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Flooding has little impact on economic growth rate

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Impacts from the current and recent flooding in several parts of the country, especially in the Northeast, will not affect economic growth rate this year which is forecast to grow 3.6 percent, said Mr Krisda Jinavijarana, director of Fiscal Policy Office, over the weekend.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996080-flooding-in-thailand-has-little-impact-on-economic-growth-rate/

 

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Google employee’s anti-diversity memo prompts company rebuke

BY REUTERS 

 

Image: Reuters

 

REUTERS – Google executives over the weekend rushed to denounce an engineer’s memo that ascribed gender inequality in the technology industry to biological differences, a view that sparked outrage at the internet giant and inflamed tensions over sexual harassment and discrimination in Silicon Valley.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/google-employees-anti-diversity-memo-prompts-company-rebuke/23441/

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Police summon van owners for ferrying Yingluck supporters to court

By The Nation

 

File photo

 

The owners of 21 vans used to transport passengers to the Supreme Court last week to give moral support to former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra have been summoned by police for allegedly using the vehicles for a purpose not covered by their licence and for not using a permitted route.

 

Source: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996082-police-summon-van-owners-for-ferrying-yingluck-supporters-to-court/

 

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Myanmar man found dead in apparent suicide in Songkhla

By The Nation

 

SONGKHLA:  -- A Myanmar worker was found dead in Songkhla province on Monday morning with a broken rope around his neck, police said.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996083-myanmar-man-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide-in-songkhla/

 

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WhatsApp testing Facebook like status updates

BY JONATHAN FAIRFIELD 

 

 

WhatsApp is testing a new feature that would allow users to share colourful status updates, just like on Facebook.

 

Full story:  http://tech.thaivisa.com/whatsapp-testing-facebook-like-status-updates/23444/

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Elderly nun saved from large python attack in Rayong

By The Nation

 

 

RAYONG: -- An 85-year-old Buddhist nun was attacked by a large python in a toilet at her temple in Rayong province on Sunday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996086-elderly-nun-saved-from-large-python-attack-in-rayong/

 

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Illegal worker registration tops 600,000

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Thai employers have since July 24 arranged for more than 600,000 illegal migrant workers to register at 100 temporary Labour Ministry centres across the country. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996089-illegal-worker-registration-tops-600000/

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Police set to open murder probe in DSI cell death case

By The Nation

 

File photo

 

BANGKOK: -- Police have assured that they will track down those involved in the death of former Phuket and Phang Nga land official Tawatchai Anukul in a Department of Special Investigation (DSI) detention cell last year and they are ready to open a murder investigation.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996091-police-set-to-open-murder-probe-in-dsi-cell-death-case/

 

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Police prohibited from bar connections

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Police officers are prohibited from being involved either directly or indirectly in alcohol and night-entertainment businesses, police deputy spokesman Krisana Pattanacharoen confirmed on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996092-police-prohibited-from-bar-connections/

 

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Dozens of migrants run across border in Spanish enclave

 

African migrants react after crossing the border from Morocco to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, Spain, early August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Jesus Moron

 

MADRID (Reuters) - Dozens of sub-Saharan migrants crossed into Spain from Morocco in the early hours of Monday after running through a border gate into the enclave of Ceuta, emergency services said.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996094-dozens-of-migrants-run-across-border-in-spanish-enclave/

 

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Flights from Hua Hin to Kuala Lumpur get a little closer

 

Image: A320 file photo

 

Flights to and from Hua Hin and Kuala Lumpur have got a little closer to becoming a reality after Air Asia presented a business plan to airports authority executives.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996100-flights-from-hua-hin-to-kuala-lumpur-get-a-little-closer/

 

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Chiang Mai Kids Win Creative Media Award in Japan for a Film That Raises Awareness about Depression

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – Students from Montfort College have won the Creative Media Award at the Panasonic Kid Witness News Contest 2017 for a short film made to raise awareness about the tragedy of depression.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996108-chiang-mai-kids-win-creative-media-award-in-japan-for-a-film-that-raises-awareness-about-depression/

 

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Motorcycle star pleads not guilty to money laundering

By Kesinee Taengkhieo 
The Nation

 

 

Motorcycle racing star Akarakit “Benz Racing” Worarojcharoendet and two others pleaded not guilty on Monday in a high-profile money-laundering case heard at Bangkok’s Ratchadapisek Criminal Court.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996111-motorcycle-star-pleads-not-guilty-to-money-laundering/

 

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Man found dead after tenant downstairs said ‘smelly liquid’ leaked through their ceiling

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

Photo for illustration purposes only.

 

A middle-aged Thai man was found dead yesterday in his apartment outside Bangkok after a tenant on the lower floor reported “smelly black liquid” leaking through their ceiling.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996112-man-found-dead-after-tenant-downstairs-said-‘smelly-liquid’-leaked-through-their-ceiling/

 

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Two drug suspects arrested in Bangkok, third suspect on the run

By The Nation

 

 

Police arrested two men and seized 944 grams of crystal meth or “ice” and 1.3 kilograms of ketamine.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996113-two-drug-suspects-arrested-in-bangkok-third-suspect-on-the-run/

 

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Nigerian arrested for cocaine in Patong

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

 

PHUKET:-- A Nigerian man has been arrested after he was found in possession of 11.85 grams of cocaine in Patong just after midnight early Saturday morning (Aug 5).

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996114-nigerian-arrested-for-cocaine-in-patong/

 

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Stocks reach new peak in world full of surprises

By John Geddie

 

Traders work in front of the German share price index, DAX board, at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, August 4, 2017. REUTERS/Staff/Remote

 

LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks breached new record highs on Monday as better-than-expected company earnings and economic data from the United States stole the focus from rising geopolitical tension over North Korea's nuclear program.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996115-stocks-reach-new-peak-in-world-full-of-surprises/

 

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British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson off work with pneumonia

By Emma Rumney

 

British television presenter Jeremy Clarkson returns to his home in west London March 26, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Files

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who gained worldwide fame as presenter of the BBC motoring show "Top Gear", will be off work for "quite some time" after falling ill with pneumonia while on a family holiday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996117-british-tv-presenter-jeremy-clarkson-off-work-with-pneumonia/

 

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Summer lovin'? Not in angry Europe's tourist hotspots

By Sam Edwards, Isla Binnie and Maja Zuvela

 

 

BARCELONA/ROME/SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Chronic overcrowding in some of Europe's beloved tourism hotspots is fuelling an angry backlash, from polite protest to "Go Home" graffiti and even physical intimidation.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996119-summer-lovin-not-in-angry-europes-tourist-hotspots/

 

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NACC confident of meeting deadline for review of PAD case ruling

By The Nation

 

 

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) insisted on Monday that it would finish reviewing the court ruling in the case concerning the October 2008 crackdown against the “yellow shirts” within the given deadline of 30 days.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996127-nacc-confident-of-meeting-deadline-for-review-of-pad-case-ruling/

 

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Police still assessing manpower required ahead of Yingluck ruling

By The Nation

 

Yingluck's supporters on Aug 1. File photo/ Nation

 

Police will continue to assess the situation right up to August 25 before finalising a decision on how much law-and-order manpower would be deployed to ensure security ahead of the arrival of supporters of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose case in connection with her government’s rice-pledging scheme will be ruled upon that day.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996128-police-still-assessing-manpower-required-ahead-of-yingluck-ruling/

 

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Weather delays search for Thais students missing in the US

By The Nation

 

Photo : Nat News TV

 

To the dismay of the families of two Thai students whose rental car plunged off a cliff in the US late last month, US agencies have postponed a bid to retrieve the vehicle due to strong winds and river currents.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996129-weather-delays-search-for-thais-students-missing-in-the-us/

 

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Thais hope to get off Trump's trade hit list as Tillerson heads for Bangkok

Orathai Sriring and Satawasin Staporncharnchai

 

FILE PHOTO: A container is loaded onto a cargo ship at a port in Bangkok March 30, 2015. Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai officials voiced hope ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of escaping U.S. pressure over the size of their trade surplus with the United States as their figures point to a jump in imports, but U.S. data shows little change.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996130-thais-hope-to-get-off-trumps-trade-hit-list-as-tillerson-heads-for-bangkok/

 

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Candidate to matter as much as party under new law: Meechai

By The Nation

 

 

Constitution Drafting Commission [CDC] chairman Meechai Ruchupan on Monday explained that under the draft organic law on MPs, the new system in which each candidate from a party would have their own number at the ballot box had been developed with a view to making the individual candidate matter as much as the party at election time.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996132-candidate-to-matter-as-much-as-party-under-new-law-meechai/

 

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Budget shortfall for local organisations’ healthcare could hit Bt2 billion: ministry

By The Nation

 

 

A severe shortage in healthcare funding for local administrative organisations has cost the Public Health Ministry at least Bt1.1 billion in unpaid debts, and the amount could rise to Bt2 billion by the end of the current fiscal year in September, the ministry’s permanent secretary Sopon Mekthon said on Monday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996133-budget-shortfall-for-local-organisations’-healthcare-could-hit-bt2-billion-ministry/

 

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Chula Retracts Statement Sliming Student, Yet Bad Taste Lingers

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Reungwit Bunjongrat holds a fourth-year student Supalak Damrongjit in a headlock Thursday at Chulalongkorn University. Photo: Netiwit Chotiphatchaisal

 

BANGKOK — Chulalongkorn University offered a muddled response over the weekend to controversy over a professor placing a student in a chokehold during a freshman initiation ceremony.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996134-chula-retracts-statement-sliming-student-yet-bad-taste-lingers/

 

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Malaysia moves closer to scrapping mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's cabinet has agreed unanimously to do away with the mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers, a minister said on Monday, but the decision still has to be approved by parliament.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996135-malaysia-moves-closer-to-scrapping-mandatory-death-penalty-for-drug-traffickers/

 

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Brexit negotiations have not begun well for UK, says former top diplomat

 

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street in London, Britain July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall/Files

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's negotiations over leaving the European Union have not begun well due to disagreements among Prime Minister Theresa May's team of ministers about the kind of deal they should be seeking, a former top British diplomat said.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996136-brexit-negotiations-have-not-begun-well-for-uk-says-former-top-diplomat/

 

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Dead baby found in rubbish bin

By Phuket Gazette

 

 

A local pedestrian had a grisly find today when she discovered a deceased baby in a garbage bin near a Phuket-based University.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996137-dead-baby-found-in-rubbish-bin/