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Tributes flow Phuket’s Sophie Anderson

The Phuket News

 

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Tributes and messages of condolences and grief have flowed online following the tragic death of Sophie Anderson (pictured) in Phuket on Monday (May 8). Image: Sophie’s Joy / YouTube

 

PHUKET:-- Tributes and expressions of condolences and grief have poured online for British mum Sophie Emma Rose Anderson, who died in a horrific traffic accident in central Phuket on Monday (May 8).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982495-tributes-flow-phuket’s-sophie-anderson/

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UN road safety week focuses on dangers of driving at high speed

By The Nation

 

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The United Nations is organising the fourth UN Global Road Safety Week from May 8-14, focusing on speed and what can be done to address this key risk factor in road traffic deaths and injuries.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982478-un-road-safety-week-focuses-on-dangers-of-driving-at-high-speed/

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Five tourists injured as "stairway collapses" in Ang Thong - Koh Samui National Park

 

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SAMUI: -- Five tourists were rushed by speedboat to Koh Samui after a stairway collapsed at the Ang Thong - Koh Samui Marine national park.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982512-five-tourists-injured-as-stairway-collapses-in-ang-thong-koh-samui national-park/

 

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School janitor talking on the phone tossed into the air in Sri Racha collision

 

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SRI RACHA/PATTAYA: -- A female school janitor was tossed high into the air in a collision with a car after she crossed the road while talking on her phone.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982514-school-janitor-talking-on-the-phone-tossed-into-the-air-in-sri-racha-collision/

 

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5,000 nurses threaten strike in dispute over temporary jobs
By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM
THE NATION

 

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BANGKOK: -- MORE THAN 5,000 contract nurses have threatened to go on strike if the government refuses to hire them as permanent staff.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982516-5000-nurses-threaten-strike-in-dispute-over-temporary-jobs/

 

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NRSA media panel drops licencing from draft proposal
By THE NATION

 

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Kanit Suwannet

 

Bill stipulates employer certification of journalists; retains govt oversight.

 

BANGKOK: -- THE NATIONAL Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) media reform panel has agreed to remove clauses regarding a licensing system and severe penalties from its proposed media regulatory bill following a debate last week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982517-nrsa-media-panel-drops-licencing-from-draft-proposal/

 

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Dugongs face extinction in Thailand
By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM
THE NATION

 

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A team of veterinarians and officers try to install a tracking device on a dugong at Hat Chao Mai National Park in Trang in a file photo.

 

TRANG: -- DUGONGS IN Thailand’s waters face extinction unless their habitat and food sources are protected, according to a recent study.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982518-dugongs-face-extinction-in-thailand/

 

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2015 Cabinet opinions kept in strategy law

By THE NATION

 

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General Suchart Nongbua

 

BANGKOK: -- CLAUSES IN the national strategy law, which include Cabinet suggestions from two years ago, will not be removed despite questions of relevancy, according to a spokesman for the vetting committee.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982520-2015-thai-cabinet-opinions-kept-in-strategy-law/

 

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Pattani suspects identified
By THE NATION

 

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Camera catches images of four ‘linked to BRN’ in the act; at least 80 people injured

 

PATTANI: -- A MASSIVE HUNT has been launched for four men who were allegedly involved in the double blasts at a Big C department store in Pattani province on Tuesday after security camera footage caught them in the act. Meanwhile, the number of people reported injured rose to 80, including children.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982521-big-c-bombers-in-pattani-identified-by-thai-authorities/

 

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Asean could play crucial role in easing tensions in Korean peninsula: academics
By SUPALAK GANJANAKHUNDEE
The Nation, Honolulu

 

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A South Korean Multiple Launch Rocket (MLR) system participates during the joint South Korea/USA live fire exercise against a possible attack from North Korea, at Seungjin fire training field in Phocheon-gun, Soul, in April.//EPA

 

HONOLULU: -- Asean could play a significant part in talks to end tensions in the Korean peninsula, academics at Hawaii University have said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982522-asean-could-play-crucial-role-in-easing-tensions-in-korean-peninsula-academics/

 

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Reading between the lines
By KUPLUTHAI PUNGKANON
THE NATION

 

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Less than a month after opening, the new Bangkok City Library is already an unqualified success

 

BANGKOK: -- NO DOUBT the low membership fee can take part of the credit, but the long queues that form every day at the newly opened Bangkok City Library bode well for future of the written word in a country that up until recently had not been known for a reading culture. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982523-bangkok-city-library-reading-between-the-lines/

 

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Thai dharma goes global
By Phatarawadee Phataranawik
THE NATION

 

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Modern Buddhism can provide the key to challenges in our globalised and capitalist world,” stresses Professor Phra Brahmapundit, rector of Mahachulalongkornrajavidhidalaya University. NATION/RACHANON INTHARAGSA

 

Thailand is drawing students from all over the world, keen to study ‘engaged Buddhism’ and its social benefits

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982524-thai-dharma-goes-global/

 

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PM asks public and press members not to publish bombing clips

 

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BANGKOK, 11 May 0217 (NNT) - The Prime Minister has admired the rapid investigation into yesterday's bombing incident at Big C Pattani, and asked the public and journalist not to publish bombing clips for fear that they would affect people’s feelings. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982526-pm-prayut-asks-public-and-press-members-not-to-publish-bombing-clips/

 

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79 listed companies report profit surge in Q1

 

BANGKOK, 11 May 2017 (NNT) - 79 listed companies in the Thai stock markets made combined profits totaling more than 110 billion baht or a 18% increase in the first quarter of 2017, according to a securities firm. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982531-79-listed-companies-report-profit-surge-in-q1/

 

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EDITORIAL

When innocents are attacked, the cause is lost
By The Nation

 

Whoever set off the bombs in Pattani this week gained nothing by it, instead earning universal condemnation

 

BANGKOK: -- The double bombing at a large department store in Pattani on Tuesday was an act of cowardice. Whoever the perpetrators were, they were intent on using the lives and safety of many innocent people as bargaining chips to achieve their goal. In this, they had no hope of succeeding.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982532-thai-editorial-when-innocents-are-attacked-the-cause-is-lost/

 

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FBI chief aimed to expand Russia probe before Trump fired him - source

By Dustin Volz and Susan Cornwell

REUTERS

 

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FILE PHOTO: FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey, days before President Donald Trump fired him, sought to expand his agency's probe into possible collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 U.S. election, a congressional source said on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982533-fbi-chief-aimed-to-expand-russia-probe-before-trump-fired-him-source/

 

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After Macron win, France's main parties fret over parliament elections

By Sophie Louet and Simon Carraud

REUTERS

 

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FILE PHOTO French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (R) speaks with then Economy minister Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, April 8, 2015. Former French Socialist prime minister Manuel Valls said May 9, 2017 that he wanted to stand for President-elect Emmanuel Macron's political movement in June parliamentary elections, the first high-profile defection since Macron's election win. Picture taken April 8, 2015. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo

 

PARIS (Reuters) - France's mainstream parties of the left and right struggled on Wednesday to adjust to the new political landscape created by centrist Emmanuel Macron's victory in Sunday's presidential election that has broken their dominance of national politics.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982534-after-macron-win-frances-main-parties-fret-over-parliament-elections/

 

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Trump meets Russia foreign minister amid Comey controversy

By Arshad Mohammed and Steve Holland

REUTERS

 

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FILE PHOTO: A combination of file photos showing Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attending a news conference in Moscow, Russia, November 18, 2015, and U.S. President Donald Trump posing for a photo in New York City, U.S., May 17, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev/Lucas Jackson/File Photos

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia's top diplomat met President Donald Trump on Wednesday and praised the U.S. administration as problem solvers, just as the White House drew criticism over the firing of the FBI director who was leading a probe into Moscow's alleged interference in U.S. politics.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982535-trump-meets-russia-foreign-minister-amid-comey-controversy/

 

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U.S. likely to expand airline laptop ban to Europe - government officials

By Mark Hosenball and David Shepardson

REUTERS

 

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FILE PHOTO: A man uses his laptop to test a new high speed inflight Internet service named Fli-Fi while on a special JetBlue media flight out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York in this December 11, 2013 file picture. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is likely to expand a ban on laptops on commercial aircraft to include some European countries, but is reviewing how to ensure lithium batteries stored in luggage holds do not explode in midair, officials briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982536-us-likely-to-expand-airline-laptop-ban-to-europe-government-officials/

 

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Leading Hamas official says no softened stance towards Israel

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

REUTERS

 

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FILE PHOTO: Veteran Hamas strategist Mahmoud Al-Zahar gestures during an interview with Reuters at his house in Gaza City April 29, 2014. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

 

GAZA (Reuters) - One of Hamas's most senior officials said on Wednesday a document published by the Islamist Palestinian group last week was not a substitute for its founding charter, which advocates Israel's destruction.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982538-leading-hamas-official-says-no-softened-stance-towards-israel/

 

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Libyan coastguard turns back nearly 500 migrants after altercation with NGO ship

By Ahmed Elumami

REUTERS

 

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Illegal migrants arrive by boat at a naval base after they were rescued by Libyan coastguard in the coastal city of Tripoli, Libya, May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny

 

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's coastguard said it had intercepted nearly 500 migrants packed onto a wooden boat and returned them to Tripoli on Wednesday after warning off a ship that was preparing to pick them up for passage to Europe.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982540-libyan-coastguard-turns-back-nearly-500-migrants-after-altercation-with-ngo-ship/

 

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Pie in the sky as Australia's Qantas boss gets just dessert

By Benjamin Weir

REUTERS

 

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A man is detained by security after throwing a pie at Qantas CEO Alan Joyce during a speech at a business breakfast at a hotel in Perth, Western Australia, May 9, 2017. AAP/Gregory Roberts/via REUTERS

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Qantas Airways Ltd Chief Executive Alan Joyce proved he was no cream puff on Tuesday, keeping his cool after a man smeared a cream pie in his face during a business breakfast in Australia's west.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982549-pie-in-the-sky-as-australias-qantas-boss-gets-just-dessert/

 

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Interview: U.S. lawmakers not backing down on human rights for Tibet, Pelosi says

By Douglas Busvine

REUTERS

 

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U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi meets Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in Dharamsala, India May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Douglas Busvine

 

DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Top U.S. lawmakers delivered a blunt message to China on Wednesday that they would not relent in their campaign to protect human rights in Tibet, calling for legislative and trade steps to press home their point.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982551-interview-us-lawmakers-not-backing-down-on-human-rights-for-tibet-pelosi-says/

 

 

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Eight killed when magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits China's northwest

REUTERS

 

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Eight people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck in China's northwest Xinjiang region on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said, with photographs online also showing damaged buildings.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982552-eight-killed-when-magnitude-55-earthquake-hits-chinas-northwest/

 

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Four year old killed as she tumbles down uncovered drain

 

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BANGKOK: -- CCTV footage from a shop in a Samut Prakarn housing estate shows a four year old girl falling down an uncovered sewer opening to her death.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982553-four-year-old-killed-as-she-tumbles-down-uncovered-drain/

 

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Fighting addiction at a Thai monastery

By Jorge Silva

REUTERS

 

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Turkish-German patient Cengiz (C) attends his ordination ceremony at Wat Thamkrabok monastery in Saraburi province, Thailand, March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

 

SARABURI, Thailand (Reuters) - Cengiz seemed to have it all.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982554-fighting-addiction-at-a-thai-monastery/

 

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Pattaya police in urgent public appeal for information about missing Thai/US kids

 

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PATTAYA: -- Pattaya police are stepping up the search for three missing Thai/US children who have been taken away from their two Thai mothers.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982555-pattaya-police-in-urgent-public-appeal-for-information-about-missing thaius-kids/

 

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Warring parties in car finance case shake hands - but cop with gun could still face charges

 

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BANGKOK: -- The case of the cop who drew a gun after the bank came to repossess his wife's car took a new twist yesterday at Kannayao police station.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982560-warring-parties-in-car-finance-case-shake-hands-but-cop-with-gun could-still-face-charges/

 

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