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Elderly woman and son forced to live in school after home collapsed

By Pratheep Nanthaparp 
The Nation

 

 

LAMPANG: -- An elderly woman and her son have been living at an old school building in Lampang's Muang district and using tap water from a toilet after their ramshackle home collapsed in a storm in early June. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995045-elderly-woman-and-son-forced-to-live-in-school-in-lampang-after-home-collapsed/

 

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Facebook scam: There is no $3.5-million windfall in Syrian loot

BY THE NATION 

 

 

A Nakhon Pathom restaurant owner told police on Monday he’d been duped out of Bt300,000 after being promised he’d get half of US$3.5 million being smuggled into Thailand.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/facebook-scam-no-3-5-million-windfall-syrian-loot/23284/

 

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Up to 80 percent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat

 

A Thai worker installs speakers on a warning system tower at a beach in Phuket, south of Bangkok November 27, 2005. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Up to 80 percent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said on Monday, more than a decade after the region was hit by a tsunami that killed 226,000 people.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995048-up-to-80-percent-of-thailands-tsunami-warning-system-needs-maintenance/

 

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Name Mix-Up Lands Man 472,000 Baht In Debt

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

  

Suthin Poonsawat shows reporters Monday a court warrant that misidentified him as a defendant in a theft case.

 

UBON RATCHATHANI — A businesswoman agreed Monday to withdraw a lawsuit against a man in northeastern Thailand after realizing she meant to sue someone else with the same name.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995049-name-mix-up-lands-man-472000-baht-in-debt/

 

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Venezuela Socialists celebrate new Congress, pariah status looms

By Brian Ellsworth

 

Demonstrators watch a barricade burn after clashes broke out while the Constituent Assembly election is being carried out in Caracas, Venezuela, July 30, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

 

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party has vowed that a newly elected legislative super-body will begin passing laws quickly after a vote that was boycotted by the opposition and slammed by foreign governments as an affront to democracy.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995050-venezuela-socialists-celebrate-new-congress-pariah-status-looms/

 

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Prayut to inspect flood damage

By The Nation

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha will visit flood victims in hard-hit Sakon Nakhon province on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995052-prayut-to-inspect-flood-damage-in-hard-hit-sakon-nakhon-province/

 

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Normal security for Yingluck’s court address

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Authorities will not designate the area in front of the Supreme Court as a controlled space ahead of the closing statement by ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra in her case involving a rice-pledging scheme, Army Chief General Chalermchai Sitthisart said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995053-normal-security-for-yingluck’s-court-address/

 

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Many Yingluck supporters expected outside court

By The Nation

 

 

A huge number of people are expected to show up to give moral support to former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday, when she is scheduled to deliver her closing statement in her court case, a source from Pheu Thai said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995053-normal-security-for-yingluck’s-court-address/?do=findComment&comment=12136605

 

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Military stays mum on rumour that ‘Ko Tee’ abducted and killed

By The Nation 

 

Ko Tee

 

BANGKOK: -- Top military officers and other senior security officials yesterday could not confirm a report that a fugitive red-shirt leader who took refuge in Laos has been abducted and possibly killed.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995058-military-stays-mum-on-rumour-that-‘ko-tee’-abducted-and-killed/

 

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Mae Jo Police Officer Moved to Nan Because of Bad Manners

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – The Deputy Inspector of Mae Jo police station has been relocated to Nan due to bad manners and the use if inappropriate language after an undercover student operation reported his bad behaviour.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995073-mae-jo-police-officer-moved-to-nan-because-of-bad-manners/

 

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Man found hanged in Chon Buri room

By The Nation

 

 

An unemployed man from Phitsanulok was found hanged in his rented room in Chon Buri Monday, police said.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995074-man-found-hanged-in-chon-buri-room/

 

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EXHIBITION: Game of Thrones-themed micro-sculptures crafted on pencil tips

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

Photo: Salavat Fidai/ Facebook

 

Calling all Westerosis in Thailand. A spectacular exhibition of Game of Thrones-themed micro-sculptures by Salavat Fidai, a Russian artist who crafted the fragile graphite pencil tips based on the hit HBO series, is in town.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995076-exhibition-game-of-thrones-themed-micro-sculptures-crafted-on-pencil-tips/

 

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Family seeks PM’s help over alleged land grab

By The Nation

 

 

An elderly Thai couple and their 33-year-old son have said they are prpeared to crawl to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-cha’s office to receive help in their battle with an alleged land-grabbing investor.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995077-family-seeks-pm’s-help-over-alleged-land-grab/

 

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Suspected Loatian drug lord denies charges

By Kesinee Taengkhieo 
The Nation

 

File photo: Xaysana Keopimpha

 

Xaysana Keopimpha, a Laotian national who is suspected to be a major drug lord with a network that spans Asean countries, denied drug charges filed against him and two Thais on Monday at Bangkok's Ratchadapisek Criminal Court.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995078-suspected-loatian-drug-lord-denies-charges/

 

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LPG price float won’t affect people: Energy Ministry

 

 

The floating of the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) price, which is set to begin tomorrow (Aug 1), will not affect people in general, according to Tawarat Sutabutra, director of the Energy Ministry’s Energy Policy and Planning Office.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995079-lpg-price-float-won’t-affect-people-energy-ministry/

 

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‘Nemo’ vandal sought in Krabi

By Sitthichai Sikhawat 
The Nation

 

The Bt20,000 reward has been announced for anyone who provides information leading to the arrest of the vandal who destroyed four clownfish statues at a Krabi riverside spot where tourists often stop for souvenir photos.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995084-‘nemo’-vandal-sought-in-krabi/

 

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China mall offers 'man pod' havens for husbands wary of shopping

By Xihao Jiang

 

 

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - At a Shanghai mall, rows of "man pods" equipped with video games are proving a big hit, providing a refuge for hundreds of weary husbands and boyfriends as their other halves shop until they drop.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995085-china-mall-offers-man-pod-havens-for-husbands-wary-of-shopping/

 

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Burp! Singapore scientists hope for probiotic beer hit

By Kanupriya Kapoor

 

 

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - It's a breakthrough worth raising a glass to.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995086-burp-singapore-scientists-hope-for-probiotic-beer-hit/

 

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British government divided on free movement after Brexit

 

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, arrives in Downing Street, in central London, Britain July 17, 2017. REUTERS/Tolga Akmen

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Allowing free movement of people after Britain leaves the European Union would not "keep faith" with the Brexit vote, the international trade secretary said, underlining divisions in the government over the issue.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995087-british-government-divided-on-free-movement-after-brexit/

 

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China hits back at Trump criticism over North Korea

By Ben Blanchard and Elias Glenn

 

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China hit back on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted he was "very disappointed" in China following Pyongyang's latest missile test, saying the problem did not arise in China and that all sides need to work for a solution.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995089-china-hits-back-at-trump-criticism-over-north-korea/

 

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Tears of joy as Phuket lifeguard returns B100k to Chinese tourist

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

 

PHUKET:-- A Chinese tourist cried with happiness after a Phuket lifeguard found and returned a purse containing an estimated B100,000 in mixed currencies and his and his partner’s passports that was left behind on Patong Beach yesterday (July 30).

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995102-tears-of-joy-as-phuket-lifeguard-returns-b100k-to-chinese-tourist/

 

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Dolphin recovered from Phuket beach dies, fishing net suspected

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

 

PHUKET:-- A striped dolphin found weak and and unable to swim at Karon Beach earlier today (July 31) has died.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995104-dolphin-recovered-from-phuket-beach-dies-fishing-net-suspected/

 

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Phuket muscles in on Patong taxi, tuk-tuk drivers over parking spaces

The Phuket News

 

 

PHUKET:-- Tuk-tuk and taxi drivers in Patong today were given until Thursday (Aug 3) to enjoy their current status as parking space kingpins before they will be relegated to occupy only 21 taxi ranks in Phuket’s busiest resort town, instead of the 84 they now operate.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995105-phuket-muscles-in-on-patong-taxi-tuk-tuk-drivers-over-parking-spaces/

 

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End Prosecution Of Sex Workers And Protect Female Rights Defenders, UN Says

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Officers from the Ministry of Affairs raid the Nataree brothel on Bangkok’s Ratchadaphisek Road in June 2016.

 

BANGKOK — Thailand should stop prosecuting female sex workers, improve conditions in women’s priso­ns and take steps to protect female human rights defend­ers, the UN body in charge­ of promoting gender ­equality has suggested.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995107-end-prosecution-of-sex-workers-and-protect-female-rights-defenders-un-says/

 

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Run for rangers is not enough, say conservation groups

By The Nation

 

 

The National Parks Department has stepped up its effort to improve social security and welfare for forest rangers with the introduction of the highly successful “Run for Rangers” marathon.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995109-run-for-rangers-is-not-enough-say-conservation-groups/

 

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‘DJ Onnoi’ turns herself in over tomboy assault

By Kornkamol Aksorndej 
The Nation

 

 

A famous tomboy deejay turned herself in to police on Monday to face charges related to her attack on another tomboy, which resulted in her requiring 100 stitches to cuts inflicted on her face.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995110-‘dj-onnoi’-turns-herself-in-over-tomboy-assault/

 

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Tourists rescued from sea after boat sinks in collision near James Bond Island

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

 

PHUKET:-- Nineteen people, including 16 tourists, were plucked from the sea near James Bond Island, northeast from Phuket, after a boat collision sank their tour boat in Phang Nga Bay today (July 31).

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995111-tourists-rescued-from-sea-after-boat-sinks-in-collision-near-james-bond-island/

 

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Mystery surrounds why foreign couple drowned dog at Jomtien beach

 

 

Thai social media was rife with debate after a video showed a foreign mother and daughter drowning a dog at Jomtien beach.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995112-mystery-surrounds-why-foreign-couple-drowned-dog-at-jomtien-beach/

 

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Power pole left in the middle of the road - but nobody mentions it might be dangerous

 

 

A story about a power pole left in the middle of construction of a new concrete road hit several Thai media outlets.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995113-power-pole-left-in-the-middle-of-the-road-but-nobody-mentions-it-might-be-dangerous/