Thailand Live Saturday 8 Oct 2011

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All Central dept stores nationwide except Central Festival Pattaya are opening their parking lots for flood victims vehicles free/TAN_Network

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Northern train service halted temporarily because of flooding; southern service available only up to Tungsong /

Oct 8-10 East warned of flash floods and mudslides; Pathum Thani needs more sand bags /

Authorities assure northern flood runoffs will not flood BKK; 27 riverside communities ready for flooding /

PM orders construction of canal in Samut Prakarn in 7 days to help take in water /

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Hajj 2011: Phuket Airport prepped for pilgrims

An x-ray machine set up in the multi-purpose building at Phuket Airport

to help facilitate the Thai muslims' departure to Saudi Arabia.

Phuket Airport Director Duangchai Condee.

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Navy warns of high tides in mid and late-Oct

BANGKOK, 8 October 2011 (NNT) – The Hydrographic Department of the Royal Thai Navy has issued a warning of additional flooding in the lower central and eastern regions in the middle and the end of this month due to surging tides.

According to the announcement of the Hydrographic Department, the sea level is forecast to rise during 12-16 October and also 28-30 October. Therefore, people residing in the lower part of the Central Plains, including Bangkok, and the East are encouraged to be on high alert of river runoff and inundation, especially during 13-17 October and 26-31 October.

Out of the flood-stricken provinces along the Chao Phraya River, comprising Nakhon Sawan, Sing Buri, Chai Nat, Uthai Thani, Ang Thong, Saraburi, Suphan Buri, Lop Buri and Ayutthaya, the latter two are expected to see the problem becoming more severe and widespread, given the persisting rainfall coupled with the approaching mass of excess water from the North.

-- NNT 2011-10-08

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Will Arroyos do a Thaksin Shinawatra or a Joseph Estrada?

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Cho-airong district police officer in Narathiwat riding motorcycle to work killed by insurgents with AK47, pistol stolen /MCOT

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Bangkok Ranked Number One Food & Wine Destination In Asia

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A 11-km section of Asia Highway leading to Chai Nat will be closed from 6pm onwards, on 70cm-high floods /via@Biz_TheNation

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12-year-old Indonesian boy arrested for series of sex attacks

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Thailand Flood Map in English Language

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Phuket crash uproots tree, two slightly injured

Fortunately none of the people involved in the latest Phuket road

accident suffered serious injury.

A Phuket pine tree that was minding its own business was not so lucky.

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JUST IN: Strong earthquake hits the Tonga Islands region /via@mpoppel

Preliminary estimates for Tonga Islands region earthquake: 5.9 - 6.5; 10 - 50 kms deep; happened about 15 mins ago /via@mpoppel

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EU approves Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype

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WSJ: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs buried on Friday

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WARNING

Imminent floods in 9 Bangkok areas

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Police in Narathiwat killed by insurgents

NARATHIWAT, Oct 8 -- A police at Narathiwat's Cho-airong district was shot dead earlier today by presumed insurgents while gathering intelligence on the southern insurgency.

The victim, Pol Sgt Jirapan Leeyanon, 26, Squad Leader of the Crime Prevention and Suppression Unit of Cho-airong police station, was on his motorcycle while two presumed insurgents on a motorcycle followed him and shot him with an AK47 assault rifle. Hit by four shots, the victim lost control of his motorcycle.

One assailant, following the victim, shot Sgt Jirapan in the head, took the police officer’s .357 pistol, and stole his motorcycle to flee the scene.

Sgt Jirapan died at the scene on Cho-airong-Pa Pai Road.

More than 4,300 lives, including residents, authorities and insurgent suspects, have been lost in almost daily violence since the violence escalated in 2004. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2011-10-08

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Parts Of North Pattaya Still Underwater As The Flood Crisis Continues

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Phuket foreigners losing homes to con men

The lament is shared by a number of other wives in Phuket, most of them having foreign husbands.

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