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Circuit breaker short starts house fire

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

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Sparks and smoke came from the circuit breaker in the house, before it set the home on fire. Photo; Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: An electrical circuit breaker has been blamed for setting a house on fire in Srisoonthorn, central Phuket, late yesterday afternoon (Aug 25).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119778-circuit-breaker-short-starts-house-fire-in-phuket/

 

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DLT teaching students how to ride motorcycles as number without licences revealed

 

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Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that the Department of Land Transport are spending 26.5 million baht to train 51,000 high school students to ride motorcycles properly and get licences. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119781-dlt-teaching-students-how-to-ride-motorcycles-as-number-without-licences-revealed/

 

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Thailand Wants to Be Southeast Asia’s Power-Trading Middleman

By Randy Thanthong-Knight

 

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Credit: Bloomberg

 

  • The plan aims to balance regional power oversupply, shortage
  • Infrastructure development funding in some countries a barrier

 

Thailand is jump starting a decades-old plan to create a Southeast Asia electricity super-grid, and wants to be the power-trading hub at the center of it.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119783-thailand-wants-to-be-southeast-asia’s-power-trading-middleman/

 

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Thailand further trims 2019 arrivals forecast while tourism confidence index holds steady

By TTG Asia

 

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Thailand’s quarterly tourism confidence index in 2Q2019 held steady at 100 from its 1Q prediction, and is expected to remain at 100 in 3Q2019

 

Thailand’s quarterly tourism confidence index in 2Q2019 held steady at 100 from its 1Q prediction, and is expected to remain at 100 in the third quarter of this year, a recent study found.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119784-thailand-further-trims-2019-arrivals-forecast-while-tourism-confidence-index-holds-steady/

 

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Thai man has been drinking his own urine for five years - he's in fine fettle!

 

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Daily News reporters went to meet a 44 year old Thai man who believes that drinking and using his own urine as an antiseptic is making him healthy. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119786-thai-man-has-been-drinking-his-own-urine-for-five-years-hes-in-fine-fettle/

 

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Thai Civilized Party joins The Peaks probe party

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

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Thai Civilized Party leader Mongkonkit Suksintharanon (2nd from left) speaks with a local resident at Kata Noi Beach on Friday (Aug 25). Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Thai Civilized Party leader Mongkonkit Suksintharanon and fellow party members arrived in Phuket on Friday (Aug 25) to question Karon Mayor Tawee Thongcham about the construction of The Peaks Residences condo project at Kata Noi.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119790-phuket-thai-civilized-party-joins-the-peaks-probe-party/

 

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Autopsy on dead Hawksbill sea turtle to establish cause of death

 

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Veterinarians, based at the sea turtle hospital at the Sattahip naval base in Chon Buri province, are scheduled to dissect a dead Hawksbill sea turtle to discover the cause of its death.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119791-autopsy-on-dead-hawksbill-sea-turtle-to-establish-cause-of-death/

 

 

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Water levels in four major Korat dams still low

By The Nation

 

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Recent rainfall has not raised the water level in the four major dams in Nakhon Ratchasima province sufficiently to irrigate farmland in the next dry season, a senior official said Monday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119803-water-levels-in-four-major-korat-dams-still-low/

 

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Public backs activist Sombat after US rejects entry visa

By The Nation

 

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Sombat Boonngamanong

 

Pro-democracy activist Sombat Boonngamanong has received overwhelming public support after he posted to Facebook that his application for a visa to visit his daughter in the United States was rejected.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119805-public-backs-activist-sombat-after-us-rejects-entry-visa/

 

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Buriram: Mysterious forces at work as spirit house topples and injures 5 year old in north east Thailand

 

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Thai caption: House owner failed to make offerings (to the spirits)

 
Many villagers in a village in Buriram in north east Thailand are convinced that angry spirits were responsible after a spirit house fell on a little girl. 
 
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Songkhla gold shop robbed of Bt85m of the precious metal remains closed 

By The Nation

 

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A gold shop in Songkhla’s Na Thawee district remained closed Monday after a raid on Saturday by 12 armed robbers. The gang was believed to be made up of southern insurgents seeking money to fund terror attacks.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119636-gold-worth-60-million-baht-stolen-from-shop-in-songkhla/?do=findComment&comment=14503953

 

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Five-year-old washed off road and drowns as reservoir overflows 

By The Nation

 

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A five-year-old boy was washed off a road by a runoff in Chanthaburi’s Pong Nam Ron district Sunday evening and drowned, police said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119811-chanthaburi-five-year-old-washed-off-road-and-drowns-as-reservoir-overflows/

 

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Pattaya: 4 AM opening is great - but pubs must be "socially responsible"

 

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A leading entertainment industry personality in Pattaya has thrown his weight behind plans for an extension of opening hours in Pattaya saying it is definitely a good idea.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119816-pattaya-4-am-opening-is-great-but-pubs-must-be-socially-responsible/

 

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Future Forward MP explains why he’s unable to settle student loan debt

 

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A Future Forward MP has explained why he cannot repay his debt of some Bt85,000 to the Student Loan Fund in one go despite declaring assets of Bt8 million to the National Anti-Corruption Commission. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119818-future-forward-mp-explains-why-he’s-unable-to-settle-student-loan-debt/

 

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Suspected Myanmar drug courier shot dead in Chiang Mai, another arrested

By The Nation

 

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A drug suspect believed to be a fighter with an ethnic group in Myanmar was killed in a shootout with Thai police and soldiers while attempting to bring drugs across the border into Chiang Mai’s Mae Ai district early Monday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119821-suspected-myanmar-drug-courier-shot-dead-in-chiang-mai-another-arrested/

 

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Light plane crash lands in Sukhothai

By The Thaiger

 

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PHOTOS: ข่าวคนสุโขทัย

 

A private light plane has been forced to make an emergency landing in a rice field in Sukhothai’s Sri Satchanalai district, central Thailand, this morning. The pilot and the passenger were unharmed in the incident. The incident happened at 9.32am in Moo 4 village in Tambon Haad Siew.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119843-light-plane-crash-lands-in-sukhothai/

 

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South Korean President to visit Thailand next week

By The Thaiger

 

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The South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Madame Kim Jung-sook have accepted an invitation to visit Thailand for three days from September 1. During the visit, President Moon will deliver a keynote speech at the Thailand-Korean Business Forum.

 

ull story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119845-south-korean-president-to-visit-thailand-next-week/

 

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PPP board approves hospital, senior residence projects

By The Nation

 

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Perspective of Medical Center at Bang Sue Station worth Bt8.2 billion/Photo by SRT

The Public-Private Partnership board has approved investments in two projects worth Bt13.7 billion, its secretary Prapas Kong-ied, said on Monday. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119852-ppp-board-approves-hospital-senior-residence-projects/

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Cabinet bracing for debate on Prayut’s flawed oath

By The Nation

 

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Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam plans to initiate a Cabinet discussion on Tuesday (August 27) to prepare for an upcoming House debate over a perceived flaw in the way the prime minister was sworn into office.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119857-cabinet-bracing-for-debate-on-prayut’s-flawed-oath/

 

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Thai military faces questions over death of suspect in southern insurgency

 

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Security investigate the checkpoint that was attacked by insurgents at Pattani, southern Thailand, July 24, 2019. REUTERS/Surpan Bonthanom

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Rights activists and relatives urged Thailand on Monday to investigate the death of an insurgent suspect who went into a coma after interrogation at an army camp in the southeast Asian nation's largely Malay-Muslim south.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119862-thai-military-faces-questions-over-death-of-suspect-in-southern-insurgency/

 

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Prayut wants rising sticky rice price to be urgently curbed

By THE NATION

 

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Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha called on the Commerce Ministry to urgently find a way of controlling the rising price of sticky rice, government spokesperson Narumon Pinyosinwat said on August 26.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119883-prayut-wants-rising-sticky-rice-price-to-be-urgently-curbed/

 

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Commerce Ministry sets up ‘war room’ to boost exports

By THE NATION

 

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Deputy prime minister and Commerce Minister Jurin Press conference after the metting in the morning./Photo by Commerce Ministry

 

The Commerce Ministry has joined the private sector in setting up a “war room” to work on boosting the export of rice and cassava, Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanavisit said on August 26.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119885-commerce-ministry-sets-up-‘war-room’-to-boost-exports/

 

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Digital Ministry plans ‘anti-fake news’ centre

By Jirapan Boonnoon 
The Nation

 

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Buddhipongse Punnakanta

 

The Digital Economy and Society Ministry has pitched a Bt21-billion budget for fiscal 2020 and announced plans to introduce an “anti-fake news” centre in the next couple of months.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119889-digital-ministry-plans-‘anti-fake-news’-centre/

 

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Transport Minister eyes AI to solve traffic jams on highways

 

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BANGKOK, 25 August 2019(NNT) - The Transport Minister, Saksayam Chidchob, has instructed the Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT) to address traffic congestion in front of toll booths to alleviate people’s travel problems. In the long run, the information will be linked with the Department of Land Transport and related agencies.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119890-transport-minister-eyes-ai-to-solve-traffic-jams-on-highways/

 

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Central bank warns to currency volatility in view of US-China trade spat

By THE NATION

 

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Chantavarn

 

Trade tensions on the international front are likely to be lengthy and intense after the US responded to China’s decision to boost tariff on $75 billion worth of US goods by hiking the tariff on most exports from China, said Chantavarn Sucharitakul, assistant governor of the central bank’s Corporate Strategy and Relations group.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119893-central-bank-warns-to-currency-volatility-in-view-of-us-china-trade-spat/

 

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Russia finds radioactive isotopes in test samples after accident

By Maria Kiselyova, Tom Balmforth

 

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s state weather agency said on Monday it had found the radioactive isotopes of strontium, barium and lanthanum in test samples after a mysterious accident during a test at a military site earlier this month.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119896-russia-finds-radioactive-isotopes-in-test-samples-after-accident/

 

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U.S., Taliban deal will not stop attacks on Afghan forces, some Taliban say

By Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Jibran Ahmed

 

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FILE PHOTO - Afghan security forces stand guard near the site of an attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Parwiz

 

KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - As U.S. and Taliban negotiators push to wrap up talks aimed at securing the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, disagreement remains about whether a pact will mean an end to the insurgents’ fight with the U.S.-backed Afghan government.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1119899-us-taliban-deal-will-not-stop-attacks-on-afghan-forces-some-taliban-say/

 

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