AP Thai police say one of the founders of popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay was arrested under an Interpol warrant as he was crossing the border to Thailand. Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who uses the alias TiAMO, was detained in Nong Khai. He has a house on Phuket and five million baht in a bank account.

reuters Neij was the subject of an international arrest warrant. Neij and Gottfrid Warg founded The Pirate Bay in 2003. It has now grown into one of the world's largest file sharing websites, allowing users to share files through peer-to-peer technology.


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bangkokpost.com Strong waves are being blamed for the death of a Russian tourist who crashed a jet-ski off Patong Beach.

rappler.com Thailand's junta leader threatened to tighten controls of the media unless they stop ''presenting news'' about former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, after photographs of the billionaire cuddling a panda went viral.

news.sky.com Britain's new head of GCHQ has accused social media websites of helping terror groups and called for closer ties with intelligence agencies. Robert Hannigan, who began his new role at the UK eavesdropping agency on Monday, said US technology companies must work more closely with intelligence agencies to prevent terrorists from misusing their services to avoid surveillance.



reuters A lawyer representing two Myanmar men charged with the murder of two British tourists in Thailand said that their families have asked Thai authorities to investigate allegations of torture. The families say the men are innocent.



scmp.com US billionaire Bill Gates will donate more than US$500 million to fight malaria and other infectious diseases in the developing world, saying the Ebola outbreak is a call to action.



Phuket Update Representatives of Thai guides from Phuket, Krabi and Phang Nga delivered a letter to Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkaosutthirak and the island's Director of Tourism and Sport, Santi Pawai, calling for action against illegal guides. Khun Santi has said the department is moving to arrest more illegal guides.

nationmultimedia.com Thai Airways' Flight TG47, scheduled to fly from Khon Kaen to Bangkok, skidded off the runway before it took off shortly after 8pm. The accident prompted Nok Air's flight from Bangkok to Khon Kaen to be unable to land and it had to land at the Udon Thani airport instead.

bangkokpost.com At least 23 Prawet police officers are facing a probe in connection with a bribery scandal and three have been transferred to inactive posts following raids on entertainment venues. A list of police officers to be paid off was also found during raids at one parlor, military officers said.

telegraph.co.uk Just hours before her grisly murder, one of the two women found dead at the luxury Hong Kong flat of British banker Rurik Jutting told friends she was going to a party and said goodbye with the words: ''I'm going to have fun''.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/11204809/Im-going-to-have-fun-last-words-of-Hong-Kong-murder-victim-to-friends.html

todayonline.com Thailand's military government vowed to bring peace to the Muslim-dominated south within a year, despite stalled peace talks aimed at ending an insurgency that has cost thousands of lives in the past decade.

cnn.com More than 20 people died after a boat carrying migrants sank near Istanbul, Turkish officials said. Seven survivors and 24 bodies were pulled from the water, the semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported.

bbc.com A safety ''feathering device'' on the Virgin Galactic spacecraft that crashed on Friday deployed too soon, according to US investigators.

bangkokpost.com Thai Beverage Plc (ThaiBev), the producer of Chang beer, is set to invest a total of 30 billion baht to expand its business locally and abroad during 2015-20.

cnn.com An Australian man who ''surfed'' a floating whale carcass surrounded by sharks has admitted that he was an ''idiot'' to attempt the foolhardy feat.

theguardian.com The celebrated jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk has died aged 85. Bilk was perhaps best known for his 1961 song Stranger on the Shore and was one of the most important figures in the revival of traditional jazz in the middle of the last century.



businessinsider.com.au The majority of malaria cases in hospital in Malaysia are now caused by a dangerous and potentially deadly monkey-borne parasite once rarely seen in humans, researchers say.

AP A new UN draft resolution takes aim at Burma's aggressive campaign to have its Rohingya Muslims identify as a term they reject, urging ''access to full citizenship on an equal basis.'' The European Union-drafted resolution, obtained by The Associated Press, is one piece of international pressure on the Southeast Asian country to change its campaign.



bbc.com Bolton Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside is in Thailand having discussions about a possible takeover of the Championship side, reports BBC Radio Manchester. Thai entertainment company BEC-Tero and Siam Sport Syndicate have previously been linked with a joint bid.

goal.com Sunderland beat Crystal Palace 3-1 to move out of the relegation zone.



bangkokpost.com Entrance fees to all 147 national parks will be waived on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day as part of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's ''happiness'' campaign.

November 6 Loy Kratong

November 14-23 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket

December 5 King's Birthday

December 10 Constitution Day

December 25 Christmas Day

December 26 10th Anniversary, 2004 Tsunami

December 31 New Year's Eve



February 13-15 Phuket Yacht Show