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Bangkok: – The Teachers Council of Thailand will take proactive steps to improve on morals and professional ethics as sexual misconduct has remained the topmost complaint since last year.Teachers are to face strict enforcement of disciplinary and ethics standards, TCT chairman Paitoon Sinlarat said.The council has scheduled to organise a training programme designed to remind teachers of the obligations to remain virtuous and to uphold the integrity of their profession.Each education service area office will be responsible for nominating teachers to attend a series of the council-sponsored training.The council will also compile and distribute a new handbook detailing case studies of professional violations involving teachers and school administrators.The case studies include sex-related misconduct, teaching without professional license and school financial cheats.Last year saw five disciplinary rulings – three leading to license suspension and two resulting in license cancellation.Grounds for suspending teachers for three months included slapping a student in the face, physical assault causing bruise by twisting a student’s ear and using a ruler to hit 79 times causing inflammation in a student’s hand.One male teacher was banned from the teaching profession after he molested a female student. Another teacher had the license revoked because of stealing the religious donations while working as a volunteer at a Buddhist temple.Of the total complaints filed on teachers, almost half are related to sexual violations.Complaints involving male teachers are mostly about marriage cheats and molesting and raping minors.Other disciplinary charges include the involvement in drug trafficking, theft, fraud and physical assault related to drunken brawl.
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Sukhothai:- The Sukhothai provincial administration has joined hands with the Thailand Research Fund and Naresuan University to develop a smartphone app that will help foreign tourists learn more about the ancient capital of Sukhothai.The app was officially launched on Saturday at the Sukhothai Historical Park in a ceremony chaired by Prasom Charnchaikittikorn, deputy mayor of Tambon Old Town Municipality.Apart from the TRF and university, the app development was also supported by the Office of the Area Based Collaborative Research and Development for Lower Northern Provinces.Prasom said the app was developed by a research team from Mobile Computing Lab of Naresuan University’s Faculty of Sciences. The team is led by Dr Anthony Harfield and Dr Ratchada Wiriyapong.The app is available for both iOS and Android devices and it has dual languages of Thai and English.The app is aimed at allowing tourists to learn more about the Sukhothai Historical Park in a form of adventure game.The app leads users to rediscover the Siam of 800 years ago. Users will learn about the history while having fun travelling around Sukhothai Historical Park and the local area.In its Explore and Learn section, users will uncover stories from the Sukhothai period and find out what is left of the Sukhothai Historical Park today.Then, users can test their knowledge of historical Siam by undertaking quests to earn points and unlock trophies. With each success, a new location is uncovered on the Sukhothai map.Tourists can compete with family, friends and other visitors to Sukhothai, and compare their ranking with people from all over the world.
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Ayutthaya:- Online social networkers strongly criticized a 58-year-old female teacher in Ayutthaya after seeing a YouTube clip in which she used a shoe to gently slap the cheeks of her pupils.In the clip, the teacher was seen waiting at the door of her classroom waiting for her pupils to leave. Her students walked past her one by one and she tapped each on the left cheek with a shoe in her right hand.It was heard in the clip that several students did not want to leave the room at the moment because they were reluctant to be anointed with the teacher’s shoe.“If you don’t want to leave, I’ll wait here. I’ll wait until 6 pm,” the teacher told the remaining students, and she then sat down on a chair waiting her pupils to leave the room.Several online users questioned whether the teacher had done the right thing in line with the teachers’ ethic.Khaosod Online later identified the school as the Ayutthaya Nusorn School in Ayutthaya’s Muang district. Khaosod identified the teacher as Sukanya Lorprasert, who teaches a social study class for Grande 11 students and who is also in charge of student administration.Sukanya told the Khaosod reporter she has seen the video clip and she was sorry for what she has done.Sukanya said she did not mean to humiliate or punish the students at all. Instead, she loves them as her own children and she would like them to remember her teachings during the past year.She said the students came to receive their school report for the final exam that day before passing to the Grade 12. And students in the class were rather naughty students, she added.She said she has told them earlier that she would touch their cheek with her shoe on their last day in the class so that they would remember her teachings. She said she had cleaned her shoe with her own blouse before doing it.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- Pattaya police rescued a Chinese tourist who stood in the middle of the Pattaya-bound motorway Early Monday in an apparent suicide bid.The tourist was identified with his passport as Wang Wei, 25. He refused to talk to police why he was standing in the middle of the road.Pol LC Tornnikarn Wajjana of Nong Plua police station in Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district spotted the tourist standing with apparent absent mind on the Pattaya-bound No-7 motorway in Tamobon Nongplua. The policeman was guarding the road for a VIP motorcade at about 0:10 am.Tornnikarn said he rushed to evacuate the man from the road. The policeman said the Chinese tourist would not utter a single word but his face clearly showed that he was under tension.The policeman checked the Chinese tourist’ bag and found his passport which showed that he entered the kingdom on March 1. His visa will expire on March 15.There were also 2,300 Chinese yuan and Bt1,200 in banknotes in the bag but all the notes were torn in half.After Torrnikarn and other policemen completed the mission of guarding the road for the VIP motorcade, they took Wang to the Nongplua police station and summoned a Chinese interpreter to help police interrogate the tourist.Police tried about two hours to find out what Wang’s problems were and what police could do to help him but the man only shook his head. He appeared sad and only said he no longer wanted to live.Nongplua police chief Pol Col Pramote Ngampradit said the man would be handed over to the Pattaya tourist police to take care pending further help from the Chinese embassy.
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Bangkok:- A 30-year-old Russian tourist was arrested early Monday for allegedly clubbing a security officer of a Bangkok temple to death, police said.Pol Lt Phairoj Suwanmanee of Bang Rak police station, said Nikolai Zhilin was arrested shortly before 1:30 am after he allegedly smashed the head of Prajak Sutthiketkan, 27, who worked as a security officer of Maha Pruettaram Temple.Phairoj, an interrogator on duty of the police station, was alerted at 1:30 am that a Russian man was caught by local residents after he allegedly killed a security officer of the temple.Phairoj, scientific crime defection officers and Ruam Katanyu Foundation rescuers rushed to the temple and found the body of Prajak with serious wound on his head. They found that the Russian man had been caught by the local residents and the tourist could not communicate with police officers as if he were insane.Prajak’s girlfriend, Linda Singharaj, 29, told police with her eyes brimming with tears that she worked as a worker of the temple in charge of the car park. She said she closed the gate to the car park at midnight and then she heard glasses breaking from inside the car park.When she rushed to check, she found a farang using a steel pipe to hit a pick-up truck’s windows.She said she told the man to stop but he turned to attack her with one-meter-long pipe. She ran and cried for help and Prajak rushed to her rescue.Prajak told her to call police but he was knocked down by the farang who then repeatedly hit his head. The Russian climbed over the fence to flee but he was caught by local residents.Bang Rak police chief Pol Col Nakhon Thongphanit said Zhilin entered the kingdom on March 2. It was still not known why he made the attack, Nakhon said.
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Chon Buri:- A former national athlete yesterday brought a procession of dowry worth over Bt2million to the love of her life.Chanat Khamnet, 32, counts herself as a groom when asking for the hands of Naruemon Mungha-ngerm, 24, from the latter’s parents at her home in Chon Buri.The dowry includes Bt400,000 cash, 0.3 kilo of gold ornaments, a diamond ring, a pair of diamond earrings and a Toyota Fortuner vehicle.Chanat, a master-degree-holding lecturer at the Wandee Culinary Art Technological College, met Naruemon three years ago at her old workplace - a Chon Buri-based campus. The latter was back then a student.“When she smiles, my whole world brightens,” Chanat said about why she fell for Naruemon. She has also appreciated the fact that Naruemon is calm and optimistic.They had been dating for years. Thus after Naruemon graduated from her university and got a job, Chanat has decided it’s time to ask their families for permission to get married.“They agree with us. So, I have decided to arrange the wedding in line with traditions,” Chanat said. Her mother and a deputy dean of the college joined the dowry procession.Naruemon said she was happiest on her wedding day because she could feel Chanat’s true love.“The fact that we are both female is not important. She’s the one I know I can trust, the one who can take care of me throughout the rest of my life,” the bride said. Chanat is a former player for the national softball team.
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Bangkok: – Transport Minister Prajin Juntong has instructed relevant authorities to initiate talks with their counterparts aimed at expanding bus services to Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.By this month, Thailand will start negotiating with Malaysia in order to launch bus routes to the southern neighbouring country, said PongchaiKasemthavisak, deputy permanent secretary for Transport.Presently, Thai authorities allow Malaysian bus to transport tourists across the border although Thai buses could not operate regular services to Malaysian destinations.The upcoming negotiations will focus on opening bus routes to Malaysia from five southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat, Pattani, Satun and Songkhla.The bus routes between Thailand and Malaysia are expected to boost tourism as well as facilitate the linkage of Asean Economic Community.In regard to planned talks with Cambodian counterparts, Thai authorities will propose to expand the quota for 400 passenger buses and trucks per day to cross border.Cambodia has allowed 40 Thai bus services per day to enter the country.Thailand is expected to hold talks for drafting the trilateral agreement designed to open bus routes linking with Laos and Vietnam.The three-country bus services would facilitate the flow of visitors between Thailand and Indochina.In another news report, 190 bus routes in Bangkok are to be revised in order to ensure seamless connections with other forms of mass transportation, such as commuter train and BTS and MRT services.Bangkok bus routes will be equally split between Bangkok Mass Transit Authority and private operators.The BMTA presently operates a larger share of 114 bus routes.
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Nonthaburi: – Bang Bua Thong police have launched a manhunt for burglary suspect who broke into a gold shop and fled away with 600 baht gold jewellery estimated to worth Bt14 million.Gold shop owner Chanyamayachu Yingsakul, 49, filed a police complaint reporting a break-in and a theft.She said she believed unidentified burglar or burglars had stolen all gold jewellery in her shop located in Bang Bua Thong district.The incident should have happened between 11.00 pm and 1.00 am on Sunday.After checking the scene, police found out that the gold ornaments were left overnight in the unlocked showcase and not put the safe.The suspect or suspects used the back entrance of the building, where the shop is located, to walk up to the third-floor roof top before climbing down the front of the building to the second floor.The front windows of the second floor were broken in order to gain access via the stairs to the gold shop on the first floor.All displaying cases were opened. Some 502 gold necklaces, 167 wrist laces, 22 bracelets and a mobile phone were reported stolen.No one heard or saw anything suspicious because the burglary happened via the back entrance and not the front facing a main road.The check on security camera detected a masked man taking away the gold.People living in the area told police that the man might be one of three construction workers who disappeared right after the incident.They said the man and fellow workers were from Shan State, Myanmar.
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Bangkok:- Police have busted a gang that has allegedly robbed eight 7-Eleven shops in Bangkok in three nights.The members of the G. Taisoi gang told police after the arrest that they hoped to survive the arrest and become legendary 7-Eleven shop robbers.Metropolitan Police Commissioner Pol Lt Gen Sriwarah Rangsipramkul said three members of the gang were arrested early Saturday. The three’s names were withheld because they are 18 years old, 17 years old and 16 years oldl.Channel 3 and Channel 7 reported that the gang leader, Theppithak Thongmaen, 19, was arrested Sunday so the entire gang was busted.A police source said the gang members admitted to interrogators that they robbed eight of ten 7-Eleven shops that were robbed recently. They robbed the shops in the nights of March 2, 5 and 6.After video footages of their robberies were aired on TVs, police received tips-off from some people that they recognized the jacket and crash helmets of the robbers.Police were informed that the gang members were renting a house on Soi Pridi Phanomyong 42 in Vatana district so they arrested the three younger gang members who implicated the leader.The gang members told interrogators that got themselves high by drinking certain anti-cough syrup before they went out to rob the convenient stores.They hoped that they would have remained elusive after many robberies so that they could become a legend.Police seized two homemade sawn-off shotguns, two knives and two motorcycles. They said they selected the shops that were quiet late at night or early morning.
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Samui, Surat Thani:- If nothing is done soon enough, the small island of Samui, seen as a paradise by foreign tourists, could turn into a heap of garbage soon, according to a briefing at an urgent meeting held Sunday.During the meeting held by Surat Thani Governor Chatpong Chatphume, more than 250,000 tons of garbage has already piled up on the small island, regarded by many foreign tourists as a paradise, especially decades ago before the tourism industry there boomed.The meeting at the Surat Thani provincial hall was also told that 150 tons more of garbage is made on the island each day.Chatpong held an urgent meeting after he has received complaints from local people that garbage has become a serious problem for them as the remaining waste is causing bad smell and affecting their daily life.The governor called representatives of agencies concerned to discuss possible solutions. The agencies included the Samui Municipality and the Surat Thani Natural Resources and Environment Office.The governor was told that the constructions of four integrated solid waste management plants that can dispose garbage with sustainability have not been done yet, causing the garbage to accumulate for two years.The meeting was told that the ever-growing pile of garbage could soon affect the tourism.Samui Municipality Mayor Ramnetr Jaikwang said four landfill sites of the municipality had already been used up and its garbage incinerator has been out of order.Ramnetr said the municipality has only one plot of land left for use as a new landfill but it will be used up in six months or no more than one year.The meeting resolved to set up a panel to speed up the construction of the four integrated garbage plants.
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Krabi: – Thai and foreign tourists flocked to Koh Lanta in Krabi Saturday evening to join the 12th Laanta Lanta Festival, an annual festival of the tourist-destination island.Vehicles formed about 3-kilometer-line waiting for the queue to use the ferry service at Huahin pier in Tambon Koh Klang in Koh Lanta district to cross to the island to join the festival. At peak hours, they had to wait about two to three hours.The festival was kicked off by Community Development Department Director General Kwanchai Wongnitikorn at 8 pm Saturday. The opening ceremony was participated by Krabi Governor Songpol Sawatttham.This year, the festival, which is held at the Lanta Old Town until Monday, is held under the theme that the island used to be bustling with sea trade in the past.The festival shows the harmony of cultures of Thai Buddhists, Thai Muslims, Thai Chinese descendants and the Sea Gypsy people, who have different cultures but can live in harmony on the island.Songpol said the old way of life of the four groups of people and the preserved nature of the island draw a lot of tourists to visit Koh Lanta.The governor said tourism industry on the island has also been developed. Now, the island has 100 hotels and resorts with a total accommodation of 4,000 rooms.The festival venue is divided into 12 zones for tourist to observe the way of life and culture of local people.For example, tourists can observe the old way of life of Chinese people at the zone of Yao Sriwaraya Market and Tong Oi replica shrine. There are also dances of Muslim people, such as likae pa dance and kayong rong-ngeng dance.
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Bangkok:- More than 90 per cent of accommodations in northern provinces are expected to be booked during the long Songkran holidays from April 11 to 15, the Thai Hotel Association said.Surapong Techaruwijit, the chairman of the association, said it has been estimated that the hotel bookings during the Songkran holidays this year would be better than last year.The association expected that more than 90 per cent of accommodations in the North will be booked for the Songkran festival.Anuparp Thirarat, deputy TAT governor for tourism marketing, said the number of tourists visiting provinces nationwide during the Songkran holidays would also be higher than last year.He said the trend was predicted after he assigned all 35 TAT offices around the country to comply data of the booking of buses and planes and accommodations for the Songkran holidays.“It is primarily estimated that this year the number of tourists visiting provinces nationwide will be higher although they have concern about the economy,” Anuparp said.“Most of them will travel because they want to visit relatives or friends. Moreover, Thais, especially northeastern people, have a long-held tradition to stay with family on the Songkran Day.”He added that northern provinces are popular destinations for Thais for Songkran holidays, so the tourism there would be bustling.He said although the tourism growth during the Songran holidays this year would be less than 10 per cent, a lot of spending could be predicted because tourists normally buy a lot of souvenirs for families and friends.The Tourism Authority of Thailand Intelligence Centre (TATIC) has reported that in previous years, accommodations nationwide were booked at the average rate of 63 per cent, which generated about B16 billion of income.
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Bangkok: – The Cabinet is expected to debate the draft law for lands and buildings taxes, Finance Minister Sommai Phasee said, reiterating the government’s determination to levy land owners.Sommai said his ministry has finalised the draft tax rate, dismissing speculation that the drafting process has stalled or scrapped.The proposed taxes would exclude owners of under one million baht lands and buildings. Farmers would receive government assistance designed to shield them from tax impacts.The land tax would replace the property tax which is deemed inefficient tax collection at the rate as high as 12.5 per cent of valuation.Based draft provisions, any residential valuation of less than one million baht would have no tax liability.The house with the market value of less than three million baht would enjoy the tax reduction of 50 per cent. The normal rate is 1,000 baht per one million baht valuation and the actual tax payment will be 1,500 baht.Any house worth more than three million baht, the first three million would be taxed at the reduced rate of 1,500 baht and the remainder payment would be calculated on the rate of 1,000 baht per one million.The uncultivated farmland would be taxed no more than 0.25 per cent of market value and the levy would double every three years but not exceeding the maximum rate of two per cent.Tax exemption will be granted for lands under government agencies, Buddhist temples, public property, foreign embassies, the Red Cross, the Crown Property Bureau (limited to undeveloped plots), cemeteries and private ownership placed for government use.
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Ang Thong: – Police and social workers are interviewing 15-year-old boy and eight-year-old girl, who are cousins, before deciding the next step for legal proceedings.The father, 35, has filed a complaint at Mueang Ang Thong police station, charging the boy for committing statutory rape against his daughter.He cited the medical examination report saying his daughter sustained serious injuries in the genitalia. He asked police to arrest and punish the boy for three sexual assaults.After taking the preliminary statements from the respective families of the boy and the girl, police found that the two live and play together as cousins and neighbours.The child play turned foul around late January after the boy returned home from a temple stay following his ordination as Buddhist novice.The boy apparently convinced the girl to join him in a make-believe play that they were husband and wife.Playing his role as husband, he asked the girl to remove her clothes so that they could consume their marriage.In the first attempt, he and the girl engaged in heavy petting and could not have full sexual intercourse.Last month, he again molested the girl.On Thursday, the case came to light after he managed to rape the girl in the morning before sending her to school.A teacher alerted the respective families after talking to the girl who appeared pale and sick.The girl received medical treatments at the provincial hospital before her father reported the case to police.Ang Thong police superintendent Colonel Chutrakool Yosmadee said he would review the report from social workers before drawing a conclusion on charging and prosecuting the boy.
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Bangkok:- Dengue fever has already hit more than 3,700 people and caused three deaths in Thailand this year.Of all provinces, Rayong, Samut Songkhram, Krabi, Nakhon Pathom and Phet Buri have reported the highest number of dengue-fever incidences between January 1 and March 1.Because mosquitoes are the carriers of this dangerous disease, relevant authorities have now come up with a plan to rid possible breeding grounds for mosquito larvae every six to seven days. Mosquitoes can lay their eggs in still water including water in drip trays of tree pots.As precautions, people are advised to use mosquito repellent too.“If a mosquito bites a patient and goes biting another person, it spreads the disease further,” Disease Control Department’s director general Dr Sopon Mekthon says.According to him, symptoms will develop five to eight days after the infection. While people can recover with the help of some medicines and enough rest, some patients will need serious medical attention.“Having high fever of over 38.5 degrees Celsius for over two days, loss of appetite, and vomiting are bad signs,” Sopon says.While the number of dengue-fever cases usually soars in rainy season, the disease can hit people during any season of the year.Statistics show the disease has caused deaths in Thailand every year.In 2013, a total of 150,934 people had come down with dengue fever in Thailand. Of them, 133 died. The number of patients, on the overall, also doubled when compared with a year earlier.
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Chiang Rai:- A Belgian man was arrested while leading a group of tourists to have lunch in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Saen district Saturday.Pol Lt Pitpatchara Pitchayanan, deputy inspector of Chiang Saen Immigration checkpoint, said Bramewanden Bozer, 30, who carried a Belgian passport with 90-day tourist visa stamp, was charged with working as a tourist guide without a work permit.The deputy police chief was checking the tourist site in Sanmakhet village in the district when he spotted the Belgian using an amplifier device to talk to a group of tourists like a guide.Pitpatchara asked to see the work permit but the Belgian could not produce.Bozer admitted that he was leading a group of 23 Dutch tourists to visit the Golden Triangle in Chiang Saen and were taking them to have lunch when he was arrested. He said he was paying Bt1,000 to B1,300 a day.But after police charged him with working as a tourist guide without a work permit, Bozer argued that he was not a guide but he simply worked as an interpreter for the guide of the tour group.He was handed over to the Chiang Saen police station for taking legal actions against him.Pol Lt Wannachai Sukjaem, another deputy inspector of the Chiang Saen checkpoint, said his checkpoint had received a lot of complaints from Thai tourist guides that several foreign tourists had competed against them for tourist guide jobs.The Thai guides said the foreigners entered the country as tourists and then applied for jobs at tourist firms.Wannachai said several foreigners have been arrested – mostly in February – for working illegally as tourist guides.
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Krabi:- Two Frenchmen have been arrested in Krabi for having allegedly using fake credit cards to withdraw cash from ATM machines in Krabi and Phang Nga and having marijuana in possession.Farhemour Adrien Charles Baptiste, 22, and Fraaland Julen Patrck, 21, were arrested Friday and Krabin Police chief Pol Maj Gen Nanthadej Yoinuanl hled a press conference at 9 pm Friday to announce it.Police also displayed 200 white cards, which been written with data stolen from credit cards of western people, 48 grams of marijuana, and Bt200,000 in cash at the press conference. Police also seized a Toyota Yaris car with Bangkok license plate from the two.Nanthadej said police planned the arrest after several banks filed complaints with the Krabi Police head office that some foreign criminals were using fake credit cards to draw cash from ATM machines in Tambon Bosaen in Phang Nga’s Tabpud district and in Krabi’s Aoluek and Muang districts since January.Nanthadej said the fake cards have been written with information stolen with skimmer machines in Europe.The banks complained that over Bt3 million have been stolen so far.On Friday, police were informed again that fake credit cards were used in Krabi’s Muang district so police prepare teams for making the arrest.After police checked footage of the ATM machines, police saw the two men’s face and saw their car so police alerted all stations nearby to watch out for the vehicle.Later on, the Toyota Yaris was spotted in Tambon Aonang so police chased after it and stopped the car at the Aonang police booth. Police found the fake cards and the drug and the cash in the car.
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Ranong:- The Ranong provincial administration and local governments are developing the Tonson pier to make it as a staging point for visiting islands and sightseeing spots in upper northern provinces and in Myanmar.Ranong Governor Suriyan Kanchanasilp said he and the Ranong Administration Oraganization and Tambon Ngao Administrative Organization are upgrading the fishing pier to be a tourism pier.In the future, it may be further upgraded into multi-purpose port, the governor added.Suriyan said the Tonson pier has a potential to become a link to other tourist destinations in upper southern provinces and those on the Myanmar side.Moreover, the tourism business on Ranong’s side has been growing so the port will be developed in line with the province’s strategy to use tourism to drive its economy, the governor said.For the first phase of development which has been done, the Ranong Administrative Organization has allocated Bt6 million for upgrading the pier.Currently, the pier is used by local people who live on islands to dock their boats when they visit the mainland. Local fishermen also use the Tonson pier to unload their catches.The governor said the province now lacks enough tourism piers that are up to standard. He said the standard piers are crucial to make tourism businesses in the province sustainable.He said the small islands off Ranong’s coast have been declared the Ranong National Park so more tourists are expected to visit the islands, including Koh Payam and Koh Chang Nok.The governor said the development of the Tonson pier is divided into three phases. In the first phase, the waterways to the pier have been dredged. In the second phase, the wave embankment along the shoreline will be built and the port building will be built in the third phase.
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Koh Samui, Surat Thani:- A businessman, said to be an influential person on this popular tourist-destination island, was gunned down Friday night at a walking street fair.The shooting that happened at 7:40 pm caused panic to both Thai and foreign tourists who were shopping at the Borphud walking street.Panas Khao-uthai, 49, alias Tag Borphud, was shot six times in his back and he died on the way to the Ban Don Inter Hospital, police said.Panas was known to be an influential real estate developer. He also co-owned some restaurants on Koh Samui with some farang businessmen. He reportedly provided protection to farang businessmen who invested on the island.Pol Lt Col Pongkhachorn Sukkasang, an investigator on duty of the Koh Samui police station, said Panas and his employees were having dinner at the Karma Restaurant on the soi leading to the Borphud pier where he organized the walking street fair when two gunmen opened fire at them.Pongkhachorn said two employees of Panas were also injured. Chaiklom Kruaphakdee, 36, was shot in his left eye and Sunthorn Chumsai, 42, in his left arm.Footage from a security camera showed that two men walked to the shop and opened fire at Panas, cutting him down. They then walked to shoot him at pointblank before they fled the scene.An autopsy found that Panas was shot six times in his back.The sound of gunfire terrified both Thai and foreign tourists, who ran for cover.Police have stepped up checking at all piers on Koh Samui to try to prevent the gunmen from fleeing.
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Khon Kaen: – That "Pla Ra" and Thailand's Northeast are inseparable is a well-known fact. But in what dish does "Pla Ra" feature the most?One in two people in the Northeast would have plara somtam (papaya salad with fermented fish) in one of their meals for almost every day.Khon Kaen University has released a survey of Isaan lifestyle in 20 provinces of the Northeast.Isaan people rank Somtam as the most favourite dish. They have also listed four must-have items – mobile phone, television, refrigerator and motorcycle.About four in five people work within the area of their house registration. One in five said their work place is located outside the domicile.Barely two per cent said they would not eat somtam. The overwhelming 98 per cent said their meals included somtam, ranging from every day to at least once a month.Residents of town and rural areas equally rate somtam as their favourite.Seven in ten villagers would eat somtam daily. One in two town people would include somtam in their daily meal.Migrant workers living outside domicile have an average family size of four.Nine in 10 Isaan families have mobile phone, television, refrigerator and motorcycle, deemed the basic necessities for modern-day life.Almost 98 per cent of Isaan households have more than three mobile phones. Of those mobile phone users, three in five have smart phones, including tablets.In comparison to villagers, town residents are more affluent with mobile phone, car, air-conditioner, water heater and refrigerator.Villagers are keen to buy, in order of importance, mobile phone, television, motorcycle and DVD player.
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Phetchaburi: – Tha Yang police are investigating the killing of a Ratchaburi provincial councillor who was a suspect in the murder of a retired police officer.Suwat Phol-udom, 33, died of multiple gunshots, police said quoting the report on preliminary crime-scene checks.Suwat was shot three times in the nape of his neck, in the chest and in the right hand. All three nine-millimetre bullets exited his body and could be recovered at the scene.One bullet hit and lodged in the door of the victim’s pickup truck after exiting his body.Suwat’s wife Rasamee Pholngam, 30, told police that her husband was elected provincial councillor from Ratchaburi’s Ban Pong distrct.The victim and his family members were returning home after attending a seminar at Cha-am beach.On the way, the victim decided to stop for lunch and buying souvenirs at a popular rest-stop on Phetchkasem Road.Before the gun attack, the victim returned alone to his truck to get extra cash to pay the bill while his family members were in the shop, Rasamee said.Witnesses said the gunman drove a bronze-coloured pickup truck.A police checkpoint detained a driver who fit the description but released him after questioning.Based on police records, Suwat was released on bail in December.He was charged for putting out the contract for killing ex-police officer Colonel Withoon Phromprawat, 78, in Ratchaburi.Withoon was killed in a drive-by shooting in November in Ban Pong district. His body had more than 20 gun wounds.
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Phuket:- Three Russian men have been arrested for allegedly opening two ghost shops to steal from others’ credit card accounts using fake cards, police said Friday.The arrest of Stanislav Komarob, 34, Vitalii Korobkov, 39 and Panteley Akbash, 36, was announced at a press conference by Phuket Police chief Pol Maj Gen Patchara Boonyasit Friday.During the press conference at the Phuket Police head office, police displayed 33 fake credit cards, a credit card magnetic writer machine, a notebook computer and many credit card sale slips.Patchara said the three were arrested at the Maringa shop in Tambon Karon of Phuket’s Muang district.Police planned the arrest after they were alerted by Kasiksorn Bank that fake credit cards have been used on two credit card swipers at two shops, which are Maringa and Thai Herbal in Tambon Karon.Police staked out outside the two shops until 2 pm Thursday when they saw Komarob and Korobkov leaving the Maringa shop. Police said the other Russian was waiting in a car.Police came out from the hiding and searched the suspects and found fake credit cards.The three implicated another Russian, Vladimir Orlov who is still illusive. They said Orlov opened the two shops and obtained contracts with the Kasikorn Bank to use the two swipers at the shops.They then used fake credit cards with information of other people’s credit card accounts to make false purchases with the two swipers to transfer money to Orlov’s account.Police found that the two shops had no goods at all.Immigration police have been alerted to look for Orlov who may try to flee the country.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- Pattaya police and anti-international crime police have arrested three Frenchmen for having allegedly made and sold fake euro banknotes.Camille Cinerlli, 30, Elie Maghames, 28, and Alexander Jean la Rocca, 31, were accused of mailing the fake banknotes to their customers in several European nations by hiding them inside Thai cartoon books.Chon Buri Police chief Pol Maj Gen Nitipong Niamnoi and other senior police officers announced the arrest at a press conference Friday.Nitipong said the three were arrested Thursday after the French embassy’s police attaché sought help from the Thai police.The French embassy informed the Thai police that several parcels from Thailand that contained fake euro banknotes inserted in cartoon books were seized in France. The parcels were mailed from Pattaya.Following the information from the embassy, the Chon Buri anti-international crime center conducted an investigation and learned that the three Frenchmen had mailed several parcels to France and other European countries. Police also seized 105 fake euro banknotes from the parcels.Nitipong said police obtained an arrest warrant against the three from the Pattaya Provincial Court Thursday and they raided three houses where the three were staying and arrested them.The Chon Buri police chief said police seized 28 items of devices for making the fake notes.Nitipong said the three admitted that they have been collaborating in making and selling the fake banknotes.He said Cinerlli and Maghames learned how to make the fake notes from Internet and had downloaded an application for preparing files for making fake 50 euro notes.They save the files of the fake notes on flash drives and printed them with printers of la Rocca and Maghames, Nitipong said.They sold the notes at the rate of 15 to 17 euro per note to customers in France, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Germany and Greece, causing damage about dozens of millions of baht.
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Buri Ram:- A 72-year-old woman has decided to host her birthday celebration and her funeral, albeit mockup one, on the same day.Both events were held at the Traiphum Temple in Buri Ram’s Mueang district on March 4.“I just would like to make merits and remind everyone that lives are just illusory. We have to leave behind our lives one day,” Prapaporn Tiabsuwan said before she sat down in a coffin.The coffin was later carried around a crematorium three times, and finally placed on the crematorium.Prapaporn then handed out Bt430,000 donations to 43 temples, each receiving Bt10,000.More than 1,000 people showed up at the Traiphum Temple to attend Prapaporn’s birthday party and mockup funeral.The atmosphere outdoors was a party with plenty of foods and desserts for guests. But inside a temple pavilion, everything looked like a funeral. There were a coffin, a picture of Prapaporn placed in front of it, plus praying services. Most guests inside were dressed in white.Prapaporn said she had already consulted senior monks before staging the events.“They have assured me that it’s okay to organize the mockup funeral. I have a good intention anyway,” she said.While most people would never know who came to their funeral, Prapaporn believed she did know now.Prapaporn was born in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat. She, however, has settled down in the northeastern province of Buri Ram since 1981. Having no children, Prapaporn has seriously studied Dhamma.
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