Thailand Live Tuesday 6 Sep 2011

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SHINAWATRA GOVERNMENT

Pardon for Thaksin is the mandate of HM: Chalerm

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Suicides down in Thailand, but figures rising for elderly

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Strong military role in Thai NBTC

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BURNING ISSUE

Pardon a test of Yingluck's allegiance

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12 billion Baht to fund weirs, reservoirs in Thailand; dam scrapped

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One dead after jail riot

By The Nation

Pattani

A prison riot in Pattani yesterday saw one inmate killed and two others wounded after a clash between Buddhist and Muslims inmates over "minor" regulations, a lack of halal food and overcrowding.

Pattani prison commander Awuth Suwanno said the riot started after Muslim inmates accused Phanuwat Khong-in, a Buddhist inmate appointed an assistant to prison guards of treating them unfairly and not complying with halal regulations in the prison kitchen.

Small fights occurred and continued sporadically before the death of Phanuwat was reported and inmates Wayu Engchuan and Sak Kai, a Burmese, were injured, Awuth said. There are no details on who attacked the three men.

Yesterday's riot was the third in a month after two incidents at Narathiwat prison in August because of overcrowding. The Pattani prison has capacity for 900 inmates but has had more than 1,300 for many years.

Confrontations continued all day after the fights in the morning but rather in a non-violent way, with groups of rival inmates separating each other, and those not involved sitting in the middle of the main lawn, Awuth said.

The situation improved but had not returned to normal at press time last night, after authorities and prison managers agreed to seven demands. These included appointing Muslim inmates as kitchen hands, guard assistants and clerks, plus the transfer of three Buddhist inmates and a few others to areas where there are no Muslim prisoners.

Awuth said there were 19 inmates transferred from Narathiwat prison and 15 from Yala prison, who would be questioned on whether they planned yesterday's riot or influenced inmates to stage it.

Security sources said warnings that people may try to stir up trouble using race and religion as motives had been sent to the local prisons but corrections officials had not heeded the warnings.

-- The Nation 2011-09-06

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House to consider lifting immunity of Jatuporn and other red-shirt MPs

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All red-shirt appointees are qualified, ex-security guard says

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Parents warned on violent videos

By The Nation

Lampang police yesterday warned parents not to let their children buy, rent or watch movies without their guidance, after the tragic incident in which a 12-year-old boy attacked two girls aged six and eight with a knife on Saturday in imitation of what he saw in a movie.

The two girls in Lampang's Soem Ngam district are in safe condition and being treated at Lampang Hospital, Pol Lt-Colonel Assawin Sutiwong of Soem Ngam police station said yesterday. However, the boy reportedly suffered from depression after the incident and was under close surveillance by his parents for fear of a suicide attempt. The boy reportedly told police that he had watched a movie in which there was a knife-wielding scene, and he copied it.

-- The Nation 2011-09-06

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Thai labour unions to sue govt over 300 Baht minimum wage promise

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Bt8 bn sought for remedial measures

By The Nation

The Justice Ministry will ask for an Bt8-billion budget for remedial measures for those affected by political riots and the unrest in the South, Justice Minister Pracha Promnok said yesterday.

Pracha also said the ministry would set up a committee for compensation and rehabilitation for those affected by political riots since 1997 and another committee for those affected by the Southern unrest. He noted that the government had clearly announced such remedies as policy to Parliament.

-- The Nation 2011-09-06

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Interior Ministry faces reshuffle: Thai Govt

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Police suspect insurgents in latest killing

By The Nation

A local resident was shot dead in Narathiwat's Reu Soh district early yesterday.

Following a homicide report just after midnight, police went to the Yaroh Bae ngoh-Sa Bua Bak Road, where they found the body of Sailee Masae, 20, near his motorcycle with two gunshot wounds to the head, one in the right shoulder and three in the stomach.

Police collected eight M16 spent cartridges before sending his body for an autopsy at Reu Soh Hospital. Sailee was riding his bike home from a friend's place when two men on a bike shot him six times, killing him instantly. Police suspect it was the work of insurgents.

-- The Nation 2011-09-06

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NHRC to support gay marriage rights in Thailand

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Educa 2011 at Bitec

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ALRO plans answer to Wang Nam Kheo-type land abuse

By The Nation

The Agricultural Land Reform Office (ALRO) will next week propose a model to tackle the abuse of agricultural land-reform plots in Nakhon Ratchasima's Wang Nam Kheow district for the agriculture minister's consideration.

ALRO deputy secretary-general Sathidpong Suchikiat said yesterday that ALRO had formulated the model to tackle the Wang Nam Kheow issue, which would divide landlords into four groups - reformed landlords who followed the regulations; reformed landlords who didn't follow regulations; people who bought the reformed lands from original landlords; and people who encroached on the forestland and had not yet been investigated by ALRO.

Sathidpong said there would be some leniency, such as for farmers who kept up their activities while opening homestays as a sideline, who could keep their reformed land ownership. ALRO will not restrict its investigations to Wang Nam Kheow but next year will probe reformed land and land ownership issues nationwide, he added.

Sathidpong said the probe into people illegally building resorts on agricultural land reform plots in Wang Nam Kheow district was 94.18 per cent complete - investigating 6,039 out of 6,412 cases, covering 7,450 plots. So far they had found 1,929 cases or 31.94 per cent violated the regulations.

The probe also checked into land occupied by resorts, restaurants, tourist accommodation and other buildings within the reformed and non-reformed zone, which covered 241,018 rai in Wang Nam Kheow district. Sathidpong said they found 120 such places (21 under previous investigation and 99 newly discovered) in tambon Wang Mee, Udomsap, Rareung, Wang Nam Kheow and Thai Samakkhee. They included 66 resorts/hotels, four restaurants, 24 homes/accommodation with farm plots, three shops, one gas station and one concrete-mixing factory.

Thirteen places facing earlier investigation had reported to the authority and given some information. ALRO will issue an order for eight structures -Phu Khieng Lom, Phu Pha Yok, Rai Juanthong, Holiday Resort, Krua Rim Khuan, Mahogany Hill, Gold Mountain and an unnamed resort - to move off the land within 30 days because they could not explain who authorised their land ownership.

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Preecha Rengsomboonsuk yesterday ordered Royal Forestry Department (RFD) and the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNPWPC) chiefs to proceed with legal action against encroachers on two park areas - the Phu Khao Luang National Park in Nakhon Ratchasima's Wang Nam Kheow district and the Thab Lan National Park in Prachin Buri's Na Dee district.

Asked if there was political pressure to change the investigation outcome for the Wang Nam Kheow area, Preecha said politics wouldn't affect the outcome because the law must come first. No Pheu Thai Party politicians were involved. Preecha said that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had asked him to tackle the land encroachers legally and with transparency and that the ministry had full authority to punish wrongdoers. Confirming that the two departments would proceed, he said the RFD had already sent the case documents to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) for a decision on whether to pick up the case.

Preecha affirmed the resort demolition wouldn't affect tourism because only some 100 people would actually lose benefits in this case and they were behind the villagers' opposition to the law-reinforcement. DNPWPC chief Sunan Arunnopparat said resorts and buildings violating the laws would face demolition before New Year 2012 if their appeals were ruled unsuccessful. He said that senior officials, MPs and Senators - including Preecha - gave moral support to the department's strict law-enforcement stance.

-- The Nation 2011-09-06

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Foodland Supermarket aims for SET within 2 years

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Phuket: Patong Hill closed to traffic today, Sep 6

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Strong earthquake hits Indonesia's Sumatra, kills two

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Rubber plantation owners rally in front of Yingluck's house

A group of 60 rubber plantation owners rallied in front of the house of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra early Tuesday morning.

The members of the Rubber Plantation Owners Cooperative of Thailand arrived at the house of Yingluck on Soi Yothin Pattana 3 on a road beside the Ram-Indra Expressway at 5:45 am.

They demanded an investigation agians the executives of the rubber planting subsidy fund, alleging that there were irregularities behind the purchase of 30,000 tons of fertilizers for the rubber tree growers.

The demonstrators agreed to move to the Government House after Phurithat Chankaew, a staff of the PM's secretary team, informed them that the prime minister did not stay at the house Monday's night.

-- The Nation 2011-09-06

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6.7-magnitude quake hits Sumatra Islands with tremors felt in Phuket and Had Yai; no tsunami warning issued /

North, Northeast, East and BKK to see heavy rain in some areas /

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Thai stock index opens on Tuesday at 1,043.21, down 6.02 points /MCOT

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Fire burns down tyre recycle plant in Samut Prakan

Samut Prakan - A massive fire burned down a tyre recycle plant here early Tuesday morning.

Police said the blaze broke out at the Srangsern Machinery on Bang Na-Trat Road in Bang Saothong district at 5 am.

About 10 fire engines spent two hours to control the blaze before it spread to a warehouse of oxygen cylinders of United Industrial Gas Co Ltd.

No one was injured in the fire.

Chernchai Dakhamwong, 52, a security officer of Sransern Machinery, said he saw a fire sparking at the back of the plant and rushed to try to put out the fire but the blaze spread quickly.

-- The Nation 2011-09-06

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Sharks saved from soupy fate set free at sea

Feature by Didier Lauras

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Defence Minister Yutthasak to visit Cambodia on Sept 23-24 to meet with his counterpart Tea Banh /TAN_Network

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5.5 million workers entitled to Bt300/day minimum wage

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Rubber planters rally at Govt House after protesting at PM's house, urging probe on alleged corruption in Rubber Replanting Aid Fund Office /MCOT

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Police Capture Multiple Suspects in Drug Bust

A suspect has been arrested and was found to be in possession of a huge amount of amphetamines tablets.

Police are conducting an on-going investigation and are looking for two suspects who are on the run.

Suspect Somjing Seiyongka, age 53, was arrested in connection with the seizure of 800 amphetamine pills as well as tablet making machines and chemicals that are used in the production of amphetamines, along with over 30 amphetamine paraphernalia.

The suspect was charged with narcotics possession with the intent to sell after his home in the Sai Noi District, in Nonthaburi Province was searched.

During their initial investigation, authorities found that the suspect, Somjing, was connected with two drug suppliers, Thanupong Noppakhunkoonanan, a dealer from Chantaburi Province, and Kreingkrai Mamen, a former sub-district chief of Nakorn Pathom Province, who is suspected of amphetamine production and distribution in Nonthaburi Province.

One suspect confessed that he had been working for the dealers as an amphetamine producer, and did everything from mixing the chemicals, to pressing them into pills, and smuggling the drugs to major traffickers and smaller dealers in the central, west, and southern parts of the country.

So far, all of the suspects have been charged with producing and possessing illegal drugs with the intent to sell.

Police Major General Kamronwit Toopkrachang said after arresting Somjing that police are conducting further investigation to collect more evidence against Thanupong in Ratchaiburi Province and Kreingkrai in Nakorn Pathom Province.

However, the two suspects were tipped off and have escaped.

The police are now coordinating with the Narcotics Control Technology Center to seize assets belonging to those in the drug trade-- including possessions like dairy farms, car tents, houses, and land, which have a combined value of over 40 million baht.

-- Tan Network 2011-09-06