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Luxury cars, land seized from disgraced Thai monk

BANGKOK, September 20, 2013 (AFP) - Thailand has seized nearly $800,000 worth of assets, including a Porsche and a Mercedes-Benz, from a monk who was disrobed for a controversial trip in a private jet, authorities said Friday.


Thailand's Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) said Wiraphon Sukphon was suspected of deceiving people to give him donations.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669352-luxury-cars-land-seized-from-disgraced-thai-monk/

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PM urges public not to worry about flood situation
By English News

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BANGKOK, Sept 21 - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra today the Thai public not to worry about renewed flooding as the government is well-prepared for flood prevention measures.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669354-pm-yingluck-urges-public-not-to-worry-about-flood-situation/

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UPDATE:
7 provinces flooded as rain continues

The Nation

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People in Nakhon Ratchasima wade through a flooded street yesterday.

Tropical depression downgrades, few days of light rain forecast for Bangkok

BANGKOK: -- At least seven provinces, mostly in the Northeast, are under water due to rain that has continued for several days under the influence of a tropical depression.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669225-7-thai-provinces-lashed-by-major-floods/#entry6845480

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SOUTH CRISIS
Amlo uncovers cash trail from Mideast to South

The Nation

Transfers being checked for links to insurgency; Isoc studies BRN's conditions

BANGKOK: -- The Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) said it has uncovered a trail of financial transfers from the Middle East to Thailand's violence-infested deep South.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669356-amlo-uncovers-cash-trail-from-mideast-to-thai-south/

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POLITICS
Group of 40 senators denies govt ouster plot

The Nation

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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra attends the second reading of the Bt2-trillion loan bill in Parliament yesterday.

BANGKOK: -- The so-called group of 40 senators, who are critics of the Yingluck Shinawatra administration, yesterday denied the existence of any plot to overthrow the government as alleged by fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669357-group-of-40-senators-denies-thai-govt-ouster-plot/

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POLITICS
Govt plans road show in 12 provinces on high-speed trains

The Nation

The government plans a road show to promote its high-speed train projects in 12 provinces during October and November.

BANGKOK: -- The first is slated for Nong Khai from October 4-8 and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will preside over the event. During her recent visit to the Northeastern province, she promised to turn Nong Khai into a hub of the region.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669358-thai-govt-plans-road-show-in-12-provinces-on-high-speed-trains/

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Bangkok Police Unveil 'Online Complaint' Service
Khaosod Online

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Pol. Maj.Gen. Adul Narongsak

BANGKOK: -- The Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau has announced plans for an online service which would allow citizens to file reports to the police conveniently from their home.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669359-bangkok-police-unveil-online-complaint-service/

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Thai Rath Reporter 'Threatened For Corruption Report'
Khaosod Online

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BANGKOK: -- A journalist of Thai Rath newspapers - the largest newspaper in Thailand - told police a threat on his life had been made after he published reports on possible corruption cases in a National Park agency.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669360-thai-rath-reporter-threatened-for-corruption-report/

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Infamous Video 'Sniper' Denies Shooting At Redshirts
By Khaosod Online

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BANGKOK: -- The soldier who had been captured on video instructing his fellow soldier to shoot at a Molotov-throwing Redshirts protester on 15 May 2010 told the court his team was merely firing blank rounds.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669361-infamous-video-sniper-denies-shooting-at-red-shirts/

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EDITORIAL
Fire truck verdict lost amid the political impasse

The Nation

National polarity does no justice to a significant anti-graft message

BANGKOK: -- Thailand's deep-rooted political conflict must have taken some of the gloss off an historic clampdown on corruption earlier this month. Former deputy Interior minister Pracha Maleenont became the fourth high-profile politician to be convicted of graft in our modern history, but much attention was given to those acquitted in the same case. That a top Democrat, ex-Bangkok governor Apirak Kosayodhin, was let off the hook means one side of the political divide has been celebrating while the other has been left fuming.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669362-thai-editorial-fire-truck-verdict-lost-amid-the-political-impasse/

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
'New Constitution is only possible after next election'

Hataikarn Treesuwan
The Nation

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Kramol: Denies links with Thaksin

BANGKOK: -- Kramol Tongthamachart, the former Constitutional Court president who agreed to join the government's political reform forum, said he hoped to see a new charter that is "fair to all parties".

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669363-interview-new-thai-constitution-is-only-possible-after-next-election/

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PHUKET
TAT's Phuket office targets 14m tourist arrivals in fiscal 2014

The Nation

PHUKET: -- The Phuket branch of the Tourism Authority of Thailand targets tourist arrivals next fiscal year at 14 million, up from this year's expected 12 million, the office's director Chanchai Doungjit said.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669365-tats-phuket-office-targets-14m-tourist-arrivals-in-fiscal-2014/

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UPDATE
Three foreigners held for forging credit, cash cards

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Three foreigners have been arrested for allegedly forging credit and cash cards and using them to withdraw money from overseas victims' accounts through ATM machines.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669266-british-citizens-and-a-taiwanese-national-arrested-for-credit-card-fraud/#entry6845607

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Increase in smuggling of rare rosewood behind clashes
Janjira Pongrai
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Extensive illegal felling of rare "Phayoong" or Siamese rosewood trees and the smuggling of the wood has resulted in violent clashes between loggers and forest rangers, a senior Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation official said recently.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669366-increase-in-smuggling-of-rare-rosewood-behind-clashes-thailand/

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Phuket mobile phone operators vent over 'overzealous' consumer-protection policing
Phuket Gazette

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Mr Taewitcho remonstrating about the perceived unfairness of the arrests. Photo: Orawin Narabal

PHUKET: -- Mobile phone operators from Phuket's major shopping malls protested this morning at Phuket Provincial Hall over what they see as an over-zealous interpretation of consumer protection laws.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669386-phuket-mobile-phone-operators-vent-over-overzealous-consumer-protection-policing/

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Marine business operators readied for high season
Phuket Gazette

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Marine-business operators listening to Phuket Marine chief Phuriphat Teerakulpisut. Photo: Saran Mitrarat

PHUKET: -- Phuket marine-business operators yesterday were provided with a seminar to improve safety standards in preparation for high season.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669387-marine-business-operators-readied-for-high-season/

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Rihanna pictured with a loris on Phuket's Bangla Road?

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Rihanna poses with a slow loris in Phuket. Photos: Instagram

PHUKET: -- It has been confirmed by Britain's Daily Mail newspaper that superstar songstress Rihanna was indeed in Phuket last week, spending a couple of days on the island before her Diamonds World Tour last night in the Philippines.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669408-rihanna-pictured-with-a-loris-on-phukets-bangla-road/

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China clamps down on cheap tour packages to Phuket
Naraporn Tuarob

PHUKET: -- Next Tuesday (October 1) sees the introduction of new Chinese government regulations covered outbound tourism, which could have a profound effect on the number and “quality” of Chinese tourists coming to Thailand and particularly Phuket.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669411-china-clamps-down-on-cheap-tour-packages-to-phuket/

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School bus flips in Krabi, injuring 13
Phuket Gazette

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The bus was carrying 13-year-olds and their teachers home from a field trip when it flipped on a curve. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

KRABI: -- A school bus carrying students home from a field trip flipped in Krabi yesterday, injuring 12 students and the driver, but causing no deaths.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669460-school-bus-flips-in-krabi-injuring-13/

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Thailand's Insect Farms Creating a Buzz

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A laborer from Thailand displays a bunch of fried locusts. (Photo: Reuters / Amir Cohen)

BAAN NON CHEUK: -- Thailand's Paddy and pigs had been the stilts on which Mali Nonthing built her life in this village in Khon Kaen, a northeastern province of Thailand. Farming them had provided steady, twin sources of income for decades. Now, only one remains: the verdant, iconic Asian staple crop glistening under the late afternoon sun behind her Thai-style home.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/669435-thailands-insect-farms-creating-a-buzz/

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Bt2 trillion loan bill sails through Parliament.
By English News

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BANGKOK, Sept 21 - After two full days of debate, the House of Representatives last night voted to approve the third reading of the government's Bt2 trillion infrastructure loan bill.

The bill sailed through with 287 votes in favour, 105 against and 11 abstentions while 3 parliamentarians did not cast votes.

Deputy Prime Minister / Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong has thanked the Members of Parliament who have expressed concern over the loan and public debt.

He assured that the government would be careful in spending the loan on the infrastructure projects and would strictly observed fiscal discipline.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra also attended the debate.

The second Deputy House Speaker Wisut Chainarun who chaired the session dismissed the meeting at 11.30 pm.

The bill would then be forwarded to the Senate for three readings of consideration.

Meanwhile, the opposition Democrat Party said it will file a petition asking the Constitutional Court to seek a court ruling whether the bill was in breach of the Constitution. (MCOT online news).

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-- TNA 2013-09-21

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