Thailand Live Sunday 15 Jul 2012

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Thailand Live Sunday 15 July 2012

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Pheu Thai considers options on charter

The Nation on Sunday

Former Thai Rak Thai caretaker party leader Chaturon Chaisang

BANGKOK: -- Party to meet tomorrow; will consider change to Article 68, that lets Constitution Court directly accept a petition direct from public

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/569931-pheu-thai-considers-options-on-charter/#entry5485369

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Asean and new markets to cushion impact of slump in exports to euro zone, says Kittiratt

The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- Electronics, jewellery, and garments are among the major Thai export industries currently hit by the euro-zone crisis, but the growing Asean and other new markets would help cushion the negative impact, according to deputy premier and Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong.

He said the euro-zone situation had stabilised as key players were taking action to solve the problems.

Besides the export sectors, the country's tourism industry has also been hit by the euro-zone crisis with tourist arrivals down 6-7 per cent in the past months when compared with the same period last year.

Tourism and Sports Minister Chumpol Silapa-archa, said tourist arrivals for the whole year should still meet the target of 20 million as there will be more visitors from Asia, especially China, Japan and Korea.

Suraphol Sawet-senee, governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, said the agency's target is to boost annual tourism revenue to Bt2 trillion in 2015, nearly doubling from Bt1.1 trillion recorded last year.

He said Russia, China, Korea and Australia are priority markets for Thailand as they still enjoy strong economic growth rates.

In addition, TAT has focussed on special interest groups such as golf tourism, spa tourism, honeymoon tourism and shopping tourism.

He said the agency would also implement measures to attract higher-income tourists, especially those in the middle and high-income groups. For example, the ratio of high-income visitors will be raised to 25 per cent of the total, up from the present 18 per cent in the next 2-3 years.

-- The Nation 2012-07-15

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Historical bias against neighbouring nations a burden for migrant workers

The Nation on Sunday

A worker from Myanmar at Mahachai Market.

BANGKOK: -- Social activist Adisorn Kerdmongkol, a key person at the Migrant Working Group (MWG), was among five people just named as outstanding human rights defenders by the Somchai Neelapaijit Memorial Foundation. He answered questions by The Nation on Sunday's Pravit Rojanaphruk about the plight of migrant workers in Thailand.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/569932-historical-bias-against-neighbouring-nations-a-burden-for-migrant-workers/

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'Encroacher' back from Myanmar to speak

BANGKOK: -- Kriengkrai Seutrong, who was accused of leading a group of Thais to encroach on Myanmar forestland, said that today he and 100 villagers from Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Krabi would explain what happened and who was behind it.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/569933-encroacher-back-from-myanmar-to-speak/#entry5485390

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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SEMINAR

Business skills tapped to improve lives

Thasong Asvasena

The Nation on Sunday

Hanoi event showcases growing trend across Asia-Pacific region

The promotion of social enterprises - organisations that use commercial strategies for the wellbeing of communities and the environment - was behind a three-day series of workshops just completed in Hanoi.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/569934-business-skills-tapped-to-improve-lives/#entry5485400

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Manila slams Asean failure to issue statement

Philippine Daily Inquirer,

Manila

The Philippines yesterday deplored the non-issuance of a joint statement at the end of the 45th Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting held in Cambodia.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/569935-manila-slams-asean-failure-to-issue-statement/#entry5485412

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Mass fish deaths in Korat river probed

The Nation on Sunday

KORAT: -- Officials in Nakhon Ratchasima's Muang district yesterday speedily removed some 100,000 dead fish from a 3-kilometre-long stretch of the Lam Takong River, and collected fish and water samples to determine the cause of the deaths. The results of tests are due out in a week.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/569936-mass-fish-deaths-in-korat-river-probed/#entry5485418

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HFMD warning to Ranong pre-schools

The Nation on Sunday

A Ranong Public Health official yesterday urged the province's childcare facilities, in particular 13 centres caring for 3,000 Myanmar pre-schoolers along the border, to watch out for Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD).

Dr Thongchai Kiratihattayakorn said Thai authorities were worried because HFMD outbreaks had been reported in many provinces as well as in neighbouring countries such as Vietnam, where 40,000 patients and 18 deaths were found.

-- The Nation 2012-07-15

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Prison drug probe widens

The Nation on Sunday

Nakhon Si Thammarat police yesterday extended their behind-bars drug-dealing investigation to a house in Lan Saka district, where they seized 7,000 yaba tablets and 50 grams of crystal meth.

After learning that the drug ring involving Nakhon Si Thammarat Prison inmates had sent a large quantity of drugs to be stored at a Tambon Lan Saka house pending distribution, police yesterday morning searched the house. Theerasak Olanchon, 25, and his wife Siranee Kanthanukul, 23, presented themselves as owners of the home, where drugs worth about Bt300,000 were found. Both face a charge of possessing drugs with intent to sell.

Lan Saka investigator Pol Lt-Colonel Kasidit Chankan said police were hunting for war weapons and drug fugitive Wutthikrai Sri-ura when they received information that Wutthikrai stored drugs at the home of his close aide Theerasak, which led to the issuing of a search warrant.

-- The Nation 2012-07-15

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Lamphun MP Sataporn passes away

The Nation July 15, 2012 1:00 am

Sataporn Maneerat, a four-time member of Parliament from Lamphun - most recently with the Pheu Thai Party - died of cancer and kidney disease yesterday.

After months of treatment, Sataporn passed away at Maharaj Nakorn Hospital in Chiang Mai at 1pm. The bathing ceremony will be held today at San Sai Temple in Lamphun at 3pm.

Sataporn, who was also a provincial red-shirt leader, was a Thai Rak Thai party-list MP before switching to run as a constituency candidate, winning an MP seat in 2005, holding the seat from Lamphun until his death. When he reported as an MP-elect last year, he carried fresh fruit and vegetables such as longan and garlic as a gimmick to urge the new government to boost prices of agricultural goods.

-- The Nation 2012-07-15

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Two hurt in series of blasts in Yala

NAKARIN CHINWORAKOMOL,

PARES LOHASAN

THE NATION ON SUNDAY

YALA: -- Four bomb attacks on bank ATMs and an M79 grenade attack on a Ranger base in Bannang Sata district in Yala on Friday night left two people injured. It also prompted a security beef-up in the three southern border provinces.

Bannang Sata superintendent Pol Colonel Charoen Thammakhan said police checked the four banks' security cameras and one of them - at a Government Savings Bank branch - captured a group of four or five youths on motorcycles in front of the bank minutes before the blast. An inspection of the scene turned up SIM cards apparently used to detonate the device, Charoen said.

It was suspected that the five attacks were carried out by a group led by Mukta Alimama, who is believed to have replaced Ma-ae Apibalbae as the region's leading insurgent. The latter died during a gunfight with officials in Yala's Than Tho district last year.

Ahead of the Islamic fasting month, Pattani's Muang district municipality has beefed up security and implemented strict checks on suspicious vehicles. The move follows an intelligence report that a group of five or six suspected insurgents recently held a meeting in Nong Chik district's Tambon Tuyong and another in Muang district's Tambon Pakaharang to discuss attacks using guns and bombs.

-- The Nation 2012-07-15

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Phuket mob bays for blood at 'Nong Som' murder reenactment

Phuket Gazette –

Nong Som's father Khaneung was overcome with grief during the reenactment of his daughter's murder. Photo by Chutharat Plerin

Sixty officers had their hands full trying to protect the confessed murderer from the angry crowd in Chalong, Phuket. Photo by Chutharat Plerin.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/569939-phuket-mob-bays-for-blood-at-nong-som-murder-reenactment/#entry5485447

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Bureau of Royal Household: HM the King’s condition is stable

BANGKOK, 15 July 2012 (NNT) – The latest official announcement from the Bureau of the Royal Household has suggested that HM the King’s condition has been stable after having checked in at Siriraj Hospital again for a minute subdural bleeding in the left frontal area.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/569626-thailands-king-treated-for-brain-bleed-palace/page__st__100#entry5485465

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Kanchanaburi schools receive medicine chest, sports equipment donations

KANCHANABURI, 15 July 2012 (NNT) – The Governor of Kanchanaburi, Mr. Chaiwat Limwanta, presided over a ceremony to present medicine chests and sports equipment to needy schools in 13 districts of Kanchanaburi province.

The donations, made by the British Dispensary (LP) Company Limited, were presented to representatives of the recipient schools at Wat Intaram School in Tha Muang District. The presentation was witnessed by chiefs of government units in Kanchanaburi, and teachers and students from the benefited schools. On behalf of the donor, Mr. Anurut Vongvanij, president of the British Dispensary company gave background information on the donations, which were parts of the company's “Medicine Chests for the Young” campaign.

Governor Chaiwat expressed thanks to the British Dispensary company for giving the importance to schoolchildren’s health and hygiene. At the ceremony, the company donated medicine chests and sports equipment to sixty schools. At present, many schools in Kanchanaburi still lack medications for common illnesses and require supplies to administer first aid. This campaign is thus very beneficial for rural Thai children, in promoting good health and quality of life.

-- NNT 2012-07-15

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TAT set to attract high-spending tourists to help hit tourism revenue target of THB2tril in 2015

BANGKOK, 15 July 2012 (NNT) – The Thai Tourism Authority has already strategized about how to achieve the ambitious tourism revenue target of 2 trillion baht within 3 years’ time.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa....5/#entry5485479

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Thai Parliament eyeing to prepare Parliamentarians for AEC

BANGKOK, 15 July 2012 (NNT) – The Parliament is set to kick off a special plan to prompt Thai Parliamentarians for the emergence of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.

House Speaker Somsak Kiatsuranont is scheduled to chair the opening of the “Thai Parliament towards AEC 2015”, which is jointly organized by the Secretariat of the House of Representatives and the Secretariat of the Senate, on Monday, July 16th.

The event, aimed at preparing Members of Parliament and senators for a more liberal ASEAN region in 3 years’ time, will take place at IMPACT, Muang Thong Thani.

At the Thai Parliament towards AEC 2015 event, seminars on the readiness of the new Parliament House and the preparation of Thai Parliamentarians for the AEC have been scheduled, while a football match and a tug of war game, that will be joined by members of both the Upper House and the Lower House, members of the press, officers from the Secretariat of the House of Representatives and the Secretariat of the Senate, will take place.

Other recreational activities for MPs, senators, Parliament officials, state officials and staff and journalists will also be held to promote unity and stronger collaboration from all sides towards a freer Southeast Asian region in 2015.

-- NNT 2012-07-15

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RT@RichardBarrow: Last chance to shop at Siam Center today. Open until midnight with clearance sales of up to 90%. Won’t re-open until the end of the year.

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RT@RichardBarrow: Doubts raised over Thai boxer's gender - tinyurl.com/85s7c23

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RT@Aim_NT: Thanpuying Chongkol Kittikachorn, wife of late Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn- Thai dictator- dies at 96. Via @satien_nna

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Energy Ministry to increase cooking gas price by Bt6-7 per kg, LPG in transportation sector by Bt3-4 per kg starting from Aug 16 /MCOT

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RT@191Thailand: This morning a tour bus on its way to Khao Yai crashed in Pak Chong. First reports say 3 dead & 11 injured

RT@191Thailand: Pic of tour bus that crashed on Mitirapap Rd near Farm Chockchai. 3 dead. pic.twitter.com/gtfgXqUj - MT @Nattha_ThaiPBS

Bus carrying National Anti Corruption Commission staff for seminar at Khao Yai crashes at km 52 of Mittraphap Road, killing 3, injuring 11 /MCOT

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Phuket Opinion: Journalistic ethics cannot be digitized

Phuket Gazette –

'Digital-only' distribution of news has brought many benefits to 'journalists' – and a host of new risks and challenges for readers.

PHUKET: One memorable scene from the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is the moment when Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal that the “mighty and all-powerful Oz” is no more than an ordinary man who, by circumstances beyond his control, finds himself thrust into a position of power that he never sought or wanted.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa....d/#entry5485926

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HM the King's condition is gradually improving, medication is continued

BANGKOK, July 15 - His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej's condition was gradually improving, and his right hand could move normally, but intravenous medication would continue to be administered to him, according to Bureau of the Royal Household.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/569626-thailands-king-treated-for-brain-bleed-palace/page__st__100#entry5485956

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RT@MarcusBurtBKK: Live by the sword RT @ChaiyaBenz: Uncle Hiang died on Friday was famous in Khon Kaen King Cobra Village, he was bit by cobra till dead

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Deputy Agriculture minister Nattawut to meet with rubber growers on Monday after they protested falling para rubber prices by blocking Asian Highway

/MCOT

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Rubber growers decide not to meet Deputy Agriculture minister Nattawut in BKK, to continue blocking Asian Highway 41 until he comes to meet them in Nakhon Si Thammarat

/MCOT

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RT@RichardBarrow: Nok Air flights from Don Mueang to Buriram start on 1st September.

RT@RichardBarrow: Nok Air will start flying from Don Mueang to Chumphon from 1st October.

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Pheu Thai calls party meeting on Monday to discuss options after Constitution Court dismisses opponents' petitions on charter amendment bill /MCOT