THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Monday 22 May 2017

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Fifteen arrested at Phuket cockfight

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The fifteen arrested gamblers who varied in age from 19-54. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- Thalang Police arrested fifteen people yesterday when they were caught gambling on a cockfight being held in a garden of a property in Pa Khlok in Thalang.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984343-fifteen-arrested-at-phuket-cockfight/

 

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BREAKING

 

Thailand extends web controls from composers of illicit content to viewers

 

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai authorities are targeting not only those who post or share material considered insulting to the monarchy, but even those who look at it, police said on Monday, in an escalation in how Thailand deals with critics of the royal family.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/thailand-extends-web-controls-from-composers-of-illicit-content-to-viewers/21826/

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Miracle Macaque: Vets Pull Arrow From Monkey's Skull

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

At left, Rocket as he was found in the street. At right, an X-ray of the arrow through his skull. Photo: Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand / Facebook

 

BANGKOK — A macaque shot through the skull with a metal arrow will live to tell the tale, wildlife activists said Monday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984372-miracle-macaque-vets-pull-arrow-from-monkeys-skull/

 

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Street food vendors face new tough regulations

By Chakkawan Salaytoo
The Nation

 

 

Street food vendors in Bangkok’s Yaowarat (China Town) and Khao San Road areas face strict new regulations to allow them to stay in business.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984373-street-food-vendors-face-new-tough-regulations/

 

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Six soldiers injured in roadside bomb blast

 

 

Six army troopers were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in the municipal area of Yala’s Muang district on Monday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984374-six-soldiers-injured-in-roadside-bomb-blast/

 

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Thailand extends web controls from composers of illicit content to viewers

BY REUTERS 

 

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai authorities are targeting not only those who post or share material considered insulting to the monarchy, but even those who look at it, police said on Monday, in an escalation in how Thailand deals with critics of the royal family.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/thailand-extends-web-controls-from-composers-of-illicit-content-to-viewers/21826/

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Illegal cock-fighting, gambling ring busted, 15 arrested

Winai Sarot

 

 

PHUKET:-- Fifteen people were arrested while 15 others are on the run after Thalang Police raided a cock-fighting ring in Moo Baan Para yesterday afternoon. 

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984375-illegal-cock-fighting-gambling-ring-busted-15-arrested/

 

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Hospital bomb attackers were professionals, says security expert

By The Nation

 

 

Panithan Wattanayakorn, a security expert and adviser to Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, said that the bomb attackers at Phramongkutklao Hospital, were experienced and professional, and operated with the help of a network.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984299-explosion-at-king-mongkut-hospital-leaves-a-dozen-injured/?page=3#comment-11912015

 

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Opportunities lost under NCPO rule: academics

By Wasamon Audjarint
The Nation

 

Academics from Thai Academic Network for Civil Rights turn their back to symbolically oppose the National Council for Peace and Order's performance during their press briefing at Thammasat University's Tha Prachan campus.

 

Thailand would have performed much better if the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) had not seized power in 2014 and taken firm control over the country during the past three years, concerned academics said on Monday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984381-opportunities-lost-under-ncpo-rule-academics/

 

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Junta Allows Panel On Coup - Bans Words 'Junta' Or 'Coup'

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Chonticha Jangrew of the Democracy Restoration Group, holding cake, with Sirawith 'Ja New' Seritiwat, at right, and other pro-democracy activists mark the third anniversary of the 2014 coup on Monday at Thammasat University's Tha Pra Chan campus.

 

BANGKOK — How to talk about dictatorship, coups and military juntas when those doing the talking are banned from speaking those words?

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984382-junta-allows-panel-on-coup-bans-words-junta-or-coup/

 

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Fake passport suspects recaptured after escaping police custody

By Phuket Gazette

 

 

PHUKET:-- Officers from Phuket Provincial Police, Saku Police and Patong Police joined forces to capture two Indian men who escaped police custody after being arrested for using fake passports.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984383-fake-passport-suspects-recaptured-after-escaping-police-custody/

 

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Araya does Thailand proud in Cannes

By The Nation

 

 

Popular British-Thai actress Araya “Chompoo” A Hargate wrapped her chic maternity moments on the red carpet at the 70th Cannes Film Festival with compliments pouring in from fans as well as the world;s fashion bibles.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984386-araya-does-thailand-proud-in-cannes/

 

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REVEALED: This is the iPhone 8, apparently

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

The first images of the real world images iPhone 8 have apparently been leaked online.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/revealed-this-is-the-iphone-8-apparently/21829/

 

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Two years on, thugs who brutally attacked car driver in Nakhon Pathom still on the run

 

 

Violent attack on car driver in Nakhon Pathom - but it turns out it was two years ago

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984387-two-years-on-thugs-who-brutally-attacked-car-driver-in-nakhon-pathom-still-on-the-run/

 

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Just 49 baht for clean air in a can - the souvenir you can sniff!

 

 

A village in the south of Thailand famous for its clean atmosphere is cashing in by selling tourists cans of its air.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/984388-just-49-baht-for-clean-air-in-a-can-the-souvenir-you-can-sniff/

 

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