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Facebook users join anti-govt campaign

The Nation on Sunday


Websites of PM and state agencies targeted


BANGKOK: -- Facebook users have joined an anti-government campaign by changing their profile pictures to the white mask of Guy Fawkes and posting messages against the Thaksin regime on government websites and FB pages that support the former PM.



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COST OF LIVING
Govt lashes out at Democrats' price rise claim

The Nation on Sunday

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Pheu Thai official says increase in price of some goods seasonal

BANGKOK: -- The ruling Pheu Thai Party yesterday hit back at the opposition Democrat Party, dismissing its claim that the government has failed to curb rising food prices.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/642062-thai-govt-lashes-out-at-democrats-price-rise-claim/

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Sexual assault victims in deep South silenced by state payouts: Angkhana

Thanapat Kitjakosol

The Nation on Sunday

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YALA: -- Angkhana Neelaphaijit, a leading rights advocate for Thai Muslims, has voiced concern over continued sexual assaults against Muslim women by security officials stationed in the southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/642063-sexual-assault-victims-in-deep-south-silenced-by-state-payouts-angkhana/

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Villagers want creek cleaned up before more mines open
The Nation on Sunday

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KANCHANABURI: -- A lawyer representing Karen villagers in lower Klity Creek in Kanchanaburi's Thong Pha Phum district, who have suffered lead poisoning since the 1990s, said yesterday the Pollution Control Department (PCD) had ignored a Supreme Administrative Court order to rehabilitate the creek.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/642064-villagers-want-klity-creek-cleaned-up-before-more-mines-open-kanchanaburi/

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Preparing for the rains

Pravit Rojanaphruk
The Nation on Sunday

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Poramate Minsiri and Sasin Chalermlarp explain why they are concerned about the government's water management and flood protection plans

BANGKOK: -- Experts and activists have long held different views of why Thailand suffered such devastating flooding back in 2011, an event that claimed hundreds of lives, submerged seven industrial estates and displaced millions. But whether the cause was excess rainfall, poor management of dams, deforestation, unregulated development of the flood plains, or a combination of all four, they all agree that a water management programme is vital to preventing a repeat.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/642066-preparing-for-the-rains-water-management/

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Minister must quit over blackouts: poll
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- Energy Minister Pongsak Ruktapongpisal must resign to take responsibility for the blackout in all 14 provinces of the South last Tuesday, according to the majority of respondents in an Abac Poll.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/642067-thai-energy-minister-must-quit-over-blackouts-poll/

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Accused aunt denies prostitution charges
The Nation on Sunday

The court has allowed police to detain a woman who allegedly lured her 17-year-old niece into prostitution in South Korea.

BANGKOK: -- Police did not oppose her release on bail, however, the woman is still in Central Remand Prison, Bang Khen waiting for a bail application, which will be made on Tuesday, Lt-Colonel Chusak Apaipak of the anti-human trafficking police, said yesterday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/642069-aunt-denies-luring-niece-into-prostitution/

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Five injured in condo fire in Pathum Thani
The Nation

PATHUM THANI: -- Five people were injured when a fire broke out at a ten-storey condominium building in Pathum Thani early Sunday.

The fire broke out at 5:30 am at the Muang Ek Condo's N 208 buildign in Muang district.

The five were injured after inhaling smoke They were rushed to the Rangsit Hospital after fire fighters rescued them form the building.

Police said the fire broke out at the stairway linking the eighth to the ninth floor where old mattresses and old furniture were discarded.

Tambon Lakhok municipality mayor Sompong Sri-anan said the fire might be started by a cigarette butt as some residents smoke at the stairway.

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-- The Nation 2013-05-26

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Yakult and the rise of probiotics in Thailand
By Sarah CuiksaMay

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BANGKOK: -- The little, hourglass-shaped bottle with the blue foil lid. It’s everywhere: lying empty curbside, waiting patiently in the office refrigerator, sitting unopened outside your neighbor’s apartment door.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/642088-yakult-and-the-rise-of-probiotics-in-thailand/

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Nearly 80 logs of Siamese rosewood seized near Mekong River
By Digital Media

NAKHON PANOM, May 26– Siamese rosewood logs worth some Bt3 million were seized near the Mekong River in the northeastern province of Bungkan.

Capt Surasak Suwankesa, commander of a naval unit maintaining peace along the Mekong River, remarked about the seizure of the Siamese Rosewood in collaboration with head of the Phulangka National Park.

Seventy eight logs of Siamese Rosewood, about two to three metres long and 30-40 centimetres wide were confiscated near the banks of the Mekong River. No one claimed to be the owners of the cache of logs.

The Siamese rosewood is in high demand in foreign markets and prices have doubled due to severe crackdowns by authorities. (MCOT Online news)

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-- TNA 2013-05-26

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