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Thailand Live Monday 7 Feb 2011

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Thailand Live Monday 7 February 2011

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PAD to march this Friday

BANGKOK (NNT) -- The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has announced that the group will move its supporters to rally at key locations to apply more pressure on the Prime Minister and the cabinet to resign.

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AFP: Renewed Thai-Cambodian Border Fighting: Army

Fresh clashes broke out on the Thai-Cambodian border Sunday around a disputed temple a day after both sides agreed a ceasefire

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Bombs shatter truce

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Cambodia fires rockets, artillery; Thailand retaliates; over 10 Thai soldiers, civilians hurt; Local residents escape shells 'flying over our heads'; PM Abhisit: We won't withdraw troops from border

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BORDER DISPUTE

Thai-Cambodia truce has failed : Army spokesman

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Army spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd has admitted that truce between Thailand and Cambodia had failed as skirmishes continued on Sunday evening.

Thousands of local villagers in Si Sa Ket's Kantaralak district adjacent to Preah Vihear temple fled to safe places. They just returned to their houses after fleeing the fighting which erupted on Friday.

Gunfires were still heard and more frequently.

The fresh clash erupted at about 6.40pm at Phu Makaua, where a Thai soldier was killed during the clash on Friday. Local villagers evacuated to temporary bunkers.

The Cambodian rockets landed around Baan Swai Jarum, Baan Ko Mui, down the south of the ancient temple. The Thai troops returned the fires.

The artillery shells caused fire at many places including Phumisarol school.

Head of Phumisarol school is calling it something far worse than just a tragic misunderstanding.

Thai troops who came down for water said Thai side was considerably damaged.

Col Sansern earlier said that the Thai response is just to control the situation as we are still firm on the ceasefire agreement.

He had affirmed a clash Sunday evening, saying that Thai and Cambodian troops are coordinating to end the fighting.

Thai and Cambodian senior officers agreed on Saturday to a ceasefire near the controversial temple after their troops fought on Friday.

It is reported that seven people have been wounded in renewed fighting.

So far, seven people, including two villagers and five soldiers, have been wounded. All remain hospitalised at Katharalak Hospital. (MCOT online news, Agencies)

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Protest over Power Plant

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More than 300 Chachoengsao residents protested against the planned construction of a power plant in their neighbourhood yesterday.

The residents also gathered signatures of the likeminded in a bid to thwart Sahacogen's hope of building a 144-megawatt power plant there.

The protest took place in Tambon Khlong Nakhon Neuangkhet in the province's Mueang district days after heavy machinery moved in to prepare the construction site.

"How can the construction take place? Locals have never been informed of anything. Who will take responsibility if the power plant hurts the environment?" Pairoj Chumchujan, 65, said.

Pairoj has worked in his paddy field near the planned construction site since he retired from military service.

After the locals' protest ran on for more than an hour, assistant district officer Suwat Wattanasak showed up to negotiate with them.

Suwat said he would tell the company to talk to the locals about the project within seven days.

The locals then dispersed peacefully.

Meanwhile, Eastern People's Network co-ordinator Sutti Atchasai is preparing to lead affected people in the polluted Rayong's Map Ta Phut area to Bangkok.

"We will seek a meeting with Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti," Sutti said yesterday.

He said even though Map Ta Phut was already declared a pollution-control zone, pollution still raged on.

He believes a polluting factory should be forced to suspend its operations until it solves the problem.

"The laws should be tough. A jail term should be imposed against those who fail to honour legal clauses on protection," he said.

According to Sutti, his network will bring its supporters to Bangkok before the end of this month.

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Big march to Bangkok over land deeds

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The Land Reform Network is preparing a big march from Nakhon Ratchasima to Bangkok to demand that the ruling Democrat party honour its policy of issuing community land title deeds.

More than 100 demonstrators have already showed up to participate in the network's activities in Nakhon Ratchasima.

"We will wait for more of our members to join our march," Prajak Chuen-ok, a protest leader, said yesterday. "They will come from various provinces."

According to him, landless people should have been allocated plots for their livelihood via community land deeds. However, relevant agencies such as the Forest Industry Organisation (FIO) have always taken harsh legal action against the landless.

"We have been having problems with the authorities for more than 20 years now. We want justice," Prajak said.

He said apart from getting the community land deeds, the network also wanted the government to drop legal proceedings against its members who were accused of encroaching on public land.

Prajak said his network's members would walk from Nakhon Ratchasima to the capital today to make their plight known in a non-violent manner.

"We will then camp out in front of the FIO headquarters in Bangkok," he said.

Democrat Party spokesman Buranat Samudtharak held a press conference yesterday to announce that the government would take up the proposed measures. "We are going to work on this. For example, we plan to legislate the Land and Building Act before the House of Representatives is dissolved," Buranat said.

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Social security fund members say they'll jump to free service

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Want contributions put towards their pension or medical treatment boosted

A group of Social Security Fund members yesterday urged the government to amend the Social Security Act of 1990 to give them the option of paying to receive medical services under the scheme or enjoying free medical welfare under the universal healthcare scheme.

"We will no longer make monthly contributions to the Social Security Fund (SSF) as we have been treated unfairly for more than 20 years and we were fools to pay for poor medical services," Saree Ong-Somwang of the SSF members' club said.

"The government must open the way for members to have more choices to receive fair treatment and allow them to stay with the SSF or let them get medical care under other schemes."

The club was formed to campaign among formal workers who are SSF members for the government to help them stop paying for medical services under the scheme.

The social security scheme covers about 9.4 million people, mostly company workers. These employees and their employers have to pay monthly instalments into the SSF, while the government also makes a contribution. Of their contribution, 1 per cent goes to support the per head budget for hospitals registered with the Social Security Office and promised to provide medical treatment to its members.

The social security scheme also offers other benefits, mainly a pension. SSF members will get about Bt3,000 a month until they reach 55 years of age, but if SSF members could enjoy free medical care like other Thais, this money could go to their pension savings and they would get a pension of Bt10,000 per month for life.

Saree said the Foundation for Consumers had received many complaints about the poor quality of medical services under the Social Security scheme. Some of them were given wrong medical treatment or underwent wrong operations.

A study by Dr Pongsathorn Pokpermdee, a health economist, found that the SSF's medical benefits were inferior to the universal healthcare scheme.

For example, SSF members are restricted to using emergency medical services twice a year while universal healthcare members could receive unlimited medical services for emergency illnesses.

Nimitr Tien-udom, director of the Aids Access Foundation and a member of the club, said the club was now collecting more information and complaints from other eligible SSF members and would submit a report to a House of Representatives' panel revising the Social Security Act.

The new version is being drafted by political parties, the Social Security Office and a group of workers' rights advocates.

He said he wanted the committee to take the club's request into serious consideration. "It's time for us to wake up and open our eyes wide to ask the government that we will no longer pay our money for the poor medical services under the Social Security scheme."

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Petition to government from Social Security Fund members club:

- 1st option

Continue to pay monthly contribution to Social Security Fund (SSF) and ask SSF to improve and extend medical services under the scheme.

- 2nd

Still pay monthly contribution to Social Security Fund to receive other benefit such as pension and childbirth but no longer pay monthly contribution for only medical services to Social Security Fund and go to other health care scheme to receive better medical services.

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-- The Nation 2011-02-07

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PM rules out pulling out from World Heritage Committee

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Sunday ruled out pulling Thailand from the Unesco World Heritage committee as demanded by the People's Alliance for Democracy.

Abhisit said if Thailand pulled out from the committee, the committee would listen only to the Cambodia's side and Cambodia might be allowed by go in to manage the part of the land that belongs to Thailand.

"And I cannot tolerate that," Abhisit said.

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Kantharalak hospital director: 14 Thai soldiers wounded in Thai-Cambodian latest border clashes, one seriously, transferred to Ubon Ratchathani Hospital /MCOT

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Reports of another round of shooting; Region 2 Army Commander says clashes minor /TAN_Network

Sansern: total of 14 Thai soldiers injured last night; 2 villagers sustained minor injuries during evacuation /TAN_Network

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