THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Thursday 22 Jun 2017

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GPS tracking leads to dead French man but mystery surrounds why he died

 

 

Mystery surrounds the death of a 68 year old French man after he was found dead in his rented home in Sri Racha by a car rental man.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988931-gps-tracking-leads-to-dead-french-man-but-mystery-surrounds-why-he-died/

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Australian dies of rare mosquito-borne disease after visiting Thailand

 

An Australian man returned from Thailand has died from the rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease, Japanese encephalitis.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988907-australian-dies-of-rare-mosquito-borne-disease-after-visiting-thailand/

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Media pushes for strong self-regulation in meeting with deputy PM

By Wasamon Audjarint, Nattapat Promkaew
The Nation

 

 

Self-regulation would be the best approach to keep the media in check while state authorities could play a role by operating a separate complaints centre, media professionals and government legal experts agreed yesterday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988932-media-pushes-for-strong-self-regulation-in-meeting-with-deputy-pm/

 

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Wimbledon champion Boris Becker declared bankrupt

 

LONDON: -- Three-time Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker has been declared bankrupt by a London bankruptcy court.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988942-wimbledon-champion-boris-becker-declared-bankrupt/

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Bargirls and night workers asked for their opinion as Prayut's politics' questions come to Walking Street

 

Picture STV Pattaya

 

PATTAYA: -- Thais working in Walking Street, South Pattaya, on Tuesday night were asked to give their opinion on politics and the future of the country.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988943-bargirls-and-night-workers-asked-for-their-opinion-as-prayuts politics-questions-come-to-walking-street/

 

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Video: Family's dream condo may as well have no roof

 

Picture: Sanook

 

BANGKOK: -- A family's luxurious and expensive condo may as well have no roof - the rain just pours in regardless.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988945-video-familys-dream-condo-may-as-well-have-no-roof/

 

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EDITORIAL

What’s needed to avoid another Grenfell catastrophe
By The Nation

 

When safety measures are ignored, a horrifying blaze like the one in London could recur anywhere

 

BANGKOK: -- Public fury simmers in the United Kingdom over the appalling death toll in the fire in London’s Grenfell Tower high-rise block. The ghastly event should be ringing alarm bells in Thailand too. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988947-what’s-needed-to-avoid-another-grenfell-catastrophe/

 

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Tearful Yingluck hopes for a reprieve in rice case
By THE NATION

 

Bursting with tear, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra unleashes emotion at a merit making ceremony to bless her 50th birthday.

 

BANGKOK: -- FORMER PRIME MINISTER Yingluck Shinawatra said tearfully yesterday that she hoped to thank everyone in the country personally while assuring she would not flee the country as a court ruling approached in a case stemming from her government’s rice-pledging scheme.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988948-tearful-yingluck-hopes-for-a-reprieve-in-rice-case/

 

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PM tells public ‘not to hate the military’ on Khon Kaen trip
By THE NATION

 

 

KHON KAEN: -- Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday thanked Khon Kaen residents for answering his four questions on elections and governance, with over 10,000 people responding, the most in any province nationwide.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988896-pm-asks-people-not-to-hate-military/?do=findComment&comment=12010076

 

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Chinese rail workers ‘will be certified’
By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM
THE NATION

 

 

Thai professional councils seek to regulate foreign labour in high-speed project

 

BANGKOK: -- TWO LEADING professional councils have said Chinese engineers and architects involved in the Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima high-speed train project will have to be tested and certified by Thai councils.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988949-chinese-rail-workers-‘will-be-certified’/

 

 

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Group wants equality in healthcare
By THE NATION

 

 

Concerns that changes in health bill could endanger people’s rights to medical care

 

BANGKOK: -- HEALTH ADVOCATES are fighting for a single healthcare system that benefits all Thais equally. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988950-group-wants-equality-in-healthcare/

 

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Deadlock over plan for primary vote system
By KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN
THE NATION

 

CDC spokesman Norachit Sinhaseni

 

BANGKOK: -- THE DRAFTERS of the new political party organic law still did not see eye to eye regarding the controversial issue of a primary vote system, which would be a first in Thai politics, prompting them to leave the issue undecided during a meeting yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988951-deadlock-over-plan-for-primary-vote-system/

 

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Former councillor calls for anti-corruption probe into school ‘tea money’ claim
By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Former Nakhon Si Thammarat provincial councillor Chana Wongmusik, who is also alumni of Samsen Wittayalai School in Bangkok, is requesting that the Office of Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) probes the allegation that the public school director Wiroj Samruan demanded “tea money” in exchange for children being accepted into the school.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988952-former-councillor-calls-for-anti-corruption-probe-into-school-‘tea-money’-claim/

 

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UPDATE:

 

Police suspicious as Cambodians request return of Bt3m and 136 ATM cards
By Chatchawal Sopapan
The Nation
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SA KAEW: -- A 24-year-old Cambodian man on Wednesday led 11 compatriots to request the return of 136 Thai ATM cards that Thai police had seized on Tuesday along with Bt3.34 million cash and six Thai bank account books.

 

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/?do=findComment&comment=12010108

 

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Cooperation urged to make Thailand a hub for seniors market in Asean
By KWANCHAI RUNGFAPAISARN
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- TO HELP set the government’s “Thailand 4.0” economic model in motion, the public and private sectors should work hand in hand to position the country as a hub of Asean’s growing seniors market, said Butsaya Prakorbthong, general manager of NCC Exhibition Organiser Co.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988953-cooperation-urged-to-make-thailand-a-hub-for-seniors-market-in-asean/

 

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Irish man dies in road collision in Thailand

Catherine Devine  

 

An Irish man has died after a road collision in Thailand on Tuesday night.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988954-irish-man-dies-in-road-collision-in-chiang-rai/

 

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Islamic State blows up historic Mosul mosque where it declared 'caliphate' - Iraqi military

By Marius Bosch and Maher Chmaytelli

 

A still image taken from video shows the destroyed Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul in Iraq, June 21, 2017. Iraqi Military Handout/via Reuters TV

 

MOSUL/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State militants on Wednesday blew up the Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul and its famous leaning minaret, an Iraqi military statement said, as Iraqi forces seeking to expel the group from the city closed in on the site.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988955-islamic-state-blows-up-historic-mosul-mosque-where-it-declared-caliphate-iraqi-military/

 

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In high-level talks, U.S. asks China to do more to rein in North Korea

By David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick

 

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R) and U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis hold a press conference following talks with Chinese diplomatic and defense chiefs at the State Department in Washington, U.S. June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States pressed China to exert more economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea to help rein in its nuclear and missile programs during a round of high-level talks in Washington on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988956-in-high-level-talks-us-asks-china-to-do-more-to-rein-in-north-korea/

 

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Bill proposes letting U.S. lawmakers carry guns anywhere except Capitol

 

Handguns are seen for sale in a display case at Metro Shooting Supplies in Bridgeton, Missouri, November 13, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Warning that members of Congress have a "bull's eye on our backs," a U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday he had introduced a bill to make it legal for senators and representatives to carry guns anywhere in the country, except the U.S. Capitol building.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988957-bill-proposes-letting-us-lawmakers-carry-guns-anywhere-except-capitol/

 

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Trump lawyers make final Supreme Court pitch on travel ban

By Lawrence Hurley

 

FILE PHOTO - A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington, DC, U.S. on October 13, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Wednesday made its final plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow its proposed ban on travellers from six Muslim-majority countries to go into effect as the justices weigh how to handle the hotly contested dispute.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988958-trump-lawyers-make-final-supreme-court-pitch-on-travel-ban/

 

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Russians targeted 21 election systems, U.S. official says

By Dustin Volz and Julia Edwards Ainsley

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Department of Homeland Security emblem is pictured at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) located just outside Washington in Arlington, Virginia September 24, 2010. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian hackers targeted 21 U.S. state election systems in the 2016 presidential race and a small number were breached but there was no evidence any votes were manipulated, a Homeland Security Department official told Congress on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988959-russians-targeted-21-election-systems-us-official-says/

 

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"Dark skinned gang" paid 100 Thai women 5,000 baht each on Facebook to marry for long term visas

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- Thai immigration in Bangkok have entrapped a gang of Nigerians and Afghans who were paying Thai women to marry men so they could get long term visas for Thailand.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988962-dark-skinned-gang-paid-100-thai-women-5000-baht-each-on-facebook-to marry-for-long-term-visas/

 

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Parents watched CCTV in terror as missing eleven year old seen being driven away from school - now she is found dead

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

RAYONG: -- Police in Rayong investigating a missing eleven year old girl showed her parents footage of a man on a motorcycle giving her a lift in front of her school.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988963-parents-watched-cctv-in-terror-as-missing-eleven-year-old-seen-being driven-away-from-school-now-she-is-found-dead/

 

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Taxi wars in Chiang Mai take on new twist as Grab plan to introduce "red bus" application

 

Picture: Daily News

 

CHIANG MAI: -- Grab Taxi have made an interesting move in Chiang Mai to calm the waters in the war between them and existing services.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988965-taxi-wars-in-chiang-mai-take-on-new-twist-as-grab-plan-to-introduce red-bus-application/

 

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That's impressive! Cop pays a student's own traffic fine because he didn't have enough money!

 

Picture: Manager

 

HAT YAI: -- A policeman in Hat Yai in Southern Thailand has been praised for helping out a student who didn't have enough money for a fine.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988966-thats-impressive-cop-pays-a-students-own-traffic-fine-because-he didnt-have-enough-money/

 

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FBI says probing Michigan airport stabbing as 'act of terrorism'

By Ben Klayman and Christinne Muschi

 

FBI Special Agent in Charge David Gelios said federal authorities were investigating the stabbing of a police officer at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, as an 'act of terrorism'. Authorities identified the assailant as Amor Ftouhi from Canada and said that before he stabbed Lt. Jeff Neville in the neck, he yelled out 'Allahu Akbar'.

 

DETROIT/MONTREAL (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday it was investigating as an act of terrorism the stabbing of a police officer inside the main terminal of a small airport in Flint, Michigan.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988969-fbi-says-probing-michigan-airport-stabbing-as-act-of-terrorism/

 

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Trump says 'we have a great relationship with China' after critical tweet

 

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping chat as they walk along the front patio of the Mar-a-Lago estate after a bilateral meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 7, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States had a "great relationship with China" as he stood beside former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, the new U.S. ambassador to Beijing.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988970-trump-says-we-have-a-great-relationship-with-china-after-critical-tweet/

 

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Trump's son-in-law launches Middle East peace effort

By Luke Baker

 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with White House senior advisor Jared Kushner in the West Bank City of Ramallah June 21, 2017. Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/Handout via REUTERS

 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, met Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Wednesday to try to revive long-fractured Middle East peacemaking that Washington acknowledged will take some time.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988971-trumps-son-in-law-launches-middle-east-peace-effort/

 

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Pattaya "baht buses" added extra stops to four routes to improve traffic flow and convenience of public

 

Picture: Pattaya News

 

PATTAYA: -- Pattaya news reported that the organization that runs the baht buses or song thaews in Pattaya are adding new routes to existing services.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988976-pattaya-baht-buses-added-extra-stops-to-four-routes-to-improve traffic-flow-and-convenience-of-public/

 

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Korat top brass play down leaked memo that said cops were abandoning use of radar guns and CCTV to stop speeding on Friendship Highway

 

Picture: FB

 

KORAT: -- The head of the police in Nakorn Ratchasima has said that reports that his force were planning to abandon the use of CCTV and radar guns to trap speeding drivers are not correct.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/988979-korat-top-brass-play-down-leaked-memo-that-said-cops-were-abandoning use-of-radar-guns-and-cctv-to-stop-speeding-on-friendship-highway/