Thailand Live Monday 27 Oct 2014

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HIV/AIDS
PM wants all Aids patients to have access to drugs

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday expressed his intention for Aids patients at all levels to have access to appropriate drugs.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771783-pm-prayut-wants-all-aids-patients-to-have-access-to-drugs/

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NLA to nominate no outsiders as CDC candidates
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- National Legislative Assembly (NLA) will nominate five of its members as charter drafters, vice president of the NLA Surachai Liengboonlertchai, said Monday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771785-nla-to-nominate-no-outsiders-as-cdc-candidates/

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Groom Arrested During Wedding Ceremony

By Khaosod English


Saksit Tipayanon was arrested while he was preparing for a traditional Thai wedding parade – known as “Khan Maak” – in which the groom carries a dowry to the family of the bride.

PATUM THANI — A Thai couple’s wedding ceremony was unexpectedly interrupted when police arrested the groom for drug and attempted murder charges and then denied the 30-year-old man bail.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771789-groom-arrested-during-thai-wedding-ceremony-for-attempted-murder-charge/

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UPDATE:

SOUTH
Thailand on the hunt for fugitive Indian terrorist

BANGKOK: -- The Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc)'s branch in the south is on a hunt for Indian fugitive terrorist Jaktar Singh Tara, who is believed to be traveling through Thailand.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771739-wanted-sikh-terrorist-may-be-trying-to-enter-thailand/#entry8591898

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Police bust Facebook chop shop teens
Nattha Thepbamrung


Gen Patchara: Some of the stolen bikes were in good condition.

PHUKET: -- Police arrested three teens yesterday (Oct 26) suspected of stealing motorbikes, stripping them down and then advertising the parts for sale on Facebook.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771793-police-bust-facebook-chop-shop-teens/

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Phuket drug dealer arrested after tip off
Nattha Thepbamrung


Pongsakorn Paiboon points to 390 amphetamine pills and crystal meth found during a police raid of his home in Karon on Friday (Oct 25).

PHUKET: -- Following a tip off that teenagers were drinking alcohol and taking drugs outside a house on Soi Patuk in Karon, police on Friday (Oct 24) arrested a 37-year-old man in possession of nearly 400 ya bah (amphetamine) pills and a small amount of ya ice (crystal meth).

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771794-phuket-drug-dealer-arrested-after-tip-off/

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Doctor of British woman who died in surgery clinic unlicensed

By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- The doctor of a young British woman who died on the surgery table Thursday did not have a valid license to perform surgery.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771796-bangkok-doctor-of-british-woman-who-died-in-surgery-clinic-unlicensed/

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Two Thais charged with insulting monarchy in play: lawyer
Bangkok, Thailand | AFP |

BANGKOK: -- Thai prosecutors on Monday charged two people already held for more than 70 days with defaming the monarchy in a play, their lawyer said, as lese majeste cases since a May coup continue to mount.

Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 86, is shielded by tough royal defamation rules under which anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count.

Student Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, and activist Porntip Mankong, 25, were each charged by a Bangkok criminal court with one count of lese majeste linked to an October 2013 performance at a commemoration of a pro-democracy students' uprising.

"After the charges were read, both suspects asked for time to study the charge before give pleas," their lawyer Pawinee Chumsri told AFP, adding they will issue a plea in late December.

The pair were arrested separately in mid-August, several months after the play -- "The Wolf Bride" -- was shown at Bangkok's Thammasat University to mark the 40th anniversary of a famous pro-democracy protest that was crushed by authorities in October 1973.

Patiwat, a final year student at Khon Kaen University, acted in the piece -- which was about a fictional monarchy -- while Porntip co-ordinated the production as well as also playing a small role.

Another man, Jaran Ditapichai -- a prominent supporter of the now toppled government -- told AFP he also faces an arrest warrant for lese majeste for overseeing the events programme.

"It was a modern play that came from several workshops, so there was no script for me to review," Jaran told AFP from Paris, where he is seeking political asylum.

Jaran fled Thailand after he was summoned by the military junta in the days after May's coup.

"When you are charged with lese majeste you can't go back (to Thailand)," he added.

Last month rights group Amnesty International said there had been an "unprecedented" number of people charged with insulting the Thai monarchy since the coup, echoing concerns raised by the United Nations.

On October 17 a 67-year-old man was charged with insulting the monarchy by scribbling anti-royal comments on a public toilet wall.

In August a 28-year-old musician was sentenced to 15 years in jail for writing insulting Facebook posts about the monarchy between 2010 and 2011.

In another recent case a taxi driver was jailed for two and a half years after his passenger -- a university lecturer who recorded their conversation on a mobile phone -- accused him of expressing anti-royal views, Amnesty said.

The junta says it was forced to grab power after months of anti-government protests.

It has vowed to heal the nation's political divides, expunge the kingdom of corruption and protect the monarchy.

But critics say the lese majeste law has been politicised, noting that many of those charged were linked to the Red Shirts, who are broadly supportive of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

Thaksin, the older brother of ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, was toppled in a previous coup in 2006 and lives in self-exile to avoid prison for a corruption conviction.

Thailand's long-running political conflict broadly pits a Bangkok-based middle class and royalist elite, backed by parts of the military and judiciary, against rural and working-class voters loyal to Thaksin.


-- (c) Copyright AFP 2014-10-27

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Prime minister worried by economic slowdown
By Digital Content



BANGKOK, Oct 27 -- Prime Minister Prayut Cha-o-cha admitted he is worried by the projected economic slowdown next year, but still sees the possibility of Thailand regaining its former position as the world's biggest rice exporter next year.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771800-prime-minister-prayut-worried-by-economic-slowdown/

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Corrections department head and prison wardens sternly warned to shape up or ship out

BANGKOK: -- Corrections Department director-general was given a stern warning today (Monday) by Justice Minister Paibul Khumchaya that he would be fired if he could not resolve drug dealing problem in prisons throughout the country.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771847-corrections-department-head-and-prison-wardens-sternly-warned-to-shape-up-or-ship-out/

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Thailand Live Tuesday 28 Oct 2014

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