Thailand Live Tuesday 7 May 2013

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Pattaya Police Sweep Sex Workers From Beach Road

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/637839-pattaya-police-sweep-sex-workers-from-beach-road/

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'Pmove' demands government solutions to their problems
By English News



BANGKOK, May 7 – Members of the People’s Movement for a Just Society (Pmove) today called on the government to solve long-standing problems of farmers and rural people.

The protesters who began camping near Government House yesterday publicly read their demands at one of the state office entrances before walking back to their temporary shelters to wait for the prime minister’s reply.

Pmove is a network comprising various groups including the Northern Federation of Farmers and the Mun River Revival and Community Committee. Their complaints mainly involve state projects’ negative impacts on their lands, communities or financial well-being and quality of life.

In another protest, Songkhla Democrat MP Thaworn Senneam and a group of other southern MPs led rubber and oil palm planters to Government House to urge the prime minister to tackle the declining prices of their agricultural produce.

Mr Thaworn urged the government to pledge the prices of oil palms at Bt5 per kilo and rubber at Bt120 per kilo.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra reportedly ordered Deputy Premier Chalerm Yubamrung to look into the rural people’s and farmers’ plight without them having to travel to the capital.

Mr Chalerm supervises the subcommittee on solutions to the people’s problems. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2013-05-07

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Finance Minister again urges BoT to take action on baht appreciation, recommends cutting policy interest rate to curb capital inflow /MCOT

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Phuket Opinion: Tales of Thalang traffic woe
Graham Doven


The road to the hospital with motorbikes, the empty motorbike parking inside Tesco, and the blocked off entrance to the carpark.

PHUKET: -- The locals in Thalang were excited. Tesco was going to build a new store next to the school. There were going to be lots of restaurants, a department store and theatres.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/637859-phuket-opinion-tales-of-thalang-traffic-woe/

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Wife and mistress enter boxing match over Rayong man
By Coconuts Bangkok

RAYONG: -- Two Rayong women donned boxing gloves this Sunday and entered a match that offered as a prize a championship belt, THB40,000 in cash and the object of their mutual affections, who was married to one of the women and maintained the other as his mistress.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/637867-wife-and-mistress-enter-boxing-match-over-rayong-man/

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SET index closed at 1601.15, up 22.20; Bt/USD29.51; GBP45.79; AUD29.96; EUR38.50; CAD29.12; HKD3.80; SGD23.82; JPY29.66

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'Major' loan shark arrested in Phuket
Nattha Thepbamrung


Phuket loan shark Yuthana “Tam” Rodjan, 31, and six others were arrested yesterday.

PHUKET: -- A man regarded as a major loan shark in Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi was busted by Bangkok police in Thalang district about 7 pm yesterday (May 6).

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/637874-phuket-loan-shark-arrested/

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Thai Foreign Ministry: Philippine volcano erupts; Thai injured on Mount Mayon; Victim one of five Thai tourists climbing the Luzon peak /MCOT

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Five dead as Philippine volcano spews ash, rocks

Manila - Four German tourists and a local guide were killed when a Philippine volcano ejected ash and rocks in a sudden explosion Tuesday, officials said.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/637879-five-dead-as-philippine-volcano-spews-ash-rocks/

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Call for total smoking ban at main international airports
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- A health advocate called for a total ban on smoking at major airports nationwide Tuesday after many areas of passenger terminals were found to have "second-hand" smoke levels two times higher than World Health Organisation (WHO) standards over 24 hours.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/637885-call-for-total-smoking-ban-at-thailands-main-international-airports/

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Pattaya Police Chief urgently transferred over “missed” Gambling case

PATTAYA:--The Pattaya Police Chief, Police Colonel Suwan, has been urgently re-assigned to a non-active position in accordance with orders from the National Police Chief, Police General Adul.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/637911-pattaya-police-chief-urgently-transferred-over-missed-gambling-case/

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RT@ChadapornLin: Tomorrow red shirts to march from Chaengwattana-Vibhavadi-Phaholyodhin-Victory Monu-Ratchavithi-Parliament in protest over charter amendment

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Iranian collapses and dies on Pattaya Island

PATTAYA:--An Iranian tourist collapsed and died of a suspected heart attack on Sark Island in Pattaya Bay on Tuesday afternoon.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/637912-iranian-collapses-and-dies-on-pattaya-island/

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Thailand Live Wednesday 8 May 2013

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