LINE upbeat as company continues to dominate the Thai market

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

LINE announced yesterday that they have 41 million registered users out of the 44 million people in Thailand accessing the internet through mobile devices daily.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/line-upbeat-as-company-continues-to-dominate-the-thai-market/20504/

Appeals Court upholds 4-year jailterm on Arisman and gang for Pattaya’s Asean Summit breakup

 

 

The Appeals Court has upheld the lower court’s conviction and 4-year imprisonment of red-shirt firebrand Arisman Pongruangrong and 12 other red-shirt followers for the breakup of the Asean Summit in Pattaya eight years ago.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974669-appeals-court-upholds-4-year-jailterm-on-arisman-and-gang-for-pattaya’s-asean-summit-breakup/

Cabinet allocates Bt300m for Thailand to host MotoGP for three years

By The Nation

 

 

The Cabinet has approved a Bt300-million budget to cover the licensing fee for Thailand to host a MotoGP annually from 2018 to 2020.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974668-cabinet-allocates-bt300m-for-thailand-to-host-motogp-for-three-years/

Midweek rant: In Defense of Thai Men

 

 

BANGKOK: -- To read the content of some online forums about Thailand you would be led to believe that Thai men are the devil incarnate.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974686-midweek-rant-in-defense-of-thai-men/

 

Video: Policeman's son beats man, 25, to death with a snooker cue

 

Picture: Thairath

 

CHANTABURI: -- Police in Chantaburi have charged a colleague's son with murder after he repeatedly attacked a 25 year old man in a downtown snooker hall.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974688-policemans-son-beats-man-25-to-death-with-a-snooker-cue/

 

Two suspects in Chinese call center gang fraud arrested

 

Source: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police yesterday arrested two people working for a Chinese call center gang.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974690-two-suspects-in-chinese-call-center-gang-fraud-arrested/

 

Consumers set to pay more for electricity from May to August after natural gas price hike

 

Picture: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- Consumers can expect an extra 20 satang per unit rise on electric bills for the period of May to August.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974691-consumers-set-to-pay-more-for-electricity-from-may-to-august-after natural-gas-price-hike/

 

Seventy year old Swiss man in serious condition after motorbike smash in Pattaya

 

Picture: Pattaya News

 

PATTAYA: -- A 70 year old Swiss man is in hospital after he collided with a motorcycle driven by a Cambodian man yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974692-seventy-year-old-swiss-man-in-serious-condition-after-motorbike-smash in-pattaya/

 

Honest motorcycle taxi rider returns wallet containing 26,600 baht to its grateful owner

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

BANGKOK: -- Manager online said that there were still good people in Thai society as a "win" rider in Lat Prao Soi 41 retuned a wallet containing 26,600 baht to its owner.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974693-honest-motorcycle-taxi-rider-returns-wallet-containing-26600-baht-to its-grateful-owner/

 

TODAY'S EDITORIAL

In the South, three strikes and you’re out
By The Nation

 

Latest road map to peace includes safety zones, a clearinghouse assigning responsibility for violence, and ignorance of reality

 

BANGKOK: -- It sounded like a licence to kill, but that’s the awful nature of “conflict resolution” for Thai negotiators and longstanding separatist movements in the country’s southernmost border provinces, where a 13-year insurgency has so far claimed some 6,800 lives.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974694-thai-editorial-in-the-south-three-strikes-and-you’re-out/

 

OPINION

Thaksin’s tax saga: One bizarre rationale begets another
By Tulsathit Taptim

 

BANGKOK: -- It’s a story of two camps going out of their way in a bid to outsmart each other. If the renewed efforts to tax Thaksin Shinawatra over the 2006 sale of Shin Corp to Singapore’s Temasek are baffling, the scheme he allegedly used to evade that tax is no less perplexing. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974695-thaksin’s-tax-saga-one-bizarre-rationale-begets-another/

 

Supreme Court ruling effectively ends Supinya's time at NBTC
By The Nation

 

File photo: Supinya Klangnarong has decided to suspend her role as a national broadcasting and telecommunications commissioner.

 

BANGKOK: -- While the title of national broadcasting and telecommunications commissioner is still for the moment a legitimate one for Supinya Klangnarong, the media-advocate-turned-regulator decided to suspend participation in her roles at the watchdog following last week’s Supreme Court ruling against her.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974696-supreme-court-ruling-effectively-ends-supinyas-time-at-nbtc/

 

Duterte, Prayut agree on strengthening Asean to face new regional challenge
By WASAMON AUDJARINT
THE NATION

 

Photo : Vorawit Pumpuang

 

BANGKOK: -- Visiting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that he had reached common ground with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha during a bilateral meeting in Bangkok in regard to strengthening Asean so that the grouping is better placed to face new regional challenges.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974697-duterte-prayut-agree-on-strengthening-asean-to-face-new-regional-challenge/

 

Govt, Army claim Lahu killing was self-defence
By THE NATION

 

 

PM orders probe into shooting as activists call for transparency

 

BANGKOK: -- WHILE the investigation into the fatal shooting of Lahu activist Chaiyapoom Pasae is still ongoing, government leaders already delivered their judgement yesterday – he was shot in self defence. But civic groups and rights defenders have called for a transparent investigation to ensure justice. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974698-govt-army-claim-lahu-killing-was-self-defence/

 

Netiwit and Siriwith seek exclusion following Army call-up
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Anti-junta activists Netiwit Chotipatpaisal and Siriwith Serithiwat, who have been called up to serve in the Army this year, are both seeking to be excluded from military training.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974699-netiwit-and-siriwith-seek-exclusion-following-army-call-up/

 

Condolences pour in after turtle Ormsin loses fight for life 
By MARISA CHIMPRABHA
THE NATION

 

Dr Nantarika (R)

 

BANGKOK: -- THERE was no miracle for Ormsin, the sea turtle that became world-famous after operations by Thai veterinarians to try to save her. The 25-year-old turtle died peacefully yesterday morning, having never woken from a coma after a second round of surgery on the weekend.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974700-condolences-pour-in-after-turtle-ormsin-loses-fight-for-life/

 

Thailand expected to be in top 10 for long-term tourism growth
By  THE NATION

 

BANGKOK: -- THAILAND’S travel and tourism sector grew by nearly 11 per cent in 2016 and will be the world’s 10th-fastest-growing over the next decade, with an average growth rate of 6.5 per cent per annum, a new report by the World Travel & Tourism Council predicts.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974701-thailand-expected-to-be-in-top-10-for-long-term-tourism-growth/

 

Police seek warrant for 'Ko Tee' over weapons
By The Nation

 

Wuttipong or “Ko Tee”

 

Authorities raise possibility of extradition from Laos after justice ministry says terrorism case taken over by DSI team

 

BANGKOK: -- POLICE ARE seeking arrest warrants for red-shirt leader Wuttipong “Ko Tee” Kottham-makhun and five others for possessing military weapons and criminal association.

 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974702-thai-police-seek-warrant-for-ko-tee-over-weapons/

Speedy top cop is the quick to the scene – except in his own case
By THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK’S top cop, Pol Lt-General Sanit Mahathavorn, got his nickname from his modus operandi in seeking to counter crime – “Nor 1 Beung Took Thee”, or “city police chief dashing to every scene”.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974703-speedy-top-cop-is-the-quick-to-the-scene-–-except-in-his-own-case/

 

Phaya Sua taskforce launches operation against influential Thap Lan National Park encroachers
By The Nation

 

PRACHINBURI: -- The special forest crime-suppression taskforce, Phaya Sua, has launched a week-long operation against influential figures found to have encroached upon Thap Lan National Park, part of the Dong Phaya Yen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, which is the country’s second natural World Heritage Site.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974704-phaya-sua-taskforce-launches-operation-against-influential-thap-lan-national-park-encroachers/

 

Canadian tourist found dead in Phuket

Phuket Gazette 

 

          

Police have yet to learn the cause of death. Photo: Kusoldharm Foundation

 

PHUKET: -- A 49-year-old Canadian tourist was found dead in a condo in Kathu this morning. He is believed to have been dead for at least two days before his body was discovered.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974705-canadian-tourist-found-dead-in-phuket/

 

UPDATE:

 

British tabloids apologise to Hmong family in Chiang Mai for suggesting girls were pickpockets
By The Nation 
CHIANG MAI

 

 

FOUR British tabloids wrote an apology on Tuesday to the family of two northern hilltribe girls who they had accused – in reports published online – of stealing a watch from a British tourist.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974644-british-tabloids-apologize-for-calling-hmong-girls-tiny-thieves/?do=findComment&comment=11730824

 

Govt to exercise caution in trying to collect tax on Thaksin’s 2006 sale of Shin shares: PM
By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The government will exercise caution in attempting to collect back taxes on the 2006 sale of Shin Corp shares by former premier Thaksin Shinawatra to Temasek Group of Singapore, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974706-govt-to-exercise-caution-in-trying-to-collect-tax-on-thaksin’s-2006-sale-of-shin-shares-pm/

 

Don says issue of controversial casino not discussed by Cabinet
By The Nation

 

Don

 

BANGKOK: -- Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said on Tuesday that the Cabinet had not considered at its weekly meeting the issue of a new casino allegedly sited on adjoining territory between Thailand and Cambodia.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974707-don-says-issue-of-controversial-casino-not-discussed-by-thai-cabinet/

 

A bank employee fined 1,000 baht for shouting “bomb” at the carpark of Suvarnabhumi airport

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A bank employee was fined 1,000 baht and given a lecture by Suvarnabhumi airport police station after he falsely shouted that there was bomb in a cardboard box he carried and thrown on the floor of the restricted zone of the car park.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974708-a-bank-employee-fined-1000-baht-for-shouting-“bomb”-at-the-carpark-of-suvarnabhumi-airport/

 

New measure to deal with motorists who refuse to pay traffic tickets

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Motorists who refuse to pay or do not properly pay traffic tickets will, from now on, will not have their annual car registrations renewed – which means that the motorists will be fined if they continue driving their cars without their registrations being renewed.

 

Full story: 

Prayut vows to buy submarines, says he can get 3-for-2 deal

By Khaosod English

 

 

Junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha speaks at Government House on Tuesday.

 

BANGKOK — Junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha said Tuesday he will approve the purchase of two submarines from China when the matter reaches the Cabinet.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974711-prayut-vows-to-buy-submarines-says-he-can-get-3-for-2-deal/

 

Iraqi forces try to bring civilians out of west Mosul, U.S. pledges more support

By Patrick Markey

REUTERS

 

Displaced Iraqis are search by Iraqi soldiers as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq March 21, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

 

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi government forces attempted to evacuate civilians from Mosul's Islamic State-held Old City on Tuesday so that troops could clear the area, but militant snipers hampered the effort, Iraqi officers said.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974714-iraqi-forces-try-to-bring-civilians-out-of-west-mosul-us-pledges-more-support/

 

Scottish parliament begins debate on new independence referendum

 

Party leader Nicola Sturgeon speaks at the Scottish National Party's conference in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain March 18, 2017. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

 

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sought backing from the Edinburgh parliament on Tuesday for her proposal to hold a new referendum on independence from the United Kingdom, the first formal step in a process resisted by London.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974715-scottish-parliament-begins-debate-on-new-independence-referendum/

 

Trump warns Republican lawmakers to get behind healthcare bill

By Susan Cornwell and Yasmeen Abutaleb

REUTERS

 

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump warned Republican lawmakers on Tuesday that voters could punish them if they do not approve a plan he favours to dismantle Obamacare, as pressure grew on the businessman-turned-politician to win the first major legislative battle of his presidency.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974717-trump-warns-republican-lawmakers-to-get-behind-healthcare-bill/