Month: October 2020
Stressed out ‘Spiderwoman’ climbs up police cell
A STRESSED OUT woman who had been arrested on a weapon possession charge climbed up to the top of a three-metre-high police cell and only came down after her mother was brought in to gently coax her, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (Oct. 8, 2020). There was panic at Suthisarn police station at 10 a.m. …
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Motorcyclist returns forgotten handbag with cash, jewellery to shopper
A WOMAN who left her handbag containing cash, gold and diamond jewellery worth hundreds of thousands of baht in the trolley at a hypermarket got it all back from the finder, an unidentified motorcyclist she forgot to reward, Amarin TV reported this morning (Oct. 8, 2020). The lost-and-found incident occurred at a Big C store …
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Trump campaign’s next steps unclear after White House return
By AP, published by New Indian Express Washington – US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is poised to reshape the campaign’s final four weeks as aides debated how to move past an extraordinary setback while grappling with how to send an infected president back on the road. A race that had remained …
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Two policemen, a guard punched up in restaurant brawl
A FRACAS at a barbequed shrimp restaurant led to nine guards badly beating up two off-duty policemen and another guard who moved in to help one of them, Thai Rath newspaper reported this afternoon. A Facebook member shared a video clip of the punch-up, which is going viral on the Thai social media, with this …
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PM: Only specific areas to be initially opened to limited number of tourists
PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said today (Oct. 7) that agencies concerned are discussing the reopening of the country to tourism but where Phuket is concerned this could only start after the vegetarian festival ends on October 25 but the whole island would not be opened to them, Thai Rath newspaper reported. Foreign tourists coming in …
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Former boxing champ in coma after insect bite
A VERY popular and successful Thai boxer of yesteryear, whose professional name was Dok Mai Pa P. Pongsawang, is in coma after a bite by an unknown insect led to bloodstream infection, Amarin TV reported this morning (Oct. 7, 2020). The former star boxer, whose real name is Mr. Jamnian Mulkesorn, 52, and who now …
Loch Ness Monster ‘caught on sonar’ as 30ft shape
By Jon Rogers, The Sun A LOCH Ness Monster hunter thinks he has caught a sonar image of the beast, giving the “most compelling” evidence the creature really does exist. The image was caught by Cruise Loch Ness director Ronald Mackenzie while he was skippering a catamaran on Wednesday afternoon. If the image is correct …
Debt collector badly injured after firing shots at factory workers
THERE was panic at a factory after a stressed out debt collector drove in and fired three shots at workers just as they were leaving for home but fortunately no one got injured while he himself got badly hurt when he backed out of the compound and hit a barrier, Sanook.com reported today (Oct. 6, …
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Two held for smuggling marijuana from Thailand to Myanmar
POLICE are moving to arrest other members of a marijuana trafficking gang after two of them, both Myanmar nationals, were arrested at Mae Sot border town in possession of two lots of the drug totaling 360 kilogrammes which was being taken across the border to the neighbouring country, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (October 6, …
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Trump’s medical status unclear – he could be discharged on Monday
By Reuters staff, published by US News Washington – US President Donald Trump could be discharged from the hospital where he is being treated for Covid-19 as soon as Monday, according to his doctors, although his condition remains unclear and outside experts warn that his case may be severe. Sequestered at Walter Reed National Military …
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Man playing with a ping pong bomb injured after it explodes
A YOUNG man in southern Krabi province is in the intensive care unit after severely injuring his left arm while playing with a ping pong bomb at his girlfriend’s house before dawn this morning (Oct. 5), Channel 7 News reported. Mr. Thanakorn, 26, was rushed to Krabi Hospital at 5 a.m. by an ambulance sent …
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Arkhom appointed new finance minister
THE Royal Gazette today (Oct. 5) announced His Majesty the King’s royal command appointing Arkhom Termpittayapaisith the new finance minister. This appointment by His Majesty the King, with the royal command dated October 1, 2020, was made by virtue of Section 158 of the Constitution. Arkhom, born on July 25, 1956, is a Thai civil …
Driver flees blazing car after crash
POLICE are searching for the owner of an Opel sedan who was seen in a surveillance camera clip fleeing after miraculously getting out of his vehicle that caught fire moments after he had smashed it against a road barrier, Thai Rath newspaper reported this morning (Oct. 5, 2020). Pol. Lt. Col. Wuttikorn Yuensuk, an investigator …
Drug-crazed man stabs four guards at shopping mall
THE man who stabbed four guards at The Mall department store Ngamwongwan branch at 8 p.m. last evening was high on drugs and hallucinating with this confirmed by a urine test, Thai Rath reported today (Oct. 4. 2020). Pol. Lt. Col. Uthen Hongthong, an investigator at Muang Nonthaburi police station, said the suspect, Mr. Wanchai …
Motorist fuming after road repair crew splashes asphalt on his car
A YOUNG MAN whose car got badly splashed with asphalt as he drove past a renovation site last night is asking who is going to be responsible for the damage after the repair team chief had quickly fled, Sanook.com reported today (Oct. 4, 2020). Facebook member Kiratikorn Sukserm posted photos of his damaged sedan at …
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Anger over Thai hotel’s ‘appropriation of Cambodian culture’
CAMBODIAN social media was awash with criticism of a Thai hotel that built buildings resembling Angkor Wat and other Cambodian landmarks accusing the owners of “cultural appropriation,” Thai Rath newspaper reported today (Oct. 4, 2020). Quoting Khmer Times newspaper, the mass-circulation Thai daily said that many Cambodians had expressed their displeasure at the hotel on …
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Bangkok governor going all out to help flood-prone inner zone
BANGKOK Governor Asawin Kwanmuang today (Oct. 3) acknowledged in a Facebook post that inner area of Bangkok, which is the capital’s economic zone, has low capacity to absorb rainwater leading to flooding in many points and that urgent measures are being sought to resolve this problem, INN News and Sanook.com reported. The post came after …
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Progressive Movement slams Shopee over political products
THE Singaporean e-commerce platform Shopee has come under attack by the Progressive Movement which pointed out that the group’s products were banned for sale twice recently and each time it was before a big political rally took place, Siam Rath newspaper reported today (Oct. 3, 2020). The leaders of the movement announced that it will …
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Zoo chief probing missing albino barking deer shot dead
THE director of the Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand under Royal Patronage was shot dead in southern Songkhla province this morning (Oct. 3) while on a visit to investigate the disappearance of an albino barking deer, a Royally bestowed species, Thai Rath newspaper reported. It was later revealed that the visiting director, Mr. Suriya Saengphong, …
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Thaksin, sister infected with coronavirus, have recovered
FORMER prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Mrs. Yaowapa Wongsawat, or Jeh Daeng, both contracted coronavirus in Dubai but have now recovered after treatment at a hospital there, a source close to the Shinawatra family told Sanook.com this evening (Oct. 2, 2020). Aside from Thaksin and Yaowapa, their staff including secretaries and drivers, also …
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Tots unhurt in Sukhumvit kindergarten blaze
AN ELECTRIC school van burst in flames which spread to another van and also burnt down part of a kindergarten in Sukhumvit soi 38 today (Oct. 2) but fortunately none of the small pupils were harmed as they were having lunch in another building, Siam Rath newspaper reported. Pol. Lt. Col. Eklak Siriyotsophon, an investigator …
Marine Corps sets sights on Chinese amphibious tanks
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAILAND’S MARINE Corps plans to buy three light amphibious tanks from China for a combined price of 398 million baht. The VN16 light amphibious tanks would be supplied to the Marine Corps by Norinco of China in about a year after a purchase order has been signed, said a Marine Corps …
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