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Nakhon Phanom:- Nakhon Phanom may be a rather little-known border town. But today, it has much to offer to tourists.In addition to its centuries-old history, ancient temples and bustling Indochina Market, this northeastern province has now added a cruise along the Mekong River to its charm.With the cruise, tourists can enjoy the scenery of both Thailand and Laos.“Our cruise services are now gaining popularity,” Narongchai Thaosri says as the cruise manager of Mueang Nakhon Phanom Municipality.He says the cruise starts from the Indochina Market at around 5pm and heads northward so that tourists can see the riverside communities and admire the sunset by a Christian church. Tourists can then get close to the Lao side and peek at the neighboring country’s lush land.“On the way back, the tourists will panoramic view of Nakhon Phanom. That’s impressive,” Narongchai says proudly.The cruise takes about one hour. Fees are just Bt50 per adult and Bt20 per child. This excludes the cost of food and beverages that tourists may order during the ride.Narongchai says cruise passengers are coming from not just Nakhon Phanom but also elsewhere.“Sometimes, we even have to add extra trips on weekends,” he says.The church, which is located in Nong Saeng area, is a testament that Nakhon Phanom has embraced cultural and religious diversity.Officially known as St Anna Catholic church, its history traced back to 1926.
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Nakhon Ratchasima:- A lady boy has been arrested for having allegedly pretending to be a beautiful woman to cheat a Thai man out of Bt600,000 with a marriage promise.Thanatcha Plungklang, 29 a resident of None Sung district in Nakhon Ratchasima, has been arrested after he has allegedly deceived Anek Sisuwan, 33, that he is a woman, Pol Maj Monthon Hongklang, an office of Jorhor police station said.Anek filed a complaint with police that Thanatcha pretended to be a woman by using a beautiful woman’s portrait as his profile photo on a social network.Anek said he chatted with Thanatcha online for four months, thinking he was a woman. Later on Thanatcha told him that his mother was living abroad and was worried about his expense and daily life.Thanatha told Anek that if Anek provided him monthly allowance the mother would repay him later.Anek said he believed Thanatcha because he sounded like a real woman when he made the voice calls via the chat program.After he has been paying monthly allowance to Thanatcha for a while, Anek was told that Thanatcha’s mother allowed the two to get married.Thanatcha demanded Anek to wire him Bt634,600 for buying a wedding ring. Anek said he used all of his saving and borrowed some money from friends to make the amount that was transferred to Thanatcha.But when he wanted to meet Thanatcha in person, his demand was always rejected, prompting him to sense something had gone wrong.Anek said he used the profile photo of Thanatcha to do a search on Internet and found out that many men had fallen victims to Thanatcha.Monthon said police would like victims of the lady boy to come forward and file complaints.Thanatcha was charged with violating the Computer Crime Act and pretending to be someone else.
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Bangkok:- Photos of a young Thai man holding hand with a farang on a skytrain during the Songkran holidays has gone viral.Many Thai social networkers, especially women and lady boys, have forwarded the photos on Facebook, Twitter and LINE networks with comment indicating that they envy the Thai man because the farang man looked very handsome.
[Photo credit: Jax Phoenix's Facebook]The photos were snapped by someone without the knowledge of the two and was posted on a Facebook page before it was widely shared, MThai news website reported.MThai itself did not know who was the first one who posted the photos but it traced to a Facebook user, called Jax Phoenix, who also shared several of the photos from another Facebook user.“Now, you, brother Mon, has become so popular that someone took stealth photos of you. But [for those who don’t know], Mon has been in relationship with this boyfriend for a longtime. Mon, I congratulate you that many envy you, LOL,” Jax posted.Among the comments, Atchariya Phaki said a woman like her has now found it hard to live her life in the modern world.“What! I really envy him. I want one myself,” Chotika Tiwakalin posted.Later on, the Men.MThai site, found out that the Thai man is actually Noparuj Kaendi, who has married his German husband.Men.MThai said the two have been living in Thailand and Germany alternatively because Naparuj is working as a creative director and booking agent for a German modeling firm.Men.MThai also shared several photos from the two’s Facebook wall.
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pic: Talay Hua HinHua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan:- A Belgian man drowned in the Hua Hin sea inside the compound of the Army Rehabilitation and Recreation Center Suanson Pradipat Friday afternoon, police said.Roger Darmul, 70, became the fourth person who drowned at the beach in five days. On April 13, three Thai tourists from Bangkok drowned at the beach.Pol Lt Suranan Meephan, an officer of Hua Hin police station, was informed of the accident at 4:20 pm Friday shortly after tourists and troops brought the Belgian man out of the water.Troops and rescuers of Sawang Hua Hin Thammasathan Foundation gave the man resuscitation. The Belgian, who had very weak pulse, was rushed to the Hua Hin Hospital but emergency doctors failed to bring him back. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.Thirapat Akkaraphan, a Thai tourist, said he spotted the Belgian man partially floating face down so he and troops, who were patrolling the beach, rushed into the water to pluck him out.The Belgian man’s Thai wife, Metta Chonprateep, 44, said she and her husband had been living together in Hua Hin downtown for five years.Metta said her husband rarely swam in the sea but on Friday, he would like to visit the Suanson Pradipat beach and wanted to swim to cool off.Metta said she did not watch her husband because he swam atthe shallow spot. When she saw people rush into the sea and shouted for help, she rushed to see and four her husband drowned.After three Thais drowned at the beach, the local army and provincial administration increased the number of police and troops to patrol the three-kilometer-long beach.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A 71-year-old Chinese tourist drowned in the Pattaya sea near Koh Lan Friday, police said.Pol Lt Pasawat Siripornnopphakhun, an officer of Pattaya police station, was informed of the accident at 11:30 am Friday. He was told that the tourist drowned at the popular Tawaen beach on the island in Tambon Naklua in Bang Lamung district.Pasawat, tourist police and rescuers from the Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Pattaya rushed to the scene on a speedboat.They found the body of Wu Long You on the beach. He was wearing a black swimming trunk with no shirt. His body had no trace of being harmed.A tour guide told police that Wu was a member of his tour group. The guide said he let the Chinese tourists swim or shop at the beach after he led them there.After Wu swam for a while, he disappeared so the lifeguards were alerted. They searched and found him and brought him ashore. A guard gave him resuscitation but failed to bring him back. Witnesses told police that the man apparently fainted while swimming.The body was sent to the Police Hospital in Bangkok for an autopsy. The Chinese embassy has been informed of the accident.Koh Lan, which is off the Pattaya coast, is a popular destination for Chinese tourists because of its much cleaner and more beautiful sea, compared to the Pattaya beach.Several drowning incidents at the island have been reported. For example, in April last year, Guo Burong, 57, drowned at the Thong Lang beach.
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Bangkok: – The economic outlook for 2015 remains on the downward trend as demands are weak and costs are rising, said the Centre of Economic and Business Forecast in a survey released yesterday.The business community has voiced optimism, however, on the recovery in this year’s fourth quarter due to anticipated increase in government spending in the third quarter.For the past three months, sales have dropped 11.93 per cent, advance orders decline by 8.74 per cent and exports decrease by 12.02 per cent, the centre’s director Thanawat Phonvichai said.The average cost of production has soared 9.27 per cent.The survey was conducted on the sampling of 801 businesses in agriculture, commerce, services and manufacturing.The first half of this year has been projected for continuing slowdown.Business leaders have called for the government to inject money in the speedy manner through investment and budgetary spending for the third quarter.Should the government succeed in boosting the spending, this year’s growth could be achieved at 2.5 to 3 per cent.Out of 10 points, the business community gave the 4.2 score card for the government’s handling on the economy.The centre has ranked 10 rising and 10 falling business trends in light of the prevailing economic doldrums.The rising businesses are medical, health and beautification; tourism; hotel and restaurant; education; life insurance; construction; information technology; commercial banking; transportation and online media.The businesses on the down trend are agriculture machinery, retail, rubber processing industry, car dealership, car hire purchase, LPG station and installation for vehicles, charter flight, frozen sea food and clothing and garment.In view of the slowdown, the centre has revised this year’s growth projection to 3.2 per cent from 3.5 to 4 per cent.
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Nonthaburi: – Police have launched the manhunt for an armed taxi driver who fled the scene after shooting his two landlords dead in Bang Yai district.Taxi driver Anupong Ruangsawat, 29, had an argument with the landlords, drove his taxi to a main road, crashed into a traffic policeman to steal his pistol and returned to kill the victims, police said.Nonthaburi police chief Maj General Samran Yindee-arom led the police team to investigate the incident.Based on statements of witnesses and tenants, Anupong moved from Nakhon Sawan to eke out his living as taxi driver.He rented a room in the three-storey building owned by the husband and wife, Somchai Thaenchantha, 51, and Sangwal Thaenchantha, 49.He often made noises disturbing the peace in the neighbourhood.Before he went berserk, Somchai and Sangwal again reminded him not to play guitar.Following the exchange of sharp words, he got into his taxi and drove out.Police connected him to the traffic incident about a taxi crashing into the traffic policeman and stealing the gun. The policeman sustained injuries, including broken collarbone.With the stolen gun, the suspect shot Somchai three times in the head and Sangwal twice also in the head.Witnesses told police that the suspect had fled toward a nearby school. Police closed off the school and nearby areas and conducted the search for two hours without success.The suspect’s wife who lives in NakhonSawan said her husband has been under medication for his psychological illness.
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Bangkok:- The controversial policy to put students’ grade point average (GPA) on their school-uniform shirts has whipped up social-media storms.Many netizens have lambasted the policy, describing it as “ridiculous” and “nonsensical”.“When will you stop prioritizing GPA over the process of learning? Whose brain has given birth to such silly policy?” is one of the many critical online comments.It also warns that such policy can easily backfire, causing an inferior complex among students with lower GPA.Via her Facebook account, a government official says, “I feel sad to find that it’s the best Thai educators can come up with”.Daily News reported on Friday that this controversial policy was being used at Yia Suksa Rajamngalaphisek School in the northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani.The school’s deputy director, Kamjad Kulchote, told Daily News that the policy was designed to encourage students to study harder and the policy implementation had showed good results.“Our students’ scores in Ordinary National Educational Test (Onet) have improved after the policy was introduced a year ago,” he said.He also explained that the school did not require all students to show their GPAs on their school-uniform shirts.“They can do it on a voluntary basis,” he said.An online survey a popular website, www.dek-d.com, however shows 91 per cent of respondents disagree with such policy.Office of Basic Education Commission’s secretary general Kamol Rodklai is not happy with the policy either.He has now ordered that the school scrap the policy.“The school had better improve teaching performance and hand out awards to outstanding students,” Kamol said on Friday.
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Bangkok: A 38-year-old Myanmar woman was found strangled near a shelter of workers of a factory in Bangkok Friday morning, police said.The partially naked and decomposed body of Mod Winji was found in a bush behind the shelter of workers of Siam Laser Mate Factory on Liab Klong Song Raod in Bang Chan’s Klong Samwa district at 9:30 am.Pol Lt Phetrat Saenrat, an officer on duty of Nimitmai police station, and a doctor on duty and Portecktuent Foundation officials rushed to the scene after the police station was informed of the body.The body was found under a big tree on the deserted spot. Her pink t-shirt was lifted up and her bottom was exposed. A rope was left around her neck.Her brother, Jo Oh, 26, told police that the woman worked as a house maid on Soi Hathairat 30.The brother said his sister called him on Tuesday, saying she would visited him but he was out to celebrate Songkran so he told his sister to wait for him at his room at the workers’ shelter behind the factory.When he returned to his room in the evening, he did not find her so he thought she had left.But he called her mobile phone several times but she did not answer it. Then other workers felt the stench behind Friday morning and he and friends followed the smell to find the body just ten meters away from the shelter.The brother said the mobile phone and handbag of his sister disappeared.Nimitmai police chief Pol Col Thanachai Usahakit said an autopsy would be carried out to find whether the woman had been raped.He said all the workers there would be interrogated. Police source said a Thai worker, Weerachai Saithong, had disappeared from the shelter.
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Sri Racha, Chon Buri:- Police are searching for a group of Chinese tourists after one of them broke a window of a car that blocked their car Thursday evening.The Chinese tourists were apparently angry that their Honda Accord car with Bangkok license plate was blocked by a Nissan car also with a Bangkok license plate at the car park area of the Koh Loi public park in Sri Racha district.The Nissan car’s hand brake lever was lifted up, making the car unmovable. One of the Chinese tourists broke the window on the side of the driver and unlocked the handbrake and moved the Nissan car out of the way before the Chinese tourists fled the scene.The incident was reported to Pol Col Poppol Jakkapak, the commander of Sri Racha police station, Friday. He and his subordinates went to the park to receive a complaint from Kittiwat Thammasak, an assistant tourist officer of Sri Racha.Kittiwat told police that the group of Chinese tourists had three men and two woman and a child.When they came to their car, they found that their car was blocked by the Nissan car. Initially, they called for help from people nearby but the brake was locked so the car was unmovable.When the people who came to help them walked away, a Chinese tourist used a rock to break the window and unlock the break and moved the car out of the way.Poppol said the incident was caught on a security camera and the action was deemed too excessive.He said police would check the license plate of the car used by the Chinese tourists to try to locate them to take a legal action against the one who broke the window.Poppol also warned motorists not to lock the handbrake if their vehicles block other people’s cars.
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Udon Thani:- Two corpses have lately been stolen from a graveyard in Udon Thani’s Prachaksinlapakhom district in what police believe is related to amulet making.A prime suspect is a roaming monk who claims to have supernatural power, Pol Colonel Jamlong Panjana of Prachaksinlapakhom Police Station says.According to the ongoing police investigation, this monk popped up in Ban Non Sa in the district last month and told locals that he could use the corpses that belong to persons suffering from shocking deaths in fixing lottery results.“Many locals are thus willing to tell the monk where he can find such corpses,” Jamlong says.Superstitious beliefs say such corpses can be used for black magic.Locals in Ban Non Sa found out about the stolen corpses after they visited the graveyard ahead of the Songkran Festival to clean the graves of their late relatives.One of the bodies belongs to a 32-year-old man who was shot dead and buried late last year. The other belongs to a 26-year-old woman who died in the stage of pregnancy.“Such thefts have brought much grief to their relatives. The mothers want to make merits to their late children but they can’t,” Ban Non Sa village head Wichien Boonpa complains.The two mothers officially lodged complaints with police on Sunday.Police say evidence suggests the corpses were dug up just a few days before the graveyard-visit period began.Last month, police in another district also received a report that the bodies of two drown siblings were stolen from a graveyard.“We believe the thefts are related,” Jamlong says, “We will try to nail down culprits”.
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Govt orders speeding up of Pattaya-Cha-am-Hua Hin ferry projectBangkok: Transport Minister ACM Prajin Juntong has instructed the Harbor Department to speed up the design and study of a project to build ferry piers to link three seaside towns of Pattaya, Cha-am and Hua Hin.Prajin gave the order in his capacity as the economic division chief of the National Council for Peace and Order.Prajin said he wants the study to be done as soon as possible because the ferry piers would link the two sides of the sea and thus boosting tourism and the economy and trades in Pattaya, Phetchaburi and Prachuap Khiri Khan.The minister said the ferry boats would cut time of travelling between Pattaya to Cha-am and Hua Hin from around six and seven hours to just three hours.“The Harbor Department has studied it in 2012 so it has a development plan in line with the NCPO’s policy to develop ferry piers to link the upper Gulf of Thailand to the eastern and western coasts,” Prajin said.He said the Bali Hai pier and Ocean Marina might be chosen as the site for the ferry pier in Pattaya and the Puektian Beach in Petchaburi might be selected for the ferry pier for Cha-am and Hua Hin.Prajin said the Harbor Department will this week hire a private firm to study and design the piers and select proper sites for the project.The study would be sped up to be completed in 12 months instead of 18 months as initially planned.He said so far Siam Eastern Logistic Terminal has expressed its interest to invest Bt4 billion for the project.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- Pattaya police arrested three Thais following a car chase late Thursday night after they allegedly snatched an iPhone from a Chinese tourist in Pattaya.The Pattaya Police station was alerted at 10 pm that the tourist, Ren Mee Ling 34, was robbed of her iPhone 5s in front of Mike Shopping Mall on the 2nd Pattaya Road in Tambon Nongplua of Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district.Police were told that the three robbers were riding a red and white Honda Wave motorcycle with Nakhon Phanom license plate.After learning of the incident, Pattaya police chief Pol Col Sukthat Pumphanmuang ordered all police officers on duty and police volunteers to watch out for the three suspects on all roads that could be used as an escape route.Later on, police spotted three men speeding up their motorcycle and ran the red light at the South Pattaya Intersection heading to Khao Talo Intersection.Police at the South Pattaya Intersection performed a car chase after the motorcycle, which later crashed into a vehicle at the Khao Talo Intersection.Initially, police arrested two suspects at the scene while the other ran to hide behind a nearby building. The two who were arrested at the crash spot were identified as Anuwat Wongkhamharn, 33, and a 16-year-old teenager, whose name was withheld.Later police arrested Ritthikrai Jingwaja, 23, from behind a building.The tourist later came to the police station and confirmed that one of the three snatched the phone from her hand while she was walking to her hotel.Police said Ritthikrai has just received a royal pardon and he was released from a prison on April 3 after he was jailed for snatching valuables from a victim in 2013.
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Songkhla: – Police have raided a Hat Yai home and rescued a woman detained by her boyfriend.Captain Ekkarat Pitak of Hat Yai police station led the yesterday’s raid at the home in Tambon Kho Hong, Hat Yai district.The woman’s relatives filed a complaint about alleged detention involving the boyfriend Wattana Chaichana, 41.To rescue the woman, the police team had to cut open two locked gates. While police were trying to gain access into the house, Wattana fled to hide in a nearby house.Wattana later surrendered to police after Ekkarat convinced him that the raid team had already blocked all possible escape routes.Based on the statement of the woman’s relatives, Wattana was a police imposter. He lured the woman to fall for him by claiming he was police officer of the Crime Suppression Division.The woman, who is a spinster, has been the victim of his love scam. She spent more than one million baht on him for the past four years.Subsequently, she found out that he was the imposter and that he already had a wife.She tried to distance herself and to sever their relationship. But he kept on pestering her.As she tried to reason with him in asking for him to return her car, he allegedly detained and beat her for his sexual pleasure.After she was locked in his house, she called her relatives seeking help. This prompted the relatives to alert police.Pending the completion of police report, the relatives wanted police to charge him for physical assault and illegal detention.In his statement, the suspect said the incident was a misunderstanding. He said he did not detain the victim.He said he locked the house for security reason as he was cooking a meal for his “girlfriend” in the kitchen located at the back of the house.
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Bangkok: – The Culture Ministry will organise a series of cultural exhibitions at Sanam Luang from today to Tuesday to mark the 233rd Anniversary of the Rattanakosin Era.The exhibitions are organised under the theme of showing gratitude for the Chakri Dynasty for founding Bangkok, Culture Minister Vira Rojpojchanarat said.Tomorrow there will be a procession to highlight key cultural events under each of the nine reigns.The 1.5-kilometer procession would commence at Democracy Monument and end at Sanam Luang. Some 2,000 performers will take part in the procession.Each day, there will be cultural shows detailing Thai performing arts from Ayutthaya to Rattanakosin periods.To conclude the exhibitions on Tuesday, there will be a khon dance, billed as the world’s largest masked performance.During the Bangkok celebrations, seminars and talks will feature academic reviews of cultural traditions such as how Bangkok has been evolving, the merit-making at nine Bangkok temples and the monarchy contributions over nine reigns.There will be a pageant to name cultural ambassadors for each locality.The ministry, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and 76 provincial administrations will jointly hold a display of Thai cultural products.Popular Thai dishes like somtam and padthai will be available for tasting. And cooking classes for Thai food will be organised for foreign visitors.There will stage performances to highlight the evolvement of Thai entertainments in the Rattanakosin Era.One of the highlights is the kite festival, displaying the fight between Chula and Pakpao kites. The members of the public will be taught how to make a kite and allowed to take their kite home.A bus tour of Rattanakosin landmarks will be organised twice daily during the celebrations.
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Hat Yai, Songkhla:- Some 30 drivers of taxis at the Hat Yai International Airport protested Thursday against what they called unfair collection of concession fee from them.The group of taxis gathered at the airport in the morning. The drivers said the firm in charge of operating taxi services at the airport demanded them to pay very high amount of concession fee in exchange for the right to take up passengers from the airport.They said the firm claimed that the fee was given to the airport so they would like the Hat Yai airport to conduct an investigation.Anan Sukhapun, a representative of the drives, said the fee was too high. He said the each taxi had to pay the initial fee of Bt15,000 for the first year and Bt5,000 annual fee each year, starting from the second year. Each taxi has also to pay a monthly fee of Bt2,000.Anan said a taxi is allowed to collect a flat rate of Bt250 per trip and each of them can averagely drive four trips a day. As a result, their income is inadequate especially when they have to pay the fee to the firm.Anan also noted that the contract for them states that only 30 taxis are allowed to operate at the airport but he found that there are actually 66 taxis at the airport.He wondered why the 36 extra taxis were allowed to operate there and whether the airport had received the concession fee from the drivers.Hat Yai Airport director Jessada Phetmedyai said the issue was an internal dispute between the taxi drivers and the company that has concession to operate the taxi services.Jessada said the dispute should be solved soon.
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Bangkok:- Police have located and fined a 25-year-old Briton for exposing himself on Khaosarn Road on Songkran Day, Daily News reported.After the YouTube clip showing the young farang man walking with no clothes on went viral, police from the Chana Songkram police station went to inspect the scene late Monday night.Pol Lt Somyos Udomraksasup, deputy commander of the Chana Songkram police station, told Daily News that police officers from his station found the man on Khaosarn Road at 11pm Monday.The man appeared drunk and was spotted walking around with his shorts in his right hand and with nothing to imagination.Somyos said the man walked around and caused disturbance to Songkran revelers at the spot with unacceptable behavior.Police found out that he is a Briton and is 25 years old. Somyos declined to give the name of the man.The Briton was told to put on his shorts and the officers fined him Bt100 for acting indecently in public place and released him.Following the incident, the Chana Songkram station stepped up measures to keep order on the Khaosarn Road, Somyos added.After the news of the Bt100 was reported, several Thai Facebook users posted comments on Daily News page, criticizing police for their "too lenient" action.For example, Pijuk Singtogeaw, a Facebook user, said Thais were fined Bt500 each for exposing their breast but the Briton was fined only Bt100.Another Facebook user, Burana Kobutr, said the fine was worth the publicity the Briton had received.Nong Fai said in a post that the man should have been banned from entering Thailand for six months.
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Bangkok:- The first monorail system project of Bangkok to link Ram Indra Road to Tha Phra intersection has cleared the public hearing process and its environmental impact assessment is expected to be approved by the Cabinet in six months, a Bangkok deputy governor said.Amorn Kijchawengkul, deputy governor of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, said the 39.91-kilometer-long monorail system linking North to South Bangkok received warm welcome from Bangkok residents during the public hearing process.Most people expressed support for the BMA to build the system to alleviate traffic congestion in the capital, he said.Now, the BMA is in the process of complying an EIA report for the BMA governor to submit to the Cabinet for an approval. The complying of the report may take about six months.If the Cabinet gives a nod to the report, the BMA will consider a method of investment.Amorn said the BMA is likely to invest on the system and hires its own firm, Krungthep Thanakom, to run the system so that the BMA can set the fare rates.He said if the BMA seeks co-investment from private firm the project may be delayed as there will be several legal hurdles for a joint investment.If everything goes well along with the plan, the system will operate in 2019 and the system is expected to transport 128,000 trips of passengers each day by 2021.The monorail system is planned to have 39 stations starting from the Ram Indra-Pradit Manootham Intersection. It will run along the Chalongrat elevated expressway to Soi Thonglor then to Rama IV Road at the Klong Toey market, Sathorn Road, Narathiwat Nagarind Road. It will then turn to Rama III Road and cross the Chao Phraya at the Rama III Bridge and pass through the MahaiSawan Intersection to Ratchadisek and Tha Phra Intersection.
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Mukdanan:- After living with the nature up on a mountain alone for more than one decade, a 74-year-old man has finally reckoned that he will have to come back to his hometown and surround himself with human neighbors once more.“I am no longer agile. I need to take painkillers regularly now,” Duang Klongklaew told Thairath on Wednesday as he was eagerly looking forwards to seeing his children during the Songkran Festival.Thais have celebrated their traditional New Year during the Songkran, which runs from April 13 to April 15.Duang is often dubbed “Man in the Hole” for having lived inside a small cave without modern-day facilities. To enter this cave, he has to kneel down and crawl in. His cave has a strong natural fence, which is made of countless trees. For his living, he collects forest produce and grows some plants.This man had stopped living among human fellows at Ban Toomwan, Tambon Pho-ngarm, Kamcha-i district, Mukdahan province, after his wife passed away and all his children were grown-up. He feels the nature gives him more comfort and peace of mind.While Duang is happy living in the arms of nature, he feels he will have to come back to his old village soon.“It’s not easy for me to move around anymore. So, it’s best to come back,” he said after a community leader offered to build a small one-story house for him.During the Songkran, Duang also received a visit from one of his children.Porn Klongklaew, 45, said he had now lived in another district but of course wanted to visit his father during this important festival.
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Prachuap Khiri Khan:- Two Chinese tourists were killed and another badly injured when they were hit by a speeding car in Mueang district late Wednesday night.The car did not stop at the scene but it dragged a body about 200 meters away before it stopped about 2 kilometers from the spot, police said.The two killed victims were identified as Xi Jangwang, 48, and Jang Honglieng, 64. Wor Xuefong, 69, was badly injured and was rushed to the Prachuap Khiri Khan Hospital.Pol Capt Sathit Duangdee, an officer on duty of Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan police station, said the accident happened shortly before 11 pm when he was alerted.It occurred at the Phetckasem-Koh Lak Intersection in Tambon Koh Lak in front of the Prachuap Sam Ao Hotel.When Sathit and rescuers from the Sawang Prachuap Thammasathan rushed to the scene, they found Wor and the body of Xi. Eyewitnesses told them that another body was seen dragged away by the car.Some 30 rescue officials checked the road between the spot and the Prachuap Intersection, which is about 2 kms away, and they found the body of Jang in the roadside bush about 200 meters away from the crash site.Police later found the Toyota Soluna with badly damaged hood and broken windshield in front of a garage about 50 meters from the Prachuap Intersection.Its driver, Thanuwat Chamnij, 56, was waiting for police there.Xi’s son told police that the family came from China’s Yunnan to visit the southern Thailand during the Songkran holidays. They dropped by to stay at the hotel because it was late at night.He said is mother and uncles crossed the road to dine at a roadside restaurant and were crossing the road back to the hotel when the accident occurred.
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Bangkok: - The Treasury Department plans to evict about half of 128 resorts on Koh Tao, Surat Thani.Barely 10 per cent of buildings and plots have legal sanctions while most resorts do not have proper land lease agreements, department director general Chakkrit Parapanthakul said.Chakkrit was speaking after his inspection of treasury plots on the island, a popular destination for foreign tourists.He said the plots were designated for residential use for island settlers some 30 years ago. But a large number of plots had been subleased to resort operators, he said.In regard to settlers who encroached on the banned zone, he said he would consult relevant agencies before deciding whether to evict them.A number of resorts encroached on the watershed areas. Certain resorts were built on plots banned for public places.The cost of "illegally" leasing Koh Tao plots soared to about 30 million baht per rai despite the lack of land ownership documents.The department has set a highest priority to evict resorts built in watershed areas and mountain slopes. The built outside the designated zone for public places would also face eviction.For those resorts without proper land lease agreements but built within the proper zoning, the department will negotiate a new lease with the operators.The Surat Thani tourism office has estimated that visitors spend some 6 billion baht per year on the island.All plots on the island are under the department's jurisdiction. Koh Tao is a popular destination for divers.The island has 4,000 rooms for tourist accommodation and 45 diving centers.
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Bangkok: - Police have arrested five teenagers involved in the bombing incident causing injuries to two garbage collectors.The explosion occurred on Tuesday at a housing estate on Sukhumvit 101/1 Road.Two garbage collectors found a suspicious object at the dump site. They tried to check and accidentally detonated the home-made "ping pong" bomb.One victim lost a finger and another sustained injuries in the leg.Bangna police tracked down the five-member gang after checking the security camera footage.The five, aged 16 and 17, admitted they were bomb makers.They said they used explosives from firecrackers to assemble the bomb. They learned about making bomb from the Internet and older gang members.They planned to use the bomb in "self-defence" if they were attacked by a rival gang during Songkran festival.But the week before Songkran, they had a street fight with the rival gang and police intensified road checks around the housing estate.For fear of being discovered for bomb possession, they left the bomb at the dump site intending to retrieve it later.They said they thought they had "properly" hidden the bomb and that they just wanted to deal with the rival gang.They claimed to have no intent to hurt anyone other than their rivals. They also said they were not involved in politically-motivated incidents.Pending the completion of police report, the five suspects face a preliminary charge for illegal possession of explosives.If convicted, the punishment is one to 20 years in jail and a fine ranging from 2,000 baht to 40,000 baht.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A Chinese woman was robbed by a pillion-rider bag snatcher in Pattaya late Tuesday night police said.Pol Maj Piyapong Ensarn, a tourist police officer of Pattaya, was alerted of the robbery at 00:10 am Wednesday.The woman, Weisu Yin, 51, and friends fielded complaint at the community police booth on Soi Phettrakul in North Pattaya.Piyapong rushed to the booth to find frightened Weisu. She was holding on the strap of her handbag. The bag had been snatched away by a pillion rider.She told Piyapong through an interpreter that her passport was in the bag and she also had about Bt40,000 in Thai, Chinese and Hong Kong banknotes in the bag.Weisu told the police officer that she was walking back to her hotel on Soi Burana in North Pattaya with seven friends of the same tour group when she was robbed.She said she saw two Thai teenagers on a motorcycle parked at the power pole in front of the soi. Briefly after her group walked into the soi, the motorcycle sped after her group and the pillion rider snatched her bag and fled the scene.She said her friends tried to run after them but failed to catch up with the motorcycle so they ran for help at the police booth.Weisu said she was scheduled to return to China Thursday so she was very worried as her passport had been lost.Piyapong alerted all police units in Pattaya about the motorcycle. He said police will check feet from security cameras in the area to try to locate the robbers.
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Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan:- A speeding Benz sports car driven by a British tourist crashed into a motorcycle at U-turn in Hua Hin town, killing a border patrol policeman early Wednesday.[Photo credit: Khaosod Online]Pol Lt Nonthawat Thongkham, an officer on duty of Hua Hin police station, said the accident happened on the outbound Phetkasem Road at the U-turn spot in front of the Hua Hin Hospital at 2:40 am.After alerted of the accident, Nonthawat and rescuers of the Sawang Hua Hin Thammasathan Foundation rushed to the scene.They found a two-door retractable-roof Benz car with Bangkok license plate at the scene. Its front was badly damaged and its airbags had been deployed. Its windshield was broken and its engine oil leaked but it did not catch fire.The car crashed into a Yamaha YZF-R3 300-CC blue motorcycle without a license plate. The impact hurled the motorcycle about 200 meters away from car. Several parts of the motorcycle were broken and scattered at the spot.The body of Police Lance Corporal Wiroon Srinarong, 24, a border patrol policeman of Naresuan base in Cha-am district, Phetchaburi, was found at the scene.Nonthawat said the Benz was driven by John Benjamin, 44, a British tourist who suffered chest injury. He was rushed to the Hua Hin Hospital and received an x-ray and doctors put in under close watch for possible internal injury.Nonthwat interrogated Benjamin and learned that he was speeding his car from his residence in Cha-am to Hua Hin and the policeman made a u-turn at the spot suddenly, cutting into his way and making it impossible for him to stop his car in time.
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