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PM targets 2 trillion baht revenue from tourism, focuses on safety

BANGKOK, 19 Oct 2013 (NNT) – The Prime Minister has set a target that Thailand will earn 2 trillion baht from the tourism industry by the year 2015, while focusing on safety of the tourists.

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Mae Moh residents will be soon moved out of heavily polluted area

LAMPANG, 19 October 2013 (NNT) - Thousands of residents in the polluted area of Mae Moh district in the northern province of Lampang will be relocated to safer area soon, according to chief of the province.

Lampang governor Thanin Saensupa told representatives from five villages who had come to meet him on Saturday that as soon as he received the official document the relocation procedures would begin. He expected to receive it next week.

The cabinet on October 15 gave a nod to the demand of Mae Moh residents that they be moved out of the contaminated area after a recent report from the Office of Environmental Policy and Planning (OEPP) showed that those villagers were being affected by toxic gas from a near by lignite power plant and heavy metals released in the mining of lignite.

The cabinet's approval has put an end to a decade long conflict between villagers living around the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand's coal-fired power plant. Thousands of villagers living near both the lignite mine and the power plant have suffered serious respiratory problems for years. They believed that sulphur dioxide released during mining and power generation was the main cause.


-- NNT 2013-10-19

Woman reported missing after Phuket SuperCheap fire found safe
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PHUKET: -- Angkana Namrob, believed to be missing after the SuperCheap fire on Wednesday evening, has contacted her family, an official told The Phuket News.

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Journalists among 10 hurt in Thai south blasts

BANGKOK, October 19, 2013 (AFP) - A double bomb attack in Thailand's restive south Saturday injured 10 people, almost half of them journalists including an AFP photographer, police said.

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