Thailand Live Sunday 9 Jun 2013

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Isaan happy to host Formula One event
Panyaporn Saithong,
Nattanut Wongpariyakul,
Akkarachai Kantamala
The Nation on Sunday

A man joins representatives from communities around the Rattanakosin Island old town in their demonstration at Democracy Monument yesterday against a plan to turn the area into a racecourse for Formula One event in 2015.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645271-isaan-happy-to-host-formula-one-event/

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Abhisit takes on govt over rice losses
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- Democrat chief says figures prove losses amount to Bt260 billion

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645273-abhisit-takes-on-govt-over-rice-losses/

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Pheu Thai supporters to rally across the country
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- The Pheu Thai Party announced yesterday that supporters would start a nationwide campaign at the end of the month to set up a pro-government movement, insisting that the PM will not dissolve House after the 2014 fiscal budget is passed.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645274-pheu-thai-supporters-to-rally-across-the-country/

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Suranand defuses healthcare crisis, for now
Chularat Saengpassa
Pongphon Sarnsamak
The Nation on Sunday

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BANGKOK: -- PM's Secretary-General Suranand Vejjajiva has stepped in and successfully defused the biggest time bomb in the country's healthcare sector.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645277-suranand-defuses-healthcare-crisis-for-now/

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RT@191Thailand: Two dead when 3 passengers vans crashed into a truck in Khorat (Pic @Huk_31_Korat) pic.twitter.com/rr8SX85YPW

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Sharp rise in haemorrhage dengue fever
Pongphon Sarnsamak
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- The drastic rise in haemorrhage dengue fever cases has prompted the Public Health Ministry to launch a massive nationwide campaign to cope with the situation.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645278-sharp-rise-in-haemorrhage-dengue-fever/

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More luxury cars seized
Supachai Phetchthewee
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- Customs officials have seized 10 more high-end cars worth Bt129 million for tax evasion, department chief Benja Louischareon said yesterday.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645280-more-luxury-cars-seized/

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$1m offer to Army to meditate
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- World-renowned quantum physicist and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winner, John Hagelin, proposed $1 million in funding for the Thai Army to apply a program that uses unified field-based technologies and transcendental meditation, proven to reduce crime, violence, and terrorism.

Hagelin, also President of the Global Union of Scientists for Peace (GUSP), presented the program's successful results in various countries including the Middle East at a press event yesterday with Rajapark College rector Rajavikram Aditya Charoen-rajapark.

Hagelin said the use of quantum physics and transcendental meditation let the part of brain that created negative behaviour to relax and thus cut crime and terrorist attacks in countries where a certain number of people practise the program. He said GUSP thus offered $1 million for the Thai government to get 1,000 Thai Army troops to try the program, which lasts about two months. He said after troops had done the program there would be less violence in 60 days. He will soon meet with Defence Minister ACM Sukhampol Suwannatat to discuss the idea. Rajavikram said the idea could help reduce unrest in the far South.

-- The Nation 2013-06-09

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51 to be fired over exam cheating

The Nation on Sunday

Nakhon Ratchasima's Office of the Teacher Civil Service and Educational Personnel Commission's subcommittee agreed yesterday to dismiss 51 newly appointed assistant teachers over allegations of being involved in exam cheating. But the accused were be given a chance to explain themselves within 15 days.

The move followed a call by the Department of Special Investigation for 344 people allegedly involved in the scandal to be fired; 51 of them are from Nakhon Ratchasima.

-- The Nation 2013-06-09

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
The games people play
Jintana Panyaarvudh
The Nation on Sunday

Thawil Pliensri holds a book on dharma that he says helped him cope with the rough times during his transfer.

BANGKOK: -- Former National Security Council boss Thawil Pliensri talks about his transfer to an inactive post and his decision to take legal action against the prime minister

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645282-the-games-people-play/

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Brazil wants to boost trade ties
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- Brazil's Minister of External Relations Antonio de Aguiar Patriota will make an official visit Thailand on June 15 to enhance bilateral relations in trade and investment, the Department of American and South Pacific Affairs chief, Sek Wannamethee, said yesterday.

-- The Nation 2013-06-09

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Most people can't name ruling party leader: Poll
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- More than three in four people in 17 provinces surveyed in the past week could not correctly name the leader of the ruling Pheu Thai Party.

As many as 78.5 per cent of poll respondents said they did not know who the Pheu Thai leader is - or they wrongly identified the person as Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin Shinawatra or Yongyuth Wichaidit, according to results of the survey by Assumption University's Abac Poll released yesterday.

Yingluck holds no executive post in the party, like ex-premier Thaksin, although he

is believed to pull the strings behind the

ruling party. Yongyuth is the previous party leader.

The current Pheu Thai leader is Charupong Ruangsuwan, who also serves as the interior minister.

A total of 21.5 per cent of the respondents correctly named Charupong as the party leader.

Meanwhile, about 91 per cent of those surveyed correctly identified Abhisit Vejjajiva as leader of the opposition Democrat Party. Only 9.2 per cent wrongly named former leader Chuan Leekpai, former Bangkok governor Apirak Kosayodhin, and others.

The survey was conducted on 1,989 people in 17 provinces in all four regions between Monday and Friday.

-- The Nation 2013-06-09

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EDITORIAL
PR plan is another sign the wheels are coming off
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Senior ministers enlisted to sell policies as rice scheme destroys govt credibility

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645284-pr-plan-is-another-sign-the-wheels-are-coming-off/

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-- The Nation 2013-06-09

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British national busted for dealing heroin on Phuket
Phuket Gazette -

British national John Robert George Cawley, 22, was found in possession of 6.1 grams of heroine. Photo: Irfarn Jamdukor

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645285-british-national-busted-for-dealing-heroin-on-phuket/

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RT@RichardBarrow: 9 June: Today in Thailand it’s Ananda Mahidol Day (วันอานันทมหิดล), commemorating the death of King Rama VIII buff.ly/15YhcIt

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Phuket Opinion: Stop the tour bus insanity
Phuket Gazette -

"The driver was unfamiliar with the road"; "the brakes failed"; and "it was raining" are not acceptable excuses for bus crashes. Image: Gazette Graphics

PHUKET: The latest crash of a tour bus descending into Patong highlights yet again the need for tour bus operators – and drivers in particular – to take personal responsibility for the safety of passengers under their care.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645288-phuket-opinion-stop-the-tour-bus-insanity/

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PM visits Phichit en route to Kamphaeng Phet for mobile cabinet meeting, security tightened /MCOT

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RT@191Thailand: 10am Fire in a building on Wittayu Road (Wireless Road) in Bangkok (Pic @fireoneone) @js100radio pic.twitter.com/eUJU9aGKOg

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RT@191Thailand: Fire is on the 3rd floor of the Verasu building on Wittayu Road. Fire trucks in attendance. Advised to avoid the area due to traffic jams.

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RT@RichardBarrow: Big rally expected this afternoon at 4pm in front of Central World #Bangkok organized by the “V for Thailand” white mask group

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RT@191Thailand: Picture: Flames coming from the Verasu building on Wittayu Road (Pic @Rawangpai) twitpic.com/cw5k8h

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Fire rages through Veerasu Building on Wireless Road

BANGKOK: -- A big fire raged through the 7-floor Veerasu Building on Wireless Road Sunday morning, Channel 3 reported.

The station said the fire started on the third floor at 9:45 am and quickly spread to the fourth, fifth and six floors. At 10:45 am, fire fighters could not control the blaze yet, the station reported.

It said six people were trapped in the building and fled to the rooftop where they were safely evacuated.

-- The Nation 2013-06-09

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Phuket Opinion: Coordinate manpower to corral illegal taxis
Phuket Gazette -

Manaporn Likitmanon, a Highways Police Inspector covering Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi. Photo: Irfarn Jamdukor

Manaporn Likitmanon, a 31-year-old Songkhla native, was a Police Investigator at Samut Sakhon Immigration from 2008 to 2012 before returning south last year to become a Highways Police Inspector covering the tri-province area of Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi. Here he talks about how to solve the problem of metered and illegal taxis in Phuket.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645328-phuket-opinion-coordinate-manpower-to-corral-illegal-taxis/

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PM visits development projects ahead of cabinet meeting in North
By Digital Media

UTTARADIT, June 5 – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday visits development projects in the lower northern provinces of Thailand ahead of a cabinet meeting in Kamphang Phet on Monday.

The prime minister travelled to the Bueng Sifai swamp project, a part of the government’s water management projects for water storage in the dry season and flood prevention in the rainy season.

Then, she went to a sugar refinery in Kamphang Phet to observe production of electricity from bagasse, an alternative energy production project using the agricultural byproduct.

Before the cabinet meeting on Monday, she will meet a regional committee of the state and private sector to solve the economic problems in the region on Sunday and will be briefed on planned development projects in the lower northern region.

She will preside over the meeting with governors of the lower northern provinces at Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University.

Prathan Duangpatra, deputy Kamphaeng Phet governor commented about security at the cabinet meeting venue at Kamphaeng Phet Rajbhat University, saying that about 1,000 police officers were deployed to provide security there.

Regarding the proposals of the province to seek the development budget of 100 million baht, Mr Prathan said the projects will cover the agricultural, industrial and tourism sectors.

Kamphaeng Phet ranks as the country’s second largest cassava producer. If it is further developed as a cassava production center, it will improve the produce’s quality, he said. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2013-06-09

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RT@ChadapornLin: Rayong mangsoteen farmers use 10 pick up trucks to close Sukhumvit Rd at Khao Din intersection in Klaeng District to protest price drop

RT@ChadapornLin: Parking lot at Siam Discovery and Siam Paragon full causing traffic to back up on surrounding roads

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RT@RichardBarrow: Both the white masked group & red shirts expected to rally today in front of CentralWorld. However, ZEN are taking steps to block them.

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RT@RichardBarrow: If you are planning on visiting the central shopping district in Bangkok (MBK, Siam, Paragon, CentralWorld etc) best to go by Skytrain today

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Kamphaeng Phet chamber of commerce to propose cabinet expand roads in lower North to boost economy, tourism ahead of AEC /MCOT