Thailand Live Saturday 4 June 2011

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TAT, Thai tourism industry join to push low season travel

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Thai police respond as campaigning politicians ask for protection

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Thai Politicians Warned Not To Involve Army To Sway Votes

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ANALYSIS

The battle lines are drawn; Thailand election

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Abhisit seeks support from private sector

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Residents affected by sugarbarge accident to be given legal aid

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We don't need another round of illegal killings; War on drugs

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'Multicolours' launch graft campaign on Yingluck

By The Nation

The so-called "multicolour" shirts yesterday launched a signature campaign to initiate graft proceedings against Pheu Thai candidate Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother Thaksin Shinawatra.

The campaign, spearheaded by Tul Sitthisomwong, will set up a table to solicit signatures at Thammasat University on June 18.

Tul said he wanted the Department of Special Investigation to probe Yingluck as a nominee in the asset concealment case involving ex-PM Thaksin and his family.

In a separate probe, the DSI should investigate Thaksin's involvement in graft related to the approval of a Bt1-billion loan to Burma in a telecommunications deal and his meddling in Krung Thai Bank loans for property development, he said.

DSI director-general Tharit Pengdit said the case, known as "share concealment part two", had been dropped due to weak evidence.

The case was lodged by the Securities and Exchange Commission on suspicion that Thaksin and his ex-wife Khunying Pojaman na Pombejra had manipulated Shin Corp share prices with insider information. The shares were allegedly distributed among nominees to cover up ill-gotten gains.

-- The Nation 2011-06-04

Democrat, Pheu Thai to win 400 seats: Abhisit

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Health Dept urges people to recycle, reuse

By The Nation

In a recent survey, the Health Department found that Thailand generates more than 46 million tonnes of garbage and infectious waste every day.

The department also found that 6 to 7 per cent of this waste comprised of hazardous materials such as fluorescent tubes and spray can.

Pittsanu Saenprasert, director of the Department's Environmental Health Bureau, said about 90 per cent of the things thrown away could be reused and that 14 per cent could be recycled. In a move to cut down on the waste generated, he said, the department would launch a campaign urging hospitals and healthcare units across the country to reuse and recycle materials.

"We expect to reduce waste by more than 84,000 tonnes this year," he said.

Some of the reusable waste materials will be donated to Wat Suan Kaew Temple and other foundations to be reproduced as roofs and other commodities to help people affected by natural disasters. So far, the department has collected a little more than 26,000 tonnes of reusable garbage.

-- The Nation 2011-06-04

Stateless to sue Interior Ministry

By The Nation

TAK - A group of 74 stateless persons yesterday urged the working team providing legal assistance to stateless Thais in Tak's Mae Sot and Mae Ramat districts to file a complaint at the Central Administration Court against the Interior Ministry for dragging feet in granting Thai nationality to 2,984 stateless people.

The group representatives would also accompany the working team to file the complaint in Bangkok on June 27. The group claimed that the Interior Ministry had taken their cases since December 30, 2004, but hadn't announced it in the Royal Gazette yet. Many of the stateless people, who submitted their documents and underwent the Thai citizen vowing ceremony already, still didn't get the nationality, whilst some got it.

-- The Nation 2011-06-04

Suriyasai sues New Politics chief for libel

By The Nation

New Politics Party secretary-general Suriyasai Katasila yesterday filed a police complaint accusing party leader Somsak Kosaisuk of defamation.

In his statement to the Crime Suppression Division, Suriyasai said Somsak had made two separate remarks designed to tarnish his reputation.

In the first comment, Somsak raised a false charge about his involvement in the Bt650,000 embezzlement of funds donated to the party, he said.

In the second comment, Somsak acted with malicious intent in spreading a false claim that he was no longer the party secretary-general, he said.

His row with Somsak stemmed from his opposition to the party taking part in the July 3 general election, he said, arguing that Somsak wanted to undermine his credibility and push him out of the party so as to contest the election.

"Somsak has changed and is no longer the man I knew," he said, ruling out any mediation attempts for an out-of-court settlement.

-- The Nation 2011-06-04

Panel to test E-Sarn varsity graduates

By The Nation

The special committee to tackle the ESarn University's alleged teaching diploma selling will visit the university next Thursday to check on the 527 graduates, who studied on campus.

Those deemed to be qualified would be proposed for the diploma certification so they could use it in teacher licence application, while those notyetqualified would get to study more courses, said the committee chairman Anon Thiengtrong yesterday. As for other 1,247 graduates and students at offcampus classes, the committee would probe their student registration information first.

By June 22, the committee should have progress on the university's asset checking, student registration information checking, and a list of the graduates who were cleared of this fiasco for further assistance.

-- The Nation 2011-06-04

Targeting the Source: FAKEAV and Malicious Domains

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Global Internet Traffic Projected to Quadruple by 2015

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Officials investigate more Phuket beach encroachment

V/Gov Somkiet leads the investigation team into encroachment on

Phuket's Bang Tao Beach.

TOP: The Babylon Beach Club was instantly deemed illegal, while

restaurants further north were not discussed.

BOTTOM: The structures under investigation.

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Northeastern train service at Hualumpong Station delayed due to BKK-Nongkai train derailment which damaged tracks but no injuries /TAN_Network

Meteorological Dept warns of flash floods in Lower North and Upper Northeast and thunderstorms in BKK /TAN_Network

"Dr. Death" Jack Kevorkian dead at 83

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Nakhon Si Thammarat police arrest 2 gunmen in Tasala District and seized M76, M16 guns and ammunition /TAN_Network

Abhisit's campaigning in Huaykwang disrupted by red-shirts; Yingluck runs into Democrat Panich in Bungkum /TAN_Network

Officers discovered 2 bombs at flea market in Takbai, Narathiwat before they were detonated; bombs removed successfully /TAN_Network

Flooded sugar from sunken barge in Ayutthaya removed; reports of large number of fish floating dead under Rama VIII Bridge /TAN_Network

780,000 pills of Yaba worth Bt110 million seized by police during delevery at luxury house in Pathum Thani, to be sold in Bangkok /MCOT

Phuket tour van crushed by overturned 10-wheeler

Fortunately there were no tourists in the Phuket tour van.

Photo: Wichai Witthawat

The scene at the Heroines’ Monument circle last night.

Photo: Wichai Witthawat

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Thai hospitals on E.Coli alert

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Phuket politician arrested on drugs, weapons charges

DRUGS ON THE TABLE: The three suspects at the press conference this morning.

Mr Nakhin is in the yellow-striped shirt. Photo: Yodsak Jarana

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Poll: Bangkok teens enthusiastic to vote in the election

BANGKOK, 4 June 2011 (NNT) – Half of teenagers in Bangkok who are eligible to vote for the first time will exercise their political rights by casting their votes in the upcoming election, according to a recent survey by Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University.

The poll was conducted on 1 June 2011 among 1,495 respondents in Bangkok who were teenagers with eligibility to vote for the first time in the upcoming 3 July general election. 50.4% of the respondents said they would go to cast their votes. 26.3% would not go while other 23.3% remained unsure.

58.9% of the young respondents also wanted political parties to have more policies attaching importance to youth.

Asked who would be the most appropriate person as the next prime minister, 34.5% of the respondents chose Pheu Thai Party candidate Yingluck Shinwatra while 25.1% of them voted for Democrat Party candidate Abhisit Vejjajiva.

Meanwhile, Major General Sanan Kajornprasart from Chart Thai Pattana Party and Police General Purachai Piumsombun from Rak Santi Party got 15.5% and 10.5% of the popularity respectively. 14.4% of the respondents remained undecided.

As for party-list choice, 34.2% of the respondents had not made their decision while 24.3% of them said they would not choose any party. 23.7% of them went for the Democrat Party while other 17.7% chose the Pheu Thai Party. 0.1% said they would vote for the Chart Pattana Puea Pandin Party.

39.7% of the respondents also had not made their decision to choose candidates in the constituency system.

-- NNT 2011-06-04

Pathum Thani police confiscate 780,000 speed pills worth Bt110 mln /TAN_Network