Inform Tirawat defies strong winds to take charge
Fresh from claiming his maiden Asian Tour victory in the UMA CNS Open Golf Championship in Karachi last week, Tirawat stayed neck-and-neck with the overnight leader Rattanon before the latter finished with a bogey on the 18th hole. The Khon Kaen-based Tirawat, with five birdies against a lone bogey on the ninth hole, submitted his third round scorecard with a total nine under-par-201 at the par 70 7,080 yard course, the last stop of the All Thailand Golf Tour this season. His 66 was the best score on Sunday. I didn’t play my best but I still managed to get out of trouble well,” said the 29-year-old Tirawat in search for his second Tour title since his first at the Laem Chabang International Country Club in July 2017. “I will go into the final round without pressure and must remain focused.
Source:The Nation Bangkok
October 20, 2018 23:37 UTC
More play, please | Bangkok Post: lifestyle
Fast-forward nine years and we're finally treated to its long-awaited follow-up, Play 2 Project. Compared to its A-side counterpart, Leh Dub introduces another level of negative space layered with haunting elements of trip-hop. "But I won't be no fun/ If I can't have you no one can," he adds with a sinister wink. Then, out of the blue, vocalist Coga lets rip his trademark anguished wail, sending it straight into ferocious punk pandemonium. "You think, therefore you exist … When you post, you exist/ When you tweet, you exist," Put muses, waxing existential like the true philosopher he's always been.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 23:26 UTC
Confidence a vital ingredient in playing game well | Bangkok Post: news
Confidence in golf is a feeling of self-assurance arising from one's appreciation of one's own abilities. Over the years I've brought up this vital ingredient in the recipe of good golf. Good golfers are also normal human beings, so let's think for a moment about the reasons for talented players' sudden inability to come in with a competitive score. I'm also hoping that there are enough spots in these fields for our talented local players. These players just don't look excited at playing anymore, are no longer competitive and have little chance of winning anything ever again.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 23:15 UTC
Thai heroes back with happy smiles | Bangkok Post: news
photos: Apichit JinakulThe Thai contingent arrived home from Buenos Aires yesterday after having their most successful campaign at the Youth Olympic Games. Thailand finished 11th overall at the third edition with five gold, five silver and two bronze medals. The Thai champions are boxers Atichai Phoemsap and Panpatchara Somnuek, taekwondo fighter Kanthida Saengsin, weightlifter Supatchanin Khamhaeng, and golfers Atthaya Thitikul and Vanchai Luangnitikul in the mixed team event. The Thai boxing team failed to win a single gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games and returned empty-handed from the 2016 Olympics. The success in Argentina is a perfect tonic for Atthaya who failed to deliver at the Asian Games in August.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 23:15 UTC
Dechapol and Sapsiree gun for mixed title | Bangkok Post: news
Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai will vie for their first BWF World Tour Super 750 title and hope to complete a Thai hat-trick at the Denmark Open today. Dechapol and Sapsiree lost to the world No.1 pair when they met at the China Open quarter-finals last month. World No.1 Kento Momota of Japan moved past Indian seventh seed Srikanth Kidambi 21-16, 21-12 to reach the men's singles final. Momota became the first Japanese man to top the BWF rankings, replacing Denmark's Viktor Axelsen at the top of the list for men's singles last month. He beat Axelsen in the final of the Indonesia Open in July before winning the men's singles title at world championships the following month in Nanjing.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 23:10 UTC
Teenage Sitarvee the pick of the pack at famed Le Mans track | Bangkok Post: news
Kart driver Sitarvee Limnantharak won the best female title at the IAME International Final at Le Mans in France earlier this month. Sitarvee Limnantharak with the trophy. Sitarvee took part in the event as Thailand's champion and Asian championship's runner-up. Meanwhile, Fernando Alonso hinted that he could return to race the Indianapolis 500 again in 2019 after he retires from Formula One. The two-time Formula One champion said racing Indianapolis remained an "attractive'' idea but said he's not ready to reveal his 2019 plans yet.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 23:03 UTC
Serbia confirm status as women's volleyball powerhouse with victory at world meet | Bangkok Post: news
PHOTO: FIVBYokohama: Serbia were crowned world champions for the first time after beating Italy 3-2 in the final of the FIVB women's world championship yesterday. The historic victory confirmed Serbia's powerhouse status in world volleyball following their second-place finish two years ago at the Rio Olympic Games. The Balkan side won a world championship bronze in 2006. In the first ever all-European final at the championship, Tijana Boskovic scored 26 points to lead Serbia to a 21-25, 25-14, 23-25, 25-19, 15-12 victory. Tijana Boskovic scored 26 points to lead Serbia to a 3-2 (21-25, 25-14, 23-25, 25-19, 15-12) win over Italy in the final of the FIVB Women's World Championship last night.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 23:03 UTC
FAT president Somyot sacks secretary-general Pisan over differences, claims report | Bangkok Post: news
FAT president Pol Gen Somyot Poompunmuang. Pol Lt Gen Pisan Jundilok has been sacked as Football Association of Thailand (FAT) secretary-general, a media report said yesterday. FAT president Pol Gen Somyot Poompunmuang confirmed the end of Pisan's tenure at the national governing body for football in an interview with the Thai-language Daily News. Somyot claimed that the main reason for terminating Pisan from the post was that the FAT executive committee and its member clubs were unhappy with his performance. The FAT president added that all those concerned unanimously agreed that there was a need to bring in a new secretary-general.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 23:03 UTC
Ranger accused of molesting girl | Bangkok Post: news
Authorities are investigating a Pattani-based volunteer ranger who was accused of molesting a pre-teenage sixth-grade girl, according to the forward command of the Internal Security Operations Command's Region 4. The volunteer ranger has been detained at the 43rd Ranger Regiment in Pattani pending a handover to the police, forward command spokesman Pramote Prom-in said. Forward command chief Pornsak Poolsawad has been informed of the matter and ordered the 43rd Ranger Regiment to launch a probe. If the probe confirms the allegation, the volunteer ranger will be subject to the highest disciplinary punishment which is dismissal as well as criminal action, Col Pramote said. However, no charge has been pressed against the volunteer ranger identified by a Facebook page as Thawatchai Srithawee, of Phatthalung.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 22:41 UTC
Mexico allows caravan women, children in, but thousands still stranded | Bangkok Post: news
CIUDAD HIDALGO (MEXICO) - Mexican authorities allowed dozens of women and children from a US-bound Honduran migrant caravan to enter the country Saturday but thousands remain stranded on a border bridge between Guatemala and Mexico where riot police barred their progress. Thank you Mexico and the leaders of Mexico, thank you. Last week, Trump threatened to cut aid to the region, deploy the military and close the US-Mexican border if authorities did not stop them. - Women, children allowed in -The women ran forward when immigration officers unchained a gate that had been pinning back migrants at the crossing. Some, like 22-year-old Alex Benitez, paid locals to take him across the river border by raft.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 22:41 UTC
Too little too late | Bangkok Post: opinion
Chavalit WannawijitrAirHelp compensatesRe: "THAI 'sorry' as pilots snag 1st-class seats", (BP, Oct 20). Upon contacting Thai Airways, we were told in very clear terms that there is no compensation. AirHelp deducted 300 euro for their services so I believe Thai Airways still owes us this amount. You are right that the Thai coup has not resulted in domestic reconciliation. Barry KenyonContact: Bangkok Post Building136 Na Ranong Road Klong Toey, Bangkok 10110fax: +02 6164000 Email:[email protected]All letter writers must provide full name and address.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 21:56 UTC
Possibly an uncanny case of hoof in mouth | Bangkok Post: opinion
The gentleman in the White House has run into self-inflicted flak over his indelicate use of the word "horseface" in describing the adult film actress he may or may not have dangled with. He was attending a summer fete and was pursued by a rather ugly woman who wouldn't leave him alone. Eventually he told her that if she sent him a letter he would reply with a signed photograph. A few weeks later a letter arrived on his desk written by the woman requesting an autograph. Below her signature in brackets was the word "Horseface".
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 21:56 UTC
Messi to miss three weeks after fracturing right arm | Bangkok Post: news
BARCELONA - Lionel Messi is expected to be out for three weeks after fracturing his right arm during Barcelona's win over Sevilla on Saturday. Lionel Messi will miss the Clasico against Real Madrid and the Champions League double-header with Inter MilanMessi will now miss Barca's Champions League game at home to Inter Milan on Wednesday, as well as the season's first Clasico four days later against Real Madrid. A Barcelona club statement read: "Tests carried out on Leo Messi have confirmed that he has a fracture of the radial bone in his right arm. It means Messi is also set to sit out a La Liga trip to Rayo Vallecano on November 3 and the Champions League return match against Inter Milan in Italy on November 6. Pablo Sarabia and Luis Muriel twice reduced the deficit to two for Sevilla, either side of a sweeping volley from Ivan Rakitic.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 21:45 UTC
THAI should put customers first | Bangkok Post: opinion
The business mantra "Customer is king" cannot be applied to Thai Airways International, after the recent headline-making flight from Zurich to Bangkok. The incident involved THAI flight TG971 from Zurich to Bangkok on Oct 11, which was scheduled to depart at 1.30pm. However, the on-duty pilots refused to take off until their off-duty colleagues who were bound to return to Bangkok received first-class seats which happened to be fully booked. Such a stiff demand means some first-class passengers would have to give up their seats to the so-called "deadhead" pilots.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 21:45 UTC
Digital Tu | Bangkok Post: opinion
Gen (Ret) Prayut has performed an almost perfect military 'advance to the rear' but the cybersecurity bill is too tempting to abandon. (Photo provided)In the week the general prime minister saw Trump's Twitter bet and raised him by 400%, he did something even more political. He stopped the march to enactment of the Cybersecurity Act in its tracks. Gen (Ret) Prayut performed an almost perfect military "advance to the rear" (English translation: retreat). And where Trump has Twitter, the general prime minister has Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and his own website.
Source:Bangkok Post
October 20, 2018 21:33 UTC