THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Wednesday 15 Feb 2017

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Thailand showcases EEC at “Opportunity Thailand” international seminar today

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The government today held "Opportunity Thailand" international seminar to showcase it's Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) program with aim to draw more foreign investment into the country.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968919-thailand-showcases-eec-at-“opportunity-thailand”-international-seminar-today/

 

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SET down 0.17 points at opening /Bangkok Post

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Facebook launches app for watching its videos on TV

BY REUTERS 

 

image: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

 

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc is launching an app for smart TVs that will help the social network’s users enjoy its videos on a bigger screen.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/facebook-launches-app-for-watching-its-videos-on-tv/19860/

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Video: Nasty scam targeting old pick-ups caught on tape

 

Picture: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- A video posted on Facebook shows what police say is a scam to get motorists to part with money for minor scrapes.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968920-video-nasty-scam-targeting-old-pick-ups-caught-on-tape/

 

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Thailand to use Japan’s Kansai model as blueprint to develop EEC

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has advised policy makers to use Japan's Kansai model as the country's blueprint to develop the country’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), Mr Kobsak Pooyrakool, the assistant minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office, revealed yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968921-thailand-to-use-japan’s-kansai-model-as-blueprint-to-develop-eec/

 

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U.S. believes Russia deployed new missile in treaty violation

REUTERS

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a signing ceremony following the talks with his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia has deployed a new cruise missile despite complaints by U.S. officials that it violates an arms control treaty banning ground-based U.S. and Russian intermediate-range missiles, a senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968922-us-believes-russia-deployed-new-missile-in-treaty-violation/

 

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Sold into marriage - how Rohingya girls become child brides in Malaysia

By Rozanna Latiff and Ebrahim Harris

REUTERS

 

A Rohingya child bride who ran away from her husband carries her sister outside a shack she shares with her mother and siblings, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 9, 2017. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The slight girl in a turquoise headscarf held back tears as she recalled what happened when she fled to Malaysia from Myanmar's violence-hit Rakhine state. Just 12-years-old at the time, she was forced to wed a man she did not know, and who was more than a decade older than her.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968924-sold-into-marriage-how-rohingya-girls-become-child-brides-in-malaysia/

 

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Lightning fast - Pattaya tourist police arrest thief in less than twenty minutes!

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

PATTAYA: -- Pattaya tourist police impressed an Indian tourist who had his wallet stolen from a 7/11 counter.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968926-lightning-fast-pattaya-tourist-police-arrest-thief-in-less-than twenty-minutes/

 

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Questions raised over frequent absence of 7 members of parliament

 

BANGKOK, 15 February 2017 (NNT) - Seven members of the National Legislation Assembly (NLA) are now under scrutiny for their frequent absences from weekly sittings, while the NLA chief has affirmed that their absences were in accordance with parliamentary rules. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968927-questions-raised-over-frequent-absence-of-7-members-of-parliament/

 

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PM says reconciliation must be achieved despite obstacles

 

BANGKOK, 15 February 2017 (NNT) - Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said commitment must be made to unite the country despite the degree of difficulty. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968928-pm-prayut-says-reconciliation-must-be-achieved-despite-obstacles/

 

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Fisheries Department announces 3-month prohibition of fishing in central Gulf of Thailand

 

BANGKOK, 15 February 2017 (NNT) – The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has issued an announcement to prohibit all fishing activities in the Gulf of Thailand between February 15 and May 15, to rehabilitate the marine resources. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968929-fisheries-department-announces-3-month-prohibition-of-fishing-in-central-gulf-of-thailand/

 

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Army warns taxi, van drivers at Phuket Airport

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A total of 45 officers, including soldiers from the Royal Thai Army, carried out a public inspection of Phuket Airport yesterday (Feb 14). Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- A contingent totalling 45 officers carried out a public inspection tour of Phuket International Airport yesterday (Feb 14), and warned public transport drivers, namely Phuket taxi and van drivers, to “follow the rules”.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968930-army-warns-taxi-van-drivers-at-phuket-airport/

 

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NY Times says Trump campaign had repeated contact with Russian intelligence

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Then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives for his election night rally at the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing four current and former U.S. officials.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968931-ny-times-says-trump-campaign-had-repeated-contact-with-russian-intelligence/

 

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Students slightly injured in bus crash

 

 

CHA-AM: -- Twenty students of Pariyatrangsan school in Phetchaburi province were slightly injured in Cha-am district after the school bus they were travelling in was overtaken by a pickup truck in its bid to enter a Soi in brief distance.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968933-students-slightly-injured-in-cha-am-bus-crash/

 

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Thieves targeting telephone/internet cables in Chonburi area - 20 cases at least

 

Picture: Komchadluek

 

CHONBURI: -- Thieves in the Chonburi area are stealing wire used for internet and telephone connections.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968934-thieves-targeting-telephoneinternet-cables-in-chonburi-area-20-cases-at-least/

 

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Senator de Lima faces arrest

 

 

MANILA: -- Senator Leila de Lima is to be indicted in connection with her links to illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid prison, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre 2nd said in a round-table discussion with The Manila Times executives and editors on Tuesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968937-senator-de-lima-faces-arrest/

 

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Singapore is top investor in Myanmar

 

 

Foreign direct investment in Myanmar for 2016 fiscal year has nearly reached the target of US$6 billion with Singapore being the top investor, The Irrawaddy Online reported on Tuesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968939-singapore-is-top-investor-in-myanmar/

 

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China death toll from bird flu surges to 79 people in January

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A quarantine researcher checks on a chicken at a poultry farm in Xiangyang, Hubei province, China, February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - As many as 79 people have died from H7N9 bird flu in China last month, the government said, far surpassing the number of deaths in the same month in recent years and stoking worries about the spread of the virus this winter.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968943-china-death-toll-from-bird-flu-surges-to-79-people-in-january/

 

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Thailand closes Gulf 3 months to allow marine animals to breed

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Department of Fisheries yesterday announced the closure of the Gulf of Thailand for three months to allow marine animals to breed.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968929-fisheries-department-announces-3-month-prohibition-of-fishing-in-central-gulf-of-thailand/?do=findComment&comment=11623109

 

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U.S. detains Mexican immigrant in Seattle covered by Obama programme

By Dan Levine and Kristina Cooke

REUTERS

 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conduct a targeted enforcement operation in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. on February 9, 2017. Courtesy Bryan Cox/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via REUTERS

 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. immigration authorities have detained a 23-year-old Mexican man who was brought to the United States illegally as a child but later given a work permit during the Obama administration, according to a lawsuit challenging the detention in Seattle federal court.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968950-us-detains-mexican-immigrant-in-seattle-covered-by-obama-programme/

 

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Being able to beat Bangkok traffic in your own flying car could soon become a reality

BY JONATHAN FAIRFIELD 

 

 

A Dutch vehicle manufacturer has launched the world’s first commercial flying car.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/being-able-to-beat-bangkok-traffic-in-your-own-flying-car-could-soon-become-a-reality/19863/

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Germany's SPD unchanged in Forsa poll, lag Merkel's conservatives

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New Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Martin Schulz addresses a news conference at their party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Support for Germany's Social Democrats is unchanged from a week ago at 31 percent, a poll showed on Wednesday, as their support stagnated after a surge following the nomination last month of Martin Schulz as party leader for September's federal election.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968958-germanys-spd-unchanged-in-forsa-poll-lag-merkels-conservatives/

 

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Six suspects arrested for stealing huge cache of firearms in 2012

 

 

The Royal Thai Police is questioning six people handed over by the military after they were arrested in Udon Thani province for allegedly stealing a total of 885 handguns and assault rifles from a border patrol police company 245 in 2012.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968961-six-suspects-arrested-for-stealing-huge-cache-of-firearms-in-2012/

 

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It’s official: Huawei’s next BIG smartphone coming later this month

BY JONATHAN FAIRFIELD

 

 

Huawei has confirmed its next flagship smartphone, the Huawei P10 will be revealed later this month.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/its-official-huaweis-next-big-smartphone-coming-later-this-month/19870/

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The midweek rant: Red roses not red faces - tourist shaming a massive own goal for Thai authorities.

 

 

The absolutely pathetic shaming of an Englishman and his Thai Go-Go companion in a Pattaya short time sex room this week beggared belief.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968963-the-midweek-rant/

 

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Murder suspects caught in Chon Buri

By Danny Boy -

 

  

4 Suspects have been caught by Police in Murder Investigation

 

PATTAYA: -- A few days ago on February 13th, Pattaya One reported that a dead body had been found near to the railway line in Soi Siam Country Club. Four suspects have now been taken into custody and will be interrogated over the murder.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968964-murder-suspects-caught-in-chon-buri/

 

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Marine experts call for boats to keep clear as whale sharks feed off Phuket

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Marine experts called for all boats to keep clear from whale sharks off Phuket's west coast. Image: Screengrab from jet-ski operator video

 

PHUKET: -- Officials from the Marine Endangered Species Unit at the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) called for all boats to keep clear of whale sharks spotted feeding off Kamala Beach yesterday afternoon (Feb 14).

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968970-marine-experts-call-for-boats-to-keep-clear-as-whale-sharks-feed-off-phuket/

 

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Horny monk celebrates Valentine’s Day with teenage girl and yaba pills

 

Picture: Daily News

 

PHITSANULOK: -- A 35 year old monk is in police custody after being caught in with a stash of methamphetamine pills following a raid on a short time resort in Phitsanulok on Valentine’s Day.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968981-horny-monk-celebrates-valentine’s-day-with-teenage-girl-and-yaba-pills/

 

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Cambodian police announce arrest of British man wanted over murder of Tony Kenway in Pattaya

 

Cambodian Police have officially announced the arrest of a British man suspected of being involved in the killing of Tony Kenway in Pattaya.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968991-cambodian-police-announce-arrest-of-british-man-wanted-over-murder-to-tony-kenway-in-pattaya/

 

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Malaysia detains woman over murder of half-brother of North Korea leader

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has detained a woman holding a Vietnamese travel document in connection with the death of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, police said on Wednesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/968994-malaysia-detains-woman-over-murder-of-half-brother-of-north-korea-leader/