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Phuket Airport authorities approve all 'new' taxis

Phuket Gazette

HAPPY TOGETHER: Phuket Airport Director Pratuang Sornkham (left) joins local taxi operators in holding up the new agreement. Photo: Atchaa Khamlo

PHUKET: -- Despite a senior executive of Airports of Thailand (AOT) just last month announcing a freeze in the number taxi vehicles serving Phuket Airport, local officials yesterday approved every single request made by local taxi operators to boost their airport fleets.

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Red Shirt 'activist alert': Don’t prejudge a man in red as a red shirt activist

By Digital Media

BANGKOK, Nov 20 – Pro-government Red Shirt activists have vowed to stay away from the anti-government rally by the conservative Pitak Siam group at the Royal Plaza on Saturday.

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Chiang Mai Madam Supplied Teen Girls To Thais

Chiang Mai police arrested a madam who admitted selling teenagers as prostitutes to satisfy the “libido” of local merchants and government workers. She admitted to having more than 10 girls, some under 18.

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Court delays Sondhi's trial to next month

The Nation

File photo : Sondhi

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