Thailand Live Friday 13 Jul 2012

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Cambodia will re-deploy, not withdraw troops from Preah Vihear: Sukumpol

BANGKOK: -- Defence Minister Gen Sukumpol Suvannathat on Friday asserted that Cambodia would just re-deploy not withdraw its troops near Preah Vihear Temple on July 18.

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Transvestite run over by bus after pushed by homeless man

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- A bus Friday ran over and killed a transvestite, who was shove into a Bangkok street by a homeless man during a small fight over a bag of snacks in the victim's hands.

"I saw them fighting over the bag," the bus's fare collector Napassorn Cherdpetcharat said.

The victim was identified as Surachet Seetalajit, a 35-year-old catering worker at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations office here. The accident took place right in fron of her office in Phra Nakhon district.

Police said the homeless thief, Pradit Pilasan, was hunted down by passersby and beaten up.

-- TNA 2012-07-13

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Phuket boy, 6, drowns in wastewater pool

Phuket Gazette

Patong Municipality Water Treatment plant workers search for the body of 6-year-old Marvin in water treatment pool. Photo: Atchaa Khamlo

PHUKET: -- A six-year-old boy who went missing this morning was found drowned in a water treatment pool at the Patong Municipality Water Treatment Plant this afternoon.

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PM: New Police Chief will be revealed next week

BANGKOK, 13 July 2012 (NNT)-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has indicated that the name of a new police chief will be made public next week after the meeting of a national police board.

Ms. Yingluck said she will call a meeting of the Royal Thai Police Policy Committee next Monday to make a decision on the appointment of a new police chief, replacing Police General Prewpan Damapong, who will retire at the end of September.

The Prime Minister said she already has set criteria in mind and will discuss them with the committee. She, however, denied to comment on media reports that Police General Adul Sangsingkaew would be the next police chief, saying the issue will become clearer next week.

-- NNT 2012-07-13

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Combating rising crime in Rawai

Phuket Gazette

Chalong Police Deputy Superintendent Narong Laksanawimon

PHUKET: -- CHALONG Police are boosting public safety on the southern streets of Phuket by enlisting the help of local government officers, volunteers, and other island residents, business people.

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Bus traveling from Phuket to Narathiwat crashes in Phang Nga

Phuket Gazette

The school directors were returning from a "field trip" to Phuket when their coach overturned in Phang Nga. Photo: Kritsada Meuanhawong

Some of the thirty-five educators injured in the latest bus crash in Phang Nga. Photo: Kritsada Meuanhawong

PHUKET: -- A tour bus full of school directors from Narathiwat province overturned in Phang Nga late this morning, causing numerous injuries, but fortunately no deaths.

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