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Tennis: Germans outraged as U.S. plays Nazi version of anthem

REUTERS

 

The German national flag is seen in front of dark clouds at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

 

(Reuters) - German tennis has responded with outrage after the United States Tennis Association (USTA) made the embarrassing error of playing the Nazi-era version of Germany's national anthem during a Fed Cup tie in Hawaii.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968557-tennis-germans-outraged-as-us-plays-nazi-version-of-anthem/

 

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Trump aide says endorsement of Ivanka's brand was 'light-hearted'

REUTERS

 

Ivanka Trump and Senior advisor and son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, leave Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., February 11, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top aide to U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his colleague, Kellyanne Conway, after she was widely criticized for her public endorsement of the fashion line of Trump's daughter, Ivanka.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968558-trump-aide-says-endorsement-of-ivankas-brand-was-light-hearted/

 

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Austrian authorities seeking Hitler double seen around birthplace

REUTERS

 

FILE PHOTO:The house in which Adolf Hitler was born is seen in Braunau am Inn, Austria, October 22, 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger /File Photo

 

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian authorities are investigating reports of a man appearing in public in Adolf Hitler's birthplace as the Nazi dictator's double, including the distinctive mustache, haircut and clothing.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968561-austrian-authorities-seeking-hitler-double-seen-around-birthplace/

 

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How to stop people stalking you on Facebook

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

 

Pretty much all of us use Facebook these days but how do you stop someone from snooping on your profile?

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/how-to-stop-people-stalking-you-on-facebook/19825/

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Is the Trump administration going soft on Thailand’s junta?

By John Sifton

The Washington Post

 

John Sifton is Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.  

 

NEW YORK: -- A subtle but worrisome shift is taking place in U.S. relations toward Thailand, made manifest in this year’s multilateral U.S.-led Cobra Gold military exercises — one of the largest in the region — which begin in Thailand this week.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968563-is-the-trump-administration-going-soft-on-thailand’s-junta/

 

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Baftas 2017: Dev Patel and Emma Stone win awards

 

La La Land has dominated the Baftas, taking five trophies - including best film and best actress for Emma Stone.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968565-baftas-2017-dev-patel-and-emma-stone-win-awards/

 

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Marchers across Mexico vent anger over Trump, and their own president

By David Alire Garcia

REUTERS

 

Thousands of protesters march in more than a dozen Mexican cities to express their fierce opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump. Nathan Frandino reports.

 

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters in more than a dozen Mexican cities took to the streets on Sunday to express their fierce opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump, portraying the new leader as a menace to both America and Mexico.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968575-marchers-across-mexico-vent-anger-over-trump-and-their-own-president/

 

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Peru president asks Trump to consider deporting wanted ex-leader

By Mitra Taj

REUTERS

 

An international arrest warrant issued by Peru's Interior Ministry, offering 100,000 Peruvian soles ($31,000) for information on the whereabouts of former president Alejandro Toledo, is seen in Lima, Peru. PPeruvian Police/Handout via Reuters

 

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said he asked U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call on Sunday to consider deporting the Andean country's fugitive ex-leader, Alejandro Toledo.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968576-peru-president-asks-trump-to-consider-deporting-wanted-ex-leader/

 

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"Outdated" Thai police getting new guns to keep up with the bad guys

 

Picture: Thai News Agency

 

BANGKOK: -- The Thai police are to get new guns so that they can compete with criminals.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968578-outdated-thai-police-getting-new-guns-to-keep-up-with-the-bad-guys/

 

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Swedish tourist, 52, in alleged attempted suicide at Phuket hotel

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Police discovered pools of blood inside the man's room on the third floor of the hotel. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- A 52-year-old Swedish man is in a serious condition at Patong Hospital after he was first alleged to have stabbed himself several times with pair of scissors and then jumped from the third floor of a hotel in Kata yesterday morning.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968579-swedish-tourist-52-in-alleged-attempted-suicide-at-phuket-hotel/

 

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Young soldier dead still clasping his mobile phone

 

Picture: Daily News

 

CHON BURI: -- A young soldier was found dead in his Chonburi room yesterday still holding his phone connected to a mains charger.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968580-young-soldier-found-dead-in-chon-buri-still-clasping-his-mobile-phone/

 

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FACTBOX - Major winners at Britain's 2017 BAFTA awards

REUTERS

 

The team behind 'La La Land" hold their awards for Best Film at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Britain, February 12, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards were presented at a ceremony in London on Sunday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968565-baftas-2017-dev-patel-and-emma-stone-win-awards/?do=findComment&comment=11616229

 

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Some Brazil police break strike following wave of homicides

By Paulo Whitaker

REUTERS

 

Military police soldiers board a helicopter, during a military police strike over wages, at Special Mission Battalion (BME) in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil, February 12, 2017. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker

 

VITORIA, Brazil (Reuters) - More than 1,200 police broke an eight-day strike Sunday in a coastal Brazilian state that had seen a dramatic increase in homicides during the stoppage, but where the violence is now receding.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968581-some-brazil-police-break-strike-following-wave-of-homicides/

 

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Italy's Renzi set to trigger leadership race at ruling party meeting

By Isla Binnie

REUTERS

 

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks during a media conference after a referendum on constitutional reform at Chigi palace in Rome, Italy, December 5, 2016. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi/File Photo

 

ROME (Reuters) - Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi looks set to trigger a leadership contest at a meeting of his ruling Democratic Party (PD) on Monday which could delay the early election he has been pushing for since he was toppled as premier last year.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968582-italys-renzi-set-to-trigger-leadership-race-at-ruling-party-meeting/

 

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Spillway on California dam in danger of collapse, evacuations ordered

By Dan Whitcomb

REUTERS

 

FILE PHOTO: The Oroville reservoir level is seen very close to the top of Oroville Dam, after a series of storms led to an increased water level while a damaged spillway hampered efforts to let water out of the reservoir, in Oroville, California, U.S., February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Max Whittaker/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Residents below the tallest dam in the United States, near Oroville in Northern California, were urgently ordered to evacuate on Sunday as a spillway appeared in danger of imminent collapse.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968584-spillway-on-california-dam-in-danger-of-collapse-evacuations-ordered/

 

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Samui flights cheaper for islanders after weekend protest

 

Picture: Thairath

 

KOH SAMUI: -- Bangkok Airways say they have reduced some air ticket prices for Samui residents.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968588-samui-flights-cheaper-for-islanders-after-weekend-protest/

 

 

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Phuket tuk-tuk crushed as strong winds fell beachfront palm tree

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The palm tree crushed the tuk-tuk while it was heding north to Patong. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- Officials have cautioned motorists and home owners across Phuket to be ware falling trees after a tuk-tuk driving to Patong was crushed by a towering palm tree brought down by strong wind on the Karon beach road yesterday (Feb 12).

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968589-phuket-tuk-tuk-crushed-as-strong-winds-fell-beachfront-palm-tree/

 

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Govt not worried about treasury reserves, confident of Finance Ministry management skills

 

BANGKOK, 13 February 2917 (NNT) – The government is not worried regarding the remaining amount of treasury reserves and is confident the Ministry of Finance can balance out expenditures for investments that will enhance the future of the county, says official. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968591-thai-govt-not-worried-about-treasury-reserves-confident-of-finance-ministry-management-skills/

 

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Putin invites German president-elect to visit Russia

Source: Xinhua 

 

MOSCOW, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin invited newly-elected German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to visit Russia at his convenience in a congratulatory message on Sunday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968593-putin-invites-german-president-elect-to-visit-russia/

 

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Expect a windy, chilly Valentine's Day

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

  

Bangkokians bundle up during the cold spell of January 2016. Photo: Matichon

 

BANGKOK — Extra snuggling is forecast for Valentine’s Day as temperatures across the nation are expected to drop over the next couple of days.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968599-expect-a-windy-chilly-valentines-day/

 

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Min of Commerce to deliver second batch of rice to China

 

BANGKOK, 13 February 2017 (NNT) - The Ministry of Commerce is preparing to deliver its second batch of rice to the Chinese government. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968601-thai-commerce-min-to-deliver-second-batch-of-rice-to-china/

 

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Patong parking complaints spark military blitz

Phuket Gazette

 

          

Gen Pornsak (center) at Patong Beach. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: -- Officers from the Region 4 Army Headquarters in Phuket visited Patong Beach last week to address complaints about the bike rental management system, particularly the decades-old problem of theft of space from the public.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968546-army-follows-up-patong-beach-regulation/?do=findComment&comment=11616619

 

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Pickup truck used in fatal attack on Pattani mayor found burnt

 

 

PATTANI: -- Pattani police have found the pickup truck which gunmen have used in the shooting that left the mayor of Piyamumung tambon administration organization dead last Friday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968604-pickup-truck-used-in-fatal-attack-on-pattani-mayor-found-burnt/

 

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Pattaya police let serial snatch thief slip through their hands

 

Picture: Pattaya News

 

PATTAYA: -- Police in Pattaya bungled an arrest at a house at the weekend letting a serial snatch thief slip away.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968606-pattaya-police-let-serial-snatch-thief-slip-through-their-hands/

 

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TAT organizes tourism event in Chiang Rai

 

 

CHIANG RAI, 13 February 2017 (NNT) - The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) organized a tourism event in Chiang Rai to promote the province’s traditional performances and arts. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968611-tat-organizes-tourism-event-in-chiang-rai/

 

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Thai Budhists crowd Wat Ratchabophit to pay respect to Supreme Patriarch

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Wat Ratchabophit was crowded with Thai Buddhists today coming to pay respect to the kingdom's 20th supreme patriarch after yesterday's formal installation at the Temple of the Emerald Buddha.

 

The Supreme Patriarch Somdet Phra Ariya Wongsa Khottayan allowed Thai Buddhists in black and white to pay respect to him for the first day today.

 

The assistant to the Supreme Patriarch said the people will be allowed to pay respect in two periods of time, 09.00-10.30 am and 14.00-16.00 pm. But all have to register first before being granted permission into the chapel to pay respect to him.

 

Only 10 people will be allowed in at each turn to pay respect to the Supreme Patriarch.

 

The assistant also made clear to every people that no valuables will be allowed to be offered except flowers, food and other daily necessities. No pictures are allowed to be taken while paying respect to him.

 

Each people will be given a commemorative coin bearing the emblem of  the Supreme Patriarch and his biography book.

 

However these commemorative coins will be given to those faithful Buddhists in a limited edition of only 20,000, with no commercial purpose, he said.

 

Yesterday His Majesty the King presided over the ceremony to formally install Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong, the abbot of Wat Ratchabophit, as the 20th Supreme Patriarch at the ubosot of Wat Phra Srirattana Sasadaram or the Temple of the Emerald Buddha.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/thai-budhists-crowd-wat-ratchabophit-pay-respect-supreme-patriarch/

 

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Body found in Mysterious Circumstances

By Danny Boy -

 

 

A dead body has been found badly beaten in mysterious circumstances

 

PATTAYA: -- At around 2:30am on February 13, Pattaya Police and emergency services were called to the scene of what looked like a vicious murder near the railway line on Soi siam Country Club.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968628-pattaya-body-found-in-mysterious-circumstances/

 

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WARNING: Here’s why Mac users should avoid opening any Word documents about Donald Trump

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

Security researchers have found that cyber criminals are using a booby trapped Microsoft Word documents to try and spread malware among Mac computer users.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/warning-heres-why-mac-users-should-avoid-opening-any-word-documents-about-donald-trump/19827/

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Battery saving tips: These 10 apps are KILLING your smartphone’s battery life

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

 

Android users, listen up: if you want your smartphone battery to make it through a full day, you may want to think about how much time you spend using these ‘performance draining apps’.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/battery-saving-tips-these-10-apps-are-killing-your-smartphones-battery-life/

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Swedish tourist survives stabbing, balcony fall

Phuket Gazette

 

          

Mr Sundstorm being tended to in front of the Kata Green Beach Hotel. Photo: Tourist Police

 

PHUKET: -- A Swedish tourist luckily escaped death after he jumped off the balcony of his hotel room in Karon yesterday morning.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968579-swedish-tourist-52-in-alleged-attempted-suicide-at-phuket-hotel/