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bangkokpost.com Even her closest allies say that former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is certain to be impeached by the military-dominated legislature by Friday.
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smh.com.au Five people were killed and churches set on fire in Niger in fresh protests against the French weekly Charlie Hebdo's Mohammed cover, as France condemned the violence and defended freedom of expression.
bangkokpost.com Sukhumvit Shakedown: Surrounded by the six policemen, Mat felt he had little choice but to comply with the request, so as diners ate in a nearby restaurant and foot and car traffic passed next to him on the street, he supplied a urine sample.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/special-reports/457600/sukhumvit-shakedown
mirror.co.uk David Cameron branded Islamist terrorists members of a ''poisonous death cult'' - as he renewed his warning that an attack on the UK is ''highly likely''. The Prime Minister said the terror threat facing the West ''keeps morphing''.
Human Trafficking in Thailand
bangkokpost.com Police have stepped up surveillance measures at a temporary shelter in Nakhon Si Thammarat housing illegal Rohingya migrants following information that some Myanmar workers had tried to lure them to escape. Police have issued warrants for the owners of five pickup trucks used to transport 98 Rohingya, three of whom later died. The convoy was apprehended in Nakhon Si Thammarat last Sunday
Phuket World of People
bangkokpost.com Andrew Drummond, a British investigative journalist who has specialised in exposing the activities of foreign criminals in Thailand, is leaving the country after 25 years. In a statement posted on his popular website, Mr Drummond said he was returning to Britain because he and his family no longer felt safe in Thailand. Mr Drummond's body of work includes countless reports on the shady activities of foreign crooks, from financial swindlers and bogus lawyers to sex traffickers and killers, mostly based in Pattaya and Phuket.
theguardian.com A British journalist who has spent 25 years reporting from Thailand is leaving the country after threats to himself and his three children. He also said that Thailand's crime computer crime act is ''being used by foreign criminals to silence criticism of their activities''.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jan/18/british-journalist-quits-thailand-after-threats-by-foreign-criminals
bangkokpost.com What bothers me most is the constant complaints from foreigners in this section of the Bangkok Post, who then go on to make gross misstatements and lies about a beautiful country and the Thai people. If Thailand is such a horrible place then what are they doing here?
nationmultimedia.com Pattaya police have arrested four Indians for having allegedly used fake credit cards to buy luxurious goods in Pattaya. The four were identified as Kapil Sharma, Sahil Sharma, Narinder Kumar and Sudhir Kumar.
pulse.ng A Nigerian man, Shola Rotimi Oluwole, has been arrested in Thailand along with his Thai girlfriend for allegedly impersonating another woman to dupe her foreign clients. Chiang Mai police say Shola Rotimi Oluwole and his girlfriend, Wannakorn Sukming, impersonated the woman after stealing her e-mail password and duped her foreign clients into paying huge sums.
bbc.com Suspected militants from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have kidnapped dozens of people in raids in neighbouring Cameroon, officials say. They said many of those kidnapped in the cross border attack against villages were children.
afp British actor Stephen Fry announced that he married his boyfriend, posting the couple's photo on Twitter to his nearly 8.5 million followers and saying: ''Amazing.'' The 57-year-old, who made his name in cult television shows Blackadder as well as Jeeves and Wooster, wed 27-year-old Elliot Spencer in a register office.
bbc.com Greek police have arrested several people over alleged links to a suspected terror plot in Belgium. One of the men is alleged to have been in contact with the cell in Verviers, Belgium, where a shootout with police left two suspects dead on Thursday.
mcot The number of passengers using Korean Air Line Co., South Korea's top flag carrier, dropped in December apparently affected by the so-called "nut rage" that has tarnished its image among travelers, industry data showed.
independent.co.uk Google Glass is dead, at least in its current form. And so it enters a grand, tragic graveyard of well-meaning but badly-received inventions and technology - a place containing flying cars and bad games consoles.
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therakyatpost.com Asian ''skinheads'' converged on Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur over the weekend for two days of full-throated live music performances - but with a message far different from that often associated with their Western cousins. Sporting shaven heads, tattoo-covered torsos and leather boots, the roughly 200 skinheads from Japan, Thailand, and Malaysia gathered to spread their anti-racism, anti-drugs credo.
http://phuketwan.com/tourism/asean-today-angry-reactions-indonesia-executions-record-six-million-turn-pope-hanoi-jane-says-sorry-21738/
Phuket World of Sport
skysports.com Arsenal???s 2-0 win at Manchester City bucked trends, highlighted absences and shifted the title race in Chelsea's favor.
theguardian.com Chelsea's away form had been giving them cause for concern, but they put it right in the most emphatic fashion, moving five points clear at the top of the Premier League by inflicting a 5-0 defeat on Swansea, one of their worst losses since they arrived at elite level in 2011. Only Liverpool had previously scored five against them.
goal.com Carlos Tevez scored twice as Juventus recorded another resounding win over Verona to go five points clear at the top of Serie A.
bbc.com World number one Rory McIlroy recorded his first professional hole-in-one and is only two shots off the lead after day two of the Abu Dhabi Championship.
smh.com.au Australian professional golfer Robert Allenby says he is confident whoever is responsible for a brutal attack he feared he would not survive will be brought to justice. The 43-year-old, one of Australia's most successful golfers of the last 20 years, was kidnapped, beaten and robbed in Honolulu, Hawaii before being dumped about 10 kilometres away from where he was abducted.
reuters A.B. de Villiers took 31 balls to smash the fastest century in one-day internationals on Sunday as South Africa posted two for 439, their highest team total in this format, in the second ODI against West Indies.
Coming Events on Phuket 2015
January 21 Australian embassy outreach to Phuket Call 02-3446300, e: consular.bangkok@dfat.gov.au
January 30 US consular outreach, Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort
February 12-15 Phuket Yacht Show
Police advice for foreigners
1. When a foreigner is stopped for a search:
They may take photos of police before a search is conducted.
Searches must be conducted in well-lit and public area.
Foreigners should not pay any money to police officers who are conducting a search,even if they are asked to do so.
Vehicles or taxis can only be stopped and searched at a designated checkpoint, under the control of officers.
2. The collection of urine samples for drug testing can only be conducted at a police station.
3. Foreigners may carry a copy of the photo page and entry-stamped visa page of their passports, in lieu of carrying the original document.
I got an idea, Can somebody translate this in Thai so we can make a copy then if people are stopt by the police they can show this without the usual miscommunication and unwanted harassment, Thank You.
Posted by ThailandFan on January 20, 2015 00:44