A Dutchman has died while on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Phuket this morning (Feb 1).

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966731-phuket-bound-dutchman-dies-aboard-flight-from-qatar/

 

UPDATE:

 

True Visions to close another 11 cable channels

 

 

BANGKOK: -- True Visions has notified the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) that it will stop airing 11 channels after the cable broadcaster stopped broadcasting six channels last December.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966667-truevisions-to-drop-discovery-science-and-national-geographic-9-more-channels-supinya/?do=findComment&comment=11580585

 

BBC Symphony to orchestrate 2 nights in March

By Kaewta Ketbungkan, Staff Reporter

 

  

NAKHON PATHOM — From the Barbican Centre to metro Bangkok, the BBC Symphony Orchestra will bend their bows and trill their reeds in Thailand for the first time in March.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966732-bbc-symphony-to-orchestrate-2-nights-in-march/

 

Court rejects bail for Pai Daodin

 

 

KHON KAEN: -- The Khon Kaen provincial court turned down the sixth request for bail for Khon Kaen university student Chatupat Boonthararaksa, aka Pai Daodin, and ordered him detain for another 10 days.

 

Chatupat’s lawyer, Mr Anont Nampa, tried to negotiate with the court judges for bail for his client while his mother, Mrs Prim, made appeal in the courtroom for bail for her son before she unexpectedly dashed from the bench and banged her head on the wall of the courtroom and burst in to tears.

 

Mrs Prim was later tended to her head wound by some of her son’s supporters who were there to give moral support to the student activist facing lese majeste for sharing the content of a BBC report about HM the King in his Facebook page.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/court-rejects-bail-for-pai-daodin/

 

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Media representatives resign from NRSA subpanel in protest
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Media representatives will Thursday submit resignation from members of the National Reform Steering Assembly’s (NRSA) subcommittee of print media reform to show their opposition against the controversial media regulation bill.   

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966733-media-representatives-resign-from-nrsa-subpanel-in-protest/

 

German police raid homes and mosques, arrest Tunisian suspected of planning attack

REUTERS

 

German police officers leave Frankfurt's Bilal mosque during early morning raids in the federal state of Hesse and its capital Frankfurt, Germany, February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - More than 1,100 German police searched 54 homes, business premises and mosques in Frankfurt and other towns in the western state of Hesse in the early hours of Wednesday and arrested a Tunisian man suspected of planning an attack, German authorities said.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966737-german-police-raid-homes-and-mosques-arrest-tunisian-suspected-of-planning-attack/

 

Tourism and Sports Min awards 7 best tourist destinations in Thailand

 

 

BANGKOK 1 February (NNT) - The Ministry of Tourism and Sports has presented awards to the seven best tourist destinations of 2016. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966747-tourism-and-sports-min-awards-7-best-tourist-destinations-in-thailand/

 

73-year-old Danish man arrested for allegedly buying sex from 17-year-old boy

By The Nation

 

 

Pattaya police Wednesday arrested a 73-year-old Danish man for having allegedly lured a 17-year-old boy to have sex with him in exchange for Bt500 in cash.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966766-73-year-old-danish-man-arrested-for-allegedly-buying-sex-from-17-year-old-boy/

True Visions to close another 11 cable channels

 

 

True Visions has notified the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) that it will stop airing 11 channels after the cable broadcaster stopped broadcasting six channels last December.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966667-truevisions-to-drop-discovery-science-and-national-geographic-9-more-channels-supinya/?do=findComment&comment=11581284

 

Spot the differences in before photos of Miss Universe Thailand

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

 

Before the glam makeover that prepared her for the world of beauty pageants, Miss Thailand Universe 2016 was an ordinary, adorable girl next door.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966767-spot-the-differences-in-before-photos-of-miss-universe-thailand/

 

A tour boat seized for bring foreign tourists to an off-limit island off Sattahip

 

 

The skipper of a tourist boat and his mechanic were held in the custody of the naval officers on charges of intrusion after they took over 200 Russian tourists to Koh Rin island which was declared off-limits to outsiders.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966768-a-tour-boat-seized-for-bring-foreign-tourists-to-an-off-limit-island-off-sattahip/

 

Phuket Town roads to close for Old Town Festival

Yutthawat Lekmak

 

The main streets in the Old Town quarter will be closed Thursday through Saturday (Feb 2-4) for the Phuket Old Town Festival. Photo: Kritichai Pongkul

 

PHUKET:-- Phuket City Municipality has announced that several roads in Phuket Town will be closed for three days from Thursday through Saturday (Feb 2-4) as the annual Phuket Old Town Festival takes place.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966778-phuket-town-roads-to-close-for-old-town-festival/

 

Police stop craft beer talk for fear that building might collapse from too many attendees

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

Photo: Thai Craft Beer Liberation/ Facebook

 

Craft beer brewers had to cancel their recently scheduled public talk and share their thoughts via Facebook live instead as the police showed concern that the old building they were meeting in could not accommodate so many attendees.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966780-police-stop-craft-beer-talk-for-fear-that-building-might-collapse-from-too-many-attendees/

 

UAE says Trump travel ban an internal U.S. affair

 

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 24, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

 

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's travel ban imposed on citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries was a sovereign decision for the United States and not directed at any religion, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed said on Wednesday.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966781-uae-says-trump-travel-ban-an-internal-us-affair/

 

Surveillance and threats: Slain Myanmar lawyer felt "targeted"

By Wa Lone and Simon Lewis

 

Ko Ni, a prominent member of Myanmar's Muslim minority and legal adviser for Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy, is seen during an interview in Yangon January 13, 2016. Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now via REUTERS

 

YANGON (Reuters) - A prominent Myanmar Muslim lawyer assassinated in Yangon was being closely watched by intelligence agents, according to friends and colleagues, and had received past threats over his sensitive work as an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966782-surveillance-and-threats-slain-myanmar-lawyer-felt-targeted/

 

Does your Facebook app keep on crashing? This might be why

 

 

Were you one of the people left without access to Facebook over the weekend when the Android app stopped working and confronted by the error message “Facebook has stopped”?

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/does-your-facebook-app-keep-on-crashing-this-might-be-why/19640/

Phuket crackdown sees Patong’s Bangla bars shutter early

The Phuket News

 

 

PHUKET:-- Scores of police and other Phuket law-enforcement officers targeted bars and other nightlife venues on Bangla Rd on Monday night (Jan 30), ordering the venue operators to follow the law and close on time.

 

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/966790-phuket-crackdown-sees-patong’s-bangla-bars-shutter-early/

 

Apple reveals how to take stunning photos at night using your iPhone

 

 

Apple have launched a new campaign called One Night on iPhone 7 designed users around the globe familiarise themselves with the fantastic low light photography capabilities of the device.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/apple-reveals-how-to-take-stunning-photos-at-night-using-your-iphone/19643/