Thailand Live Saturday 17 Sep 2011

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Thailand Live Saturday 17 September 2011

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Bangkok 'can handle' deluge if there is no more downpour

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Floods in Thailand kill at least 98 people

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Multiple bombings in Narathiwat tourist areas leave two dead, 40 injured

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GOVERNMENT POLICY

Loan terms eased in first-car scheme

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Maritime MoU with Cambodia back on Thai agenda

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Thai Police arrest three Britons for running online sex show

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Investigators probing more illegal resort properties in Korat forest reserves

By The Nation

Forest Resource Management Office 8 (Nakhon Ratchasima) is preparing to take action against the owners of 37 more resorts and vacation homes in the province's Wang Nam Kheow district.

"Aerial pictures suggest that these properties are located inside the Khao Phu Luang forest reserve," the office's director Suthep Pawareswittayararn said yesterday.

However, he said his office would investigate the case further before deciding on whom it should lodge a complaint against.

Relevant authorities have now been seriously surveying the Khao Phu Luang forest reserve in a bid to crack down on encroachment.

Police investigators have already summoned the owners of 22 other properties located in the forest reserve to acknowledge charges against them.

Of these 22, six have come forward but denied the charges against them. They have produced evidence of localmaintenance tax payment, and photos showing that the plots they were occupying were degraded forestland.

Pol Colonel Wachirawat Kritrittisak, an investigator for these encroachment cases, said a second summons would be issued for the owners of the 16 other encroaching properties.

"If they still don't report to us, they will face arrest warrants then," he said.

On the encroachment on the Tab Lan National Park, Suthep said that the chief of the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department would lead a team in demolishing three encroaching properties on September 21.

One is located in Wang Nam Kheow, while two others are located in Prachin Buri's Na Di district.

"The demolition is to be carried out under court orders," he said.

-- The Nation 2011-09-17

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Flareup over a blocked registration number

By The Nation

A dispute between a Toyota dealer in Lampang and a car buyer over a problem with an NGV cylinder installation will be the first to be heard in a new Civil Court procedure dealing with consumer protection against automakers if a coming meeting fails to reach a compromise.

In her complaint lodged publicly with Kom Chad Luek newspaper, Siyapha Phutthawong said she insisted on the Lampang dealer registering her new Altis with the local autoregistration office. But the office refused to do so after finding that the NGV was installed with the serial number blocked by a fastener, making registration officials unable to copy it.

The dealer initially proposed readjusting the cylinder to stop blocking the serial number, but the buyer did not allow this, saying that her Altis must be registered without the cylinder being moved or readjusted, for fear of losing the factory coverage for the cylinder. The woman, who bought the passenger sedan priced at Bt824,000 in cash, later contacted Toyota North and Toyota Thailand to manage what she wants, still on condition that the cylinder not be moved.

The matter was brought to the consumer protection office in Chiang Mai, and later to the provincial office of public prosecutors, but no compromise has been reached. The woman said she would lodge a complaint with the Civil Court hearing consumer protection cases if the next meeting fails to comply with her demand.

-- The Nation 2011-09-17

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RT @mpoppel: Plane crashes during Reno, Nevada air show, mass casualties reported - http://bit.ly/pbHcNt @WireUpdate

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Plane crashes during Reno, Nevada air show, mass casualties reported

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Thaksin arrives in Cambodia and is warmly welcomed by Deputy PM Sok An; Thai parliamentarians to travel to Cambodia tomorrow /TAN_Network

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Acting police chief Priewpan leads arrest of drug suspect in Maesai, Chiang Rai; 78,000 speed pills seized, 1 suspect killed /TAN_Network

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Irrigation officials say Pasak Cholasit Dam is now at full capacity which poses a danger /TAN_Network

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Road work clogs Phuket's main artery

The upgrade work on one of Phuket's busiest roads is already causing

long tailbacks. Photo: Pimwara Choksakulpan

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Phuket Police help nab drug kingpin in Krabi

METH MEN: The two suspects had a drug-trafficking network that allegedly

spanned from Phuket to Malaysia. Photo: Warisa Temram

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Luang Pu Supha marks 115th birthday

The venerable Luang Pu Supha receives his honorary doctorate degree

for is exemplary contribution to Buddhism. Photo: PRD

Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha (bottom, right) joins the prayers to

mark Luang Pu Supha's 115th birthday.

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Two Colorado men take out dead friend's body out for drinks

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Ang Thong, Singh Buri, Chainat, Uthai Thani face heavy flooding; sandbag barricades being put up while schools ordered close /TAN_Network

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Cambodian PM Hun Sen welcomes visiting ex-Thai PM Thaksin who is scheduled to deliver lecture on economic development during his stay /MCOT

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Public Health Ministry warns of dengue fever outbreak 7-10 days after floodwater recedes; almost 50,000 people infected, 35 deaths /TAN_Network

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PM presides over incineration of over 800kg of seized illicit drugs at Bang Pa-in in Ayutthaya, visits flood victims in Nakhon Sawan /MCOT

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Police to deploy 1,300 officers during UDD rally on 18 Sep

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Thailand issues statement to recognize Natl Transitional Council of Libya /TAN_Network

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AFP: Thai ex-PM Thaksin meets Cambodian leader Hun Sen

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AFP: Troops 'involved' in cameraman death: Thai agency

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WATCHDOG

Thai Govt may have to renege on controversial populist schemes

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Battle for Phuket's Surin Beach goes on

Somsak Boontapatipa, owner of Pla Restaurant in Phuket:

'Everyone builds on the beach'.

TIME AND TIDE: The makeshift breakwater that is at the center

of the latest Phuket encroachment case.

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PM visits Nakhon Sawan to hand out Bt5,000 compensation to each household affected by flooding /TAN_Network