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Three Armed Forces will mark King’s birthday with shows of fireworks and military bands

BANGKOK, 27 September 2013 (NNT) - Prime Minister and Defence Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday (September 26) chaired a meeting of the Defence Council during which she discussed the Royal Thai Armed Forces’ planned activities to mark His Majesty the King’s birthday on December 5, 2013.


The Prime Minister instructed all units under the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Thai Armed Forces to support activities held in honor of His Majesty the King on the occasion of his 86th birthday anniversary this year.

The Office of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence reported it would hold shows of fireworks in Hua Hin District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province and special performances of military bands from the Three Armed Forces, the Royal Thai Police as well as famous schools. The events will be held in December 2013 but their dates have yet to be fixed.

The Prime Minister also instructed the military to invite all sectors of the society to take part in the activities, saying government budgets for activity arrangement will be set aside.

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Plodprasop: Bangkok will not be flooded this year

BANGKOK, 26 September 20113 (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi has confirmed that dams and reservoirs in the North can still hold much more water and the government has prepared tools and budget to provide immediate assistance for the flood-affected.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670713-plodprasop-bangkok-will-not-be-flooded-this-year/

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Official Defends PM Yingluck's Frequent Foreign Trips
By Khaosod Online

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BANGKOK: -- Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has defended the frequent trips Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has made to foreign nations in the past few months, saying it is a necessary step to improve Thailand′s standing in the world community.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670714-official-defends-pm-yinglucks-frequent-foreign-trips/

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UNSC
Yingluck plans Russia, US visits

Supalak Ganjanakhundee
Nuntida Puangthong
The Nation

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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra

Prime minister to make kingdom's case for seat on un security council; Moscow visit set for december, no confirmation of a date yet from Washington

BANGKOK: -- PRIME MINISTER Yingluck Shinawatra is planning to visit the United States and Russia, two of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), some time this year to secure their backing for Thailand's bid to serve in the UNSC in 2017-18.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670715-pm-yingluck-plans-russia-us-visits/

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INUNDATION
24 provinces under grip of floods

The Nation

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Northeast, East brace for tropical depression approaching from Vietnam

BANGKOK: -- The Royal Irrigation Department is keeping a close eye on the impact of the upcoming tropical depression from Vietnam, which might affect several provinces in Thailand's Northeast and Eastern regions.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670716-24-thai-provinces-under-grip-of-floods/

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ROBBERY
Banks to up security in wake of robberies

THE NATION

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BANGKOK: -- The Royal Thai Police has held a meeting with 16 banks and six security-truck firms to discuss the recent spate of bank, gold-shop and convenience-store robberies, deputy police spokesman Thana Chuwong said yesterday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670717-banks-in-thailand-to-up-security-in-wake-of-robberies/

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MEDIA
Media urged to focus more on fact than opinion

PRAVIT ROJANAPHRUK
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- The Thai mainstream mass media should base their reports more on fact than opinion and partisan bias as is prevalent nowadays, Chulalongkorn University political scientist Charas Suwanmala said yesterday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670718-thai-media-urged-to-focus-more-on-fact-than-opinion/

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OVERDRIVE
There is still time to avert disaster

Thanong Khanthong

BANGKOK: -- Thailand is about to face macro-economic complications from its triple deficits. The deficits are in the current account, the trade account and the budget. Dr Pisit Lee-atham, the former deputy finance minister during the Chuan administration, warned that the triple deficits reflect growing deteriorations in Thailand's competitiveness.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670719-thai-opinion-there-is-still-time-to-avert-disaster/

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EDITORIAL
Security agencies do themselves no favours

The Nation

By intimidating and harassing political and civil activists in the deep South, the authorities only turn more local people against the Thai state

BANGKOK: -- Over the past few weeks several political activists and members of civil-society organisations in the three southernmost provinces have had run-ins with security officials.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670720-thai-editorial-security-agencies-do-themselves-no-favours/

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Deputy PM blasts court for accepting complaint against amendment bill
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Phongthep Thepkanjana yesterday reprimanded the Constitutional Court for deciding to accept complaints from an appointed senator and a Democrat MP over the proposed amendment on the qualification of senators.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670721-thai-deputy-pm-blasts-court-for-accepting-complaint-against-amendment-bill/

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Capital, Central region 'safe from flooding'
PONGPHON SARNSAMAK
THE NATION

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THAILAND: -- Bangkok and other provinces in the Chao Phraya River basin are likely to be safe from flooding this year, as there are no risk factors that indicate a danger of massive flooding in the region, according to the Royal Irrigation Department.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670713-plodprasop-bangkok-will-not-be-flooded-this-year/?p=6865637

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Overcrowded classrooms in Northeast affecting education, report shows
SUPINDA NA MAHACHAI
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- Classrooms in the Northeast are seriously overcrowded, thus affecting the quality of education, a survey carried out by Mahasarakham University has found.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670724-overcrowded-classrooms-in-isaan-affecting-education-report-shows/

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Kratom-grower's jail term upheld in electrocution case
The Nation

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BANGKOK: -- The Court of Appeals has meted out a three-year jail term to an elderly woman for causing the death of an intruder who was killed by an electric fence she had put up to protect her home-grown kratom (Mitragyna speciosa), which is on the narcotics list, in 2011.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670725-kratom-growers-jail-term-upheld-in-electrocution-case/

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Pattaya Police arrest two suspects in Ukrainian abduction case

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PATTAYA: -- Pattaya Police announced on Thursday the arrest of two men in connection with the recent abduction of a Ukrainian national who was ordered to pay 1 Million Baht to secure his release.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670726-pattaya-police-arrest-two-suspects-in-ukrainian-abduction-case/

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BURNING ISSUE
Results can be seen if people stand up and take action

Somroutai Sapsomboon
The Nation

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Protesters against Mae Wong Dam

BANGKOK: -- SASIN CHALERMLARP, secretary-general of the Seub Nakhasathien Foundation, walked 388 kilometres from the to-be site of the Mae Wong Dam to the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre with two goals in mind: to stop the construction of the dam, and raise people's awareness.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670728-mae-wong-dam-results-can-be-seen-if-people-stand-up-and-take-action/

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Women's foundation pushes bill to protect pregnant students, transsexuals
Poungchompoo Prasert
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The Women's Health Advocacy Foundation is putting pressure on the government to pass the Reproductive Health Rights Promotion and Protection Act, which if successful, would give pregnant students the legal right to continue their studies, while allowing transsexuals the right choose their sex.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670729-thailand-womens-foundation-pushes-bill-to-protect-pregnant-students-transsexuals/

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Arrested American part of 'major trafficking ring in Southeast Asia'

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Four of the six suspects capped by alleged kingpin trafficker American Joseph Manuel Hunter, 47, far right. Photo: Apichit Jinakul

PHUKET: -- The arrest in Phuket of an American man and five other suspects for allegedly running an international drug trafficking network was conducted as part of a joint operation with Nigeria and Kenya, police say.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670746-arrested-american-part-of-major-trafficking-ring-in-southeast-asia/

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Enraged villagers protest over-sized truck nuisance, get results
Phuket Gazette

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Villagers protesting about over-sized trucks rumbling past their homes. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

PHUKET: -- Villagers on Soi Han Farang finally lost their patience with the constant stream of over-sized trucks rumbling past their homes and held a protest yesterday afternoon to demand an end to what they view as a serious nuisance and health hazard.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670756-enraged-villagers-protest-over-sized-truck-nuisance-get-results/

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Ex-US Navy seaman, 5 others arrested suspected drug trafficking
By English News

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BANGKOK, Sept 27 – Thai and US police arrested a former American Navy seaman and five accomplices in connection with drug trafficking and other offences, a senior Thai police officer said.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670746-arrested-american-part-of-major-trafficking-ring-in-southeast-asia/#entry6866088

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Patong Mayor Pian suspended
Phuket Gazette

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Patong Mayor Pian Keesin has been suspended from office pending a court hearing on allegations of vote fraud. Photo: Gazette file

PHUKET: -- Patong Mayor Pian Keesin was suspended from office by the Administrative Court Region 8 in Phuket Town yesterday over a vote fraud complaint filed against him by the Election Commission in Bangkok.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670759-patong-mayor-pian-suspended/

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Prasert assures 5 industrial estates in central region will not be flooded

BANGKOK, 27 September 2013 (NNT) – The Ministry of Industry has asserted that the 5 major industrial estates in the central part of Thailand will not be flooded.


Industry Minister Prasert Boonchaisuk has visited Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Park in Nakhon Luang district of Ayutthaya to follow up on flood prevention measures. The minister expressed his confidence that the 5 industrial parks in the two central provinces, namely Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani, will not be inundated this year as strict measures have been prepared to cope with emergency cases.

As for the Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Park, Minister Prasert said temporary flood barriers were being erected in case of heavy flooding, adding that the construction is now 30 percent completed. He added that Saha Rattana Nakorn Park will not encounter flood similar to the one in 2011.

The minister went on to express his worries about an industrial park in Prachinburi Province as the province has seen a rising level of water recently. As a result, he has ordered the Department of Industrial Works to visit the area and closely monitor the situation.

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DSI aims at cracking down on tax evasions

BANGKOK, 27 September 2013 (NNT) - The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has offered a 1- million-baht bounty for anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest of 5 suspects in a tax evasion case that causes the nation 4 billion baht in damage.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670763-thailands-dsi-aims-at-cracking-down-on-tax-evasions/

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Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake, blames IBM
By Tom Warren

SEATTLE: -- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has finally admitted that forcing users to press the Control-Alt-Delete key combination to log into a PC was a mistake.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670765-bill-gates-admits-control-alt-delete-was-a-mistake-blames-ibm/

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Dept of Land Transport signs agreement for stricter road law enforcement

BANGKOK, 27th September 2013 (NNT) - The Department of Land Transport has signed an agreement with the Royal Thai Police, The Transport Co.,Ltd, and the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) on integrated cooperation on raising stricter measures against traffic violators in order to increase road safety.


According to Land Transport Department Director-General Mr.Somchai Siriwatanachoke, the four agencies will work hand-in-hand, strictly enforcing traffic rules and regulations. Penalty for traffic violations will be harsher to coerce drivers in to driving carefully and abiding by the law.

The Department of Land Transport will be in charge of overseeing provincial Land Transport Offices in order for them to smoothly work with highway and traffic police.

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UPDATE:

Prachin Buri water gates opened to release floodwaters
By English News

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PRACHIN BURI, Sept 27 – All sluice gates in this flood-impacted eastern Thai province were opened today as flooding spread in wider areas and forced many schools to close in the worst flooding here in 35 years.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/670530-prachin-buri-hard-hit-by-flooding/?p=6866567

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