NATIONAL NEWS from Surf 102.5 FM - Thursday December 15 2022

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A popular personality online was sentenced to 54 years in jail for money laundering and promoting online gambling involving some 1.7 billion baht in bets. 

The man named Siapo, aged 30, was among 21 defendants named in a lawsuit filed yesterday, all denied wrongdoing, 

Siapo’s wife and brother also received jail terms; others were detained and denied bail. 

Prime minister Prayut is in Brussels where he attended the 45th meeting of the EU-Asean Business Council 

The PM encouraged Europe to expand its investment in infrastructure development in Asean and Thailand. 

Adding Asean should be able to offer a sustainable modern network of clean energy, transport and digital technology that would attract and benefit investors from the EU. 
  
Police in Saekaew have discovered around 30 internet cables strung up feeding high speed internet to a criminal call center based just across the border inside Cambodia.

Officers made 8 arrests that included several government employees.

 

A homemade explosive slightly injured 4 police officers in Nakhon Si Thammarat yesterday, 

The police were about to arrest a drug suspect when one of them threw the explosive device, but the police still managed to tackle and arrest the suspect.

 

The governor of Bangkok said covid measures will be ramped up during the new year festivities, venues will need to seek permission to hold gatherings, all attendees will be required to wear a mask, 
The authority says it will open more vaccination centers before New Year.

REGION

Hong Kong: A court yesterday ruled the police decision to ban a Tiananmen vigil last year was unlawful, as it overturned the conviction of a jailed democracy activist Chow Hang-tung.

Chow, a 37-year-old lawyer and one of Hong Kong's most prominent democracy activists, led a group that used to organise the city's annual candlelight vigils to mourn those killed in Tiananmen Square.

 

China's top health body has said the true scale of coronavirus infections in the country is now "impossible" to track, with officials warning cases are rising rapidly in Beijing after the government abruptly abandoned its zero-COVID policy.

 

Sunny light cloud

Some cloud and rain in the far south 

 

Chiang Mai: Sunny partly cloudy 29C
Bangkok: Sunny 30C       
Pattaya: Sunny 30 C.
Phuket: Sunny partly cloudy isolated shower 31C
Hua Hin: Sunny , 27C .

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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