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Trang holds Tsunami mitigation practice

TRANG, 9 September 2014 (NNT) – Trang Provincial Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office has held a practice run of Tsunami emergency measures at Pakmeng Beach, Hat Chao Mai National Park, Trang Province in order to acquaint personnel and volunteers with Tsunami mitigation provisions and victim rescue plans.


Trang was affected by the Tsunami in 2004, and institutes responsible for personal safety have now prepared measures to cope with an emergency situation. First is the setting up of a warning tower, regular training for rescue volunteers, and practicing the life rescue plan in order to reduce losses of life, should a Tsunami ever strike the region again.

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TELEVISION
Channel 3 faces blackout

USANEE MONGKOLPORN,
WATCHIRANONT THONGTEP
The Nation

Watchdog orders satellite and cable operators to stop analog broadcast soon; BEC still can appeal decision

BANGKOK: -- The conflict between the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission's broadcasting committee and the operator of Channel 3 analog programmes has escalated - with legal suits lodged and talk of counter-suits.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758713-cable-satellite-tvs-told-to-stop-broadcasting-channel-3analog-programmes/#entry8361378

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MURDER
Firm faces probe after sex killing by guard

Kornkamol Aksorndej
Montien Intaket
The Nation

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BANGKOK: -- POLICE WILL investigate a firm that provided security guards to a Bangkok condo project after one of its guards was charged with sexually molesting and killing a four-year-old girl last week. The victim's body was found in a sewerage pipe on Saturday afternoon.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758749-bangkok-firm-faces-probe-after-sex-killing-by-guard/

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NEW GOVERNMENT
Govt ready to reveal its policies

The Nation

Prayuth to outline plans to the NLA on Friday; Cabinet to make final decision

BANGKOK: -- The new government plans to announce its policies before the National Legislative Assembly on Friday, NLA president Pornphet Wichitchonchai said.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758750-thai-govt-ready-to-reveal-its-policies/

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AUDIO CONTROVERSY
Probe ordered into pricey audio system for new Cabinet

Nattapat Phromkaew,
Attayuth Bootsripoom
The Nation

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A policeman stands guard in front of Room 501 in Government House yesterday. No reporters were allowed in as the room is still being prepared for the Cabinet meeting next week.

BANGKOK: -- PM's Office Minister and permanent secretary Panadda Diskul said yesterday he would hold an investigation into the procurement of an expensive audio system at Government House to clear public doubts about the deal.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758752-probe-ordered-into-pricey-audio-system-for-new-thai-cabinet/

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FTI calls for updating of Customs regulations
Erich Parpart
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) said Customs regulations had to be urgently amended to facilitate business and promote fairness, while the new government should pay close attention when it comes to changing industrial laws.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758753-fti-calls-for-updating-of-thai-customs-regulations/

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EDITORIAL
Cabinet audio system: questions that need answers

The Nation

Why did it need to be so sophisticated and expensive? And why was the price apparently higher than the market price?

BANGKOK: -- Any government, whether it comes to power by elections or by military coup, needs to make its national budget spending accountable to those who foot the bill - taxpayers. All government expenditure must be transparent, reasonable and responsible.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758755-thai-cabinet-audio-system-questions-that-need-answers/

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Ao Yon boats ordered to move to Phuket's Chalong Bay
Saran Mitrarat

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Ao Yon: Too close to the Royal Thai Navy base.

PHUKET: -- The owners of all boats anchored in Ao Yon have been ordered to move them within a week to Chalong Bay or to one of Phuket’s established marinas.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758758-ao-yon-boats-ordered-to-move-to-phukets-chalong-bay/

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Yingluck sees no interference in justice system; investigation goes ahead
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday that she believed there was no interference in the justice system in relation to the decision to not immediately prosecute her over her government's loss-making rice-pledging scheme.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758759-yingluck-sees-no-interference-in-justice-system;-investigation-goes-ahead/

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Buses collide in Bang Phli
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- A total of 22 workers were injured when their company bus collided with another bus in Bang Phli in Samut Prakan yesterday morning.

Following the 6.30am accident, police rushed to a U-turn on Theparak Road in tambon Bang Pla and found the 22-year-old driver of the GFPT Co bus, Sompong Khongton, trapped.

Ruamkatanyu Foundation rescue workers had to use a cutting machine to remove parts and free his leg. The driver and 21 workers were only slightly hurt.

The other bus driver, Oom Damdee, 47, told police that he drove an empty bus to pick up factory workers and was taking a U-turn without seeing the GFPT Co bus. His bus was hit mid-body by the GFPT workers'

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Buses-collide-in-Bang-Phli-30242841.html

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High waters deter river-cruise tourists, but problem seen as short-term
SUCHAT SRITAMA
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- Local and foreign tourists are avoiding waterfall and river cruises because of high water levels in the Northern and Central regions, the president of the Thai Eco Tourism and Adventure Travel Association (TEATA) said yesterday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758762-high-waters-deter-river-cruise-tourists-but-problem-seen-as-short-term-thailand/

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Moody's: Credit profiles of Thai banks to remain stable, rise in loan growth and asset quality seen
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The overall credit profiles of Thai banks will remain stable in the coming quarters as an improvement in operating conditions coupled with accommodative fiscal and monetary policies will boost loan growth and support asset quality, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758763-moodys-credit-profiles-of-thai-banks-to-remain-stable/

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Pattaya condo market shrinks 60% in first half
The Nation

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About 3,800 units were launched in the first six months

Property takes direct hit from political turmoil

PATTAYA: -- The Pattaya condominium market shrunk 60 per cent in the first half of the year due to the effects of the political problems in Thailand, according to the Pattaya Condominium Market Research Report released by Colliers International Thailand.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758764-pattaya-condo-market-shrinks-60-percent-in-first-half/

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Thai rights groups denounce martial law

BANGKOK, September 9, 2014 (AFP) - Rights activists on Monday renewed calls for an end to martial law imposed since Thailand's coup, accusing the military of overseeing a judicial "twilight zone" following their power grab.


Army chief General Prayut Chan-O-Cha introduced the draconian law two days before the May 22 coup which he led swept the elected government from power.

He cited the need to restore peace and order after months of protests.

Prayut is now also prime minister and is due to lead the first meeting of a military-stacked cabinet on Tuesday.

Martial law bans political gatherings, allows the detention of dissidents for up to seven days without charge and permits trials in a military court.

In the days and weeks following the coup more than 570 people were ordered to report to authorities, according to a report submitted by the Thai lawyers for Human Rights to the interior ministry.

It said more than 260 people were arrested with 87 now facing legal action, 61 of them in military courts.

Martial law "is tantamount to a twilight zone of judicial process during which the officials have broad powers without checks and review", the report said, adding such powers may lead to "serious violations... of fundamental human rights".

The release of the study, "The Human rights Situation 100 Days After the Coup", was scheduled last week but authorities warned its authors to postpone publication.

The report expressed particular concern over trials in military courts and the use of a controversial royal defamation law to protect key members of the monarchy.

Fourteen people have been charged under the strict '112' defamation law since the coup, according to the study, which said the jurisdiction of military courts has also been widened to hear some lese majeste cases.

"Only one in three judges in a military court has to have a law degree and the rest are simply commissioned officials who may not even have any legal background," it added.

Last week the United Nations said it was "seriously concerned" about the worsening human rights situation in Thailand.

Junta spokesman Winthai Suvaree said the report was "one-sided" adding "we don't understand their (the report authors') intentions".

He also denied anyone detained in the post-coup period has been tortured, as alleged in the report, adding that lifting martial law was being "considered carefully... by security agencies and not for political reasons".

Prayut says he was forced to take power after months of protests against then-premier Yingluck Shinawatra's government left 28 people dead and hundreds wounded.

He has ruled out holding new elections before October 2015, despite international appeals for a return to democracy, vowing first to oversee reforms said to be aimed at cleaning up politics and society.

Critics say the coup is a smokescreen for a purge of the influence of Yingluck's divisive older brother, the self-exiled billionaire former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

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Five Thai products may not be removed from US child, forced labour abuse watch lists
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BANGKOK, Sept 9 -- Thai Ministry of Labour and business operators are drafting their request for the US to remove five Thai products from its list of products involving child labour and forced labour when the US Department of Labour reviews the list in early October, according to a senior official of Department of Foreign Trade.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758803-five-thai-products-may-not-be-removed-from-us-child-forced-labour-abuse-watch-lists/

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TDRI opposes NACC using its report as evidence in rice pledging case

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BANGKOK: -- The National Anti-Corruption Commission should not use the report on rice pledging scheme of Thailand Development and Research Institute as a piece of evidence in the former’s case against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, said TDRI president Somkiat Tangkitvanich in a message he posted in his Facebook page today.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758809-tdri-opposes-nacc-using-its-report-as-evidence-in-rice-pledging-case/

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US Centers for Disease Control report massive outbreaks in EV-D68 among children

CLUSTERS of severe respiratory illness across a dozen US states have raised concern about the spread of an unusual virus that is striking children but not adults.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758812-us-centers-for-disease-control-report-massive-outbreaks-in-ev-d68-among-children/

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Ukraine MH17 initial crash report due

THE HAGUE - A highly anticipated preliminary report into what brought down Malaysia flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine will be released on Tuesday, hoping to shed light on the air disaster that claimed the lives of 298 passengers.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758813-ukraine-mh17-initial-crash-report-due/

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Obama's 'core coalition' won't defeat ISIS 'monster' without Mideast nations
By Josh Levs, CNN

(CNN) -- A 10-nation group the Obama administration has gathered to fight ISIS could help, but more important will be the nations that surround the Islamist militant group's self-declared "caliphate," experts say.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758814-obamas-core-coalition-wont-defeat-isis-monster-without-mideast-nations/

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Irrigation Department says this year's flood situation not too worrisome

BANGKOK, 9 September 2014 (NNT) – The Irrigation Department asserted on Monday the flood situation was not worrisome this year, although those living on lowlands would need to maintain caution against floods.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758818-thai-irrigation-dept-says-this-years-flood-situation-not-too-worrisome/

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Jakarta begins crackdown on illegal parking

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JAKARTA: -- No less than 150 officers on Monday kicked off a crackdown on illegal parking in five parts of Jakarta, towing away at least 10 cars by midday and imposing substantial fines, The Jakarta Globe reported.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758822-jakarta-begins-crackdown-on-illegal-parking/

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Chonburi Police bust a gambling ring running inside an apartment in Pattaya

CHONBURI, 9 September 2014 (NNT) - Investigation police in Chonburi have busted a gambling ring that was operated on the third floor of an unknown apartment located in central Pattaya city. A total of 16 punters consisting of 9 men and 7 women have been arrested.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/758824-chonburi-police-bust-a-gambling-ring-running-inside-an-apartment-in-pattaya/

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