Thailand Live Saturday 28 May 2011

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Thailand Live Saturday 28 May 2011

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Thai team claims UNESCO backs its proposal to delay management plan

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Thai FM Korn talks to CNN about his future as politician and IMF candidate

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Thai retail group buys Italian department stores

MILAN (AFP) - Thailand's Central Retail Corporation will buy La Rinascente, a historic chain of Italian department stores, for 205 million euros ($293 million) under the terms of a deal announced on Friday.

The R/U holding that controls 97 percent of Rinascente approved the sale to CRC, the property fund Prelios, a leading shareholder, said in a statement.

The heir of the chain's founders, Maurizio Borletti, who holds a four-percent stake in La Rinascente, had tried to oppose the sale but a court in Milan earlier rejected his attempt to block it.

La Rinascente has 11 department stores in Italy's main cities.

Borletti together with Deutsche Bank bought the French chain Le Printemps in 2006 but failed in a bid last year to buy Germany's Karstadt.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2011-05-28

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Pheu Thai-Bhum Jai Thai coalition 'very difficult'

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Probe into SEC chief's role in takeover

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Netizens to talk social media at NForum

By THE NATION

Active Twitter users are set to take part today in the second "NForum", which will explore how influential social media are on this election campaign. The forum will take place at Treasury Hall on the fifth floor of Gaysorn Plaza from 1pm to 4pm.

Panellists include Apirak Kosayodhin (@apirak_bangkok), director of the Democrat Party's Bangkok election centre; Kanawat Wasinsungworn (@kanawat_), Pheu Thai Party deputy leader; Poramate Minsiri (@iwhale), webmaster of Kapook.com and vice president of the Thai Webmaster Association; and Thawatchai Kerdpradub (@Ajbomb), an expert in information technology at the Faculty of Business Administration and Liberal Arts at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna and the author of "Marketing on Twitter".

The event will be moderated by Mana Treelayapewat (@dr_mana), associate dean of Student Affairs at the Faculty of Communication Arts of the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, and Somroutai Sapsomboon (@jin_nation), political editor of The Nation.

NForum aims to serve the community of social-media users by providing them with a forum to share their thoughts and experiences on relevant issues.

-- The Nation 2011-05-28

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EDITORIAL

Thai politicians are out to exploit farmers

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When Thailand gets a chance to speak, will others listen?

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People warned against believing herbal cures

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Thai students brawl on bus injuring 5

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Thai Police given orders to shoot to kill hitmen on blacklist

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New law to protect workers

By The Nation

Workers should suffer fewer workrelated injuries because employers will face severe punishment violating law thanks to the Safety, Occupational Health and Environments Act 2011, which goes into effect from July 16.

Labour Protection and Welfare Department chief Amporn Nitisiri said yesterday that, after the new law is implemented, other organic laws and regulations will be drafted with regards to more details, such as the standard of occupational healthsafety management and fireprevention requirements. She said this law should benefit workers because state agencies would strictly control establishments for safety standards and employers breaking the law will face more severe jail terms and heavier fines.

Besides establishing the Work Safety Institute, an independent organisation promoting academic works and analysing data to improve the law, a Safety Fund - supported by government subsidies, donations, investment profits and fees - would offer employers loans to improve safety standards, she said.

The department will soon be informing employers and employees about the new law, she added.

-- The Nation 2011-05-28

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Thida to sue DSI for 'false' charges

By The Nation

Chairwoman of the red-shirt movement, Thida Thaworn-seth, has authorised Robert Amsterdam, the lawyer of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, to file a lawsuit against the Department of Special Investigation for making false lese majeste allegations.

Thida said yesterday that she met with Amsterdam in Hong Kong on Thursday to discuss the legal cases against red-shirt leaders. She said Amsterdam had told her not to worry because the government would be held responsible for last year's violence.

She quoted him as also saying that the lese majeste charges were groundless and that the DSI summoning the 19 red-shirt leaders to hear their charges officially next Thursday could be seen as political persecution during an election period.

Meanwhile, Election Commission chairman Apichart Sukhagganond said yesterday that he would file a defamation lawsuit against Pheu Thai MP Prakiat Nasimma.

"He told a groundless and false story that tarnished my reputation," he said, adding that he had not met with Privy Council President General Prem Tinsulanonda as alleged. Apichart went on to say that he was doing his job in a transparent manner, with no partisanship or pressure.

On Thursday, Prakiat asked why Apichart had visited Prem at his Si Sao Thewet residence on Sunday. Many believe Prakiat is making these allegations to imply that the outcome of the voting would be rigged.

-- The Nation 2011-05-28

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Complaint lodged against ESarn Uni senior staff

By The Nation

A complaint accusing the rector and senior management of ESarn University of public fraud was yesterday lodged with Khon Kaen police, kicking off legal action against them over the socalled "diploma sales" scandal.

The Office of the Higher Education Commission also supplied 500 pages of documents with its complaint to back up its allegations against the rector, the dean of the graduate study faculty and other management and staff.

Meanwhile the Kurusapa - the Teachers' Council of Thailand - has set up a 25member panel to take action against 11 teachers at government schools who were found to have secured their jobs using diplomas they "bought" from ESarn University without attending any lectures.

The panel, which has 15 days to perform its work, will also examine statements by a number of schools that may have falsely claimed that ESarn University graduates completed apprentice courses with them. The schools will also face legal action if found guilty.

Kurusapa secretarygeneral Ongkorn Amornsirinant dismissed rumours that certain Kurusapa executives were attempting to disrupt the investigation process because they had received kickbacks from ESarn University to unlawfully grant it permission to open extra campuses to admit students.

Nevertheless, the panel chairman, Bundit Sriphutthangkoon, said the panel would look into the rumours and report back to Ongkorn within the 15 days.

-- The Nation 2011-05-28

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Police arrest professor from well-known univ in Rangsit area for involvement in car theft gang /TAN_Network

Cambodia expresses disappointment that there's no concrete results from UNESCO-sponsored talks with Thailand /TAN_Network

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Pick-up truck carrying gas cylinders burst into flames after collision with another pick-up on Rama II Rd km12; no one injured /TAN_Network

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Nakhon Si Thammarat police arrest Narathiwat man in possession of 2.5 mln speed pills worth Bt750 mln /TAN_Network

Abhisit campaigns in Ubon Ratchathani, Yasothon, Amnat Charoen today amidst tight security /TAN_Network

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50% of Thais should get broadband access in 2015

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Bangkok people living unhealthily: Poll

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Suvarnabhumi airport advises passengers to arrive early for check-in as construction inside airport may delay immigration process /MCOT

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National Police Bureau: 77 MP candidates request police protection; one police found not being impartial during election campaign /MCOT

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