Run-off floods Chiang Rai communities

By The Nation

 

 

CHIANG RAI: -- A mountain run-off caused by hours of torrential rain hit two tambon communities in Chiang Rai’s Muang district late Monday night, prompting the provincial governor to rush to the scene to direct the response operation.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996224-run-off-floods-chiang-rai-communities/

 

U.S. can talk to North Korea if it stops missile tests: Tillerson

By Christian Shepherd and David Brunnstrom

 

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson answers questions during a news conference in Manila, Philippines August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Karen Lema

 

MANILA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held a door open for dialogue with North Korea on Monday, saying Washington was willing to talk to Pyongyang if it halted a series of recent missile test launches.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996226-us-can-talk-to-north-korea-if-it-stops-missile-tests-tillerson/

 

China says willing to pay the price for new North Korea sanctions

By Ben Blanchard

 

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) shakes hands with North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho before their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 50th Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) in Manila, Philippines August 6, 2017. REUTERS/Pool

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will pay the biggest price from the new United Nations sanctions against North Korea because of its close economic relationship with the country, but will always enforce the resolutions, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996229-china-says-willing-to-pay-the-price-for-new-north-korea-sanctions/

 

UPDATE:

 

Shoes on student's head teacher ordered out of the class from today

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The "scandalous" teacher who made a student prostrate and crawl on the floor with his shoes on his head as a punishment has been ordered out of the class.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996231-shoes-on-students-head-teacher-ordered-out-of-the-class-from-today/

 

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‘Missing link’ section between MRT stations resolved 

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The one-kilometre-long “missing link” section between the Purple Line’s Tao Poon Station and the Blue Line’s Bang Sue Station has been solved and the service will be operational on Friday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996234-‘missing-link’-section-between-mrt-stations-resolved/

 

Poor, visually impaired elderly man asks Army for new home

By The Nation

 

UTTARADIT: -- A 62-year-old man, who is almost blind and lives alone in an old house on the brink of collapse in Uttaradit province, has asked the Army to organise a new home for him.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996236-poor-visually-impaired-elderly-man-asks-army-for-new-home/

 

UPDATE:

 

Khon performance to be featured in royal cremation ceremony

 

 

BANGKOK, 8 August 2017 (NNT) – The SUPPORT Foundation is preparing to arrange a traditional Khon mask dance during the royal cremation ceremony of His Majesty the late King Rama IX at Sanam Luang. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980183-royal-cremation-of-the-late-king-bhumibol-adulyadej-is-set-on-october-26/?do=findComment&comment=12160068

 

Finnish man seriously injured after fall from building in Pattaya

 

Picture: Siamchon News

 

PATTAYA: -- Police are investigating the circumstances which resulted in a Finnish man falling from a disused building in Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996239-finnish-man-seriously-injured-after-fall-from-building-in-pattaya/

 

Japan defence review warns of enhanced North Korea threats

By Kiyoshi Takenaka

 

FILE PHOTO:Members of Japan's Self-Defence Forces' infantry unit march during the annual SDF ceremony at Asaka Base, Japan, October 23, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

 

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan warned on Tuesday against the acute threat posed by North Korea's weapons programmes as Pyongyang's continued series of missile and nuclear tests, in defiance of U.N. sanctions, brings technological progress to the reclusive state.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996240-japan-defence-review-warns-of-enhanced-north-korea-threats/

 

Overhead cables around Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Rai are to be brought underground

By Thai PBS

 

 

Chiang Rai provincial governor Narongsak Sosotthanakorn on Monday presided over the launch of a project to bring all the overhead cables of public utilities underground.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996242-overhead-cables-around-wat-rong-khun-in-chiang-rai-are-to-be-brought-underground/

 

Red flag warning at Nopparat Tara beach in Krabi

By Thai PBS

 

 

KRABI: -- Nopparat Thara-Phi Phi Island National Park rangers of Krabi province have flown red flags along the 3-kilimetre Nopparat Thara beach warning tourists not to go into the sea for their safety as heavy weather is still on.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996244-red-flag-warning-at-nopparat-tara-beach-in-krabi/

 

Outing Turns Terrifying For Family Trapped At Phatthalung Waterfall

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

  

Emergency officials and resident men rescue a stranded family from the Na Bon River.

 

PHATTHALUNG — Nine tourists had to be rescued Monday after they became trapped by flash flooding on a rock at a popular waterfall spot in the south.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996246-outing-turns-terrifying-for-family-trapped-at-phatthalung-waterfall/

 

UPDATE:

 

Another celebrity meets with police to acknowledge illegally advertising alcohol

 

 

NONTHABURI, 8 August 2017 (NNT) – Another online celebrity has met with police to acknowledge charges of illegally advertising alcoholic products. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996062-police-fine-celebs-for-booze-pics-play-down-wider-crackdown/?do=findComment&comment=12160223

 

Thai Rice Exporters Association: Rice exports unaffected by northeastern floods

 

BANGKOK, 8 August 2017 (NNT) - The President of Thai Rice Exporters Association stated that northeastern floods have not affected rice exports. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996247-thai-rice-exporters-association-rice-exports-unaffected-by-northeastern-floods/

 

Labour Ministry inundated with employers and illegal workers 

By Kunlaphun Siripimamporn 
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Hundreds of employers and their illegal migrant workers descended on the Labour Ministry on Tuesday morning in response to measures to alleviate the impact of new and stricter foreign labour law. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996249-labour-ministry-inundated-with-employers-and-illegal-workers/

 

Tillerson in Thailand as U.S. ties improve

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre

 

U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson arrives at the ASEAN-U.S. Ministerial meeting of the 50th Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) in Manila, Philippines August 6, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Thailandon Tuesday in the highest level visit by a U.S. official since a military coup in 2014 soured relations with the United States and brought the ruling junta closer to China.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996251-tillerson-in thailand as-us-ties-improve/

 

Phuket Police yet to close case in Canadian Muay Thai boxer’s death

Shela Riva

 

Muay Thai fighter Mathew Richardson was well-known and much respected in Phuket. Photo: Mathew Richardson / Facebook

 

PHUKET: -- Police have confirmed they have yet to conclude their investigation into the death of 27-year-old Canadian Muay Thai fighter Matthew Richardson, whose body was found in his rented house in Patong last month.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996256-phuket-police-yet-to-close-case-in-canadian-muay-thai-boxer’s-death/

 

Phuket readies to commemorate Queen Sirikit’s Birthday, Mother’s Day

The Phuket News

 

 

PHUKET: -- Many Thais will have a three-day weekend as the nation celebrates Queen Sirikit’s 85th birthday on August 12 this Saturday, which is also celebrated throughout the nation as Mother’s Day.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996259-phuket-readies-to-commemorate-queen-sirikit’s-birthday-mother’s-day/

 

Government Savings Bank rebuffs social media chatter: no money giveaway

By The Nation

 

 

The state-owned Government Savings Bank (GSB) has warned people not to believe that they will receive free money from the bank.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996262-government-savings-bank-rebuffs-social-media-chatter-no-money-giveaway/

 

Farang Fiancé: Course teaches Thai women married to foreigners what to expect abroad

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: Antonette Sales Egholm/Facebook

 

BANGKOK: -- Stories of culture shock are rife in Thailand. Foreigners arriving in the country, as well as Thais going to live abroad, report endless surprises and uncertainties about how to act and what to expect.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996270-farang-fiancé-course-teaches-thai-women-married-to-foreigners-what-to-expect-abroad/

 

China’s first female astronaut, Liu Yang, 39, will visit Thailand as guest of the Ministry of Science and Technology

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) executive director Anond Snidvongs said Liu Yang’s visit to Thailand will be her first country after completing her 13-day space mission in orbiting space laboratory module Tiangong 1 in June 2012.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996272-china’s-first-female-astronaut-liu-yang-39-will-visit-thailand-as-guest-of-the-ministry-of-science-and-technology/

 

Police team lauded for turning down Bt100,000 reward 

By The Nation

 

SAMUT SONGKRAM: -- A team of police officers from a station in Samut Songkram province were honoured on Tuesday for solving a fraud case in which two elderly people were victims - but the officers refused to accept a Bt100,000 reward.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996273-police-team-lauded-for-turning-down-bt100000-reward /

 

Get ready for LINE Mobile

BY THE NATION

 

 

LINE Mobile, a business collaboration between LINE Thailand and DTN, is aimed at digital millennials, solving the pain points of traditional telecom service, including queuing at shops to sign up or pay their bills, figuring out complicated price plans, running out of Internet time when watching their favourite shows, and bill shock from roaming fees.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/get-ready-line-mobile/23461/

Agencies to coordinate closing illicit webpages

BY THE NATION 

By SIRIVISH TOOMGUM

 

image: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

 

THE NATIONAL Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) will work with the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DE) to fine tune coordination over homepages with allegedly illicit content.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/agencies-coordinate-closing-illicit-webpages/23464/

UPDATE:

 

Authorities unable to confirm ‘Ko Tee’ is dead

By The Nation

 

File photo: Fugitive red-shirt leader Wutthipong Kachathamakul

 

General Thawip Netniyom, secretary-general of the National Security Council, says he cannot confirm speculation fugitive red-shirt leader Wutthipong Kachathamakul is dead, after previous reports he had been abducted.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995058-military-stays-mum-on-rumour-that-‘ko-tee’-abducted-and-killed/?do=findComment&comment=12160748

 

Be good to your mums, PM says

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has urged everyone ahead of Mother’s Day on Saturday to express their love to their mums.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996276-be-good-to-your-mums-pm-says/

 

UPDATE:

 

Don defends US efforts to reach missing students’ car

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai on Tuesday said authorities in the United States had tried their best to retrieve the car rented by two missing Thai students that plunged into a California ravine late last month.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996129-weather-delays-search-for-thais-students-missing-in-the-us/?do=findComment&comment=12160781

 

Airport authority announces plan to keep weekend immigration hell from being repeated

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: MicheSO6/Twitter

 

BANGKOK: -- After a much-publicized immigration debacle at Don Mueang International Airport that saw tourists waiting four hours on Friday night, Thai airport officials are speaking out about the issue and how they plan to resolve it.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996280-airport-authority-announces-plan-to-keep-weekend-immigration-hell-from-being-repeated/

 

Two Chinese tourists face maximum fine of 50,000 baht each for assault and public nuisance

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Two Chinese tourists were arrested by tourist police at Suvarnabhumi international airport and charged for assault of their countryman.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996287-two-chinese-tourists-face-maximum-fine-of-50000-baht-each-for-assault-and-public-nuisance/