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  • Monk From Thailand Gaining Attention For Being A Hunk; Said It’s For Health Awareness Of Monks

    Monk From Thailand Gaining Attention For Being A Hunk; Said It’s For Health Awareness Of Monks

    This hunky monk is the latest Southeast Asian man raising temperatures online.

    The monk, whose identity is unknown, must have requested protein powder in his alms bowl to get those pumped up arms and legs.

    Though not much is known about these photos, they are getting shared like crazy in Thailand.

    Supposedly, the hunky monk shared the pictures of himself to bring awareness to monks’ health, but the original post could not be located. He wanted Thai monks to try and exercise to stay healthy and strong and for those who give alms to monks to stop giving sweet, fattening, and salty foods. These types of foods make monks sick and cause diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, dyslipidemia (metabolic disorder), and kidney disease.

    Lots of commenters wrote that the Buddhist beefcake might have been a weightlifter before ordaining because his size looks like he’s been lifting for years.

    Others criticized him, saying that monks shouldn’t try to get buff, as it’s vain.

    Even if it is, we say this monk is still holier than the Thai monks who have been caught partying and boozing, giving the finger, evading cops, laundering money, jet-setting, and committing rape — all crimes monks have been accused of this year.

    The post went viral because, well, he’s hot, but also because people were debating if a longtime monk sins by lifting weights or not. However, the answer to the conundrum might have been supplied by a popular Facebook page: that monk hunk is a weightlifter who just ordained for a few days, as many Thai men do at some point in their lives.

    The post on popular page Piak Rider, which has been shared 14,000 times since yesterday, implied that the pics are from 2011 and the man only donned robes for a short time before leaving the monkhood to open a restaurant.

    If it’s true about the restaurant, we’ll bet the cuisine is healthy as hell.

     

    Source: https://coconuts.co

  • From Bike Messenger To SEA Games: Singaporean Luqmanul Hakim’s Unlikely Journey

    From Bike Messenger To SEA Games: Singaporean Luqmanul Hakim’s Unlikely Journey

    The disappointment of finishing out of the medals clearly showed on debutant Luqmanul Hakim as he looked downcast following the end of the men’s team time trial race at the SEA Games on Tuesday (Aug 22). For Team Singapore’s men’s road cycling team, it was always going to be a Herculean task against favourites Malaysia on their home ground. The quartet of Gabriel Tan, Teoh Yi Peng, Junaidi Hashim and Luqmanul eventually posted a credible timing of 1:06:45.326 to finish in sixth place as Malaysia won gold in the 9-team event. Thailand took silver, while Vietnam bagged bronze. It was a tough learning experience for 19-year-old Luqmanul who has had an interesting journey to becoming a SEA Games athlete.

    HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
    Just two years ago, Luqmanul could not have imagined representing his country, as he worked as a dispatch cyclist delivering parcels in Singapore’s Central Business District on his “fixie” bicycle. “Yes, it’s true,” said the full-time National Serviceman, when asked about his previous job. “In Singapore, there isn’t any organic structure to race competitively so at the start we had to fund ourselves by finding our own money to go for races.”

    Building up his abilities in Malaysia helped his journey to the SEA Games, according to the young racer. “Thankfully a development team sponsored me – the Pro Development Project – where I trained with the Terengganu juniors like Khalid Nasrudin and the rest, and it really built up my abilities. At the start (of my career) it was hard, but you cannot let your guard down. Training-wise, you must always be committed and you must remember why you started.”

    DREAM FULFILLED
    Racing in the SEA Games was a dream come true for the 19-year old. “It was an awesome once-in-a-lifetime experience and I basically had nothing to lose,” said Luqmanul, on the positives he gained in the team time trial event on Tuesday. “I enjoyed myself out there and my heart rate was quite high, as it was my first time. Even going up the team time trial platform was exciting.” Dejected at the outcome of the team time trial for Singapore, the teen is already aiming finish strongly in the mass start start road race on Thursday. “I’m already looking forward to do my very best in the road race with my team-mates in two days,” he said. “Today didn’t go as planned but we tried our best. We showed our capability, but there’s still one more race to go.”

     

    Source: CNA

  • Shocking Facebook Live Killing Of A Baby In Thailand Removed Only After 24 Hours

    Shocking Facebook Live Killing Of A Baby In Thailand Removed Only After 24 Hours

    Facebook has called the killing of a 11-month-old by her father – which was broadcast live on his Facebook page – ‘an appalling incident’.

    In an email to Reuters, a Singapore-based Facebook spokesman said: “This is an appalling incident and our hearts go out to the family of the victim.

    “There is absolutely no place for content of this kind on Facebook and it has now been removed.”

    People could access the videos of the child’s murder on her father’s Facebook page for roughly 24 hours, until they were taken down around 5pm in Bangkok on Tuesday (Apr 25), or about a day after being uploaded.

    Last week, Facebook said it was reviewing how it monitored violent footage and other objectionable material after a posting of the fatal shooting of a man in Cleveland, Ohio was visible for two hours before being taken down.

    The harrowing footage from Thailand showed Wuttisan Wongtalay tying a rope to his daughter Natalie’s neck before dropping the child, dressed in a bright pink dress, from the rooftop of a deserted building in the seaside town of Phuket.

    Wuttisan’s suicide was not broadcast but his lifeless body was found beside his daughter, said Jullaus Suvannin, the police officer in charge of the case.

    “He was having paranoia about his wife leaving him and not loving him,” Jullaus told Reuters.

    Wuttisan’s wife, Jiranuch Triratana, told Reuters she had lived with him for over a year. At first the relationship had gone well, she said, but then he grew violent and sometimes hit her 5-year-old son from a previous husband.

    She feared that something was wrong on Tuesday when she found he had left home with Natalie, whose nickname was Beta. She set out to look for them.

    Murders, suicides and sexual assault have plagued Facebook despite making up a small percentage of videos. On Tuesday a Swedish court jailed three men for the rape of a woman that was broadcast live on Facebook.

    Last week, Facebook said it was reviewing how it monitored violent footage and other objectionable material after a posting of the fatal shooting of a man in Cleveland, Ohio was visible for two hours before being taken down.

     

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    Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/

  • Hotel Halal Pertama Thailand Dapat Sambutan Amat Menggalakkan

    Hotel Halal Pertama Thailand Dapat Sambutan Amat Menggalakkan

    Perniagaan Al Meroz Hotel, hotel empat bintang halal sepenuhnya yang
    pertama di Thailand, kini semakin pesat berikutan peningkatan jumlah pelancong Islam ke negara itu.

    Pengarah Urusan dan Pengurus Besarnya Sanya Saengboon berkata hotel dengan 242 bilik itu yang sudah mendapat pensijilan daripada pihak berkuasa dari Timur Tengah dan Thailand, mendapat sambutan yang amat menggalakkan.

    “Kadar penginapan hotel kami sekarang ialah pada 94 peratus. Ia sudah terlalu tinggi dan saya tidak tahu apa yang perlu dilakukan lagi (terhadap sambutan yang tidak pernah berlaku),” katanya kepada Bernama dalam satu temu bual baru-baru ini.

    Bagi menampung permintaan yang amat menggalakkan itu, beliau berkata hotel itu, yang menampilkan seni bina seperti masjid lengkap dengan menara, sudah mula merancang untuk menambah 150 bilik lagi.

    Rancangan pengembangan dilakukan sebulan selepas hotel itu, yang terletak di pinggir bandar Bangkok, Ramkhamhaeng, dilancarkan secara rasmi pada Februari tahun ini selepas menjalani operasi percubaan lebih setahun.

    BANGUNAN TAMBAHAN AKAN DITAMBAH

    Hotel berkenaan akan menambah satu lagi bangunan tambahan pada akhir tahun,
    menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan bilik kepada hampir 500, setiap satu dilengkapi dengan
    sejadah, Al-Quran dan arah kiblat.

    Ia juga mempunyai surau, kemudahan wuduk, tiga restoran, dewan, gimnasium dan kolam renang, dengan masa yang berlainan bagi lelaki dan wanita.

    Menurut Sanya, yang beragama Islam, walaupun hotel itu halal sepenuhnya, Al Meroz menerima campuran tetamu, Islam dan bukan Islam, yang menunjukkan bahawa orang bukan Islam sedia untuk menginap di hotel berstatus halal.

    “Sejak dibuka, kami telah menerima banyak pelanggan dari Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, China, serta negara-negara di Timur Tengah, Eropah dan Amerika,” katanya.

    Selain itu, hotel ini juga memenuhi keperluan pelancong Islam tempatan terutamanya dari bahagian selatan negara ini dan masyarakat yang tinggal di Ramkhamhaeng, antara penempatan orang Islam terawal dan terbesar di Bangkok.

    LIHAT PELUANG DALAM PELANCONGAN HALAL

    Sanya berkata Lembaga Pelancongan Thailand melihat peluang dalam pasaran
    pelancongan halal dan memulakan usaha bersepadu untuk menarik pelancong Islam dari seluruh dunia ke negara di Asia Tenggara itu.

    (Gambar-gambar: Laman Al Meroz Hotel)

    “Terdapat 1.6 bilion umat Islam di dunia dan ini merupakan satu peluang yang besar untuk negara,” katanya, sambil menambah bahawa usaha untuk menarik pelancong Islam sudah memberi faedah kepada Thailand, sebuah negara dengan majoriti penduduk beragama Buddha.

    Thailand sudah menyaksikan lonjakan pelancong dan pengunjung Islam sejak beberapa tahun kebelakangan ini.

    Beliau berkata inisiatif ini melangkaui peluang pelancongan memandangkan rantaian halal meliputi industri-industri lain yang Thailand boleh memanfaatkannya.

    Mengimbas kembali bagaimana tercetusnya idea untuk membina hotel halal pertama Thailand itu, Sanya berkata ia adalah ilham Presiden dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutifnya, Rausak Mulsap, yang melihat peluang luas dalam industri halal.

    Didorong oleh impian memiliki hotel halal di Thailand, Rausak memulakan pembinaan Al Meroz Hotel tiga tahun lalu dengan pelaburan sebanyak lebih satu bilion baht (S$40 juta).

    Source: BeritaMediacorp

  • Malaysian Drug Money Behind South Thailand Uprising

    Malaysian Drug Money Behind South Thailand Uprising

    The arrest of a Malaysian national with links to Southeast Asia’s drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpha is slowly unraveling and revealing the extent of the drug ring’s impact on the political upheaval in South Thailand.

    In a trickle, the arrests are revealing the role played by the Malaysian wing of the Laotian network in the region.

    The Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) of Thailand said Malaysian police have arrested a suspected major drug dealer allegedly linked to Lao drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpha, who was arrested at the Suvarnabhumi airport on a flight from Phuket.

    What we know is Kamarudin bin Awang, a Malaysian national, was arrested in Kelantan on Monday.

    An investigation led police to believe Kamarudin is the son-in-law of Marining Jako, the leader of a drug network which receives drugs from the North and Northeast of Thailand.
    Thai police is said to have been monitoring Kamarudin for five years, leading to his arrest in Kelantan.

    The Thai narcotics bureau chief said he believed the money from Kamarudin’s drug trade have partially been used to sponsor the unrest in the insurgency-plagued South in Thailand.

    The arrest was not reported in Malaysian newspapers, but the information was given to Thai based newspapers by NSB chief Sommai Kongwisaisuk. He cited information he received from Malaysian authorities.

    So far, there is no comment on the Thai police accusation that Kamarudin is suspected to be the Malaysian linchpin in the Laotian drug network.

    Malaysia has also refrained to comment on the case since the arrest of Xaysana.

    More than 30 million baht in cash was also found stashed in pipes at Kamarudin’s residence, Thai police said, who said the Malaysian received drugs from the North before shifting them further to Malaysia through southern Thailand.

    Reports indicate he was also involved in the drug trade with one Usaman Salaemaeng, who is on the run, wanted by Thai authorities on drug charges in the warrant issued in 2012.

    Kamarudin is said to have three homes in the Muslim-majority far South in Thailand.

    However, Thail Police says they are checking with their Malaysian counterparts to determine to what extent the suspect is linked with Xaysana.

    Following his arrest at the Suvarnabhumi Airport on Jan 19, the suspected Laotian drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpha, or “Mr X” as he is more commonly known, has become the subject of wide media fascination across the region.

    Authorities are now working round-the-clock to uncover the vast narcotics cross-border network that spans Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.

    Thailand’s narcotics chief Sommai Kongvisaisuk, was quoted by Malaysian news agency Bernama as saying that police have gathered information on Mr X’s connection with Malaysian drug syndicates and were looking to unearth the inner workings of his network.

    “All the (big) cases involving a Malaysian syndicate trying to smuggle drugs from Thailand into Malaysia pointed to the involvement of Xaysana.

    “The Malaysian syndicate got its drugs from Xaysana’s network,” he said, adding that the arrest was the result of over five years of investigation.

    Several media reports said the 41-year-old alleged drug baron was arrested at the airport in front of many passengers as he disembarked a flight from resort island Phuket along with a man and two women who were not identified.

    Thai police have obtained a warrant for another five suspects.

    With the arrest, Thai and Laotian police seized 74 items, including two residences, 14 land titles, 14 luxury cars, 11 motorbikes, two farm vehicles, 29 bank accounts, gold jewelry and cash in U.S. Dollars and Thai Baht equaling THB1.5 (US$42,000).

    The total haul was valued at roughly THB100 million (US$2.8 million), according to the Laotian Times.

     

    Source: www.theindependent.sg