Phitsanulok nursery closed over HMF disease

By The Nation

 

 

A nursery in Phitsanulok was closed Thursday and Friday after a three-year-old girl was found to have caught hand-foot-and-mouth-disease.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995602-phitsanulok-nursery-closed-over-hmf-disease/

 

Fright Flight: Netizens perplexed by video of dozens of people departing ‘invisible plane’

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

 

A video showing what netizens assumed to be several “ghosts” entering an airport terminal via a “haunted aerobridge” has received over 10 million views on Facebook, but some netizens explained this video as just “students from Hogwarts coming back for school holidays” or “Photoshopped”… because you can totally Photoshop a video.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995604-fright-flight-netizens-perplexed-by-video-of-dozens-of-people-departing-‘invisible-plane’/

 

Abhisit pleads for respecting court decisions

By The Nation

 

 

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Thursday that the court ruling on the crackdown against yellow shirts in 2008 would not likely set a precedent. Nor would it compare with the 2010 crackdown on red shirt protesters by his government, as facts in each incident were different, he added.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995605-abhisit-pleads-for-respecting-court-decisions/

 

Thai immigration officers on alert for fleeing scam suspects

By The Nation

 

 

Immigration police in Sa Kaew have beefed up monitoring for suspects trying to flee into Thailand after Cambodian authorities raided a 212-member “call-centre” scam in Poipet on Wednesday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995606-thai-immigration-officers-on-alert-for-fleeing-scam-suspects/

 

Man rescued in toy dinghy one mile off English coast

 

LONDON (Reuters) - A carefree sailor has been rescued from his toy dinghy one mile (1.6km) off the coast of Redcar in north east England after being dragged out to sea by strong currents.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995607-man-rescued-in-toy-dinghy-one-mile-off-english-coast/

 

Born this way? Researchers explore the science of gender identity

By Daniel Trotta

 

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - While President Donald Trump has thrust transgender people back into the conflict between conservative and liberal values in the United States, geneticists are quietly working on a major research effort to unlock the secrets of gender identity.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995608-born-this-way-researchers-explore-the-science-of-gender-identity/

 

Qatar approves law allowing some foreigners permanent residency

 

DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar plans to allow some expatriates to obtain permanent residency, state news agency QNA reported, in the first move of its kind among Gulf Arab states that rely heavily on foreign labour.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995609-qatar-approves-law-allowing-some-foreigners-permanent-residency/

 

Vietnam says it feels 'great pity' over German kidnapping accusation

 

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's foreign ministry on Thursday expressed "great pity" over a Germany statement accusing Vietnam of kidnapping a former oil executive, and said Hanoi wants to develop a "strategic relationship" with Germany.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995610-vietnam-says-it-feels-great-pity-over-german-kidnapping-accusation/

 

20-hour stand-off ends with arrest of armed suspect in Chiang Rai

By Natthawat Laping 
The Nation

 

 

A 20-hour armed stand-off ended on Wednesday night when a car theft suspect was arrested after a scuffle with police.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995424-hotel-standoff-with-car-thief-suspect-in-chiang-rai/?do=findComment&comment=12146843

 

Teen Singer's Critical Tweets Spark Nationalist Backlash

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

Singer Suthida ‘Image’ Chanachaisuwan, 19. Photo: ImageSwift13 / Instagram

 

BANGKOK — A singer’s hard-truth tweets about the underdeveloped state of Thailand has sparked debate online Thursday along predictable fault lines.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995611-teen-singers-critical-tweets-spark-nationalist-backlash/

 

Popular Kodi add-on returns but is probably best avoided

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

TV Addons, one of the most popular sources for Kodi users to access content, has been revived after suddenly closing down in June.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/popular-kodi-add-on-returns/23353/

ROG Zephyrus GX501: World’s slimmest gaming laptop launched in Thailand

BY THE NATION

 

 

ROG Zephyrus GX501: Gaming on the go

 

Republic of Gamers (ROG), a sub-brand of Taiwanese computer makers Asus, has unveiled the Zephyrus GX501, the world’s slimmest gaming laptop powered by a 7th Generation Intel Core i7 (Kaby Lake) processor.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/rog-zephyrus-gx501-worlds-slimmest-gaming-laptop-launched-thailand/23355/

 

College Shut Down After Student Murdered Outside MBK

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

The mother and other family members of slain student Chanon Chuankhunthod, 20, gather Wednesday at the Police General Hospital in Bangkok.

 

BANGKOK — Police said Thursday they were looking for up to three suspects who stabbed a student from a rival college to death in downtown Bangkok.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995617-college-shut-down-after-student-murdered-outside-mbk/

 

Embarrassing fall for cellphone user

By Phuket Gazette

 

 

A 26-year-old woman has fallen into a drain while out walking because she was checking her mobile phone and did not pay attention to where she was going.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995618-embarrassing-fall-for-cellphone-user/

 

Growing elderly population a worry for Thailand: WHO

By Phuket Gazette

 

 

The latest statistics from the World Health Organisation paint a relatively healthy picture for Thailand.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995619-growing-elderly-population-a-worry-for-thailand-who/

 

New hope to salvage Thai students’ car in US accident

By The Nation

 

Photo : Thai Consulate General’s Facebook page

 

A US rescue team may be able to retrieve the rental car belonging to two Thai students, which plunged over a cliff and was partly submerged in a river in California in late June, earlier than expected as water levels in the river have fallen.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995620-new-hope-to-salvage-thai-students’-car-in-us-accident/

 

Here it is: Full specs and more images of Galaxy Note 8 leaked online

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

The new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will be official unveiled in New York on August 23 but renowned tipster Evan Blass has leaked images of the new device showing it to be extremely similar to the Galaxy S8 and S8+.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/full-specs-images-galaxy-note-8-leaked-online/23358/

Facebook to step up fact-checking in fight against fake news

BY REUTERS

 

 

BERLIN (Reuters) – Facebook is to send more potential hoax articles to third-party fact checkers and show their findings below the original post, the world’s largest online social network said on Thursday as it tries to fight so-called fake news.

 

Full Story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/facebook-step-fact-checking-fight-fake-news/23362/

Dead in bed: Thai wife says Swiss husband took too many painkillers

 

 

A Thai wife told police in Chiang Mai that she thought her sick husband took too many pain killers and suffered a heart attack.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995626-dead-in-bed-thai-wife-says-swiss-husband-took-too-many-painkillers/

 

Navy ship hits drawbridge, mast loose

By The Nation

 

 

The mast of the Royal Thai Navy’s warship HTMS Surin sustained damage after the vessel hit the bascule Krungthep Bridge on Thursday morning.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995627-navy-ship-hits-drawbridge-mast-loose/

 

11 nabbed with 400kg of “ice”

 

 

Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) police have arrested 11 suspects and seized from them 400 kilogrammes of crytal methamphetamine in a major drug suppression operation, Pol Gen Chalermkiat Sriworakhan said at a press conference on Thursday (Aug 3).

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995628-11-nabbed-with-400kg-of-“ice”/

 

Pattaya police arrest woman selling underage girls for sex

 

 

Pattaya police have announced the arrest of a 32 year old woman who was running a traditional Thai massage shop that was just a front for a brothel.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995629-pattaya-police-arrest-woman-selling-underage-girls-for-sex/

 

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