NATIONAL NEWS from Surf 102.5 FM - Thursday September 1 2022

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A leading University professor warned that flooding over the next three months will be as severe as in 2011, with water levels expected to reach a depth of at least one meter.

Global experts expect the Thai Capital will sink completely by the year 2100.

However Bangkok's governor Chad-chart Sittipunt says he is optimistic he can make Bangkok one of the world's 50 most liveable cities in the next five years. 

 

A Thai woman filed a complaint with police about being tricked into working for a romance scam in the Philippines, she said she was handcuffed and beaten, had electric shocks and was waterboarded, she was released after paying 100,000 baht.

The 28 year old said she was offered a job to talk with clients about crypto currencies but found around 40 other thai and other nationals being detained by guards and a chinese employer.

The woman eventually managed to contact the Thai Ambassador who managed to free the remaining captives.

Doctors are trying to determine whether the hair loss of a nine-year-old girl  is linked to two doses of Covid-19 vaccine, the disease itself or another cause.. 

The girl and her family all caught covid, since then she began to lose her hair. 

The department of health aims to vaccinate a further 5 million youngsters aged 5 to 11 most of which have received just one jab.

 

Three drug couriers were arrested and 2 million speed pills seized after a 70-kilometre car chase in Surat Thani.

Police followed a toyota fortuner that appeared to be heavily loaded, the toyota took a turn down a dead end road where police eventually arrested 2 men and a woman and found the speed pills.

 

Region:

Malaysia: A court is due to give it’s verdict on  whether the wife of former Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak, is guilty of seeking bribes just days after her husband was jailed for corruption.

Najibs wife, faced criticism for her lavish lifestyle, both are at the center of a wide-ranging crackdown on corruption.

Chiang Mai: Bright but cloudy with thunderstorms this afternoon 31C
Bangkok: Bright but cloudy with thunderstorms this afternoon 33C 
Pattaya and SE: Sunny partly cloudy DRY 31C
Phuket and the South: Sunny partly cloudy DRY 31C
Hua Hin: A fine day some cloud rain likely this afternoon 32C

Credits: Bangkok Post, The Nation, Asean Now, Khaosod English,  Hua Hin Today, Royal Coast Review, Kulsawek Sawekwannakorn, Thainewsroom.com, The Pattaya News, Phuket News, Channel News Asia, South China Morning Post, The Straits Times. The Irrawaddy. Windy.com. Wunderground.com.

 

 

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