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Iran's Rouhani seeks deals with new friend Russia

By Olesya Astakhova

REUTERS

 

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pose for a photo during their meeting at the Gorki state residence outside Moscow, Russia March 27, 2017. Sputnik/Pool/Ekaterina Shtukina via REUTERS

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran's president met Russia's prime minister on Monday in a bid to develop a warming relationship that has been greatly strengthened by both sides' involvement on the same side of the war in Syria.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975705-irans-rouhani-seeks-deals-with-new-friend-russia/

 

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In U-turn, Thai woman says was not raped by Malaysian immigration officer

 

BANGKOK — A Thai woman who alleged she was raped by a Malaysian immigration officer in Malacca has told the Royal Thai Embassy in Malaysia the incident did not occur.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/974971-thai-woman-says-she-was-raped-by-malaysian-immigration-officer/?do=findComment&comment=11748308

 

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Trump son-in-law met executives of sanctioned Russian bank; will testify

By Elena Fabrichnaya, Steve Holland and Patricia Zengerle

REUTERS

 

FILE PHOTO -- Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner watch as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo

 

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia's incursion into Ukraine disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a top White House adviser, in December.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975712-trump-son-in-law-met-executives-of-sanctioned-russian-bank-will-testify/

 

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Samsung Elec says to sell refurbished Galaxy Note 7s

BY REUTERS

 

Image: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo

 

SEOUL (Reuters) – Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it plans to sell refurbished versions of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that were pulled from markets due to fire-prone batteries.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/samsung-elec-says-to-sell-refurbished-galaxy-note-7s/20631/

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Facebook’s Messenger app adds live location-sharing

BY REUTERS

 

Image: REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

 

MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) – Facebook Inc added a feature to its Messenger app on Monday to allow users to share their locations continuously for up to an hour, ramping up competition with tools offered by Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google Maps.

 

Full story:  http://tech.thaivisa.com/facebooks-messenger-app-adds-live-location-sharing/20637/

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MOPH advises tourists to care for their physical health before traveling to developing countries

 

BANGKOK, 28 March 2017 (NNT) - The Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) has advised tourists to take care for their physical health before traveling to developing countries. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975718-moph-advises-tourists-to-care-for-their-physical-health-before-traveling-to-developing-countries/

 

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Samsung starts rolling out Android Nougat update to Note 5 users in Thailand

BY JONATHAN FAIRFIELD 

 

 

Samsung has begun rolling out the Android 7.0 Nougat update to Galaxy Note 5 phones in Thailand.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/samsung-starts-rolling-out-android-nougat-update-to-note-5-users-in-thailand/20639/

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China can deploy warplanes on artificial islands any time - think tank

By David Brunnstrom

REUTERS

 

Construction is shown on Subi Reef, in the Spratly Islands, the disputed South China Sea in this March 14, 2017 satellite image released by CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to Reuters on March 27, 2017. MANDATORY CREDIT CSIS/AMTI DigitalGlobe/Handout via REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China appears to have largely completed major construction of military infrastructure on artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea and can now deploy combat planes and other military hardware there at any time, a U.S. think tank said on Monday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975724-china-can-deploy-warplanes-on-artificial-islands-any-time-think-tank/

 

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Amended ToR proposal for double-track railway projects
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The board of directors of the State Railway of Thailand will on Tuesday ask the Cabinet to approve its amended terms of reference for double-track railway projects, said Prasarn Trairatvorakul, chairman of the super board in charge of government procurement.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975725-amended-tor-proposal-for-double-track-railway-projects/

 

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BOT clamps down on banks over non-banking services
By The Nation

 

BOT assistant Governor Ronnadol Numnonda

 

BANGKOK: -- The Bank of Thailand will issue a new directive to prohibit commercial banks from forcing customers to buy non-banking services, such as life insurance, BOT assistant Governor Ronnadol Numnonda said.

 

Full story:  http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975729-bot-clamps-down-on-banks-over-non-banking-services/

 

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Video: Tourist thieves set to net a little over 300 baht each!

 

 

PATTAYA: -- Sanook reported that the footage shown at the weekend that captured three apparent tourists stealing a woman's bag was recorded in Pattaya.

 

Full story:  http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975464-video-who-are-the-gang-of-foreign-thieves-brazenly-stealing-from-victim-in-broad-daylight/

 

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SET opens up 3.08 to 1,573.58 /Bangkok Post

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Banks using dirty marketing tactics to be punished
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The Bank of Thailand will punish banks and their employees who try to sell financial products clients do not want.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975729-bot-clamps-down-on-banks-over-non-banking-services/?do=findComment&comment=11748664 

 

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Video: Toyota Yaris driver in coma after miraculous escape

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- A woman is in a coma after surviving death in a smash with a truck parked on the hard shoulder on Sunday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975735-video-toyota-yaris-driver-in-coma-after-miraculous-escape/

 

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3 million funeral wood flowers for King’s cremation
By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Three million funeral wood flowers will be given to public mourners before the late HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s royal cremation, according to Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) Governor Pol General Aswin Kwanmuang.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975738-3-million-funeral-wood-flowers-for-king’s-cremation/

 

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Encroached resorts in Ubonrat dam dismantled

 

 

KHON KAEN: -- The ongoing effort by the military installed government to reclaim properties encroaching on national park and forest reserve lands is progressing ahead steadily with latest raid in Ubonrat dam in Khon Kaen province to demolish two resorts built illegally for almost a decade.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975739-encroached-resorts-in-ubonrat-dam-dismantled/

 

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Trump to sign order sweeping away Obama-era climate policies

By Valerie Volcovici

REUTERS

 

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a bill signing event in the Roosevelt room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to undo a slew of Obama-era climate change regulations, a move meant to bolster domestic energy production but which environmentalists have vowed to challenge in court.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975741-trump-to-sign-order-sweeping-away-obama-era-climate-policies/

 

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(Red Bull heir charges)

Yoovidhya seen living carefree life

 

(Pictured, in this September 3, 2012, photo, Vorayuth Yoovidhya, left, is escorted by police in Bangkok, Thailand).

 

HONG KONG: -- While the case against Vorayuth "Boss'' Yoovidhya has been on hold since 2012, his carefree lifestyle has not. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975746-red-bull-heir-seen-living-carefree-life/

 

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Highway chief: Speeding drivers responsible for 85% of accidents

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- The chief of Thailand's highways has laid the blame for accidents firmly at the door of speeding drivers.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975748-highway-chief-speeding-drivers-responsible-for-85-of-accidents/

 

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Uni girls return bag with 40,000 baht to trader in Nakon Si Thammarat

 

Picture: Daily News

 

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: -- It was smiles all round yesterday when two university students returned a bag containing 40,000 baht in cash and valuables to its rightful owner, Daily News reported.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975749-uni-girls-return-bag-with-40000-baht-to-trader-in-nakon-si-thammarat/

 

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UPDATE:

 

Songkran celebration on Khao San road is still allowed but traditional way with “No powder, No water guns, No Sexy Dress, No Alcohol”

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) says Khao San road will still open to Songkran festival celebrants to enjoy  splashing water, but there will be no entertainment activities, and no playing with wet white powder or pasty substance.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975529-khao-sarn-road-songkran-latest-water-fights-to-go-ahead-as-planned/?do=findComment&comment=11748949

 

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Phuket van driver slapped with B500 fine for ‘reckless traffic ram’

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The van slammed into the side of the pickup truck while it driver, Rutsalan Jitlang, 25, was trying to overtake a car. Screengrab: CCTV footage courtesy of Tan Promedic Phuket

 

PHUKET: -- A Phuket commercial passenger van driver has been fined B500 for crossing the centre line in traffic and ploughing into the side of a pickup truck and then slamming into the side of a car, causing a four-vehicle pile-up in Cherng Talay on Sunday afternoon (Mar 26).

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975753-phuket-van-driver-slapped-with-b500-fine-for-‘reckless-traffic-ram’/

 

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Voice TV fans denounce suspension as a curb on the media
By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Voice TV fans have hit back at broadcasting officials for the seven-day ban imposed on the channel.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975754-voice-tv-fans-denounce-suspension-as-a-curb-on-the-media/

 

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Miss Chonburi beauty contest brings glamor to Pattaya

 

Picture: Pattaya News

 

PATTAYA: -- Number 6 Sudaporn Wongsasiriphat was crowned Miss Chonburi Grand in Pattaya yesterday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975757-miss-chonburi-beauty-contest-brings-glamor-to-pattaya/

 

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Two killed, three injured in passenger van crash
By The Nation

 

SUPHAN BURI: -- A Bangkok to Suphan Buri passenger van crashed into a tree in Suphan Buri’s Bang Plama district on Tuesday morning, killing the driver and a passenger.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975759-two-killed-three-injured-in-passenger-van-crash/

 

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PM compares Srisaket to Pacquaio
By The Nation 
 

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha labelled new World Boxing Council super-flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai the "Thai Pacquaio" when they met at the Government House on Tuesday.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975760-pm-prayut-compares-srisaket-to-pacquaio/

 

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Thunderstorms weaken in upper parts of Thailand

 

 

BANGKOK, 28 March 2017 (NNT) - The Meteorological Department revealed that thunderstorms in the upper parts of Thailand will begin to dwindle while the South will experience more rains. 

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975763-thunderstorms-weaken-in-upper-parts-of-thailand/

 

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Chiang Rai governor holds urgent hotspot meeting
By The Nation

 

File photo: A forest fire rages in Chiang Rai's Chiang Saen district on March 22.

 

CHIANG RAI: -- Chiang Rai governor Boonsong Techamanisatit met with administrative officials and executives from local bodies on Tuesday to get details on the forest fires raging in their jurisdictions.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975765-chiang-rai-governor-holds-urgent-hotspot-meeting/

 

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Drug raid on construction workers camp finds nothing
By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Police used drug sniffer dogs to search a construction workers camp in Soi Kanachanapisek 18 in Bangkok's Sapan Sung district on Tuesday morning.

 

Full story:  http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975766-drug-raid-on-construction-workers-camp-in-bangkok-finds-nothing/

 

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Bangkok woman busted selling slow lorises via Facebook

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

  

Kalyaporn Rukthum, 30, is posed with the wildlife she allegedly was selling from her Bangkok home as police take her into custody Monday.

 

BANGKOK — Police said Tuesday they are looking for more animal traffickers after a woman was arrested for possessing and selling slow lorises from her eastern Bangkok home.

 

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/975769-bangkok-woman-busted-selling-slow-lorises-via-facebook/