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Bangkok: – An ex-monk has claimed his Chinese followers would pay him 20 million baht to demonstrate his black magic power derived from Kumarn Thong, the spirit of a stillborn, in China.Han Raksajit, aka Naen Ae, 55, said he is preparing to show black magic to Chinese followers, who believe in Kumarn Thong.Han said he did not commit any sinful act in regard to the ritual involving Kumarn Thong. The stillborn was already dead when he grilled the body to invoke its spirit for wielding supernatural power, he said.The ex-monk received the royal pardon for good behaviour early this month after serving nine of 20-year jail term.The pardon was granted to mark the 60th Birthday of Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.The then monk came to national attention in 1994. He was defrocked for practicing black magic.He was also convicted and sentenced to one-year imprisonment for defrauding the public.After his release, he lives as layman and practitioner of black magic.In 2005, he stepped into the limelight once again after women’s rights advocate Paveena Hongsakul filed a complaint accusing him of molesting and raping young women under the false pretence of ritualistic practice.Some 33 female victims gave their statement outlining in salacious details how he had sexually violated and abused them.After a year-long trial, the court found him guilty of charges relating to fraud and sexual violations.In the initial sentencing, he was penalised to serve 100 years in jail. Under the criminal procedures, the maximum jail term for combined fraudulent and sexual violations is 20 years.The high court confirmed the guilty verdict and the sentencing in 2010.Following his pardon, the ex-convict said he was firm on his belief to continuing the practice of black magic. He pledged, however, to abide by the law and not to prey on victims.
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Pattaya-resident farang draws ire from ThaisPattaya, Chon Buri:- A farang photographer who lives in Pattaya has drawn ire from Thais after he shared a satirical cartoon on his Facebook wall.The sharing of the cartoon and criticisms against Harris Black was reported by Naewna Online and some news websites.The cartoon with the title of “Do visit the real Thai!” displays five Thai main characters as paintings that are hiding what the cartoonist sees as the real things happened in Thailand.The first painting of happy farmers hide the oppression of farmers behind it while the picture of a Thai woman in traditional costume hides prostitution behind it.The painting of Buddha image hides murders behind it while a painting of wild animals and a painting of forests hide illegal poaching and illegal logging behind them respectively.After a lot of Thais posted comments to criticize him and tell him to go home, Black posted: “Dear peaceful Buddhists, I shared the cartoon. I did not make the cartoon. The point is to say our feelings, good or bad. Unless you are perfect, do not criticise me.”Nuanchan Junmana was among those who posted the comments. She posted in English: “Dear, if you not happy with my country, please back to your hometown or anywhere as you love. i love my country and very hurt from your share from small point of your view. i respect your opinion but you hurt many heart of thai people.. really sad.”But some Thais also posted messages in support of Black, saying there was no need to be angry as the cartoon reflected the Thai reality.Nattaphorn Bie Dokbunnak posted in English: “Sorry for commenting on your site, I know i'm not your FB friend, but I really do agree with this picture. I know this is not the whole of Thailand, but this is real. If some people think that really hurts, they should try to fix that problem rather than say this doesn't happen in this country. Forgive me for my English if this isn't perfect.”
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Ayutthaya:- A 18-wheel trailer truck crashed into a rear of a sedan car waiting for the green signal at an intersection Tuesday night, causing a pileup involving nine vehicles that killed the car driver and injuring 23 others.Pol Capt Wichien Chuchartharnsanthia of Bang Pa-in police station was alerted at 8 pm of the accident. He was informed that the accident happened on the Ayutthaya-bound Rojana Road at the Rojana Intersection in Tambon Samruen in Bang Pa-in district.Wichien and rescuers from the Ayutthaya Hospital and Ayutthaya Ruamjai Foundation rushed to the scene and found the trailer truck with Bangkok license having crashed into the rear of a Honda Brio car also of the Bangkok license plate.The impact caused the Honda car to crash into the rear of a bus in front of it, causing a chain reaction that resulted in the nine-vehicle pileup.
[Photo credit: Thairath Online]The Honda car was reduced into wreckage and its driver, Pitsanu Changmua, 33, was killed. Rescuers had to use iron cutters to remove the body.The trailer truck driver was badly injured and was unconscious. Police said 22 other people were also injured. They were rushed to the Ratchathani Hospital.Nirun Chanluang, 50, who drove a pickup truck that was caught in the pileup, said he was being stopped by the red light when he heard a loud bang and his truck was hit by a vehicle behind it.Montree Ronthee, 35, who witnessed the incident, said he saw the trailer truck driving in full speed to crash into the Honda car.Police said the trailer truck might had problem with its brake system so it could not stop at the intersection.
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Ratchaburi:- Relevant authorities are now inspecting the use of leased state property in Ratchaburi’s Suang Phueng district by 20 tenants following reports that they now intend to run a resort. There are concerns that blossoming tourism in the district may encourage some resort owners to encroach on forestland and public waterways.Initially, the tenants declared that they would use the state property as farmland.Deputy Ratchababuri Governor Pipat Ekkaphan says inspections have to date showed that some tenants have already started up resort services and encroached on adjacent forestland.“Encroachers are required to dismantle their structures on forestland within 90 days and rehabilitate the area too,” he says.Earlier this month, soldiers demolished vacation cottages at the Suan Phueng Resort – the biggest hotel in the district - after the Treasury Department cancelled the lease contract.The cancellation took place after the tenant was found to have encroached on more than 10 rai of land.Spanning over 200 rai of land, the resort even included a small amusement park.The resort officially stopped its services on March 25, according to its Facebook page. It has offered to refund customers who have already paid for the advance bookings.
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Bangkok: – About one in four hire-purchase applications for cars and condominium units would likely be rejected as financial institutions try to prevent the problem of non-performing loan.Industry sources said the stringent loan review is deemed necessary for two reasons – rising household debt and economic doldrums, Prachachart Turakij reported.Kasikorn Leasing has conceded that its leasing portfolios are below target for the past two months. Its loan rejection rate stands at 30 per cent.From January to February, car sales were 13 per cent lower than the same period last year.The economic recovery is slower than expected and the household debt has soared to 85.9 per cent with the projection to further rise to 89 per cent by the year’s end.Loan applicants without fixed income, such as street vendors, farmers and small retailers, are hardest hit in term of passing the credit review.The average rate for non-performing loans is at 3 per cent for the auto hire purchase industry.Thai Hire Purchase Association chairman Anuchat Deeprasert said the rejection rate for auto hire purchase has increased from 10 per cent in 2013 to 20 per cent this year.The repayment period has been cut from seven years to five and leasing companies would demand tougher conditions, such as having a guarantor before approving the loan.Housing loans are likely to grow below five to six per cent this year because some 40 per cent of applicants have been rejected due to credit risk, CMIB executive Orn-anong Udomkantrong said.The bank’s housing loan approval rate is about 1 billion baht per month, a sharp drop from 2 billion baht per month, she said.Real estate developers expect the slow-down in housing loan approval to continue into next year.
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Chiang Mai:- A Malaysian man was arrested Tuesday for having stealing a big bike motorcycle from a farang and his Thai wife in Chiang Mai’s Hang Dong district.Pol Maj Gen Banthit Tungkhaseni, commander of Chiang Mai Immigration Police, said Tan Hou was arrested at a hotel in Chiang Mai’s Fang district.Banthit said Tan found a post of Gary Schack that he wanted to sell his Kawasaki Z1000 motorcycle for Bt460,000. Banthit said Tan pretended to want to buy the motorcycle and came to the couple’s house on Sunday and asked to test-ride it.He deposited his identification card as a guarantee and fled off with the motorbike, an expensive helmet and expensive gloves of Schack.Banthit said it turned out that the ID card was a fake one. The immigration police had learned from Malaysia that the man had committed similar frauds in more than ten cases in Malaysia.The Thai police would coordinate with Malaysian police regarding to the legal actions against Tan, Banthit added.Banthit Tuesday summoned Schack and his Thai wife, Sairung Schack to testify against the Malaysian man.Before police could arrest the Malaysian man, Sairung’s sister, who uses a Facebook name of Koonae Tayana, posted on her wall, asking for help and tips from other Facebook users on the whereabouts of the man.The sister recounted that the Malaysian man took a taxi to Sairung’s house in the Home-in Park housing estate in Tambon Nongkwai on Sunday and asked to test-ride the bike.The post offered a reward of Bt50,000 for information that would lead to the arrest of the Malaysian man.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri: An unidentified farang man has won a lot of praises from Thai Facebook users for collecting garbage littered on the Pattaya beach on Monday.A popular Facebook page for Pattaya residents, "We love Pattaya checkpoints", has posted four photos of a western man collecting garbage on the beach.The community Facebook page posted the photos on Monday, saying the photos came from a member called Chokchai Sai-lee. The admin of the page asked for one “like” for the farang man.[Photo credit: We love Pattaya checkpoints Facebook page]So far, the post has won more than 82,280 likes and has been shared over 1,700 times.Chokchai did not identify the farang man. Many Pattaya residents said the pictures were taken after the late Songkran festival in Pattaya, which is called Wan Lai Pattaya. The Pattaya Songkran celebration was held from April 16 to 20.Many Facebook users commented on the post that Thais should be ashamed of themselves for littering so much garbage on the beach. Others thanked the farang for expressing his love for Pattaya. Some said although Pattaya is a popular tourist destination seaside town, it is very dirty.“Thais only want to have fun. They forgot about the beauty of the country,” Thip Natchaya Ngandee commented.“It’s very embarrassing that Thais made the country dirty and a farang tried to clean it,” Nunok Indy commented.Jakkrit Chainok said Thais have been raised this way so no one should be blamed. He added that Farang has been taught the otherwise.Pornthana Kitti said the man apparently could not stand seeing the dirty beach because he flew from a far away land to visit it.
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Bangkok:- To step up measures to protect passengers, the Harbor Department plans to amend three laws to require tourists and passengers to wear life jackets on both river and sea boat trips.Nat Jabjai, deputy director general of the Harbor Department, said the department is about to amend the laws so that it can issue a new directive to make life jacket wearing compulsory throughout trips.Once the directive is announced, passengers who use all types of public transportation boats on the sea and river as well as long-tailed boats on the rivers will be required to wear life jackets or else the boats will not be allowed to leave piers, Nat said.Boat operators who fail to makes sure that their passengers wear life jackets will face penalties that have yet to be determined, Nat added.He said passenger boats on the Saensaeb Canal, Chao Phraya shuttle boats, and dinner river cruise boats will be exempted from the compulsory life jacket wearing rule. But the boats will be required to prepare adequate life jackets or floating foam pads for passengers.“Earlier, passengers are asked to voluntarily wear life jackets. But from now on, it will be compulsory for them to wear the jackets. There will also be penalties meted out,” Nat said.He said the new rule is necessary because boat travelling is getting more popular.He said his department will amend the navigation on Thai waters act of 1913, the Thai ships act of 1938 and the act to prevent boat crashes of 1979 to empower the department to issue the new rule.
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Udon Thani:- A drunken monk hired a trishaw rider to deliver him to his temple but the rider instead sent him to a police station. He was defrocked immediately but insisted that he must demonstrate his “singing talent” to police before leaving their station.Phra Boonthan Chanthasutharo, whose layman identification is Boonthan Boonsong, 49, was delivered to the Mueang Udon Thani police station at 0:15 am Sunday.Pol Lt Thanakorn Phukhao, who was on duty at the station, said the monk appeared drunk and his breath had strong smell of alcohol.His ordainment certificate showed that he was a monk of Wat Mai Songpluey in Tambon Serpleu of Udon Thani’ Khumwapi district and he was ordained on February 8.The monk cried foul when he realized that he was at the police station instead of his temple.Police checked his blood alcohol level and found that he had up to 399 mg per cent blood alcohol content so police decided to defrock him.Realizing he was about to be defrocked, the monk asked police to sing a song first. After that, police called the Udon Sawang Methatham Foundation to provide layman clothes for him to wear.A layman Boonthan then told police that he used to be a singer of a local band in Udon Thani. He said he attended a funeral rite of a relative at the Nong Tao Lek community.After the praying rite ended and all guests had left, the monk stayed on. He said he saw relatives drinking so he joined them. He said he hired a trishaw to send him back to his temple and did not expect to end up at the police station.Police said Boonthan was ordained once earlier at Wat Nong Tao Lek but he was defrocked in May last year.
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Phuket:–Visitors should gradually immerse into the hot spring, a medical director said, reminding about the health risk for heat stroke.Hot spring is safe if visitors allow their body to adjust to the heat, Jessada Chungpaibulpatana of Vachira Phuket Hospital said.Jessada was commenting on a heat stroke patient who is in critical condition at the intensive care unit for about a week.The middle-aged man and his wife from Bangkok paid a visit to the hot spring in Krabi’s Khlong Thom district.The man leapt into the hot water while his wife slowly waded in. She and other visitors had to help him out of the water and rushed him to the hospital.The medical director said the patient has symptoms of heat stroke such as kidney failure, liver failure and poor blood circulation.What happened to the patient was like an egg quickly dropped into boiling water, he said.He said the patient has been on anti-biotic drugs aimed at reviving the internal organs to function again.But his condition is still critical and requires intensive care, he said.In Phrae, four people died of heat stroke yesterday as the temperature soared to 39.4 degree Celsius, police said.In Ayutthaya, police found a construction worker dead at his camp site.Witnesses said the worker was drinking heavily in hot weather before he suffered a shock and died.In SuphanBuri, police reported that a mason died of heat stroke while trying to repair a house under the strong sun.
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Bangkok: – The Finance Ministry expects economic recovery by the year’s end, arguing its fiscal revitalisation plans have started to yield results.The six-month performance report, scheduled to be released tomorrow, will clearly indicate that the economy is on track for full recovery, Rungson Sriworasat, permanent secretary for Finance, said.The ministry’s fiscal measures have been showing positive results with the only exception for exports, Rungson said.One of the positive indicators is the increase in value added tax revenues. The overall VAT growth for this year’s first quarter is 1 per cent.Based on VAT, the domestic consumption expands by 10.5 per cent. The VAT revenues from imports have dropped by 11 per cent, however, due to falling price of oil.The investment spending has been increasing as evidenced by the rise in the March sale of cement by 0.6 per cent.The imports of capital goods rose by 5.9 per cent last month.The disbursement of government spending has doubled in comparison to the same period last year. This is expected to spur economic activities leading out of the doldrums.Although the exports are seeing negative growth, the increased demands in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar have helped to cushion the impacts of weak demands in key markets like China and Europe.Thailand’s economic fundamentals remain strong. March tourism revenues have increased by 23 per cent.Anusorn Thamchai, dean of Rangsit University’s Economics faculty, voiced concern that the economic growth might be revised downward by 1 per cent if the political road map failed to be implemented by this year.The failure to implement the political road map would erode the investor’s confidence, Anusorn said.He warned that the country could see recession should the turmoil erupt again due to political fight over the transition to democratic rule.
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Bangkok:- During the past year, a hair stylist has made sure no more than seven customers get the services from his salon each day.Rattapak Bandhitchai, now 35, has still strictly enforced this unusual rule until today.“I am an artist. I don’t want to rush when working on customers’ hairstyles,” he tells Thairath.Haircut fees at his AKADE Hair Salon, which sits inside a housing estate in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao district, start from Bt700. Hair coloring and hair perm services are also available, at a much higher cost.Despite these high rates, the queue for the services is long.Some people need to wait for nearly one month before they can walk into AKADE hair salon.Rattapak learnt hair-cutting and hairdressing techniques since he was 14 years old. Before he started his own business, he worked for a very famous hair salon that operated inside a luxury mall.Ake does not put his hair salon in a prime location like that, though.“I’ve set up my salon inside my own home,” he says, “The fact that the salon is going well reflects that customers prioritize quality services. It means if you are good at what you are doing, customers will come to you no matter where you are”.Asked about his shop’s expertise, Ake says, “We are very good at providing Japanese short haircuts. With our services, customers will find it easy to set their hairstyle at home over the next three months”.
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Nakhon Nayok: A Chinese woman was arrested in Nakhon Nayok Monday and is facing a deportation for having illegally soliciting public donations.Cui Zigui, 59, was arrested on the Nakhon Nakyok-Dong Lakhon Road near the old Nakhon Nayok Market, Nation TV reported.Police found her carrying a piece of paper that has been properly sealed. The paper states: “Dear kind-hearted people, my husband has been hit by a car and his brain has been damaged. We have run out of money for his treatment. We have young children and we are poor. Please share your money to help us, thank you.”The woman has been spotted acting as a deaf-mute and using hand sign to beg for money.Police found her passport and learned that she arrived from Wuhan Tianhe on an AirAsia flight on March 9.Police had her called someone she knew and the person who answered the call said he was in Nakhon Ratchasima. Police tell the person to meet her at the Mueang Nakhon Nayok police station.The Nakhon Nayok Social Development and Human Security Office told police to seek the revocation of her tourist visa as she had violated the condition of country entry as a tourist and she has been earning money as a beggar.The Nakhon Nayok police then handed her over to the immigration police to process her deportation.Police said many Chinese people have been illegally soliciting donations by using the same trick with the woman –displaying a piece of paper in areas where there are a lot of people, especially at food shops.
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Phuket:- A Pakistani tourist drowned in a hotel’s swimming pool in Phuket’s Thalang district early Monday in what police believed to be a suicide.Pol Maj Santi Prakorbparn, an officer of Tha Chatchai police station, was informed by the Thalang Hospital that a foreign tourist drowned in a swimming pool of a popular hotel in Tambon Maikhao and the body has been sent to the hospital.Santi went to the check at the hospital and found the body of Shumyla Mir, 26. She was wearing white t-shirt and strip pattern trousers. A doctor said she died about one hour earlier.Santi checked with the hotel and found that the woman checked in with her husband, Altamash Jamal Mir, 38, on Sunday. The husband is a US citizen.The husband testified that he found that his wife chatted with her former boyfriend via Facebook chat so he quarreled with her and moved out of the room to stay alone in another room.Hotel staffs said they found the woman sitting and weeping in front of her room at 2:30 am Monday. They also found that the woman slightly cut her wrist.The staffs tried to convince the Pakistani woman to return to her room but she refused. She asked them to accompany her to try to find her husband.When they walked near the swimming pool, it rained hard and the woman sat down and cried and would not move. So the staffs returned to the front office to fetch her an umbrella.They returned three minutes later to find her body at the bottom of the pool. They gave her a primary resuscitation and rushed her to the hospital but shied died on the way.The husband said he would take the body for a religious rite in Pakistan.
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Samut Prakan:-The Suvarnabhumi Airport has banned two taxi drivers from taking up passengers from the airport ever again after they were found charging flat rates on Japanese tourists instead of using their meter.Dalat Assawet, deputy director of the airport, announced the ban against Nirut Phosri and Phanomyong Kaewamart on Sunday.She took the action after a long-time Bangkok resident, Koki Aki, posted on his Facebook wall that Suvarnabhumi International Airport taxi drivers did it again by charging his Japanese friends Bt600 and Bt750, excluding expressway fees instead of using their meter.Aki posted that 11 friends of him arrived at the airport at 6 pm on April 14. He said they used taxis from the airport taxi kiosk. The two taxi drivers refused to use their meter and took away the queue tickets.Aki called on the airport and the government to eliminate taxi drivers with unfair practice because it would affect the reputation of Thailand.In January, Aki made headlines after he posted on his Facebook wall that a taxi driver tried to charge him Bt700 for driving him from the Suvarnabhumi airport to Saphan Kwai instead of using a meter. The taxi driver was later banned from the airport.In the latest case, Dalat said an investigation found that Nirut charged 6 Japanese tourist Bt600 and Phanomyong charged the other five tourists Bt550. The charges include express fees, she added.The two taxi drivers explained that they opted to collect the flat rates because the tourists had a lot of belongings, which added a lot of weight to their taxis.Dalat said the refusal to use meter is illegal and it also violated the rules of the airport, so the two drivers will never be allowed to queue up at the kiosk again.
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Bangkok:- In a case that could serve as a warning to farang expatriates who own restaurants and bars in Thailand, showing pictures of beer bottles and glass with beer or liquor brands has led to a very hefty fine approaching half a million baht.The precedent ruling has been made against the Kacha Kacha restaurant at Asiatique in Bangkok.An executive of the shop, who uses a Facebook username of Ozawa Curry, has posted the ruling against his shop as a warning to others.The executive and the shop were fined Bt460,000 for the violation of the Alcohol Control Act of 2014 from July 30 to March 6 2015 or 220 days. The shop and the owner were fined Bt220,000 each plus an extra fine of Bt10,000 each.The shop owner posted that the South Bangkok Criminal Court made the ruling on March 24.The two defendants are now in the process of appealing against the ruling.The shop and the owner were charged in the court y the Office of Alcohol Control Committee of violating Article 32 and Article 43 of the Alcohol Control Act of 2014 and Article 83 of the Criminal Code by displaying beer bottles and beer glasses with brand logos in their restaurant menus.The two articles of the act prohibit any form of advertisement of alcoholic drinks or displaying brands of such drinks in any media.The owner of the shop posted on his Facebook wall that he believes the ruling against him was unprecedented as the normally the Office of Alcohol Control Committee reached out-of-court settlement with the violators after collecting the fines.
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Pattaya: – Yesterday saw the revellers surging to about 100,000 to take part in the Water Festival 2015 along the three-kilometer beach road stretching from North to Central to South Pattaya City.The Tourism Authority of Thailand has estimated that revellers spent 200 million baht for the one-day festival.By traditions, Pattaya would celebrate Songkran, known locally as Wan Lai, on the weekend following April 13.Vendors reported brisk business as revellers splashed water at one another along the beach road from morning to late night.TOT officials said this year’s activities were more colourful and festive than the previous year.Temperature soared to almost 40 degree Celsius, prompting revellers to drench one another.In Phra Pradaeng district, Samut Prakan, the local administration organised the water-splashing festivities, attracting thousands of revellers.Phra Pradaeng community is the settlement of Thai descendents of Mon ancestors migrated from Myanmar.Mon New Year celebrations are scheduled one week after Songkran.Thai and foreign visitors took part in the community-organised water splashing.Main roads, such as Suk Sawat, Khuen Khan and Pu Chao Saming Phrai were closed to traffic for a day.Some 600 policemen were deployed to keep peace and order.In Sa Kaeo, thousands flocked to spend the final weekend of Songkran to get soaked on a particularly hot Sunday’s afternoon.Many violated the Songkran ban on the use of powder. They also used buckets to throw iced water.No harmful incident was reported. And the authorities looked on the violations due to the overwhelming large numbers of alleged offenders.Road snarls were reported for inbound traffic from the North and the Northeast to Bangkok as yesterday was the final weekend for Songkran holiday.
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Amnat Charoen: –Police reported a suicide involving a trans woman who hung herself who appeared very festive after joining the water-splashing festival for the last time before her death.Captain Jen Wisetrum of Amnat Charoen police station checked the scene after the family alerted police to the untimely death.Jen found PatcharapaThaworn, 28, died with the noose around her neck and lied on the floor of her room.There was no sign of foul play.The victim’s father NikomThaworn, 56, told police that he cut down the rope before police arrived.Patcharapa was born his son who identified with the female gender, Nikom said.She got the sex change operation to become a complete trans, he said.She was popular and good-looking as attested by numerous awards won from beauty pageants for trans.She recently moved from her home in Mueang district to work at Warinchamrab district.There she met her boyfriend and they lived together.Just days before her return home to celebrate Songkran, her boyfriend broke up with her for another woman.She came home with a broken heart although she spent time having fun for the past two days. On the night before her death, she joined the festivities until almost midnight.In the morning, the father said she did not come down for breakfast prompting him and his wife to check and discover her suicide.He said he did not suspect his trans daughter to take her own life even though he was aware of her telephone call to the ex-boyfriend.The telephone conversation appeared heated but she looked ok and smiling before going out to join her friends for water splashing, he said.
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Bangkok:-A Thai couple have decided to have the body of their beloved daughter frozen in a hope that a future medical technology may be able to revive her.Born in February 2012, the girl or Matheryn Naovaratpon had suffered from brain cancer. Despite chemotherapy and several surgeries, the cancer progressed to a point that her parents realized that it would not be possible for her to beat the cancer with the world’s current medical technologies.“So, we contact the US-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation,” her father, Dr Sahatorn, says.Speaking to Matichon Online, Sahatorn says the body of his daughter is now kept in freezing temperature under the care of the foundation. Established in 1972, the foundation offers to use very cold temperature in preserving human life with the intent of restoring good health when technology becomes available to do so. The freezing services are provided only after the legal death.According to some reports, Sahatorn has given the foundation about Bt7million in exchange for the services. Matheryn is now the world’s youngest person to be cryogenically frozen.“It’s like she is hibernating. We may visit her sometimes,” Sahatorn says.He has reacted coolly to comments that, according to local superstitious beliefs, the freezing of a body will only trap a soul inside the body making it impossible for one’s soul to step forward into the next life.“I understand and appreciate the diverse comments. Such beliefs may exist but I don’t think they are already proven. I am looking at this from a modern perspective,” the father says.
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Loei:- A 95-year-old mother who can barely move had to stay with the body of her son for about six days after the son died of his chronic illness, police said.The head of Na E-lert village in Tambon Wang Saphung in Loei’s Wang Saphung district happened to learn of the tragic incident when he led some villagers to the house to ask for donation.Suwit Khamphalar, the village head, called the Wang Saphung police station at 7:30 am to report the incident.Suwit told police that when he arrived at the house he and other villagers felt strong stench from inside the house. He and the villagers decided to breke into the house and they found Ob Sisook inside the bedroom with the body of Paiboon Sisook, 56.The old woman appeared fatigued with weak pulse as she had nothing to eat.The villagers took her out of the house and tried to give her some foods and water but she could not tell what happened.Police, a doctor on duty and rescuers from the Sawang Khiritham Loei Foundation rushed to the scene. They found the decamped body in the bedroom. The doctor estimated that the man had died about six days earlier.Boon Boonmachom, 65, who is familiar with the family, said the woman has four children. Three have moved away to live with their own families while Paiboon, who had several chronic ailments, stayed home to take care of his mother.Local villagers said they saw the house closed for four to five days but they did not sense something wrong as they though the family might leave home to make a Songkran travel.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- Two Chinese tourists rent a jetski to ride around Koh Lan but it sank, prompting them to struggle in the sea for over five hours before they were rescued, police said.The Chinese couple were identified as Liu Zheng, 30 and Hu Cheng Feng 21.Officials of the Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Pattaya Foundation were alerted at 6 pm Saturday by a fishing boat that the two tourists were spotted floating with life vest in the sea between Koh Lan and Koh Sak in Tambon Naklua of Bang Lamung district.The fishing boat did not pluck the couple from the water but alerted the foundation that in turn contacted the Pattaya marine rescue unit to dispatch a speed boat to rescue them.The marine rescuers found the two in their swimming dress and with life vest on. They appeared fatigued.They were plucked from the sea and rushed to the Bali Hai pier on the Pattaya coast.The two told the rescuers that they rented a jetski at 1 pm and was riding it around Koh Lan when it sank.The couple said a fishing boat happened to pass by at 6 pm so they called for help.The marine rescuers took the two to report the incident at the Pattaya police station and they were later sent back to their hotel on Koh Lan.With clean and clear sea, Koh Lan which is off the Pattaya coast, is a popular destination for Chinese tourists.On Friday, Wu Long You, 71, a Chinese tourist drowned at the popular Tawaen beach on Koh Lan.
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Koh Samui, Surat Thani:- The Surat Thani provincial governor Sunday issued an ultimatum for the Samui Municipality to hire a new firm to dispose over 200,000 tons of accumulated garbage by Saturday.The governor, Chatpong Chatphum, threatened to have the National Council for Peace and Order chief invoke Article 44 to give him the power to take the problem into his own hands if the municipality keeps dragging feet in hiring a new contractor to dispose the garbage.The stench from the huge pile of 200,000 tons of garbage on the tiny tourist-destination island, known in the past as a paradise island, prompted local people to file complaints with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who is also the NCPO chief.The prime minister told the provincial administration to tackle the problem within a month.Chatpont said the Samui Municipality must sign a contract to hire a new firm by Saturday so that the garbage would be transported to a landfill on the mainland of Surat Thani. He said the transport of garbage to be buried on the mainland must be done in six months.The governor said the transport of garbage to a mainland landfill would not contaminate the sea because the garbage would be transported in containers that waste water could not seep out.After the previous contractor failed to dispose the garbage in line with the contract, the municipality cancelled the contract and planned to hire a new contractor. However, ensued legal dispute prompted the signing of the contract to be delayed by about six months now.New garbage is accumulating on the island at the rate of 140 tons per day and more than 200,000 tons have piled up during the past two years.
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Bangkok:- A 52-year-old white South African man has been arrested for allegedly selling ‘ice’ drug, ecstasy and ketamine pills as well as cocaine and sedative pills to patrons of gay bars in Patpong and Silom areas.Police from Yannawa police station and officers from the Third Cavalry Battalion arrested Roland Van Del Brox at his room on the 34th floor of the Silom Suite Condo on Soi Sathorn 12 off North Sathorn in Bangkok’s Bang Rak district at 10 am.The officials seized 151.35 grams of crystal methamphetamine or ‘ice”, 59 ecstasy pills, 2.13 grams of cocaine, 203 Alprazolam strong sedative pills, and 2,550 grams of gamma-hydroxybutyrate or GHB date rape drug from his room.Brox and the drug were presented at a press conference on Saturday.The joint operation of police and troops was made after officials have learned from tips-off that the white South African man has been selling the drug to patrons of gay bars on Soi Patpong and on Silom Road for some time.The man told police that he has been living in Thailand for five years. He said he initially bought drug from bars in the area and he decided to sell the drug himself last year.He said he got the drug from a Myanmar man for pushing in the bar. He said the drug sold very well during the long Songkran holidays.Police charged Brox with having the first and second categories of narcotics and the second category of drug that affects the nerve in possession with intent to sell.
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Bangkok: – The Transport Ministry is planning to buy 500 electric buses to service Bangkok commuters after a study shows a lower maintenance cost in comparison to NGV buses.The procurement proposal would soon be submitted for the approval of Transport Minister Prajin Juntong.Pongchai Kasemthavisak, deputy permanent secretary for Transport, said the price tag is 4.5 million baht per NGV bus while the electric bus would cost 15 million baht each.But in the long run, the 20-year operating and maintenance cost would be 34 million baht per NGV bus and 30 million baht per electric bus.Pongchai said the buying of 500 electric buses would be part of the procurement plan for 2,694 buses for Bangkok Mass Transit Authority.The ministry is in the process of overhauling the BMTA bus fleet. The first procurement order has been finalised for 489 NGV buses due for delivery in June.Prajin said the June delivery date might be revised due to time constraints on the part of suppliers.He also stated that the planned procurement might be amended to include other energy-efficient buses and not just NGV buses.In another development, the Finance Ministry has plans for the commercial development of three plots in Bangkok in order to rescue the debt-ridden State Railway of Thailand.The SRT has asked the ministry to intervene and write off the 80 billion baht debt.In exchange for the ministerial rescue package, the SRT has agreed to turn over the 490-rai plot in Makkasan.After a plot survey, the ministry said the Makkasan plot would generate no more than 50 billion baht in concession revenues as the development has to set aside areas for public park and reservoir.The State Enterprise Policy Office has approved the request for the SRT to hand over two additional plots, one located behind the Energy Ministry in Chatuchak and another on Chuea Phlerng Road near Chao Phraya River.The ministry expects the revenues generated from three prime plots to resolve the SRT’s financial plight.
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