NATIONAL NEWS from Surf 102.5 FM - Wednesday June 8 2022

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The Government has approved the Civil Partnership Bill, which allows same-sex couples to register their partnership. Prime minister Prayut said the new law is in response to global changes, and supports fundamental human rights that must be protected. The bill is due to be put to a vote in the House of Representatives.

 

Police are still looking for two men and a woman who they suspect of being involved in the transportation of more than 2 million methamphetamine pills, Two suspects already in custody were driving a truck that had escorted an ambulance filled with the drugs which managed to evade police, the two who owned the ambulance fled in a truck driven by another gang member.

 

A new change in rules will now Visitors from Saudi Arabia to obtain a 30-day visa on arrival, rather than the 15 day visa issued previously. The idea is to give a boost to tourism which will benefit with some 100 thousand Saudis expected to visit Thailand this year.

A taxi driver has been apprehended after being caught on a dash cam video beating a Chinese tourist with an iron bar, the two had been seen arguing before the attack, which took place in the capital, the driver is said to have confessed to police.

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Vietnam’s health minister and the leader of its capital city Hanoi were arrested yesterday, after both were accused of violating the ruling Communist Party's rules and allegedly causing losses to the state budget, 
Their arrests come amid an intensifying anti-corruption drive that was launched in 2016.

 

China has put an unmanned deepwater station through its paces in a major test at the bottom of the South China Sea. The test included connecting a laboratory to the base station which was powered for one week at a depth of 1,400 meters.

Chiang Mai: Cloudy some thundershowers  29C

Bangkok: Sunny partly cloudy 34C

Pattaya and SE: Bright but cloudy Dry 32

Phuket and the South: Sunny partly Cloudy Dry 30C 

 

Heavier rain to the far south

 

Hua Hin:  Sunny becoming cloudy perhaps and isolated shower later  32C,

 

 

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