THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Wednesday 21 Jun 2017

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Raids net drug takers and under age drinkers at two Pattaya nightclubs

 

 

Raids at two Pattaya nightclubs in the early hours of Tuesday morning found eleven drug takers, three under age drinkers and a lot of illegal shisha pipes and tobacco.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988748-raids-net-drug-takers-and-under-age-drinkers-at-two-pattaya-nightclubs/

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Phuket's Mai Khao Beach disgraced in social media

Winai Sarot

 

 

PHUKET:-- Governor Norraphat Plodthong is demanding fast action from officials in Sirinat National Park over a stream of complaints from tourists and local villagers about an accumulation of 'huge' amounts of trash on the beach at the threshold to the runway at Phuket International Airport.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988750-phukets-mai-khao-beach-disgraced-in-social-media/

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Midweek rant: Bikers deserve some respect too, you know

 

 

Yes, I accept I am a second class citizen.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988766-midweek-rant-bikers-deserve-some-respect-too-you-know/

 

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Thais flummoxed - what was Cambodian man doing with 126 ATM cards and 3 million baht in a bag at a border ATM

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

ARANYAPRATHET: -- It was the ultimate in drawing attention to yourself. A Cambodian man was annoying the queue at a Kasikorn ATM near the border at Rong Kleua market in Aranyaprathet.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988767-thais-flummoxed-what-was-cambodian-man-doing-with-126-atm-cards-and 3-million-baht-in-a-bag-at-a-border-atm/

 

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Convicted Dutch money launderer and Thai wife have sentences drastically reduced

 

File photo: Johann Petruz Maria van Laarhoven, on his way to court on 17 October 2014/Manager

 

BANGKOK: -- A man from the Netherlands convicted for laundering money in Thailand allegedly made from the cannabis trade in his home country has had his sentence drastically reduced by the criminal court in Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988768-convicted-dutch-money-launderer-and-thai-wife-have-sentences-drastically-reduced/

 

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Belgian troops shoot suspected bomber in Brussels station - police

By Francesco Guarascio and Philip Blenkinsop

 

Belgian troops take up position following an explosion at Central Station in Brussels, Belgium, June 20, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian troops shot a suspected suicide bomber in Brussels Central Station on Tuesday but there were no other casualties and the situation was brought under control after people were evacuated, officials said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988769-belgian-troops-shoot-suspected-bomber-in-brussels-station-police/

 

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OPINION

Things we learned from Lamyai, the (latest) dirty dancer
By Tulsathit Taptim
The Nation

 

There’s no point in beating around the bush, so let’s cut to the chase.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988770-things-we-learned-from-lamyai-the-latest-dirty-dancer/

 

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Thais get 75% of rail deal
By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM,
WASAMON AUDJARINT
THE NATION

 

 

Bt134 billion of civil work on high-speed line to go to local contractors

 

BANGKOK: -- TECHNOLOGY transfer will be included in all three contracts for construction of the Bt179.4 billion Thai-Chinese high-speed train project, Transport Minister Arkhom Termpitayapaisit said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988771-thais-get-75-of-rail-deal/

 

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Alleged hospital bomber apologises for ‘symbolic’ string of attacks

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A RETIRED electrical engineer accused of multiple bomb attacks in Bangkok – including at Phramongkutklao Hospital last month – yesterday expressed remorse, saying he was deeply sorry for what he had done and apologised to people affected.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988772-alleged-hospital-bomber-apologises-for-‘symbolic’-string-of-attacks/

 

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Cabinet endorses Article 44 for energy projects
By THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE CABINET yesterday endorsed a plan to exercise special power under Article 44 of the provisional charter to allow the farmland managed by the Agricultural Land Reform Office (ALRO) to be used for mining and the generation of energy, Government Spokesman Lt-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd said.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988773-cabinet-endorses-article-44-for-energy-projects/

 

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Samsen school director admits being in video
By THE NATION

 

Wiroj Samruan, director of Bangkok’s Samsen Wittayalai School, denies at a press conference that he demanded or took Bt400,000 in “tea money” in exchange for a parent’s Mathayom 1 child being accepted at the school.

 

But says he never received Bt400,000 for allowing student to enrol at school.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988774-samsen-school-director-admits-being-in-video/

 

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PHSM warns of walkout over heavy security presence at health forum
By CHULARAT SAENGPASSA
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE PEOPLE Health Systems Movement (PHSM) has threatened to immediately walk out of today’s public consultation forum on the country’s key health bill if there is a heavy presence of soldiers and policemen.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988775-phsm-warns-of-walkout-over-heavy-security-presence-at-health-forum/

 

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Southern border city woos tourists in bid to shake off impact of conflict
By Pratch Rujivanarom
The Nation
Yala

 

A woman buys vegetables from a street-side vendor in the market district of Betong. --Nation / Pratch Rujivanarom

 

YALA: -- MUCH is riding on plans to revive the economic fortunes of the far South, and that spells opportunity for Betong district in Yala province.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988776-southern-border-city-woos-tourists-in-bid-to-shake-off-impact-of-conflict/

 

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Sister of woman killed by train blames online news for suicide rumour
By THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE SISTER of a pregnant woman killed when she fell onto Airport Rail Link tracks at Ban Thap Chang station has cautioned people to be careful about what they believe when reading online news.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988777-sister-of-woman-killed-by-train-blames-online-news-for-suicide-rumour/

 

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Training centre for manned model ship handling opens
By Suthinan Kongsin
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Asia’s first training centre for manned model ship handling was officially opened in Thailand at Ban Preuksa 12 Housing Estate’s lake in Samut Prakan’s Muang district on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988778-training-centre-for-manned-model-ship-handling-opens/

 

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Illegal land deeds issued for Mae Hong Son forestland: DSI
By Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai
The Nation

 

 

MAE HONG SON: -- The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has found that more than 270 rai (43 hectares) of forestry plantations have encroached on forestland in Mae Hong Son.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988779-illegal-land-deeds-issued-for-mae-hong-son-forestland-dsi/

 

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PM reaffirms universal healthcare scheme to stay

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha on Tuesday reiterated that his government has no intention whatsoever to scrap the universal healthcare programme and urged the media to spread his words around so that the people will understand and will not be confused.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988780-pm-prayut-reaffirms-universal-healthcare-scheme-to-stay/

 

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Thailand's Bad Loan Ratio Is Worse Than China's

By Supunnabul Suwannakij

 

Fitch says nonperforming loans may peak around end of 2017

Bank sector challenges have sapped Thai stock market outlook

 

Nonperforming loans at Thailand’s banks are set to peak toward the end of 2017, according to Fitch Ratings, an outlook that may salve investor sentiment in one of Asia’s worst-performing stock markets this year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988782-thailands-bad-loan-ratio-is-worse-than-chinas/

 

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Europe must do more to defend liberal world order - Germany's Schaeuble

By Michael Nienaber

 

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany June 7, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe must assume greater responsibility to defend a liberal, democratic world order as the United States appears increasingly less willing to do so, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988784-europe-must-do-more-to-defend-liberal-world-order-germanys-schaeuble/

 

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Family declines autopsy for U.S. student released by North Korea

By Jonathan Allen

 

Otto Frederick Warmbier (C), a University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea since early January, is taken out of North Korea's top court after being sentenced, in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo March 16, 2016. REUTERS/Kyodo

 

(Reuters) - An Ohio coroner, abiding by family wishes, has performed an external examination instead of a full autopsy on the body of the U.S. student who was held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months and sent home in a coma, the agency said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988785-family-declines-autopsy-for-us-student-released-by-north-korea/

 

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U.S. State Department questions Gulf motives on Qatar boycott

By Yara Bayoumy

 

Buildings are seen on a coast line in Doha, Qatar, June 15, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department bluntly questioned on Tuesday the motives of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their boycott of Doha, saying it was "mystified" the Gulf states had not released their grievances over Qatar.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988786-us-state-department-questions-gulf-motives-on-qatar-boycott/

 

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Trump says China tried but failed to help on North Korea

By Steve Holland and David Brunnstrom

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the newly-built Dental Sanitary Goods Factory in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) June 20, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Chinese efforts to persuade North Korea to rein in its nuclear programme have failed, ratcheting up the rhetoric over the death of an American student who had been detained by Pyongyang.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988787-trump-says-china-tried-but-failed-to-help-on-north-korea/

 

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Champs Elysees attacker was Islamic State loyalist, on French watchlist

By Emmanuel Jarry and Richard Lough

 

Members of the scientific police inspect a burned car at the scene of an incident in which it rammed a gendarmerie van on the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris, France, June 19, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

 

PARIS (Reuters) - A man who rammed a car into a police van in Paris stored a cache of weapons at his home and held a gun permit despite being on a secret service list of people linked to radical Islam, police sources and French officials said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988788-champs-elysees-attacker-was-islamic-state-loyalist-on-french-watchlist/

 

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UK PM May says will consult widely on Brexit, but Britain will leave EU

 

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after a church service in Sonning, Britain June 18, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday that her government was committed to leaving the European Union and would listen to others' views while delivering a Brexit that commanded "maximum public support".

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988789-uk-pm-may-says-will-consult-widely-on-brexit-but-britain-will-leave-eu/

 

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Death of U.S. student held by North Korea shocks fellow ex-detainees

By Jon Herskovitz

 

FILE PHOTO: Jeffrey Fowle (C) and his wife Tatyana (R), are greeted by U.S. Air Force 88 Air Base Wing Commander Col. John Devillier upon arrival at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio early October 22, 2014. Marie Vanover/U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS

 

(Reuters) - The death this week of an American university student held prisoner for 17 months by North Korea left Ohio municipal worker Jeffrey Fowle shaken.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988790-death-of-us-student-held-by-north-korea-shocks-fellow-ex-detainees/

 

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Triple Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis retiring from acting

By Jill Serjeant

 

Daniel Day-Lewis celebrates after winning the Best Actor award for "Lincoln" at the British Academy of Film and Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London in this file photo dated February 10, 2013. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is retiring from acting, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday, ending a storied movie career that includes performances in "Lincoln" and "Gangs of New York."

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988791-triple-oscar-winner-daniel-day-lewis-retiring-from-acting/

 

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Mother who sold own daughter into "soapy massage" sex trade in Bangkok fronts Korat politician sex scandal, say police

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- A mother who sold her own daughter into the sex trade has also supplied under 18 girls to politicians in Nakorn Rachasima, Bangkok police have revealed.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988798-mother-who-sold-own-daughter-into-soapy-massage-sex-trade-in-bangkok fronts-korat-politician-sex-scandal-say-police/

 

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Australian who fled accident scene and was chased by police hits and kills woman 50 in Udon

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

UDON THANI: -- A 55 year old Australian man fleeing cops after a minor traffic accident hit and killed a 50 year old woman on a motorcycle in downtown Udon.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988800-australian-who-fled-accident-scene-and-was-chased-by-police-hits-and kills-woman-50-in-udon/

 

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Sidewalk wars! Bangkok governor draws battle lines with banned Siam Square traders

 

Picture: Manager

 

BANGKOK: -- The governor of Bangkok has vowed to keep sidewalk traders out of Siam Square after they were chased out of the area.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988801-sidewalk-wars-bangkok-governor-draws-battle-lines-with-banned-siam square-traders/

 

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Video: "Please step out of the vehicle" - "But what is the charge, officer?"

 

Picture: TNews

 

BANGKOK: -- A woman posted her experience of a police stop that is being widely shared online.

 

 Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988803-video-please-step-out-of-the-vehicle-but-what-is-the-charge-officer/