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Thailand Live Saturday 1 December 2012

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UPDATE:

Threat to court lands Korkaew back in jail

Pravit Rojanaphruk

The Nation

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Korkaew Pikulthong, a red-shirt leader and Pheu Thai Party MP, flashes a victory sign as he is led away by Corrections Department officials to Bangkok Special Remand Prison after the Criminal Court revoked his bail in a case involving the 2010 political unrest.

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Paetongtarn responds to coffee threat

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- "Tea or coffee?" It's a question routinely asked by flight attendants aboard airliners, but for Paetongtarn "Ung Ing" Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the drink would be poured on her face.

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CONSUMER RIGHTS

Commission needs new law to give it teeth

The Nation

Govt urged to push through law to protect public from unfair practices

BANGKOK: -- Consumer rights organisations are pushing for the passage of a new law to help an independent commission better protect consumers against unfair practices by both private and government sectors.

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SPECIAL REPORT

Migrant workers have most to lose when tested positive

The Nation

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Myanmar migrant worker Ye Than, right, contracted HIV from her husband, who died seven years ago.

BANGKOK: -- There is nothing more heartbreaking than learning that one has contracted the HIV virus and that seeking medication would mean losing one's only means of survival. This tragic plight is faced by many migrant workers, some of whom reveal their ordeal to The Nation's Thanapat Kitjakosol.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa....itive-thailand/

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WORLD AIDS DAY

Seeing the light

Wannapa Khaopa

The Nation

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Te cooks an omelette for his dinner. He always asks his grandmother join him, but she never does, out of fear of eating with the HIV-positive boy.

Children from 29 provinces tell their own stories of living with HIV/Aids

THAILAND: -- A child cooking omelette urges his grandmother to sit down to dinner. "Granny, come and eat with me," says Te, a primary-school-age boy.

"No," comes the answer. "I'm not hungry now. You go ahead."

A thoughtful boy seems to be showing gratitude by cooking for his elderly grandma.

Then we hear his thoughts: "I don't know how many times granny has spoken those sentences to me. I know that I've heard them since I was able to remember things. Granny has never eaten food with me."

("After you're full, clean the dishes thoroughly," says Granny.)

"I know Granny fears she will catch my disease, even though my teacher says no one gets infected just by living alongside someone with HIV/Aids," thinks the boy, leaving the audience in no doubt of his situation.

The opening scene of "Khon Tee Khao Jai" ("A Person who Understands") is tough to watch - it's made all the tougher if you know that this 11-minute film tells the real-life story of a boy from Chanthaburi.

"I don't dare tell my teacher or anybody else what I have been suffering," Te continues. "I'm scared of what will happen to me if I tell them, and everyone hates me. Even Granny, who has looked after me since I was a child, doesn't dare eat with me. What the teacher said won't help me. People believe in what they feel rather than in the truth."

Meanwhile, we hear the source of the grandmother's doubt and fear. She has seen her daughter and son-in-law die from Aids. She had been assured that the disease was not easily transmitted, but could anyone give her a 100-per-cent guarantee?

The neighbours are also fearful. They urge Te's grandmother to leave him with a foster home. He's a burden and is going to die - no one with the disease survives.

The old woman makes up her mind. "Your life here will be difficult," she explains.

Te listens helplessly, knowing that she is wrong.

At the foster home, he wonders how long he will have to stay, and clings to the hope that one day they will let him return home to his grandmother.

"With 'Khon Tee Khao Jai', we wanted to show that people living with HIV/Aids want someone who understands them," explains the short film's director, Misak Chinphong. "No one understands Te, the main character, but understanding is what he craves."

"Khon Tee Khao Jai" is just one of 29 short films created by people working with HIV/Aids networks in 29 provinces. Made by amateur filmmakers and actors, they are often rough around the edges, but these real-life stories have a very direct emotional power.

Depicted are struggles for acceptance from friends and classmates, as well as stories of young love in which one partner has HIV/Aids.

"Many of them reflect the problems that people, especially children, living with HIV/Aids have encountered - the discrimination, rights violations, hatred, and obstacles to love and the hope for a better future," says Nimit Tienudom, director of the Aids Access Foundation. "Some of the films reflect problems of certain groups, including migrant and homeless children," he adds.

Apiwat Kwangkaew, president of the Thai Network of People Living with HIV/Aids, says the films allowed children living with the disease to tell their own stories. Audiences are made to realise that these incidents really do occur and that ignoring them will not make the underlying prejudice disappear. The films aim to inspire viewers to look deeper into the problems and help find solutions.

"Though we are not professional filmmakers, our strong point is that these stories come from real life," says Misak. "To mark World Aids Day on December 1, I invite people to watch these short films for some insight into the problems that make life so hard for many children and young people in our society."

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Watch the films at www.thaiplus.net or at www.mangotv.tv.

"A Person Who Understands" can be seen at www.NationMultiMedia.com

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-- The Nation 2012-12-01

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VENUS' VISION

Smiles now, but it could all go wrong soon

Veena Thoopkrajae

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BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has done it yet again: "Yinglucked" her way out of trouble. She survived the censure motion in Parliament and received a vote of confidence from the majority of the House. But is that enough?

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EDITORIAL

Industries' chair needs to be more vocal on policies

The Nation

Representatives of the private sector should use their influence to question and check the government over dubious economic plans and schemes

BANGKOK: -- The internal conflict at the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) reveals the changing expectations that the organisation's members have of their executives. The FTI chairman's post has traditionally been seen as a ceremonial one, which has been rotated among member companies.

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Second suspect arrested in Danish abduction, robbery

Phuket Gazette

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Diana Muller alleged that the two men had abducted her and then robbed her at knife point. Photo: Patong Police

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Mr Tak is taken away by police after his arrest in Phuket Town. Photo: Patong Police

PHUKET: -- Phuket Police arrested on Wednesday a second suspect associated with the abduction and robbery of a Danish woman in the designated Patong Safety Zone on November 26.

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Kingdom fares badly in civil justice ranking

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Thailand sits near the bottom in some categories of a ranking of countries by rule of law compiled by a Washington-based think-tank, particularly in civil justice, in which it holds the 80th position out of 97.

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Fluency in English necessary for AEC

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Thai universities and other education institutions should start boosting their students' English-language skills in preparation for the 2015 Asean Economic Community because English will become the most common language in the region, Nation University executives said yesterday.

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7 Thais held in Myanmar since July freed: panel member

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Seven Thais sentenced to several years' imprisonment in Myanmar for forest encroachment and weapons possession were released yesterday, according to a local official.

They were among 92 Thais arrested in early July in Kawthaung, a Myanmar border town opposite Thailand's southern province of Ranong.

Colonel Uthis Anantananont, deputy commander of Army Task Force 25 and chairman of the Thai-Myanmar Township Border Committee, said he had been informed by Myanmar officials on the panel that authorities in the country had released the seven Thais.

Uthis was to take the Thais back to Thailand from Kawthaung later yesterday. All of them are men, with ages ranging from 29 to 60.

The seven men who were released were each sentenced to 10 years and six months in jail for illegal entry into Myanmar, forest encroachment and possession of war weapons.

Two Thais who had been in the same group as the seven men, but were found guilty of drug possession, will remain imprisoned in Myanmar - a 49-year-old woman from Surat Thani and 52-year-old man from Chumphon - after their jail terms were increased to 25 years and 28 years, respectively.

The 92 Thais were all initially sentenced to three years and six months in jail.

However, some of them were later found to have possessed military-grade weapons and drugs, and their terms were increased.

Most of those arrested for illegal entry have already been released.

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-- The Nation 2012-12-01

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Health ministry to make most jobs permanent

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- In a bid to calm a planned protest by 17,000 contract nurses who are demanding permanent jobs, the Public Health Ministry yesterday agreed in principle to enlist most of 30,188 contract positions in 21 fields of professions in the civil service over a three-year period.

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Songkhla under ISA for another year

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- In a meeting yesterday, a partial Cabinet resolved to extend the enforcement of the Internal Security Act in the four border districts of Songkhla for another year. This meeting, called by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, included nine Cabinet members.

Apart from the ISA enforced in the four Songkhla districts, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat are under emergency rule.

Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung said the government would try to reduce the areas under emergency rule and would try to enforce the ISA instead. He said the Cabinet also decided to put Defence Minister Sukampol Suwannathat in charge of peace-restoration operations in the deep South.

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-- The Nation 2012-12-01

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Former parks chief to form party

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- A former national parks chief, who made headlines by cracking down on resorts, said yesterday that he would set up his own political party.

Damrong Pidet said his party, to be registered on December 12, will aim to fight for forestland to be returned. He made headlines before he retired at the end of September by demolishing luxurious resorts allegedly encroaching upon parks, after which he faced a disciplinary investigation.

Damrong said his party would be called "Taking Back Thailand's Forests" and will only field party-list candidates. The party, to be registered in Bangkok and led by him, will have retired government officials as its founding members.

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-- The Nation 2012-12-01

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Phuket busts nab heroin, cocaine suspects

Phuket Gazette

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Ms Kiriya was taken to Vachira Phuket Hospital for an x-ray, which revealed she was carrying cocaine in her stomach. Photo: Phuket NCB

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Westerner murdered on Phuket in execution style

By Staff Reporter

PHUKET: -- From Phuket, reports are emerging of a murder investigation which has been instigated following the discover of a foreign man, thought to be of western origin, who had been either dumped or drowned in a Pond.

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RT @RichardBarrow: Music in the Park today & on 8 & 15 December At Somdech Phea Srinagarindra Boromarajajonani Memorial Park from 5pm-6:30pm. Free admission.

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AIDS situations in Thailand improves; 2 persons infected with HIV/AIDS hourly

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BANGKOK, Dec 1 - On the occasion of World AIDS Day, the Thai Red Cross Society disclosed that the AIDS situation in Thailand has improved, while statistics indicated that two persons are infected with HIV/AIDS every hour on average.

The Thai Red Cross Society's AIDS Research Center director Dr Prapan Panupark said if the situation is closely monitored, the number of patients could reduce to only 2 persons per day.

He said Thai homosexual males is the most worrying out of all patients groups, given that one-third of them are infected with the disease.

The figure of heterosexual people transmitted with the disease has remained intact at 2 percent, while female sex workers count for 7 percent of those infected.

The director said a semi-yearly check-up for HIV/AIDS, which is still unpopular among Thais, is advised. This would help prevent repeated transmission of the disease and allows patients to get prompt treatment, while also helping lift the quality of life for the patients.

According to statistics, only about 20-30 percent of 15,000 Thais have an HIV/AIDS check-up, while about 50 percent of the same number of Americans do so.

Adjustment on attitudes is needed to make HIV/AIDS check-ups like other annual check-ups for cancers or diabetes.

Dr Prapan added that today's anti-virus medication's properties have improved, giving 95 percent positive results, and are not expensive if produced by the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO).

He said those in high risk groups with good understanding of HIV/AIDS are suggested to consult a doctor to take medication at an initial phase to prevent the disease. (MCOT online news)

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-- TNA 2012-12-01

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Police tentatively identify body found in Phuket rubber plantation

Phuket Gazette –

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Phuket Police Commander Choti Chavaviwat (center) lead the investigation of the site. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

PHUKET: Phuket Police tentatively identified the man murdered execution style and left in a rubber plantation on Patong Hill as Hungarian businessman Peter Reisz, 47.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/602064-police-tentatively-identify-body-found-in-phuket-rubber-plantation/#entry5894350

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