THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Wednesday 12 Apr 2017

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HOTEL DEALS: Book by April 17th to receive an extra 10% discount on our already great prices

 

 

Book by April 17th for extra great discounts: Be quick to snap up the latest offers on Sacha's Hotel Uno in Bangkok, Classic Kameo in Ayutthaya, and Kantary Bay in Rayong. Great hotels at great prices!

 

Info: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978015-hotel-deals-book-by-april-17th-to-receive-an-extra-10-discount-on-our-already-great-prices/

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Midweek rant: Dear Songkran revelers – any chance of leaving me alone?

 

 

I accept that it is virtually impossible to completely get away from Songkran.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978087-midweek-rant-dear-songkran-revelers-–-any-chance-of-leaving-me-alone/

 

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Coronation Day on May 5 is no longer a national holiday

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

A woman holds a portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Photo: Reuters

 

The cabinet decided today to remove the Coronation Day of King Bhumibol Adulyadej as a national holiday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978030-breaking-coronation-day-on-may-5-is-no-longer-a-national-holiday/

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Family distraught after Supreme Court doubts evidence in bid for murder retrial by deaf mute

By The Nation

SING BURI

 

 

THE parents of Passakorn Sangkhee – a 29-year-old deaf and mute Bang Rachan man sentenced to 20 years jail almost a decade ago for a 2008 murder – broke down in tears after Sing Buri Provincial Court on Tuesday read the Supreme Court’s verdict to keep him in jail.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978036-family-distraught-after-supreme-court-doubts-evidence-in-bid-for-murder-retrial-by-deaf-mute/

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Hua Hin beach restaurants ordered to display prices after complaints

 

Picture: Daily News

 

HUA HIN: -- The Hua Hin municipal authority descended on the beach yesterday to order all restaurants to display prices.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978088-hua-hin-beach-restaurants-ordered-to-display-prices-after-complaints/

 

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Large force of met traffic cops mobilized for Songkran

 

Picture: Sanook

 

BANGKOK: -- Metropolitan police chief Sanit Mahathavorn announced that a force of 400 police officers has been mobilized for traffic duty in the capital during Songkran.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978089-large-force-of-met-traffic-cops-mobilized-for-songkran/

 

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Video: Car hits express train - but you may not see a crazier accident all Songkran week

 

Image: Thai News Agency

 

BANGKOK: -- Car collisions with trains at crossings usually involve drivers ignoring barriers and flashing lights before the train actually arrives.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978090-video-car-hits-express-train-but-you-may-not-see-a-crazier-accident all-songkran-week/

 

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Prayut vows to limit his use of all-powerful Article 44
By Wasamon Audjarint 
The Nation

 

Prayut

 

BANGKOK: -- General Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday affirmed that he would limit the continued use of his power under Article 44 of the interim charter to situations of necessity.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978091-prayut-vows-to-limit-his-use-of-all-powerful-article-44/

 

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Blasts hit Borussia Dortmund team bus, leaving player hurt

By Kai Pfaffenbach

 

Football Soccer - Borussia Dortmund v AS Monaco - UEFA Champions League Quarter Final First Leg - Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany - 11/4/17 The Borussia Dortmund team bus is seen after an explosion near their hotel before the game Reuters / Kai Pfaffenbach Livepic

 

DORTMUND (Reuters) - German police said "an attack using serious explosives" was launched on the Borussia Dortmund soccer team's bus on Tuesday, leaving one player injured.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978092-blasts-hit-borussia-dortmund-team-bus-leaving-player-hurt/

 

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Thousands of passengers stranded at Suvarnabhumi Airport after their tour agent fails to show up

The Nation

 

Tourism Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul is seen at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday night.

 

BANGKOK: -- Thousands of passengers were stranded at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday night after staffs of a company that promised them of a trip to Japan during Songkran Festival did not show up.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978093-thousands-of-passengers-stranded-at-suvarnabhumi-airport-after-their-tour-agent-fails-to-show-up/

 

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NCPO lifts controlled area status on temple
By WASAMON AUDJARINT
THE NATION

 

 

WAT DHAMMAKAYA RETURNS TO NORMAL AFTER CRACKDOWN TO HUNT FOR ITS FORMER ABBOT

 

BANGKOK: -- THE scandal-hit Dhammakaya Temple and nearby areas are no longer a special control area, according to the Royal Gazette that came out yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978094-ncpo-lifts-controlled-area-status-on-temple/

 

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Govt rejects BRN talks demands
By The Nation

 

Aksara

 

BANGKOK: -- THE BARISAN Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani (BRN) separatist group is not involved in the ongoing process to establish “safety zones” in the deep South as the group had not participated in the peace talks, Thailand’s negotiating chief Aksara Kerdphol said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978095-thai-govt-rejects-brn-talks-demands/

 

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Festivities watered down
By THE NATION

 

Foreign revellers on a tuk-tuk are sprayed with water by elephants during a preview yesterday of Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year water festival, at the historic World Heritage park in Ayutthaya.

 

BANGKOK: -- PROVINCES across the country have been preparing activities and various measures to keep revellers safe while celebrating Songkran Festival this week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978096-songkran-festivities-watered-down/

 

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Six roads in Bangkok blocked off for Songkran
By The Nation

 

File photo: Khao San Road.

 

BANGKOK: -- Vehicles will be prohibited on six Bangkok roads during Songkran.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978097-six-roads-in-bangkok-blocked-off-for-songkran/

 

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UPDATE:

 

Supreme Court dismisses confession, new evidence and upholds deaf mute man’s murder conviction
By JIRAMAN KHAMCHA,
KESINEE TAENGKHIEO
THE NATION
SING BURI

 

 

SING BURI: -- THE parents of Passakorn Sangkhee – a 29-year-old deaf and mute Bang Rachan man sentenced to 20 years in jail almost a decade ago for a 2008 murder – broke down in tears after the Sing Buri Provincial Court yesterday read the Supreme Court’s verdict to keep him in jail.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978036-family-distraught-after-supreme-court-doubts-evidence-in-bid-for-murder-retrial-by-deaf-mute/?do=findComment&comment=11790891

 

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New law on village chiefs ‘a long way off’
By The Nation

 

Pornpetch

 

It is yet to go to the cabinet or parliament, NLA’s Pornpetch says

 

BANGKOK: -- THE proposal to slash the terms of tambon chiefs, or kamnans, and village heads to just five years still has a long way to go, National Legislative Assembly (NLA) president Pornpetch Vichitcholchai said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978099-new-law-on-village-chiefs-‘a-long-way-off’/

 

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Yingluck spends Bt2.65m a month, court told in failed injunction bid
By The Nation

 

File photo

 

BANGKOK: -- Ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra spends a staggering Bt2.65 million per month to cover personal and family expenses as well as her visits to former constituents, she told a court recently in a failed injunction request.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978100-yingluck-spends-bt265m-a-month-court-told-in-failed-injunction-bid/

 

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Van owner fined 20,000 baht for too many passengers on first day law goes into effect

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: Thai PBS

 

BANGKOK: -- The new rule just went into effect but already, the owner and operator of a passenger van were fined for carrying too many passengers on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978102-van-owner-fined-20000-baht-for-too-many-passengers-on-first-day-law-goes-into-effect/

 

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UPDATE:

 

Ms Yingluck to appeal for a stay of execution of her assets seizure order

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra plans to appeal against the Central Administrative Court’s ruling rejecting her request for a stay of execution of Finance Ministry’s order to seize her assets estimated at 35 billion baht to compensate for the huge loss from the rice pledging scheme.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978100-yingluck-spends-bt265m-a-month-court-told-in-failed-injunction-bid/?do=findComment&comment=11790923

 

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The fun and fundamentals of water
By Tulsathit Taptim
The Nation

 

I don’t mean to spoil your Songkran, but in years to come what you do this week may be illegal. Even worse, we may not even need a law to prevent people from throwing water at one another. The treasured practice will likely be seen as an act of total insanity, or simply undoable.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978103-the-fun-and-fundamentals-of-water/
 

 

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PM: Ban on riding in truck bed to be strictly enforced after Songkran

 

BANGKOK, 12 April 2017 (NNT) – The Prime Minister has affirmed that the prohibition against riding on the bed of a pickup truck has long existed but it will be relaxed during this Songkran Festival to allow commuters to adjust themselves. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978104-pm-ban-on-riding-in-truck-bed-to-be-strictly-enforced-after-songkran/

 

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North Korea warns of nuclear strike if provoked; Trump 'armada' steams on

By Sue-Lin Wong

REUTERS

 

A general view of an annual central report meeting in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang April 9, 2017. KCNA via REUTERS

 

PYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korean state media warned on Tuesday of a nuclear attack on the United States at any sign of American aggression, as a U.S. Navy strike group steamed toward the western Pacific - a force U.S. President Donald Trump described as an "armada".

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978105-north-korea-warns-of-nuclear-strike-if-provoked-trump-armada/

 

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White House accuses Russia of deflecting blame on Syria attack

By Steve Holland and Andrew Osborn

REUTERS

 

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's arrives in Moscow carrying a unified message from world powers denouncing Russian support for Syria. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

 

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States accused Russia on Tuesday of trying to shield Syria's leader from blame for a deadly poison gas attack last week, as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson brought a Western message to Moscow condemning its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978107-white-house-accuses-russia-of-deflecting-blame-on-syria-attack/

 

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Trump spokesman sparks outcry by comparing Assad to Hitler

By Ayesha Rascoe

REUTERS

 

White House Press Secretary SeanSpicer speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House spokesman SeanSpicer triggered an uproar on Tuesday by saying Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons. He apologized after his comments drew immediate criticism on social media and elsewhere for overlooking the fact that millions of Jews were killed in Nazi gas chambers.

 

Fulls tory: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978108-trump-spokesman-sparks-outcry-by-comparing-assad-to-hitler/

 

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U.S. judges pulled from Mexico border as crossings by women, children fall

By Julia Edwards Ainsley and Kristina Cooke

REUTERS

 

A house stands next to a section of the border fence separating Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

 

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two U.S. immigration judges recently sent to the Mexico border to process asylum requests from migrant women and children are being recalled as they have so few cases to hear, according to two people familiar with the matter.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978109-us-judges-pulled-from-mexico-border-as-crossings-by-women-children-fall/

 

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Taiwan bans slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption

 

TAIPEI: -- Taiwan's parliament has approved a bill banning the slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978110-taiwan-bans-slaughter-of-cats-and-dogs-for-human-consumption/

 

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Putin says expects 'fake' gas attacks to discredit Syria's Assad

REUTERS

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin talks to Italian President Sergio Mattarella during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Chirikov/Pool

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had information that the United States was planning to launch new missile strikes on Syria, and that there were plans to fake chemicals weapons attacks there.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978111-putin-says-expects-fake-gas-attacks-to-discredit-syrias-assad/

 

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Ohio woman charged with knifepoint rape of male taxi-driver

 

An Ohio woman has been charged with raping a cab driver at knifepoint before she and another man robbed him, according to police.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978112-ohio-woman-charged-with-knifepoint-rape-of-male-taxi-driver/

 

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FBI obtained court order to monitor ex-Trump adviser in Russia probe - Washington Post

REUTERS

 

One-time advisor of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump Carter Page addresses the audience during a presentation in Moscow, Russia, December 12, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement and other U.S. officials.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978121-fbi-obtained-court-order-to-monitor-ex-trump-adviser-in-russia-probe-washington-post/

 

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Musician J. Geils, dies at Massachusetts home - police

REUTERS

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - J. Geils, leader of The Geils Band whose hard-driving hits of the late 1970s and early 1980s included "Centerfold," "Freeze Frame" and "Love Stinks," died on Tuesday at his home in Groton, Massachusetts, police said. He was 71.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/978125-j-geils-band-leader-dead-at-71/