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  • Bangkok NewsImmigration police conduct spot-check of Nana area of Bangkok

    Immigration police conduct spot-check of Nana area of Bangkok

    PHOTOS: Naew Na Immigration police headed to the Nana area of Bangkok to inspect businesses and operators last night in the popular market zone. The ‘walk thru’ started at 8 pm as Immigration police visited Sois 3 – 5 along Sukhumvit Road checking on foreign workers and work permits. Immigration officials say there were no arrests during their unannounced visit.…

  • World NewsPound lifted by British PM’s latest defeat, Asian equities struggle

    Pound lifted by British PM’s latest defeat, Asian equities struggle

    The British pound bounced today after UK PM Boris Johnson again failed to get MPs to back a snap election, while Asian equities drifted as investors await a key European Central Bank meeting and developments in the China-US trade talks. Just before Westminster lawmakers broke up for five weeks they inflicted yet another defeat on the new PM, who has…

  • World CupSiaran langsung untuk Indonesia – Kualifikasi Piala Dunia Thailand, malam ini

    Siaran langsung untuk Indonesia – Kualifikasi Piala Dunia Thailand, malam ini

    Setelah mengalami kemunduran dalam pembukaannya, baik “Garuda” dan “War Elephants” Thailand saling berhadapan dalam pertandingan kedua Kualifikasi Piala Dunia FIFA 2022 di Stadion Gelora Bung Karno di Jakarta ,malam ini. Pertandingan ini adalah salah satu dari pertandingan paling penting yang dimainkan malam ini ,Dan paling di nantikan bagi para penggemar sepak bola Indonesian mau pun Thailand Current standings Sementara Thailand…

  • World CupSiaran Langsung Kelayakan Pusingan Kedua Piala Dunia 2022 Malaysia lwn Emiriah Arab Bersatu (UAE) malam ini

    Siaran Langsung Kelayakan Pusingan Kedua Piala Dunia 2022 Malaysia lwn Emiriah Arab Bersatu (UAE) malam ini

    Malaysia akan berdepan Emiriah Arab Bersatu (UAE) dalam perlawanan kedua Piala Dunia FIFA 2022 di Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur malam ini. Malaysia dan UAE berada dalam Kumpulan G dalam Piala Dunia FIFA 2022 dan 2023 Pusingan Kedua kelayakan Piala Asia AFC yang disertai oleh juara Asia Tenggara Vietnam, Thailand dan Indonesia. (UAE) akan membuat penampilan pertamanya dalam acara kelayakan…

  • World Cupဂ်ပန္လက္ေရြးစင္အသင္းဟာ၂၀၂၂ ေျခစစ္ပြဲစဥ္အျဖစ္ျမန္မာအသင္းနဲ႔ ရင္ဆိုင္ ရန္ နာရီပိုင္းအလို။

    ဂ်ပန္လက္ေရြးစင္အသင္းဟာ၂၀၂၂ ေျခစစ္ပြဲစဥ္အျဖစ္ျမန္မာအသင္းနဲ႔ ရင္ဆိုင္ ရန္ နာရီပိုင္းအလို။

    Myanmar hosts Asian heavyweights Japan in the second match of their 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers campaign at the Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon tonight. Live link below… ျမန္မာ သာမက ကမာၻက ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနသည့္ Japanese Messi (Kubo) ျမန္မာအသင္းနဲ႔ ကမၻာ႔ဖလားေျခစစ္ပြဲကစားဖို႔အတြက္ နာမည္ၾကီးဂ်ပန္အသင္းကေတာ့ ေရာက္ရွိလို႔ ေနခ့ဲပါျပီ။ ၂၀၂၂ ကမၻာ႔ဖလားျပိဳင္ပြဲေျခစစ္ပြဲအတြက္ ျမန္မာအသင္းဟာ ဂ်ပန္နဲ႔ တစ္အုပ္စုတည္းက်ေရာက္ေနခဲ့ျပီး ျမန္မာနဲ႔ရင္ဆိုင္ရမယ့္ လူစာရင္းမွာ ဥေရာပအေျခစိုက္ ကစားသမားေတြ ပါ၀င္လာခဲ့တာကို ေတြ႕ရမွာပါ။ ဒီအတြက္ ျမန္မာပရိသတ္ေတြဆီက စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားေနတဲ့ အသံေတြကို ၾကားသိျမင္ေတြ႕ေနရပါတယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ေတာ့ ရီးရဲလ္မက္ဒရစ္ကို ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ခဲ့ျပီး (လက္ရွိ မာေယာ့ကာမွာ…

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  • OpinionThai government introduces new TM30T, to keep track of Thais

    Thai government introduces new TM30T, to keep track of Thais

    PHOTO: One of the new test shopping centre locations for the new Waer Areuw program The Thai government is introducing a new method of cracking down on home-made criminals. In a reversal of its former policy “Good guys in, bad guys in”, the government’s criminal enhancement department is phasing in the new laws that will require Thai to report their…

  • World NewsMyanmar adopts NASA’s malaria-predicting tech

    Myanmar adopts NASA’s malaria-predicting tech

    “Several drug-resistant strains of Malaria are taking hold across south east Asia and it is feared these could migrate to Africa where more than 90% of cases globally occur.” NASA is developing a new technique to forecast malaria outbreaks in Myanmar from space, as the emergence of new drug-resistant strains in Southeast Asia threatens efforts to wipe out the deadly…

  • Phuket News“Don’t extend opening hours to 4am” – Tourist zones

    “Don’t extend opening hours to 4am” – Tourist zones

    “Think again about extending pub opening hours to 4am in tourist areas”. That’s the advice from Dr Mohamed Fahmy Tale, an advocate for alcohol control, directed to Thailand’s tourism minister, Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn. Manager Online says that he wants the government to focus more on safety rather than encouraging more drinking. The Tourism and Sports Minister, Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, had proposed an extension…

  • Environment NewsThailand’s southern provinces suffering Sumatran burn-off smoke haze

    Thailand’s southern provinces suffering Sumatran burn-off smoke haze

    Smoke drifting across the Malacca Strait from Sumatran forest fires in Indonesia is affecting the health of locals and tourists in the southern province of Songkhla. According to the Pollution Control Department, the volume of dust measured in the Thai tourist district of Hat Yai during the past 24 hours was 51 micrograms per cubic metre. The world-standard upper level…

  • Politics NewsOpposition says Thammanat should not have been appointed minister

    Opposition says Thammanat should not have been appointed minister

    PHOTO: Bangkok Post “It is old stuff from the opposing political group. I know all of them. Don’t pay any attention to them. I do not give them any importance.” A government opposition spokesman, Adisorn Piangkate, says he would not have appointed Captain Thammanat Prompow as deputy agriculture minister if he were the PM due to the minister’s “tainted record”. He…

  • ExpatsThai Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce call for overhaul of TM30 laws

    Thai Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce call for overhaul of TM30 laws

    PHOTO: Stanley Kang, chairman of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Thailand, spoke to the Bangkok Post about their concerns over the TM30 debacle Speaking to the Bangkok Post, chairman of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce Stanley Kang, says the government needs to review the enforcement of the draconian TM30 (and TM28) immigration reporting regulations The TM30, and…

  • World NewsChina’s exports fell last month in lead up to next month’s trade talks

    China’s exports fell last month in lead up to next month’s trade talks

    China’s exports fell 1% on-year last month amid the bruising trade war with the US that is disrupting markets in the world’s top two economies. The drop comes after a surprise 3.3% rebound in July despite the year-long battle with the US and weakening global demand. But economists cited by Bloomberg had forecast a 2.2% rise ahead of the release of…

  • Bangkok NewsHM Queen Sirikit returns to hospital for examination

    HM Queen Sirikit returns to hospital for examination

    Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother, has been admitted to Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok for follow-up examinations. According to the announcement from the Bureau of the Royal Household, which was issued yesterday, the Queen Mother was admitted to Chulalongkorn University on Saturday on the advice of doctors for a previously scheduled follow-up on her condition and some additional examinations.…

  • Thailand Weather UpdatesWeekend flooding threatens provinces in the Chao Phraya basin

    Weekend flooding threatens provinces in the Chao Phraya basin

    PHOTO: tna.mcot.net The Royal Irrigation Department has issued an urgent flood alert for seven provinces as more water is released from the reservoirs feeding the Chao Phraya dam at Chai Nat province in central Thailand (map below). Residents in the seven provinces are being advised to monitor water levels closely as the water is released. Uthai Thani, Chai Nat, Sing…

  • Thailand Weather UpdatesMorning peak chaos in Tokyo after typhoon Faxai passes through

    Morning peak chaos in Tokyo after typhoon Faxai passes through

    by Kyoko Hasegawa, PHOTOS: AFP “Authorities said more than 2,000 people had taken refuge in shelters opened to accommodate those complying with the evacuation advisories.” A powerful typhoon that battered Tokyo overnight with ferocious winds and driving rain caused is causing commuter this morning, with trains halted and more than 100 flights cancelled. Typhoon Faxai, packing winds of up to…

  • World NewsSuicide bomber explodes bomb at Philippine army base, Jolo Island

    Suicide bomber explodes bomb at Philippine army base, Jolo Island

    PHOTO: AFP/Ted Aljibe “No group has yet claimed the attack, which came a day after an IS-claimed bombing wounded eight at a market on the island of Mindanao.” A suicide bomber, dressed in a traditional Muslim woman’s abaya gown, has died after detonating a bomb outside a military camp in the southern Philippines. No other casualties were reported, authorities said.…

  • Northern Thailand NewsPolice arrest Chiang Rai woman with thousands of counterfeit US0 bills

    Police arrest Chiang Rai woman with thousands of counterfeit US$100 bills

    PHOTOS: Facebook/32nd Border Patrol Police Counterfeit US dollar banknotes valued more than 16 million baht have been seized at a Chiang Rai house after police organised a sting. A 54 year old woman was arrested over the matter last Thursday. The sting followed a tip off to border patrol police about the fake USD notes being circulated around tambon Rim…

  • World News“If you want to shoot me, get on with it,” British grandmother

    “If you want to shoot me, get on with it,” British grandmother

    A British woman facing the firing squad in Indonesia told British reporters from her Bali prison “if you want to shoot me get on with it”. She faces execution for drug smuggling. The 62 year old drug mule grandmother has abandoned any further legal battles to avoid a date with the firing squad. Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death for attempting…

  • World NewsNon! French say no to a Brexit extension beyond October 31

    Non! French say no to a Brexit extension beyond October 31

    French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says the French government has rejected any further delays to Britain’s exit from the EU, now scheduled for October 31. He acknowledged that the issue is now clouded by the political turmoil in London. The past week of turmoil in the British parliament has forced MPs to cross the floor and bring about three…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket’s Katathani Beach Resort land under investigation

    Phuket’s Katathani Beach Resort land under investigation

    The Katathani Phuket Beach Resort, sprawled along Kata Noi’s small beach on Phuket, is the latest subject of investigation by the Phuket Provincial Land Office. The investigation team has been given 30 days to complete its review by the Phuket Governor. The latest investigations are the latest in a tit-for-tat battle between the owners of the Katathani Phuket Beach Resort…

  • Economy NewsWhat goes up must come down – the battle of the baht

    What goes up must come down – the battle of the baht

    Newton’s law looms over the Thai baht. Meanwhile, the Thai baht continues to be the best performing currency in Asia. The Thai currency is riding a 6-year high against the USD and, this year, has surged 8% against the US currency. But the strong baht is causing knock-on effects to the rest of the Thai economy, battering exports and stifling tourist…

  • Crime NewsSuvarnabhumi baggage handler arrested over 20,000 baht theft

    Suvarnabhumi baggage handler arrested over 20,000 baht theft

    PHOTO: sanook.com A South Korean tourist was savvy enough to photograph all her holiday money before travelling to Thialand. Her precaution has led to the arrest of a baggage handler at Suvarnabhumi. The South Korean woman took the precaution of photographing all her Thai baht before putting it in a wallet in checked luggage on her flight. When Lee Soyeong travelled…

  • Technology NewsiPhone shares the spotlight with new services at Apple’s annual showcase

    iPhone shares the spotlight with new services at Apple’s annual showcase

    by Glenn Chapman The iPhone will be front and center at Apple’s upcoming media presentation even as the California tech giant steps up its efforts in content and services for its devices. In its trademark, tight-lipped style, Apple disclosed little about its plans for Tuesday’s event at its headquarters in the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino. For years now, Apple…

  • Tourism NewsThe China Syndrome, south east Asia’s tourism dilemma

    The China Syndrome, south east Asia’s tourism dilemma

    PHOTO: Lunar New Year celebrations in Bali – Jakarta Post “When China sneezes, the rest of south east asia catches a cold.” From quiet markets in Malaysia, empty rooms in Hanoi’s hotels and barren beaches in Bali, China’s economic slowdown and weakening yuan are sending shockwaves felt across south east Asia’s vacation belt. Thailand is just one of many countries…

  • Phuket NewsBurmese man stabbed to death by ‘friend’ in Patong, Phuket

    Burmese man stabbed to death by ‘friend’ in Patong, Phuket

    PHOTO: Phuket People’s Voice Patong Police have arrested 18 year old Robier Aaron, from Myanmar, after he stabbed another Burmese man, 23 year old ‘Johnny’, to death. The incident happened on Friday night (September 6) at around 9pm in front of a restaurant on Phangmuang Sai Gor Road. Police received a report about the attack and found Johnny’s body stabbed…

  • Bangkok NewsThai monks receive alms then sell them back to traders… mmmm

    Thai monks receive alms then sell them back to traders… mmmm

    PHOTOS: Sanook Just another day in Thailand with a social media post about monks seated along a city street appealing for alms at the Asoke market in the business hub of Bangkok. Sanook reports that there were many monks on the footpath as mostly Chinese tourists paid their respects and offered the monks food bought at the market. But an online…

  • World NewsBoeing suspends testing of new long-haul 777 jet

    Boeing suspends testing of new long-haul 777 jet

    “A source close to the matter said a door of the plane blew out during the test.” by Luc Olinga Boeing is suspending testing on its new long-haul 777X aircraft, yet another setback as the US aviation giant tries to rebound from the 737 MAX crisis. The so-called “final load” tests are part of the aircraft certification process, overseen by…

  • Environment NewsThailand’s big retailers will stop handing out plastic bags in January 2020

    Thailand’s big retailers will stop handing out plastic bags in January 2020

    “These partners have vowed to stop giving out single-use plastic bags to customers starting January.” The Thai environment minister has announced a major agreement from large retailers, plastic manufacturers and department stores to stop handing out single-use plastic bags to customers. The new program will start from next year. Over the past year several large retailers have come up with…

  • World NewsIndia’s moon mission control loses contact with spacecraft during landing

    India’s moon mission control loses contact with spacecraft during landing

    India’s moon mission control has lost contact with the unmanned spacecraft moments before it was due to land on the Moon early this morning (Thai time), in a blow to the country’s ambitious low-cost lunar program. India was hoping to become just the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to successfully land on the Moon. But as Indian…