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Bangkok readies for heavy rains and flooding

 

BANGKOK, 11 May 2017 (NNT) – All 50 district offices of Bangkok has prepared plans to respond to flooding with the Department of Drainage and Sewerage (DDS) to keep them abreast of the situation on an hourly basis. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982561-bangkok-readies-for-heavy-rains-and-flooding/

 

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District chief moved as investigations into corruption continue in Petchabun

 

PETCHABUN, 11 May 2017 (NNT) – Suspicions of rampant corruption amongst sub-district administrations in Petchabun province have led to the district chief of Nong Phai being transferred out of the area as the Office of the Auditor General performs an investigation. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982563-district-chief-moved-as-investigations-into-corruption-continue-in-petchabun/

 

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Another distributor faces five years in jail for selling E-cigarettes

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- A contingent of Thanyaburi police and soldiers yesterday raided business premises in Klong 4 of Pathum Thani after reports that they were being used to distribute electronic cigarettes.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982567-another-distributor-faces-five-years-in-jail-for-selling-e-cigarettes/

 

 

 

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Massive manhunt for Big C Pattani bombers continue today

 

 

PATTANI: -- Massive manhunt for a group of southern militants responsible for the Big C Pattani bombings that left over 60 innocent civilians injured continued today with security authorities now being able to identify one of them.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982570-massive-manhunt-for-big-c-pattani-bombers-continue-today/

 

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DIP says 85% of IP violations removed from major retail spaces

 

BANGKOK, 11 May 2017 (NNT) – The Ministry of Commerce has pointed out that its crackdown on intellectual property (IP) infringements has wiped away over 85 percent of goods at popular retail spaces such as Talad Rong Krua and Maboonkrong Shopping Center. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982572-thai-dip-says-85-of-ip-violations-removed-from-major-retail-spaces/

 

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Phuket tour guide, Chinese tourists let off after coral stolen from reef

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The two Chinese tourists were let off with a warning after they returned to Phuket from a day trip to Coral Island. Photo: Khanchit Klingklip

 

PHUKET: -- A pair of Chinese tourists and their tour guide have been let off with a warning after they were caught returning to Phuket from a day trip to Coral Island with corals stolen from a reef there.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982575-phuket-tour-guide-chinese-tourists-let-off-after-coral-stolen-from-reef/

 

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Concert for late King Rama IX to be held on Friday this week

By The Nation 

 

The musical concert being performed in tribute to late King Rama IX on May 6 at Royal Plaza.

 

BANGKOK: -- The weekly concert being held every Saturday to honour the late King Rama IX will be held on Friday this week.

 

Info: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982576-bangkok-concert-for-late-king-rama-ix-to-be-held-on-friday-this-week/

 

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Husband comes home in the nick of time - shoots would be rapist in the head

 

Picture: 77Jowo

 

PHITSANULOK: -- A husband returned to his Phitsanulok house to hear his wife screaming that she was being raped. The assailant was a person she had met on Facebook.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982578-husband-comes-home-in-the-nick-of-time-shoots-would-be-rapist-in-the-head/

 

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Farmers urged to enter crop insurance scheme as more benefits will be offered

 

 

BANGKOK: -- More rice farmers are encouraged to join the government’s crop insurance scheme this year as now the government has given more benefits to them.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982580-thai-farmers-urged-to-enter-crop-insurance-scheme-as-more-benefits-will-be-offered/

 

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Sting operation nets three men and 100,000 meth pills
By The Nation

 

NAKHON PATHOM: -- Police arrested three men in Nakhon Pathom province for alleged sale of drugs following a sting operation that also led to the seizure of 100,000 methamphetamine pills.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982581-sting-operation-nets-three-men-and-100000-meth-pills/

 

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Many Pattani bombing victims suffering from high stress

By The Nation 

 

 

PATTANI: -- The impact on the mental health of more than half of the victims of Tuesday’s bombing in southern Pattani province needs to be closely watched, especially of children, Mental Health Department director-general Dr Boonruang Triruangworawat said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982583-many-pattani-bombing-victims-suffering-from-high-stress/

 

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Army unit detects over 800 online items found to insult monarchy 

By The Nation

 

File photo: Maj-General Rittee Intravudh, director of the Army Cyber Centre.

 

BANGKOK: -- The cybercrime security centre of the Royal Thai Armed Forces has found more than 800 online items deemed to insult the monarchy over the past seven months, from October last year to April this year.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982585-army-unit-detects-over-800-online-items-found-to-insult-monarchy/

 

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Ambition to meet reality as China gathers world for Silk Road summit

By Ben Blanchard

REUTERS

 

People walk past the installation "Golden Bridge on Silk Road" by artist Shu Yong set up ahead of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - When leaders of 28 nations gather in Beijing next week for a summit to map out China's ambitious new Silk Road project, one question is likely to be on attendees' minds - what exactly is the Belt and Road Initiative?

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982586-ambition-to-meet-reality-as-china-gathers-world-for-silk-road-summit/

 

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Dhammakaya defends land eyed for seizure
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Land in Pathum Thani on which Wat Dhammakaya’s Boon Raksa infirmary is being built, which the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) had planned to seize at least temporarily, has already been given to the temple and thus become part of the its public area, the temple’s corporate communications office claimed on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982587-dhammakaya-defends-land-eyed-for-seizure/

 

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Broke Pattaya Thais returning their gold as start of term approaches

 

Picture: Pattaya News

 

PATTAYA: -- A representative of gold shops in Pattaya has said that there has been a steady stream of people returning gold and pawning gold as the start of the new school year begins.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982590-broke-pattaya-thais-returning-their-gold-as-start-of-term-approaches/

 

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Bangkok woman having one bad hair day after another after hair extensions went wrong

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- A Bangkok woman has filed a complaint with trading standards after a hair extension treatment at a salon in Soi Samakhee,  Nonthaburi, went disastrously wrong.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982592-bangkok-woman-having-one-bad-hair-day-after-another-after-hair extensions-went-wrong/

 

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‘Tea money’ row at Government House
By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Former Pheu Thai Party MP Jirayu Huangsap and the president of the Parents and Teachers Association at Nawamintrachinuthit Satriwittaya 2 School submitted a petition for Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday about the school’s director.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982600-tea-money-row-at-government-house/

 

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Phuket Police ‘concerned’ after Pattani bomb attack

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A Royal Thai Army soldier checks a Thai man’s identification papers as he arrives onto Phuket on a nighttime bus. Photo: The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: -- The Commander of the Phuket Provincial Police has expressed his concern following the bomb attacks at a Big C Supercentre in Pattani on Tuesday (May 9), but maintains that security in Phuket remains vigilant.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982603-phuket-police-‘concerned’-after-pattani-bomb-attack/

 

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Ministry scrambles following nurse protest 
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Public Health Minister Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn called an urgent meeting on Thursday morning to address the Cabinet’s decision against designating nearly 11,000 nurses as civil servants.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982606-thai-health-min-scrambles-following-nurse-protest/

 

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Microsoft’s new technology could be the end for Kodi, Pirate Bay and illegal streams

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

Microsoft has developed software that can track and block people who download or share pirated content online.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/microsofts-new-technology-could-be-the-end-for-kodi-pirate-bay-and-illegal-streams/21570/

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Flash flood, landslide warning on Koh Chang

 

 

KOH CHANG: -- Visitors to Koh Chang in Trat province are warned of danger from flash flood and landslide as the island resort is bracing for increasing rains from mid this month.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982612-flash-flood-landslide-warning-on-koh-chang/

 

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Man admits he beat two-year-old stepson to death, police say
By The Nation

 

 

UBON RATCHATHANI: -- A 24-year-old Thai man has admitted that he fatally beat his two-year-old stepson in Ubon Ratchathani province on May 6 because he was drunk and got angry at the boy’s constant crying, police say.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982615-ex-boxer-admits-he-beat-two-year-old-stepson-to-death-thai-police-say/

 

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Four arrested as police bust loanshark gang in Chon Buri
By The Nation

 

SRI RACHA/CHON BURI: -- Four suspected members of a loanshark gang that allegedly charged interest of 2 per cent a day and threatened non-payers with violence, were arrested in Chon Buri's Sri Racha district.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982616-four-arrested-as-police-bust-loanshark-gang-in-chon-buri/

 

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Thailand welcomes new Air Component Commander for the US Pacific Command

 

BANGKOK, 11th May 2017 (NNT) - Thailand has welcomed the Air Component Commander for the US Pacific Command, Gen Terrence J O’Shaughnessy on his visit to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982618-thailand-welcomes-new-air-component-commander-for-the-us-pacific-command/ 

 

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Agencies warned ahead of explosions in Pattani, says police chief
By The Nation

 

Police Commissioner General Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda

 

BANGKOK: -- A police intelligence unit warned other agencies of a possible car bomb attack about an hour before a double explosion at the Big C shopping mall in Pattani, Police Commissioner General Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982621-agencies-warned-ahead-of-explosions-in-pattani-says-police-chief/

 

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Large-scale fishing banned from mid-May to mid-September

 

BANGKOK, 11 May 2017 (NNT) - The Department of Fisheries has announced an annual ban on large-scale fishing in fresh waters across the country from May to September. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982622-large-scale-fishing-banned-from-mid-may-to-mid-september/

 

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First witness takes stand nearly 2 years after Erawan bombing

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen, Staff Reporter

 

  

Erawan Shrine bombing suspect Adem Karadag was brought on Nov. 2 to a military court in Bangkok.

 

BANGKOK — The first witness in the trial of two men accused of bombing a Bangkok shrine testified in a military court Thursday, nearly two years after the terror attack took place.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982624-first-witness-takes-stand-nearly-2-years-after-erawan-bombing/

 

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Taxi driver returns Bt22,000 in cash to Chinese teachers
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- A taxi driver in Bangkok returned a wallet with Bt22,000 in cash to two Chinese teachers on Thursday after one of them dropper her wallet in his car.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982627-taxi-driver-returns-bt22000-in-cash-to-chinese-teachers/

 

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TAT teams up with Bangkok swing dancers to produce jamming new clip

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By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) teamed up with dancers from Bangkok Swing to produce a happy, movement-filled video designed to make Thai travelers aware of mid-week travel deals.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982628-tat-teams-up-with-bangkok-swing-dancers-to-produce-jamming-new-clip-video/