North Korea shipments to Syria chemical arms agency intercepted - U.N. report

By Michelle Nichols

 

A man walks beside mass graves of people who died during chemical attacks on Zamalka, in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus August 21, 2014. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

 

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country's chemical weapons program were intercepted in the past six months, according to a confidential United Nations report on North Korea sanctions violations.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998303-north-korea-shipments-to-syria-chemical-arms-agency-intercepted-un-report/

 

Spotify officially launches in Thailand

BY JONATHAN FAIRFIELD 

 

 

Music streaming service Spotify is now officially available in Thailand, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

 

Full story:  http://tech.thaivisa.com/spotify-launches-thailand/23713/

Chiang Rai gears up for Chiangrai Coffee & Taz Festival

 

CHIANG RAI, 22 August 2017 (NNT) - Public and private agencies in Chiang Rai have jointly held a press conference on the Chiangrai Coffee & Taz Festival 2017 which will take place this week. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998305-chiang-rai-gears-up-for-chiangrai-coffee-taz-festival/

 

Army sergeant wanted over shooting incident 

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Police are seeking an arrest warrant from a military court for an Army sergeant who allegedly shot a civilian at an Army apartment building in Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998306-army-sergeant-wanted-over-shooting-incident in-bangkok/

 

Taxi drivers’ Bangkok street brawl clip goes viral

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Thousands of Facebook users have urged the authorities to take legal action against two taxi drivers who had a street brawl after a minor traffic accident.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998308-taxi-drivers’-bangkok-street-brawl-clip-goes-viral/

 

DSI concludes investigation on false overtime claims at PAT

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Department of Investigation (DSI) has found 11 administrators of the Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) to have colluded in false overtime claims for staff, causing 300 – 400 million baht a year in damages, DSI deputy director-general Suriya Singhakamol said on Monday (Aug 21).

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998309-dsi-concludes-investigation-on-false-overtime-claims-at-port-authority-of-thailand/

 

Shoot to kill order given in hunt for man who ‘shot dead’ his father

By The Nation

 

Lop Buri police are operating under a shoot to kill order after a manhunt began on Tuesday for a drug addict who allegedly shot dead his father.

 

Full story:   https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998310-shoot-to-kill-order-given-in-hunt-for-man-who-shot-dead-his-father-in-lop-buri/

 

NCPO asks center fielding complaints against state officials to compile periodic reports

 

BANGKOK, 22 August 2017 (NNT) – The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has asked the center fielding complaints against state officials to compile periodic reports and for efforts against water hyacinth to continue. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998314-ncpo-asks-center-fielding-complaints-against-state-officials-to-compile-periodic-reports/

 

Pavena Foundation saves Thai woman from human trafficking in Bahrain

 

 

BANGKOK, 22 August 2017 (NNT) – The Pavena Foundation for Children and Women has successfully coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to return a Thai woman deceived into prostitution in Bahrain home. 

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998315-pavena-foundation-saves-thai-woman-from-human-trafficking-in-bahrain/

 

UPDATE:

 

Trump commits to more troops in Afghanistan, vows 'fight to win'

By Steve Holland and Ayesha Rascoe

 

U.S. President Donald Trump announces his strategy for the war in Afghanistan during an address to the nation from Fort Myer, Virginia, U.S., August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump opened the door on Monday night to an increase in U.S. troops in Afghanistan as part of a retooled strategy for the region, overcoming his own doubts about America's longest war and vowing "a fight to win."

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998282-trump-oks-sending-4000-more-troops-to-afghanistan-fox-news/?do=findComment&comment=12200859

 

Canadian tourist charged for killer Phuket U-turn

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

CCTV footage showed the car making the U-turn as two motorbikes approached at speed. Image: CCTV

 

PHUKET: -- A 37-year-old Canadian tourist has been charged with reckless driving causing death and injury after his attempted U-turn across the path of two motorbikes on Chao Fa West Rd in Chalong late yesterday afternoon (Aug 21) left one of the riders dead and the other in hospital.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998319-canadian-tourist-charged-for-killer-phuket-u-turn/

 

UPDATE:

 

Donations pour in for elderly woman injured in train mishap

By The Nation

 

 

KORAT: -- A 71-year-old Nakhon Ratchasima woman who lost her left foot while crossing a railway track has been showered with donations from kind-hearted people.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998205-elderly-woman’s-foot-cannot-be-reattached-after-train-accident/?do=findComment&comment=12200953

 

Landslide affects road in Mae Hong Son as heavy rains predicted

 

 

MAE HONG SON, 22 August 2017 (NNT) – A landslide has cut off a roadway in Sob Moey District of Mae Hong Son as heavy rains are predicted to return to most of the country later this week. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998325-landslide-affects-road-in-mae-hong-son-as-heavy-rains-predicted/

 

Princess Sirivannavari win silver medal in dressage team

By The Nation

 

Princess Sirivannavari

 

Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari claimed her second SEA Games medal after her dressage team settled at second for the silver medal in the equestrian competition at the Endurance and Putrajaya Equestrian Park in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998328-princess-sirivannavari-win-silver-medal-in-dressage-team/

 

Recent graduate dies in house collapse into sea 

By Thai PBS

 

 

SATTAHIP: -- A 24-year-old recent graduate of Burapha University died after her old wooden home collapsed into the sea in Sattahip district of Chon Buri province.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998329-recent-graduate-dies-in-house-collapse-into-sea in-sattahip/

 

UPDATE:

 

Happy ending for woman duped into sex trade

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- A young woman’s Cinderella dream of finding a wealthy husband in Bahrain turned into a nightmare when she was forced into prostitution.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998315-pavena-foundation-saves-thai-woman-from-human-trafficking-in-bahrain/?do=findComment&comment=12201032

 

Phuket rescue workers appeal to Chinese gods for a ‘safer’ Patong Hill

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The procession aimed to make the notorious Patong Hill safer. Photo: Kusoldharm Foundation

 

PHUKET: -- Scores of rescue workers from the Phuket chapter of the Kusoldharm Foundation held a mass procession over Patong Hill and through the streets of Patong yesterday (Aug 21) in the hopes that an appeal to the Chinese gods will help make the hill safer.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998334-phuket-rescue-workers-appeal-to-chinese-gods-for-a-‘safer’-patong-hill/

 

Prayuth Tells Frog His Fairy Tale Dream On Isaan Goodwill Tour

(Photos)

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

  

Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha addresses a frog as local officials, members of his cabinet and a puzzled farmer look on from the bed of a truck at a royal farm project Monday in Nakhon Ratchasima province.

 

NAKHON RATCHASIMA — Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha took a break from his hearts-and-minds tour in the northeast Monday to chat with a frog, some cows and grandmas.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998335-prayuth-tells-frog-his-fairy-tale-dream-on-isaan-goodwill-tour/

 

Decriminalise kratom, make it an energy drink: doctor

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A leading traditional medicine practitioner has renewed calls for kratom to be removed from the list of banned narcotics and said it could be used to make energy drinks.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998337-decriminalise-kratom-make-it-an-energy-drink-doctor/

 

DHL to invest Bt2.7 billion in region

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- DHL Supply Chain, the world’s leading contract logistics provider, has announced it will invest Bt2.7 billion in growing its regional footprint in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar by 2020.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998340-dhl-to-invest-bt27-billion-in-region/

 

India's top court rules controversial Muslim divorce law 'unconstitutional'

 

FILE PHOTO: A television journalist sets his camera inside the premises of the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India, February 18, 2014. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee/File Photo

 

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled a controversial Muslim quick divorce law "unconstitutional", a landmark victory for Muslim women who had long argued that it violated their right to equality.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998341-indias-top-court-rules-controversial-muslim-divorce-law-unconstitutional/

 

Thai man confesses to slitting throat of Facebook date who said he ‘sucked at sex’

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: Songkhla Police

 

SONGKHLA: -- A Thai man confessed to police that he murdered a woman he was on a first date with out of anger, after she let out a complaint that he “sucked at sex” during their coupling — at least in his version of the story.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998354-thai-man-confesses-to-slitting-throat-of-facebook-date-who-said-he-‘sucked-at-sex’/

 

UPDATE:

 

Suspected patricide severely injured by police

By The Nation

 

A man who allegedly shot and killed his father in Lop Buri was severely injured in a gunfight with police in Sing Buri on Tuesday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998310-shoot-to-kill-order-given-in-hunt-for-man-who-shot-dead-his-father-in-lop-buri/

 

Yingluck verdict: ‘We’ve got situation under control,’ say security chief

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- National Security Council secretary-general General Thawip Netniyom has expressed confidence that there will not be unruly scenes following Friday’s verdict in former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s negligence trial.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998356-yingluck-verdict-‘we’ve-got-situation-under-control’-say-security-chief/

 

PM gives love to his admirers

By The Nation

 

 

KORAT: -- “Good morning, love you," was how Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha greeted his admirers at Suranaree Technology University in Nakhon Ratchasima province, where the mobile Cabinet meeting will take place on Tuesday afternoon.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998360-pm-gives-love-to-his-admirers/

 

China defends ally Pakistan after Trump criticism

 

U.S. President Donald Trump announces his strategy for the war in Afghanistan during an address to the nation from Fort Myer, Virginia, U.S., August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China defended its ally Pakistan on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States could no longer be silent about Pakistan's "safe havens" for militants and warned it had much to lose by continuing to "harbour terrorists".

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998364-china-defends-ally-pakistan-after-trump-criticism/

 

France's Macron, seeking to re-shape Europe, heads east

By Richard Lough and Lidia Kelly

 

FILE PHOTO French President Emmanuel Macron waits for a guest at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo

 

PARIS/WARSAW (Reuters) - While Britain toils over its messy divorce with the European Union, France's president Emmanuel Macron is embarking on a drive to deepen the economic integration of a bloc he says needs to be more protective of its citizens.

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998365-frances-macron-seeking-to-re-shape-europe-heads-east/

 

Hong Kong democracy leader Joshua Wong back in dock days after being jailed

By Venus Wu

 

Student leader Joshua Wong leaves the High Court in a prison van after his sentencing on charges related to the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, also known as Occupy Central protests, in Hong Kong, China August 17, 2017. Apple Daily/Tse Wing Yiu via REUTERS

 

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Less than a week after being jailed for unlawful assembly, Hong Kong democracy leader Joshua Wong was summoned again to court on Tuesday for an ongoing contempt of court charge related to the 2014 "Occupy" pro-democracy protests.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998367-hong-kong-democracy-leader-joshua-wong-back-in-dock-days-after-being-jailed/

 

Deputy BKK Governor meets Municipal Chiefs on rewards for littering reports

 

 

BANGKOK, 22 August 2017 (NNT) – Bangkok officials have handed policy to municipal heads in all 50 districts of the city on the rewarding of citizens who provide information leading to the arrest of litterers. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998368-deputy-bkk-governor-meets-municipal-chiefs-on-rewards-for-littering-reports/

 

Phones banned in courtroom during reading of Yingluck verdict

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- All communication devices will be banned in the courtroom during Friday’s reading of the verdict in the cases against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and officials from her government, Supreme Court officials said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/998369-phones-banned-in-courtroom-during-reading-of-yingluck-verdict/