THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Tuesday 18 Jul 2017

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Siamese Twins - still together but happy to be apart!

 

Picture: Manager

 

RATCHABURI: -- Manager reported on the case of two happy and healthy teenagers in Ratchaburi who were born conjoined.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992981-siamese-twins-still-together-but-happy-to-be-apart/

 

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Latest leaked photo offers a closer look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 8

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

Note 8 by Ice Universe

 

There is a lot anticipation surrounding the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8, mainly after the disastrous fail of last years’ Note 7.

 

Full story:  http://tech.thaivisa.com/22985-2/22985/

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Baht closes at 33.66 baht/dollar, the strongest in 25 months

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Thai baht closed at 33.66 baht against the US dollar, the strongest in 25 months after the currency was trading between 33.73-33.75 baht/dollar throughout Monday (July 17), said Jitipol Puksamatanan, a currency and capital markets strategist of the Krung Thai Bank.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992983-baht-closes-at-3366-bahtdollar-the-strongest-in-25-months/

 

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Magnitude 7.8 quake hits off Russia's Kamchatka - USGS

 

(Reuters) - A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.8 off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami warning but the threat has now passed, the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Pacific Tsunami Center said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992985-magnitude-78-quake-hits-off-russias-kamchatka-usgs/

 

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Iran's Zarif hopes Yemen war does not lead to Iran, Saudi conflict

By Michelle Nichols

 

FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes part in a news conference near the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that he hopes Yemen's war will not spark direct confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia and that they can work together to end the conflict in the country and Syria.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992987-irans-zarif-hopes-yemen-war-does-not-lead-to-iran-saudi-conflict/

 

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"Nok Air" upbeat as airline plans to increase international routes to China and Japan

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Nok Air has said that they expect to return to profitability next year after four losing years with the future of the airline being international as much as domestic.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992988-nok-air-upbeat-as-airline-plans-to-increase-international-routes-to china-and-japan/

 

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Video: Pattaya bar girl loses phone after agreeing to meet foreigner

 

PIcture: Siamchon

 

PATTAYA: -- A Pattaya bar girl was left without her phone after being conned in the street by a woman who said a foreign man wanted to meet her.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992992-video-pattaya-bar-girl-loses-phone-after-agreeing-to-meet-foreigner/

 

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Student jumps from Sathorn Bridge, refuses to take lifebuoy and drowns

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- A female vocational school student committed suicide by jumping from Sathorn Bridge into the Chao Phraya early Tuesday morning and then refusing to grab a lifebuoy thrown to her by fishermen, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992993-student-jumps-from-sathorn-bridge-refuses-to-take-lifebuoy-and-drowns/

 

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One arrest in predawn Bangkok drug raids, 0.5g of ketamine seized

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The Office of Narcotics Control Board, the Patrol and Special Operation (191) Division and the Second Cavalry Division dispatched over 150 officers to search 13 areas in Bangkok early Tuesday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992995-one-arrest-in-predawn-bangkok-drug-raids-05g-of-ketamine-seized/

 

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Phuket technician zapped while installing government CCTV

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The first responders arrived to find Khitthiphong Saithong, 27, on the ground crying in pain with a broken right leg. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- A 27-year-old man was hospitalised yesterday (July 17) after he received an electric shock from power cables while preparing to install a CCTV camera system for a government project in Phuket Town.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992996-phuket-technician-zapped-while-installing-government-cctv/

 

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Weather and flood warnings continue nationwide despite deescalation of Talas

 

BANGKOK, 18th July 2017 (NNT) – The Meteorological Department has maintained warnings of flash floods in most regions despite Tropical Storm Talas being downgraded to a depression. Meanwhile, more water is being released into the Chao Phraya River in anticipation of heavy rains. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992997-weather-and-flood-warnings-continue-nationwide-despite-deescalation-of-tropical-storm-talas/

 

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Cowboys! - firm knocking down Pattaya hotel slammed in the Thai media

 

Picture: Siamchon

 

PATTAYA: -- Furious Thai and foreign residents in South Pattaya have called in the media after great lumps of corrugated iron have rained down on a small soi.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992998-cowboys-firm-knocking-down-pattaya-hotel-slammed-in-the-thai-media/

 

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68 percent of Thais are in debt: Nida Poll and Credit Bureau

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Sixty-eight percent of Thais are in debt, averaging about 560,000 baht each, mostly from spendings on consumer products and services, according to an opinion survey jointly conducted by Nida Poll and Credit Bureau.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993001-68-percent-of-thais-are-in-debt-nida-poll-and-credit-bureau/

 

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Snubbed Appeals Court president Sirichai set to quit 

By The Nation

 

File photo: Appeals Court president Sirichai Wattanayothin

 

BANGKOK: -- Appeals Court president Sirichai Wattanayothin is set to resign from government service. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993002-snubbed-appeals-court-president-sirichai-set-to-quit /

 

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Japan doctor who practiced until months before his death dies at 105

By Elaine Lies

 

Japanese Empress Michiko (R) talks with physician Shigeaki Hinohara prior to a concert performed by South Korean tenor Bae Jae-chul in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

 

TOKYO (Reuters) - A centenarian Japanese doctor who saw patients until just months before his death and helped set up the medical systems that have made Japan one of the world's longest-lived nations died on Tuesday at the age of 105.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993003-japan-doctor-who-practiced-until-months-before-his-death-dies-at-105/

 

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Trump says Iran complying with nuclear deal but remains dangerous threat

By Steve Holland

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addresses the "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration on Monday declared that Iran was complying with its nuclear agreement with world powers, but warned that Tehran was in default of the spirit of the accord and that Washington would look for ways to strengthen it.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993005-trump-says-iran-complying-with-nuclear-deal-but-remains-dangerous-threat/

 

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Global demand for Thai rubber increases 2% in first 5 months

 

BANGKOK, 18 July 2017 (NNT) - The Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE) said rubber exports during the first 5 months increased by 2% compared to the same period a year before. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993008-global-demand-for-thai-rubber-increases-2-in-first-5-months/ 

 

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BMA findings solutions to street hawking

 

BANGKOK, 18 July 2017 (NNT) - The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) met with street vendors from 50 districts of Bangkok to find a solution to street hawking. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993009-bma-findings-solutions-to-street-hawking/

 

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Fugitive ex-monk Luang Pu Nenkham set to arrive in Bangkok

By The Nation

 

File photo: Wirapol Sukphol when he was Luang Pu Nenkham, travels in a chartered jet.

 

BANGKOK: -- Fugitive ex-monk Wirapol Sukphol, better known as Luang Pu Nenkham, is due to arrive in Bangkok on Wednesday night, after he declined to appeal against a US extradition ruling, the director of the Department of Special Investigation said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993010-fugitive-ex-monk-luang-pu-nenkham-set-to-arrive-in-bangkok/

 

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Pattaya expat and Thai wife murdered in Amsterdam

 

File photo

 

PATTAYA: -- A Dutch man and his Thai wife have been found dead in Amsterdam.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993012-pattaya-expat-and-thai-wife-murdered-in-amsterdam/

 

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Myanmar woman arrested in Phuket with counterfeit banknotes

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Ms Lar Lee Yar Day Ve pointed to the evidence seized in her arrest. Photo: Phuket City Police

 

Phuket City Police officers led by Lt Col Naruebodin Pangleesen arrested the woman, who they named as “Ms Lar Lee Yar Day Ve”, age 34, at 9:40pm.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993016-myanmar-woman-arrested-in-phuket-with-counterfeit-banknotes/

 

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My Mate Nate has Non-B visa, released from immigration

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

File photo of Nate Bartling, also known as My Mate Nate. Photo: My Mate Nate/ Facebook

 

BANGKOK: -- Immigration Police released controversial American YouTuber My Mate Nate last night, after they found out he is staying in Thailand on a business visa.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992949-nate-apologises-for-railway-track-coin-prank-and-may-face-charges/?do=findComment&comment=12094293

 

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“Bang Fut” : From a polite man to a prime suspect in Krabi massacre

By Thai PBS

 

 

KRABI: -- “Bang Fut” or Sureefut Bannobwongsakul, 41, now becomes the talk of the town after the Royal Thai Police commissioner Pol Gen Chaktip Chaijinda disclosed at a press conference that he is a prime suspect in the killing of eight people in Krabi’s Ao Luk district on July 10.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/992950-nine-held-over-krabi-family-massacre/?do=findComment&comment=12094343

 

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One dead, four injured after van crashes into tree

By The Nation

 

 

PHITSANULOK: -- One person was killed and four others were injured when the van they were travelling in crashed into a roadside tree in Phitsanulok's Muang district early Tuesday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993020-one-dead-four-injured-after-van-crashes-into-tree-in phitsanulok/

 

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Phuket officials to set up checkpoints for deadly Patong Hill

The Phuket News

 

Phuket Governor Norraphat Plodthong seen here at yesterday's (July 17) meeting. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: -- As a temporary measure to help reduce accidents on Phuket’s notorious Patong Hill, officials from the Phuket Provincial Land Transport Office (PLTO) are to set up checkpoints on roads leading to and from the hill to monitor the condition of cars and drivers, check driver’s licenses and monitor alcohol levels of motorists.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993021-phuket-officials-to-set-up-checkpoints-for-deadly-patong-hill/

 

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EC devises initial election blueprint

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The Election Commission has formulated a plan to stage an election although it would be soon dissolved by the implementation of the new Election Commission law.

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993025-ec-devises-initial-election-blueprint/

 

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Cops reveal stick method to subdue suspects

By Anek Krajaem 
The Nation

 

Muang Maha Sarakham police demonstrate how to use sticks to subdue a suspect on Tuesday.

 

MAHA SARAKHAM: -- A video of Maha Sarakham police using Y-shaped and hooked sticks to subdue a frantic drunken man, which went viral on Monday, was part of a wider strategy, it was revealed. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993029-thai-cops-reveal-stick-method-to-subdue-suspects/

 

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Ex-lawyer and ‘accomplice’ appear in court over alleged swindle of disabled teen

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Police brought former lawyer Pisit Sammalert and his alleged female accomplice to Bangkok's Taling Chan provincial court on Tuesday to apply for the first 12-day detention period.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993030-ex-lawyer-and-‘accomplice’-appear-in-court-over-alleged-swindle-of-disabled-teen/

 

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Flooding fears in the North as rain continues to fall

By The Nation

 

Chiang Mai's Mok Fa waterfall rages following rain. Photo: @K5_Rescue (Reung Jing Phan Lens)

 

CHIANG MAI: -- Officials in Chiang Mai’s 25 districts are closely monitoring tropical cyclone Talas as it crosses upper Laos and is set to become a tropical depression and then a low-pressure system over the coming days.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/993032-flooding-fears-in-the-north-as-rain-continues-to-fall/