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Police to launch another major operation against Lao drug network

By KHANATHIT SRIHIRANDEJ

THE NATION

 

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A POLICE operation will be launched soon to target and search locations around Thailand to smash a drug-trafficking network led by alleged kingpin Xaysana Keopimpha.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980057-police-to-launch-another-major-operation-against-lao-drug-network/

 
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More sickening violence as 10 men attack handicapped guard in Bang Saen

 

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CHON BURI: -- Video footage has emerged of a sickening attack on a security guard during Wan Lai celebrations in Bang Saen last week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980077-more-sickening-violence-as-10-men-attack-handicapped-guard-in-bang-saen/

 

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Video: Taxi driver playing with his phone spooks passengers

 

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BANGKOK: -- A video doing the rounds of Thai social media shows a Bangkok taxi driver continually playing with his phone while driving his cab.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980078-video-taxi-driver-playing-with-his-phone-spooks-passengers/

 

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Russian boy, 10, injured in Phuket parasail accident

Darawan Naknakhon

 

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Russian boy Timur Gadylshin, 10, on holidays in Phuket with his family, escaped serious injury in the fall after the parasail collapsed. Photo: Karon Police

 

PHUKET: -- A 10-year-old Russian boy on holidays in Phuket with his family escaped serious injury today (April 24) when the boat hauling the parasail he was riding in at Karon Beach stalled from a plastic bag in the water.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980079-russian-boy-10-injured-in-phuket-parasail-accident/

 

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Phuket late-trading crackdown on Patong bars, nightclubs continues

The Phuket News

 

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Tourist Police on routine patrol at Phuket's famous entertainment street Bangla Rd. Photo: Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

PHUKET: -- The Patong Police have confirmed they are still raiding and shutting down bars and nightclubs along and near Bangla Rd if they are caught trading past the legal closing times.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980080-phuket-late-trading-crackdown-on-patong-bars-nightclubs-continues/

 

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Phuket Governor bestows UK Safer Roads Foundation ‘Key to the City’

Rapipan Suksawat

 

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Mr Michael C Woodford, with his wife Nuncy Somavilla, accepting the 'Key to the City'. Photo: Phuket PR Department

 

PHUKET: -- The president of the UK-based Safer Roads Foundation has been given the “Key to the City” in appreciation of the efforts and support given to help reduce the carnage on Phuket’s roads.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980081-phuket-governor-bestows-uk-safer-roads-foundation-‘key-to-the-city’/

 

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Cabinet approves purchase of Bt13.5-bn submarine from China
By The Nation

 

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BANGKOK: -- THE CABINET has approved a Navy proposal to buy a Yuan-class submarine from China for Bt13.5 billion, a government source said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980056-thailand-approves-393-mln-purchase-of-chinese-submarines/?do=findComment&comment=11827306

 

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Senior officials linked to blackmail, forced prostitution of teenager in Mae Hong Son
By The Nation

 

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Boonyarit Nippawanich (centre), chair of the Deputy District Chief Federations of Thailand, asks the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to help bring culprits to justice yesterday.

 

BANGKOK: -- A CHAT with a police friend about young, part-time prostitutes turned into a nightmare for one mother after she found that one of the girls available for sex was her own daughter, who later revealed how she had been lured into taking drugs, blackmailed and coerced into the flesh trade.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980082-senior-officials-linked-to-blackmail-forced-prostitution-of-teenager-in-mae-hong-son/

 

 

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Governor denies bid to stop protest on Mekong blasting
By Pratch Rujivanarom
The Nation

 

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Photo via: Facebook of Shinshiro Kenji Arthur

 

CHIANG RAI: -- CHIANG RAI’S governor has denied that the authorities attempted to block a protest against a Chinese team that is surveying the Mekong River as part of the Navigation Route Improvement project, although local residents say the order has been issued.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980083-governor-denies-bid-to-stop-protest-on-mekong-blasting/

 

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Decision on proposed weapons repair facilities to be made by July: Prawit
By The Nation

 

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BANGKOK: -- Consideration of the proposal to set up weapons-repair facilities in Thailand will reach a conclusion by July, Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan was quoted as saying at the Defence Council on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980085-decision-on-proposed-weapons-repair-facilities-to-be-made-by-july-prawit/

 

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Man in alleged scam of university lecturers had Bt5,000 in bank accounts, says source
By Kampanart La-ong
The Nation 

 

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Assoc Prof Sawat Saengbangpla

 

BANGKOK: -- The man behind an alleged scam to cheat several lecturers and former lecturers of the Chulalongkorn University (CU) out of at least Bt1.4billion had just Bt5,000 in his bank accounts, an informed source disclosed on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980086-man-in-alleged-scam-of-university-lecturers-had-bt5000-in-bank-accounts-says-source/

 

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Deputy chief of an army prison charged in conscript’s death

 

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BANGKOK: -- Deputy commandant of the military prison in Surat Thani denied all the charges lodged against him by the police in connection with the death of a conscript held in custody in the prison.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980087-deputy-chief-of-an-army-prison-charged-in-conscript’s-death/

 

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Anusorn to be warned for knocking on the head of a waiter with his knuckles

 

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BANGKOK: -- The National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) has found an assemblyman guilty of “not serious” breach of ethical conduct for using his knuckles to knock on the head of a waiter and decided to serve him a warning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980088-anusorn-to-be-warned-for-knocking-on-the-head-of-a-waiter-with-his-knuckles/

 

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Surrogacy problem sneaks across the border
By The Nation

 

Last week’s arrest of a semen smuggler seems to underline regional inconsistency on commercialised parenthood

 

BANGKOK: -- The arrest of Nithinon Srithaniyanan last week for attempting to smuggle human semen into Laos should serve as a warning for all countries in the region to be on guard against the rise of commercial surrogacy.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980089-surrogacy-problem-sneaks-across-the-border/

 

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Hollande urges French to reject Le Pen in presidential run-off vote

By Bate Felix and John Irish

 

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A woman walks past official posters of candidates for the 2017 French presidential election Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader (L) and Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, (R) at a local market in Bethune, France, April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

 

PARIS (Reuters) - France's outgoing president, Francois Hollande, on Monday urged people to back centrist Emmanuel Macron in a vote to choose his successor next month and reject far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose place in the run-off represented a "risk" for France.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980091-hollande-urges-french-to-reject-le-pen-in-presidential-run-off-vote/

 

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Obama makes no mention of Trump in first major post-presidential appearance

By Chris Kenning

REUTERS

 

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Former President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with youth leaders at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago to discuss strategies for community organization and civic engagement in Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski

 

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Barack Obama, making his first major appearance since leaving the White House, made no mention on Monday of his successor, Donald Trump, but urged young people to get more involved in their communities at a time of stark political divides.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980092-obama-makes-no-mention-of-trump-in-first-major-post-presidential-appearance/

 

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U.S. sanctions hundreds of employees of Syrian research center

REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday blacklisted 271 employees of a Syrian government agency it said was responsible for developing chemical weapons, weeks after a poison gas attack killed scores of people in a rebel-held province in Syria.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980093-us-sanctions-hundreds-of-employees-of-syrian-research-center/

 

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Major 7.1 quake strikes off Chile's coast, near Santiago

By Rosalba O'Brien

REUTERS

 

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People stand and watch the ocean on Cerro Castillo hill, after a mass evacuation of the entire coastline during a tsunami alert after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit off the coast in Vina del Mar, Chile April 24, 2017 REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

 

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A major earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck off the west coast of Chile on Monday, rocking the capital Santiago and generating at least two significant aftershocks.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980094-major-71-quake-strikes-off-chiles-coast-near-santiago/

 

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Netanyahu will skip talks if German minister meets left-wing group - Israeli official

REUTERS

 

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, April 23, 2017. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday threatened to cancel a meeting with Germany's foreign minister if he sits down with a left-wing rights group, an Israeli official said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980095-netanyahu-will-skip-talks-if-german-minister-meets-left-wing-group-israeli-official/

 

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EU executive urges change of tack in relations with Turkey

REUTERS

 

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European Union (EU) Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn attends an opening ceremony at the EU-funded cross-border bridge, in Donji Svilaj, Bosnia and Herzegovina March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union executive urged EU governments on Monday to consider changing its relationship with Turkey after a referendum that handed President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping powers put Ankara's stalled membership talks deeper into cold storage.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980096-eu-executive-urges-change-of-tack-in-relations-with-turkey/

 

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Trump calls for new U.N. sanctions against North Korea

By Steve Holland and Ben Blanchard

REUTERS

 

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump faces a news conference at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday the U.N. Security Council must be prepared to impose new sanctions on North Korea as concerns mount that it may test a sixth nuclear bomb as early as Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980098-trump-calls-for-new-un-sanctions-against-north-korea/

 

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Elton John recovering from 'potentially deadly' bacterial infection

REUTERS

 

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FILE PHOTO: Singer Elton John performs at the Hillary Victory Fund "I'm With Her" benefit concert for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, March 2, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Elton John spent two nights in intensive care with a potentially deadly bacterial infection and has cancelled all his concerts for the rest of April and May, his publicist said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980100-elton-john-recovering-from-potentially-deadly-bacterial-infection/

 

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Venezuela death toll rises as unrest enters fourth week

By Brian Ellsworth and Diego Oré

REUTERS

 

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Opposition supporters attend to a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Veron

 

CARACAS (Reuters) - At least one person was killed in political unrest in Venezuela on Monday as anti-government protests entered a fourth week with mass "sit-ins" to press demands for early elections.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980101-venezuela-death-toll-rises-as-unrest-enters-fourth-week/

 

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Taiwanese drug suspect arrested at airport may have connections with drug lord "Xaysana

 

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BANGKOK: -- Drugs suppression police and commandos were out in force at Suvaranabhumi airport last night to arrest a Taiwanese man about to leave the country.

 

Full story:   https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980109-taiwanese-drug-suspect-arrested-at-airport-may-have-connections-with drug-lord-xaysana/

 

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NBTC panel to study how to regulate Netflix, Iflix, Primetime and other OTT operators

BY THE NATION 

 

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THE BOARD of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunica-tions Commission yesterday resolved to regard the delivery of over-the-top (OTT) content as radio and TV broadcasting, said Natee Sukonrat, chairman of the NBTC broadcasting committee.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/nbtc-panel-to-study-how-to-regulate-netflix-iflix-primetime-and-other-ott-operators/21219/

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U.S. State Department website posts article on Trump's Florida resort

By Yeganeh Torbati

REUTERS

 

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FILE PHOTO: The Mar-a-Lago estate is shown before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump departed with his family for New York, after spending the Thanksgiving holiday with family, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 27, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. State Department website on Monday took down an article it published this month about President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort which had prompted criticism from prominent ethics experts that the piece represented use of public office for private gain.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980113-us-state-department-website-posts-article-on-trumps-florida-resort/

 

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