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No bouquets for Phuket flower shop crash driver
Eakkapop Thongtub

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The car was buried deep in the flower shop.

PHUKET: -- Mystery surrounds a crash on Saturday evening (September 28), when a Toyota Vios ploughed into a flower shop close to the intersection of Thepkrassattri Rd and the old airport road, in which one person sitting in the shop was injured.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671362-no-bouquets-for-phuket-flower-shop-crash-driver/

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Phuket tour bus brakes fail, driver avoids disaster
Phuket Gazette

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The bus ended up perilously close to a residence. Photo: Thawit Bilabdullar

PHUKET: -- Faulty brakes almost resulted in a tour bus smashing into a house on Patong Hill last night, in a near-repeat of an accident that occurred at almost the same location about four months ago.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671387-phuket-tour-bus-brakes-fail-driver-avoids-disaster/

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Forest runoff inundates Phitsanulok's Wang Thong district
By English News

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PHITSANULOK, Sept 30 -- Forest runoff from the Phetchabun mountains has inundated Phitsanulok's Wang Thong district while Prachin Buri remains critical as many government offices have to move equipment and documents to higher levels.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671344-thai-weather-agency-warns-of-heavy-rain-over-northeastern-northern-regions/#entry6875137

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Thai National Shippers’ sees growth in Thai export

BANGKOK, 30 September 2013 (NNT) – The Thai National Shippers’ Council (TNSC) has forecast that Thailand will likely see a 2.5 percent export growth this year if the value of Thai export in the last 4 months of the year remains at 20.5 billion US dollars a month.

According to TNSC chairman Nopporn Thepsithar, Thai exporters have been concerned with risk factors that could have negative effects on the Thai export. The factors include world economic slump, currency fluctuation, and political situations, both domestic and international.

The chairman reckoned that there is a chance for Thai export to grow at 2.5 percent this year, but it will be under the circumstance that export value in the remaining 4 months of the year must be to the tune of 20.5 billion US dollars each month.

As for the country’s GDP, he said Thailand would see a GDP growth of 3.5 percent. He also urged the government to draw up concrete measures to boost the export sector and increase competitiveness of the Thai exporters, adding that the government should try to penetrate new markets like South America and South East Asia, instead of relying heavily on the US and Japan, of which the economies have been in the doldrums.

The chairman also disclosed that August's export was worth 20.4 billion dollars, increasing by 1.03 percent; it is the first time in three months that the sector has seen a positive number.

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PM continues her flood tour

BANGKOK, 30 September 2013 (NNT) - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has continued with her tours of flood-hit provinces, leading a delegation to inspect affected districts in Si Sa Ket and Ubon Ratchathani.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671297-pm-yingluck-visits-prachin-buri-as-flood-crisis-intensifies/page-2?p=6875303#entry6875303

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Phuket hitman Rambo denies death squad charges
Phuket Gazette

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Phuket hitman Joseph ‘Rambo’ Hunter has denied charges of operating an international death squad of ex-servicemen. Photo: Reuters

PHUKET: -- Joseph Manuel Hunter, 48 – nicknamed “Rambo” and arrested at his rented Phuket home last Thursday, as originally reported by the Phuket Gazette (story here) – has denied charges of recruiting a team of former military snipers to commit murders on behalf of two Colombian drug cartel leaders.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671410-phuket-hitman-rambo-denies-death-squad-charges/

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CHALK TALK
Chaturon needs to focus on the top priorities first

Chularat Saengpassa

BANGKOK: -- During the past three months, Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang has proven that he never runs out of ideas about how to improve the quality of educational services or push for real reform. But wait, can he translate all those ideas into action?

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671436-chalk-talk-chaturon-needs-to-focus-on-the-top-priorities-first/

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Flash floods and landslides expected in North and Northeast

BANGKOK, 30 September 2013 (NNT) - The National Disaster Warning Center has warned residents in several northern and northeastern provinces to brace for flash floods and landslides during September 30 to October 1.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671344-thai-weather-agency-warns-of-heavy-rain-over-northeastern-northern-regions/?p=6875596#entry6875596

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2010 POLITICAL VIOLENCE
Two redshirts killed by bullets fired by soldiers: court

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- A Criminal Court inquest concluded on Monday that two redshirt protesters were killed by a high-velocity bullet fired by a soldier operating near Banglamphu in Bangkok during a military crackdown in April 2010.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671441-two-redshirts-killed-by-bullets-fired-by-soldiers-court/

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Phuket jet-ski thug gets first taste of swift tourist court justice
Phuket Gazette

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The tourist court in Phuket, formally known as the Tourist Protection Section, opened last week. Photo: Chutharat Plerin

PHUKET: -- The first cases heard in Phuket’s tourist court, which involved a jet-ski operator who attacked two tourists on Kata Beach, were resolved less than 36 hours after the incidents happened.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671449-phuket-jet-ski-thug-gets-first-taste-of-swift-tourist-court-justice/

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CRIMINAL COURT
Court decrease jail terms for BPP team guilty of abduction, assault

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Bangkok's Criminal Court on Monday reduced sentences for former border patrol police (BPP) officer Captain Nat Chonnithiwanit and nine former BPP officers for abuse of authority.

They were found guilty of abducting and detaining four narcotic suppression policemen, assaulting and forcing them to confess to drug crimes and demanding Bt2 million in ransom for their release from October 68, 2007.

The court gave the ten accused a 10-year jail term each, but halved the term for Nat and two others for their useful confessions, while the rest received further reduced jail terms of six years and eight months. The court also told them to pay Bt100,000 compensation (plus a 7.5 per cent annual interest) to each of the four damaged persons.

In another case, the Criminal Court sentenced Weerasak Eiumpongsa, 41, to a nineyear jail term for the 1993 murder of Japanese woman in Tokyo. Weerasak fled with the victim's valuables to Thailand where he laid low for 19 years before his arrest in Nakhon Si Thammarat - only months before the case's statute of limitation ended.

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-- The Nation 2013-09-30

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Boss of US Navy contractor Glenn Marine arrested
Alasdair Forbes

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Crew of the carrier USS Stennis, on its visit to Phuket in May, disembark from a GDMA transport boat.

PHUKET: -- The CEO of Glenn Defense Marina Asia (GDMA), which has for several years provided “husbanding” services for US warships visiting Phuket and elsewhere in the region, has been arrested in the US for corruption.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/671477-boss-of-us-navy-contractor-glenn-marine-arrested/

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