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Thailand Live Tuesday 16 Aug 2011

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Thailand Live Tuesday 16 August 2011

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Yingluck: I will work to the best of my ability

By PIYANART SRIVALO

THE NATION

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday pledged to perform to her utmost as she completed religious rites before starting her first day of work at her office at Government House.

"I will work to the best of my ability and for the people's interest," she said.

Yingluck arrived at the compound in a black Volkswagen, reached the Thai Khu Fah Building at 9.19am, then paid homage to the guardian spirits besides the building at 9.29am and the Brahman shrine on the roof at 9.39am.

The first woman prime minister said she felt honoured paying her respects to the sacred statues but did not believe in auspicious numbers.

"9" is known as a lucky number among Thais.

"Today is a good day. Anytime after 9am is propitious for me and boosts my morale to begin my work," she said.

Her office is the same one used by her older brother Thaksin, who is now a fugitive from the law.

"I feel proud and glad to be another person whom people trust (to work for them)," she managed to say.

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-- The Nation 2011-08-16

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Baby in taxi: no 42

By The Nation

A Burmese woman yesterday gave birth to a baby girl in a taxi stuck in a traffic jam at Din Daeng intersection in Bangkok, with the help of a team of traffic police.

The unnamed baby girl was the 42nd child born in such a manner with assistance of traffic police trained under a royal initiative when it was founded many years ago, said Snr Sgt Major Mana Jokkhokesoong, one of three officers who took part in the emergency delivery.

The mother, known only as Nida, aged 22, was on her way to a nearby hospital but could not make it in time, but the driver was able to alert police to help her. The other officers involved were Snr Sgt Majors Ritthirong Mukda and Phichet Wisetchoke.

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-- The Nation 2011-08-16

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Drug-runners held

By The Nation

Phrae police have arrested four hilltribe people for allegedly attempting to deliver 500,000 amphetamine tablets from the North to Bangkok.

The four suspects travelling in two pickup trucks evaded a checkpoint in Song district late Sunday night, before they were found by police near one vehicle stuck in the mud.

Police searched all four suspects and the two pickups but found nothing. They then combed the area and came upon a large suitcase hidden behind a tree some distance away, containing the drugs along with Bt140,000 in cash and eight mobile phones.

They admitted to running the tablets, worth Bt150 each in street value, to a syndicate in Bangkok.

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-- The Nation 2011-08-16

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Crematorium design drafted

By The Nation

The initial design of the crematorium for Her Royal Highness Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda has been completed, Somsuda Leeyawanich, director-general of the Fine Arts Department, said yesterday.

The design, which was the work of Avuth Ngernchooklin, a former director-general of the department and now the chief designer, is pending comments and eventual approval by His Majesty the King.

Items attached to the approved design would be built later, including an urn to contain her body and another urn to contain her ashes.

Two books will be published to chronicle the event and to honour and mourn the late princess, the only daughter of the late King Rama IV.

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'Return fund money'

By The Nation

A huge Bt700-billion fund operated by the Social Security Office (SSO) should be given back to beneficiaries or managed under a new investment scheme, before it is too late and retirement pay-outs have to be paid in three years, according to a Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) study.

Aside from a sluggish effort to make profits, as cited in many reports, Worrawan Charnduaywit, who conducted the study, said the "worst thing" about the SSO operation was its was allowed to spend 10 per cent of the fund on as accumulative operational costs each year.

"Now the cost is up to Bt10 billion spent each year on management, salaries, travel and meeting fees, hotel allowances and other expenses, although the SSO claims it spends only 3-4 per cent each year," he said.

"But looking at how directors run the SSO, you may find that Bt1 billion is way too much."

The SSO was established and functions as a foundation in which managers "lack a sense of responsibility to beneficiaries". That's because the representatives of employers and beneficiaries are often selected, as SSO directors, by SSO management and Labour Ministry leaders, which represent the authorities in the three-part mechanism under the SSO, as a government agency.

"What we have always seen is that the representatives of employers and beneficiaries are all the same people because they are awarded with board membership by the SSO and ministry, for 'not causing trouble'," Worrawan explained.

"Under this structure, we have had all along the SSO operating for decades picking directors and governing them, instead of the SSO being run by leaders that should be selected by directors, who genuinely represent employers and beneficiaries." Worrawan is a TRDI expert on social and labour issues.

He said the quota for a quorum requiring only eight of 15 board members to make a decision or approval was also dangerous.

One example was a 2008 decision to approve giving rice seed worth Bt1 billion to beneficiaries as a gift, which was eventually scrapped.

Worrawan repeated statements by SSO critics and labour leaders that the Bt700 billion would be drop from 2014 when the first retirement pay-outs are due, after the first group of beneficiaries reach 60 years of age.

He said no political parties were interested in solving the SSO's problems and no labour ministers wanted to touch it, because it was a sensitive issue that would hit their popularity.

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-- The Nation 2011-08-16

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Kasetsart students demand freedom of expression

By Pravit Rojanaphruk

The Nation

A group of Kasetsart University students has collected more than 900 signatures on a petition since last week calling for the university to guarantee freedom of political expression after one of its recent graduates was accused of lese majeste by the university's vice rector for student affairs last week.

On August 5, a recently graduated male student was detained by police after a vice rector pressed charges, claiming he was under pressure from the Student Council as well as the need to protect the university's reputation. He claimed to have received complaints alleging that the male student had posted defamatory text against the monarchy online.

The man, 23, was granted bail last Monday, but the case has led to a wide debate among students at Kasetsart University and beyond.

"It's important that the university guarantees freedom [of expression so students] can exchange ideas. Even if they want to file charges [the university administrators] should summon the student first and find out what happened," said Bhuribas Medhanakula, a freshman studying humanities at Kasetsart and a key member of the group that launched the petition.

The student group, calling itself Liberal Kasetsart, had collected more than 900 signatures by yesterday, and those signing their names included students from other universities such as Thammasat and Chulalongkorn, as well as academics and ordinary citizens.

"We have to let the society know that a group of people do not like what's happening," said Bhuribas, who acknowledged that there were also people who supported the lese majeste law, and who argued with him that the student was simply being treated in accordance with the law.

The secretary of the petition group, Jirachai Phittayanond, a fifth-year agricultural-industry student at Kasetsart, said he hoped the university's administrators would never again take such threatening action.

"We want the university to review its action," he said, adding that a number of students who opposed the university's action dared not reveal their identity.

The group also complains that most of Thailand's mainstream news media have so far paid no attention to the case.

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-- The Nation 2011-08-16

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One bomb, 3 fatal shootings in latest South violence

By The Nation

Suspected insurgents detonated a time bomb near a market in Narathiwat's Jor Irong district yesterday but no injury or death was reported.

Following the explosion at 9.50am, police along with a bomb disposal team rushed to the Ban Yaning Market and found pieces of the home-made bomb, reportedly placed in a one-kilogram plastic engine-oil container with a digital wristwatch set to 9.50am. The bomb went off while a six-strong security team was patrolling the area to guard people visiting the market, but a bridge pillar shielded the destruction radius and no injury or death was reported.

In Pattani's Mai Kaen district, assistant to Ban Khok Nibong village headman, Piramid Doloh, 41, was found dead at 8.30am in a roadside wooded area, after nearby villagers heard gunshots on Sunday night. Piramid had reportedly attended the Ramadan ceremony in the local mosque before riding his motorcycle home when unknown gunmen ambushed him. They shot him several times before shooting him in the head. Relatives didn't alert police immediately and rushed his body to a religious ritual, only reporting the crime to police yesterday morning.

In Yala's Mueang district, a former village headman in tambon Sateng Nok, Masuyee Jehloh, 50, and an unidentified woman in her 50s were found dead in a pick-up truck at 7.59am yesterday. As both were shot in the back of the head from behind, police suspect they were killed by a person travelling with them in the vehicle and that the double deaths stemmed from a personal conflict.

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Phuket ready to launch online check-in for yachts

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Yachties relax at PIMEX at the Royal Phuket Marina earlier this year.

The new online system is expected to make entry for visiting yachts

much simpler and quicker.

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Cabinet to push for charter amendments via CDA

By The Nation

The Cabinet is expected Tuesday to review and approve the draft policy statement before forwarding it for debate in Parliament, tentatively scheduled for next Wednesday.

"All campaign pledges made by Pheu Thai will be adopted as government policies," Labour Minister Phadermchai Sasomsap said.

Key pledges, such as the minimum wage hike, the Bt15,000 start-up salary for civil servants, the reduction of corporate tax, will be highligted, he said.

Among 16 policies to be implemented within a year in office are national reconciliation, corruption suppression, quelling violence in the southernmost provinces, international relations, wage hike, farm debt moratorium and distribution of free tablet computers for students.

The government will push for political reforms by forming the Constitution Drating Assembly to look into charter amendments.

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-- The Nation 2011-08-16

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INN: Thaksin tells Japanese media he had a hand in arranging Cabinet line-up; denies talking about return to Thailand /

Defence minister considers removal of troops from around Preah Vihear but says it'll have to be after GBC with Cambodia /

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