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  • Politics NewsFuture Forward prepare for probable disbandment by the Thai Constitutional Court
    ThaigerPublished: 11:27, 20 January 2020
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    Future Forward prepare for probable disbandment by the Thai Constitutional Court

    The Future Forward Party is bracing itself for, what they expect, will end up in the disbandment of their political party when the Constitution Court meets tomorrow. Over the weekend the party’s secretary-general Piyabutr Saengkanokkul denied accusations that his party is trying to overthrow the Thai regime, an allegation made by Dr. Natthaporn Toprayoon, a former advisor to the chief…

  • Environment NewsPoor air quality dogs the capital, even before the morning’s traffic starts
    ThaigerPublished: 07:53, 20 January 2020
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    Poor air quality dogs the capital, even before the morning’s traffic starts

    Bangkok awakes on Monday, even before the traffic starts choking up the city air and the factories puff their pollution into the Bangkok skies, with appalling air quality. With light winds and hot temperatures, the city is in for another bad day of air quality. Even at 6am this morning Bangkok ranked number 13 in the worst air pollution of…

  • Phuket News82 year old Frenchman killed in motorbike crash with ATV in Phuket
    ThaigerPublished: 13:34, 19 January 2020
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    82 year old Frenchman killed in motorbike crash with ATV in Phuket

    An elderly French man has died after an American woman lost control of her all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and crashed into his motorcycle in Chalong, southern Phuket. The woman was seriously injured. Police say the incident occurred on Soi Klum Yang in Chalong around 4pm on Thursday. The crash involved a red ATV, and a black motorcycle ridden by the 82 year…

  • Things To DoTop 10 predictions for Thailand 2020
    ThaigerPublished: 11:08, 18 January 2020
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    Top 10 predictions for Thailand 2020

    So what is in store for the Land of Smiles over the next 12 months? Will the tourists stay away? Will some big projects go ahead? Will the baht continue to soar? Will Thais take to the streets once again? We come up with our top ten predictions for the year ahead and invite your thoughts as well… There will be…

  • Việt NamBáo Hàn Quốc: ‘Phép màu Park Hang-seo không xuất hiện’
    HoangPublished: 21:08, 17 January 2020
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    Báo Hàn Quốc: ‘Phép màu Park Hang-seo không xuất hiện’

    Tờ Yonhap của Hàn Quốc mở đầu bài báo về trận thua của U23 Việt Nam trước Triều Tiên: “Không có phép màu Park Hang-seo ở Bangkok, Thái Lan. Dù ghi bàn trước, sai lầm của thủ môn Bùi Tiến Dũng và quả phạt đền cuối hiệp hai của Triều Tiên đã đảo ngược tình thế, khiến giấc mơ lần…

  • Crime NewsThai teacher caning a student in Ayutthaya reports to police – UPDATE
    ThaigerPublished: 11:44, 17 January 2020
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    Thai teacher caning a student in Ayutthaya reports to police – UPDATE

    A teacher, now identified as teaching in Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok at the Chiang Rak Noi School, met with the girl’s mother and police last night. Teacher Som Ruseeprasit was caught on video flogging a young female student whilst screaming appalling Thai swear words at the student. The girl was struck at least three times in the video although he admitted…

  • HealthFirst ‘China coronavirus’ case confirmed in Japan
    ThaigerPublished: 10:11, 17 January 2020
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    First ‘China coronavirus’ case confirmed in Japan

    As Thailand’s airports continue screening passengers arriving from China, Japan has confirmed its first case of the new China coronavirus that has killed one and attracted a travel alert from the US State Department. The patient, a man from Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo, had recently visited the Chinese city of Wuhan, where an outbreak of a pneumonia strain is believed to…

  • Crime NewsFormer head of the National Office of Buddhism has assets valued at nearly 600 million baht
    ThaigerPublished: 17:19, 16 January 2020
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    Former head of the National Office of Buddhism has assets valued at nearly 600 million baht

    Nice work if you can get it. Except you’re working for the National Office of Buddhism. Now the former director of the National Office of Buddhism, Nopparat Benjawattananant, has been pointed out by the National Anti-Corruption Commission for being “unusually wealthy”, having “suspiciously” amassed assets worth about 575 million baht during his four year tenure. NACC secretary-general Worawit Sukboon says that…

  • Environment News10 ways Thailand is moving to a greener future
    ThaigerPublished: 10:45, 16 January 2020
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    10 ways Thailand is moving to a greener future

    “Green” is not usually the word that comes to mind when speaking of Thailand, especially when you are speaking through a PM2.5 face mask. But with recent attempts to improve the environment and tackle waste, here are some positive changes to shift your attention from air pollution and help you feel good about the decision to live, invest, or retire…

  • Việt NamU23 Việt Nam đánh mất quyền tự quyết tại vòng bảng giải U23 Châu Á 2020
    HoangPublished: 09:24, 16 January 2020
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    U23 Việt Nam đánh mất quyền tự quyết tại vòng bảng giải U23 Châu Á 2020

    Thủ môn Nguyễn Văn Toản đã có những chia sẻ trước buổi tập sáng 14/1 tại Buriram, Thái Lan: “Sau trận đấu cả đội đều buồn. HLV Park Hang-seo phải động viên chúng tôi rất nhiều. Ông yêu cầu tất cả phải tập trung, cố gắng để chơi trận cuối cùng vòng bảng với Triều Tiên”. Không thể ghi bàn…

  • Road deathsMother and baby killed in Nakhon Si Thammarat intersection
    ThaigerPublished: 16:42, 15 January 2020
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    Mother and baby killed in Nakhon Si Thammarat intersection

    A mother and her 19 month old son have been killed after their motorcycle was struck by a car in a collision in Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand. The incident occurred at a three-way junction on Therdphrakiat road in the main city district this morning around 8am, according to police. The 38 year old motorcycle rider, Supanrat Srisawang, was making a right…

  • Northern Thailand News6 million baht lottery winner goes on drug-fuelled rampage, tries to burn down house
    ThaigerPublished: 13:45, 15 January 2020
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    6 million baht lottery winner goes on drug-fuelled rampage, tries to burn down house

    A man who won a six million baht lottery prize in June is now in police custody in Sisaket, northeastern Thailand. His mother reported to police that “he’s become a berserk drug addict”. Police told Thai media that 56 year old Kom Poka called police to arrest her 32 year old son Chainarong in Sisaket after he went on a…

  • Crime NewsSingaporean threatened with execution if he didn’t pay up a million dollar ‘debt’ in Thailand
    ThaigerPublished: 10:22, 15 January 2020
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    Singaporean threatened with execution if he didn’t pay up a million dollar ‘debt’ in Thailand

    A Singaporean man stands accused of masterminding a plot to abduct a fellow Singaporean from Suvarnabhumi Airport last Thursday. Police report that the suspect, identified only as ‘Kim’, will be charged with conspiring to commit robbery, illegal possession of firearms, illegal detention and the physical assault of 32 year old compatriot Mark Cheng Jin Quan. Mark owns a software and application…

  • Northern Thailand NewsBuri Ram gold and jewellery thief arrested whilst trying to flee the province
    ThaigerPublished: 10:07, 15 January 2020
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    Buri Ram gold and jewellery thief arrested whilst trying to flee the province

    A man was arrested in his car yesterday in the northeastern province of Buri Ram after allegedly stealing gold valued around two million baht from a shop at a local department store over two weeks ago, on the night of December 28. 22 year old Prawit Chaikheenee was arrested whilst sitting in his on the Buri Ram-Nang Rong Road while…

  • Transport NewsDramatic video shows high speed impact, eight British tourists injured on their way to Pattaya – VIDEO
    ThaigerPublished: 19:46, 14 January 2020
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    Dramatic video shows high speed impact, eight British tourists injured on their way to Pattaya – VIDEO

    Dramatic highway CCTV has now been released of the crash of the passenger van, injuring eight British tourists travelling from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Pattaya. Three were seriously injured in the high speed crash which scattered contents of the van over the road and grassed verge between the two sides of the motorway. Eight British tourists are in hospital after their…

  • Bangkok NewsEight British tourists injured in Thai passenger van crash – VIDEO
    ThaigerPublished: 19:07, 14 January 2020
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    Eight British tourists injured in Thai passenger van crash – VIDEO

    Eight British tourists are in hospital, three seriously injured, after their passenger van crashed into the median railing on the Bangkok-Chon Buri motorway. The incident occurred about 10:30am on the Pattaya-bound side of the road. The driver, 53 year old Thanakorn To-iam, said he picked up the passengers at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok and was taking them to Pattaya when…

  • Bangkok News61 year old Chinese tourist being treated for new coronavirus in Thailand
    ThaigerPublished: 16:09, 14 January 2020
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    61 year old Chinese tourist being treated for new coronavirus in Thailand

    A 61 year old Chinese tourist, found to be infected with the new strain of coronavirus dubbed “Wuhan or Chinese pneumonia” when she arrived in Thailand last week, is being treated in hospital and is expected to be discharged in a few days. This is from the Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. The woman is recovering at Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases…

  • South Thailand NewsBase jumper rescued after dangling from sheer cliff face in Phattalung
    ThaigerPublished: 15:29, 14 January 2020
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    Base jumper rescued after dangling from sheer cliff face in Phattalung

    An Austrian base jumper is safe after a harrowing rescue Monday afternoon, when winds blew him onto a cliff face and left him dangling about 175 metres off the ground from his snagged parachute in the southern province of Phattalung. The jumper, 28 year old Johannes Klauser, went with his wife to the top of 250 metre high Khao Ok Thalu…

  • Crime NewsGold shop gunman could have fled to Chon Buri
    ThaigerPublished: 09:31, 14 January 2020
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    Gold shop gunman could have fled to Chon Buri

    The armed gunman who shot and killed three people, injuring another four during an apparent gold shop robbery in Lop Buri last week, could have fled to Chon Buri. Police are raising the possibility after the Thai army chief Apirat Kongsompong met with the heads of Provincial Police Regions 1 (Bangkok) and 2 (Chon Buri) in Bangkok yesterday. Some media and…

  • Environment NewsCentral Thailand farmers ignore orders to stop burning off their sugar cane
    ThaigerPublished: 15:22, 13 January 2020
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    Central Thailand farmers ignore orders to stop burning off their sugar cane

    Stick your burning ban up your 2.5 micron particulate! Local sugarcane growers in Nakhon Sawan, central Thailand, are burning their fields at night despite authorities’ ban on the practice. It appears little to nothing is being done to curb the practice which is one of the main causes, if not the main cause, of the smoke and haze problems in…

  • South Thailand NewsOne dead, two wounded in Narathiwat insurgent attack
    ThaigerPublished: 11:01, 13 January 2020
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    One dead, two wounded in Narathiwat insurgent attack

    An insurgent is dead and two defence volunteers wounded after a clash in the the southern border province of Narathiwat on Sunday. Police reports indicate a group of insurgents attacked a defence volunteer outpost in the Sukhirin district just before noon, injuring two. Reinforcements rushed to the scene and fired on the fleeing gunmen who headed for the nearby woods.…

  • Central Thailand NewsRestaurant owner returns 700,000 baht to tourist
    ThaigerPublished: 09:54, 13 January 2020
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    Restaurant owner returns 700,000 baht to tourist

    Imagine discovering you’ve left close to three quarters of a million baht in cash at a Thai restaurant. That’s exactly what happened to a tourist from Ubon Ratchathani on Sunday. Fortunately for him, the money was in good hands. Pariwat Thangtham was horrified to discover he’d left a bag with 700,000 baht in cash at a restaurant in Petchabun province, central Thailand.…

  • World News8,000 evacuated from menacing Taal volcano, south of Manila, Philippines
    ThaigerPublished: 07:31, 13 January 2020
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    8,000 evacuated from menacing Taal volcano, south of Manila, Philippines

    A volcano, not far south of Manila in The Philippines, has been spewing volcanic ash along with rumbling sounds and tremors most of yesterday. Philippine authorities have raised the alert level and ordered the evacuation of about 8,000 residents and suspended flights at Manila’s civil airports. The highest alert is level 5, when a volcano is actually erupting. At this…

  • Crime NewsPolice doubt gold robbery was the motive for deadly Lopburi attack
    ThaigerPublished: 18:08, 12 January 2020
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    Police doubt gold robbery was the motive for deadly Lopburi attack

    Police and authorities now suspect that the motive for Thursday’s brutal and deadly attack, which killed three, including a toddler, may not have been robbery. The lone gunman stormed into a gold shop at a Robinson’s Shopping Centre in Lopburi, Central Thailand, and systematically shot and killed customers and shop staff. The Crime Suppression Division is running background checks on…

  • Northern Thailand NewsMother and daughter busted for selling meth pills in Thailand’s north east
    ThaigerPublished: 14:03, 12 January 2020
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    Mother and daughter busted for selling meth pills in Thailand’s north east

    A mother and daughter are currently in custody after their arrest for selling ‘yaba’, or methamphetamine pills in Kalasin, north east Thailand. The 54 year old woman, named only as Sang, and her 25 year old daughter Tarnthip, were arrested at their home in the northeastern city of Kalasin with 13 yaba pills and the 280 baht cash used in…

  • EventsGuns, tanks and political speeches. Just another Children’s Day in Thailand.
    ThaigerPublished: 08:41, 12 January 2020
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    Guns, tanks and political speeches. Just another Children’s Day in Thailand.

    Children’s Day has come and gone for another year. As usual, the media like to follow the Thai PM in the hope of a perfect photo of him and an unsuspecting Thai child. The prime minister certainly enjoys the annual interaction and appears more comfortable surrounded by children than performing in Parliament. It’s also a day that the Thai armed…

  • Crime NewsSenior police double down with their praise of the new Biometrics system at Thai airports
    ThaigerPublished: 08:58, 11 January 2020
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    Senior police double down with their praise of the new Biometrics system at Thai airports

    Police are doubling down with their overt support of the new biometrics system at airports. A high-level disagreement over the 2.1 billion baht contract for the biometrics equipment and installation, is emerging as the reason for last yea’s mystery side-lining of the former head of Thailand’s immigration Bureau, Surachat Hakparn. Ever since the introduction of the systems at airports across…

  • Crime NewsGunman wasn’t after gold – investigators speculate about killer’s motives
    ThaigerPublished: 08:31, 11 January 2020
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    Gunman wasn’t after gold – investigators speculate about killer’s motives

    Investigators have become suspicious of the motives of the lone gunman who shot and killed three people, injuring another four, at the Aurora Gold Shop in the Robinsons Mall in Lopburi on Thursday. They are seeking more information on the victims as the gold stolen was such a small amount – the suspicion is that the target wasn’t the gold…

  • Things To DoTop 10 Things NOT to do in Thailand – the basics (2020)
    Tim NewtonPublished: 13:28, 10 January 2020
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    Top 10 Things NOT to do in Thailand – the basics (2020)

    Thailand is a wonderful place, full of new adventures, exotic cultures and a surprise around every corner. You better believe it. Thailand is unique in the region with very little obvious western influence throughout its history and a proud culture that puts the needs of its people first, ahead of appeasing westerners. Most of this is a mystery to be…

  • Crime NewsLone gunman storms into Lopburi gold shop and kills three people – VIDEO
    ThaigerPublished: 12:09, 10 January 2020
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    Lone gunman storms into Lopburi gold shop and kills three people – VIDEO

    Police are now on the hunt for the Lopburi gold-shop robber who has killed three and injured four. The man stormed into a Robinson Department Store gold shop last night killing three people as he walked in. He shot without hesitation and paid no attention to the people he’d shot. One of them was a young boy. The gunman also…