Thailand Live Saturday 31 Jul 2010

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Chalerm expects govt to remain in office until April

Pheu Thai Party MP Chalerm Yoobamrung Saturday expressed confidence that the Democrat-led coalition will remain in office until April.

He said he disagreed with other analysts that the government would dissolve the House after the annual reshuffle and after the budget bill clears Parliament.

Chalerm said he believes the government would still enjoy support from certain factors until April.

He said the Pheu Thai would immediately negotiate with Chat Thai Pattana and Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana for forming a coalition after the next election once the House is dissolved.

-- The Nation 2010-07-31

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M79 Grenade Discovered in Govt House

Security officers found an unused M79 grenade on the grounds of Government House today. It's believed to be left behind by red-shirt protesters during their anti-government rally in the area.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said he has not received a report on the issue yet.

-- Tan Network 2010-07-31

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Time Warner confirms with PM that it's chosen Thailand as a location for Hang over 2. TW says it will employ thai staff too /via @veen_NT

Time Warner says its production will help promote tourism in #Thailand. It also asks Thai govt to solve copyright problems /via @veen_NT

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Thai authorities to keep close watch on Cambodia´s reactions to World Heritage Committee's decision

BANGKOK (NNT) -- Thai authorities have been tasked to keep a close watch on Cambodia's reaction to decision of the World Heritage Committee made in Brazil regarding the issues with Thailand-Cambodia overlapping area.

Thai charge d'affaires has been tasked to monitor situation in Cambodia closely over potential aggressive reactions against Thailand following the postponement of registering the disputed Thai-Cambodian Preah Vihear temple as the World Heritage site to next year, according to Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chavanond Intarakomalyasut.

Director of the security operations bureau of the Army Border Affairs Department, Major General Thiwa Penketgorn, expected Cambodia to react negatively towards the recent World Heritage Committee’s decision. The situation in Cambodia, however, has been reported normal.

To jointly register the temple as a World Heritage site, a negotiation is needed between the two countries. The Thai army, however, has made an effort to resolve the dispute with Cambodia and insisted to continue the border demarcation since the process has been suspended for three years.

-- NNT 2010-07-31

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Revitalized Phuket Town to boost tourism

PAST AND PRESENT: Phuket Town aims to take

advantage of it's cultural and architectural heritage to attract tourism.

A photo of Klong Bang Yai canal and a

computer-generated image showing the area

developed as planned.

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PM Abhisit in Phuket for Democrat 'Crisis Seminar'

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva arrives at the meeting this morning.

Photo: Pimwara Choksakulpan

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Russian owner of Tour Company detained following Pattaya Police raid

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Pattaya Motor Show 2010 commences at Central festival

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Three M79 grenades found in drainage ditch at Government House

BANGKOK (TNA) -- Three M79 grenades have been found in a drainage ditch at Government House, Thailand's seat of government, according to a senior police officer.

Metropolitan Police Division 1 commander Pol Maj-Gen Wichai Sangprapai said the bomb squad were called in to retrieve the grenades which have not yet exploded.

The explosives were found while workers of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration were cleaning the drainage system at the Government House, near entrance gate number seven, Maj-Gen Wichai said.

Police are investigating the source of the explosives and how they were taken there, he added.

However, the grenades were likely to have been used against a building in the Government House compound during the demonstration of the anti-government 'Red Shirt' United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD).

Although an emergency decree is now imposed in the Thai capital, two bombing incidents have occurred in the past six days and no suspects have been apprehended.

One man was killed while another ten were wounded in a bombing at a bus stop outside the closed Big C department store Ratchadamri Road last Sunday in the first major incident of violence in the Thai capital since the anti-government rally ended two months ago.

Yesterday an M59 hand grenade in a plastic rubbish bag exploded on Rangnam Road near King Power duty-free shopping centre not far from Victory Monument, seriously wounding a trash scavenger who remains hospitalised.

On August 26, 2008, anti-ex premier Thaksin Shinawatra protesters seized Government House, forcing then prime minister Somchai Wongsawat and his staff to leave the compound.

The protesters left Government House in late November to join fellow People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) Yellow Shirt demonstrators occupying Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2010-07-31

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Thailand Live Sunday 1 August 2010

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