Government plans to beef up parboiled rice production, vows to become No 1 exporter again
Petchanet Pratruangkrai
The Nation on Sunday


Yanyong

BANGKOK: -- Thailand will regain its position as the world's number one exporter of parboiled rice from India within the next two years, the Commerce Ministry claimed yesterday - even as the government pushed forward with its rice-pledging scheme.

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PM, CABINET
We'll beat corruption: new minister
The Nation on Sunday

Niwatthamrong

BANGKOK: -- Yingluck reports on visit to boost trade with Poland

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Phuket prepares to combat new virus
Teerin Julsawad
The Nation on Sunday

PHUKET: -- A recent outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has prompted the Ministry of Public Health to set up an emergency committee in preparation to combat the spread of the disease.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651850-phuket-prepares-to-combat-new-virus/

Two Hmong youth 'arrested with yaba'
The Nation on Sunday

CHIANG RAI: -- Provincial Police Region 5 yesterday announced the arrest of two Hmong men in Chiang Rai's Muang district on Friday and seized 300,000 yaba tablets from them.

The duo, Sucahrt Saeya, 23, and Saensam Saelee, 20, reportedly confessed to police that they had been hired by another man, identified as Pongsathorn Panachantra, to deliver the drug, hidden in dog food sacks, to a customer in Bangkok in exchange for Bt2 million payment. Police said the duo had confessed to successfully delivering 30,000 yaba tablets for Bt200,000 on an earlier occasion.

The duo's car was accompanied by Pongsathorn's car but he fled the scene. His car crashed into a roadside traffic sign in Wiang Chiang Rung district and he escaped.

-- The Nation 2013-07-07

Probe NACC chief, says ex-senator
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- Former senator Reungkrai Leekijwatana yesterday said he would request the Senate House Speaker tomorrow to probe if National Anti-Corruption Commission secretary-general Klanarong Chantik had correctly declared his assets and debts to the authority.

Reungkrai said he had the right by law to submit such a request after Klanarong's wife was accused of issuing an undated cheque for Bt1.9 million, but failing to pay the debt.

He said the case merited a Senate probe to find out whether the Bt1.9-million cheque was already included in the graft fighter's asset and debt declaration to the authority when he took the NACC office. The probe should look into whether a failure by Klanarong to include it in his declaration could be deemed a violation of the law, he added.

-- The Nation 2013-07-07

School to bear kid's medical costs
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- Assumptionsuksa School would pay for medical expenses of a three-year-old kindergartener, who was seriously injured after falling off and being run over by the school's van on Thursday in Bangkok's Khlong San district.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651851-school-to-bear-kids-medical-costs/

Eight rice millers to face charges
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK; -- Eight rice millers in Songkhla, Chainat, Pathum Thani and Phatthalung will face charges of embezzlement after police and officials last month jointly conducted inspection of their rice stockpiles as the government was hit with reports of a huge loss and rampant corruption in the rice-pledging scheme.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651853-eight-rice-millers-to-face-charges/

SPECIAL REPORT
Sanam Luang becomes a hive of anti-government protests
Budsarakham Sinlapalavan
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- Protesters who have been occupying Sanam Luang for almost two months comprise of many different groups, all with one goal - to topple the government.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651854-sanam-luang-becomes-a-hive-of-anti-government-protests/

-- The Nation 2013-07-07

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Making the right connections
Asina Pornwasin
The Nation

Thai Internet pioneer Kanchana Kanchanasut is inducted to the Internet Society's Hall of Fame

Twenty-five years ago, long before Thais discovered the power of the Internet, Kanchana Kanchanasut, a professor at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), was working quietly to connect university researchers online.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651857-making-the-right-connections/

Commerce Min to tackle corruption problem, while Agriculture Min pushes ahead agricultural zoning

BANGKOK, 7 July 2013 (NNT) – The Commerce Minister has vowed to improve effectiveness of the ministry’s work, while the Agriculture Minister is set to push ahead the move to promote agricultural zoning throughout the country.

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Thailand expects to see $1 billion trade with Poland in 5 years

BANGKOK, 7 July 2013 (NNT) – Thailand expects to increase trade with Poland to 1 billion US dollars within 5 years’ time after ties of both countries have been strengthened following Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s visit to Poland.

Miss Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Thailand, said her visit to Poland was to strengthen ties between the two countries, especially in the area of trade and investment. She said Poland is the right choice for Thailand to penetrate Eastern Europe as the country is a gateway to 7 other European countries.

She added that Thailand and Poland have been on good terms, while her visit would further promote Thai products in Poland. The Thai Premier said Poland had asked Thai entrepreneurs to open up more Thai restaurants to help boost Poland’s tourism industry. Other agreements between both countries include cooperation on energy businesses and water management project.

Finally, the Thai Premier said she expects to see at least 1 billion US dollars in trade between both countries within the next 5 years.

-- NNT 2013-07-07

RT@ChadapornLin: Solution to flooding on Srinakarin Rd-elevate the road so the sois flood instead-who thought of that?

RT@191Thailand: Late last night a transformer is believed to have exploded at Sai Noi Police Station in Nonthaburi killing 3-4 prisoners in the cells.

Boeing 777 plane crash-lands at San Francisco airport

A Boeing 777 aircraft has crash-landed at San Francisco international airport, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, officials say.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651859-boeing-777-plane-crash-lands-at-san-francisco-airport/

Four suspects killed in detention cell when Nonthaburi police station hit by fire

Nonthaburi - A fire broke out at the Sainoi police station in Nonthaburi early Sunday, killing four suspects in the detention cell on the second floor.

Police said the fire broke out at 4:30 am and quickly spread to the second floor, preventing police to free the suspects from the detention cell.

Fire fighters took about one hour to put out the blaze.

-- The Nation 2013-07-07

RT@RichardBarrow: Jet-setter Thai monk accused of sex with under-age girl (Bangkok Post)

Phuket Opinion: Shooting for Island Justice
Phuket Gazette -

Investigators failing to prosecute a police officer charged with murder indicates police may be held to a lower standard of justice. Image: Gazette Graphics

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651864-phuket-opinion-shooting-for-island-justice/

Abu Qatada deported from UK to stand trial in Jordan

LONDON: -- Radical cleric Abu Qatada has been deported from the UK to Jordan to stand trial on terrorism charges.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651866-abu-qatada-deported-from-uk-to-stand-trial-in-jordan/

RT@191Thailand: CCTV footage showing a Bangkok taxi driver attacking a foreigner. He then stabbed the foreigner to death out of shot on.fb.me/1a2lXCt

Phuket Opinion: Refugee runaways – shelters aren’t jails
Phuket Gazette -

Jiranun Cheamcharoen is the director of the Phuket Shelter for Children and Families on Koh Sireh. Photo: Chutharat Plerin

Jiranun Cheamcharoen, 46, from Ratchaburi, received a BA from Thammasat University and an MA from Ramkhamhaeng University. She has been a social worker since 1991 and the director of the Phuket Shelter for Children and Families on Koh Sireh for four years. Here, she talks about the difficulties of housing Rohingya children and what action she took after they ran away from the shelter.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651875-phuket-opinion-refugee-runaways-shelters-arent-jails/

RT@RichardBarrow: News just in, Thai police have caught the Bangkok taxi driver that killed a foreigner last night. Press conference is this afternoon.

RT@RichardBarrow: Thai media reporting that the taxi driver killed the American tourist because he refused to pay the fare

Defence volunteer shot dead in Pattani while returning from work at rubber plantation, his gun stolen by attackers /MCOT

Taxi Driver Stabs to Death a Foreigner in Bangkok
By Richard Barrow

Some shocking news last night of a Bangkok taxi driver that stabbed to death a foreigner during an apparent argument.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651892-taxi-driver-stabs-to-death-a-foreigner-in-bangkok/

Lucky mutants usher in lottery luck – twice
Phuket Gazette -

Villagers in two provinces at the opposite ends of Thailand are celebrating the births of mutant piglets – after successfully using the lucky freaks to divine winning lottery numbers.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651932-lucky-mutants-usher-in-lottery-luck-twice/

RT@BBCBreaking: Radical cleric Abu Qatada has arrived in Jordan after being deported from the UK, Jordanian officials say

RT@SkyNewsBreak: David Cameron says the issue of Abu #Qatada made his "blood boil" and he is delighted at the radical preacher's deportation from the UK

Public Health Ministry launches 7-day campaign to contain dengue fever outbreak, targeting number of infections below 100,000 in 2013 /MCOT

Player stabbed, referee dismembered over soccer quarrel in Brazil
By Umaro Djau and Ben Brumfield, CNN

(CNN) -- The argument started over a red card.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651944-player-stabbed-referee-dismembered-over-soccer-quarrel-in-brazil/

Phuket Town bicycle patrol rolls out
Jody Houton

PHUKET: Members from the two Phuket Town Safety Zone groups joined together today to officially launch the Phuket Town Safety Zone Cycle Patrol, with the aim of reducing crime in the area.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/651946-phuket-town-bicycle-patrol-rolls-out/

Thai students win 6 gold, 15 silver medals at International Mathematics Competition 2013 in Bulgaria /MCOT