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DITP to develop OTOP products for international market

BANGKOK, 19 November 2014 (NNT) – The Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP), Ministry of Commerce, has planned to develop the "One Tambon One Product" commodities commonly called OTOP goods, to boost their sales in the international market.


Mrs.Nuntawan Sakuntanaga, DITP director-general said her office would select the most competitive four- star and five-star OTOP products to participate in the product development program to be held throughout 2015.

These products would be displayed in various exhibitions in Thailand and abroad including the Top of OTOP exhibition during the year, said Nuntawan.

The DITP's program focuses on product-design development and marketing channels to make them precisely fit the orders of international consumers. The program is expected to increase Thai exports' earnings and generate more income to local people.

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Police target Bangkok ‘sister’ after major Phuket drugs busts
Saran Mitrarat

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Gen Patchara (centre) introduces the four-man network led by Somkid “Bao” Prateeptong (white shirt).

PHUKET: -- The island’s police chief has assigned his deputy, Col Arayapan Pukbuakao, to head up an investigation of a major drug network with links to a woman in Bangkok.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777504-police-target-bangkok-sister-after-major-phuket-drugs-busts/

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Land offices most corrupt

NATHAPAT PROMKAEW
The Nation

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Police ranked 2nd worst in survey; Bt5 bn bribes paid to 10 govt agencies

BANGKOK: -- The Land office is the most corrupt agency in the Thai bureaucracy, while police are ranked second in this dubious list where households needed to make illegal payments to facilitate their service, according to an academic survey.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777573-thai-bureaucracy-land-offices-most-corrupt-police-ranks-2nd-worst-in-survey/

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Criminal case against Yingluck 'a step closer'

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BANGKOK: -- THE MOVE to get ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra to stand trial in the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions - for alleged negligence to stop corruption and massive losses in the rice-pledging scheme - is seen as a step closer to indictment.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777574-rice-pledging-scheme-criminal-case-against-yingluck-a-step-closer/

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World uncertainties linger, Thai jobless rate misleading: Supachai

The Nation

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BANGKOK: -- The global economy remains at risk, as major economies like the United States, the European Union and Japan are still confronting economic hardships, while Thailand has seen high numbers of disguised unemployed persons, the former secretary-general of the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) said recently.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777576-world-uncertainties-linger-thai-jobless-rate-misleading-supachai/

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Govt cooperates with traders to boost Hom Mali market in Hong Kong

Petchanet Pratruangkrai
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BANGKOK: -- The Commerce Ministry has joined forces with Thai rice exporters and 40 Hong Kong importers to regain market share for Thai Hom Mali rice (jasmine rice) in Hong Kong, a major market.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777577-thai-govt-cooperates-with-traders-to-boost-hom-mali-market-in-hong-kong/

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BANGKOK: -- Her actions are the equivalent of a composer using just two notes to create a masterpiece. Nong Laila's first note is the obscene curse repeated time and again in her viral video. Her second is the looping emphasis of just how much the chicken and sticky rice meant to her. Add the cute southern accent and innocent young girl's face and we have a three-minute clip that is sending practically everyone in Thailand into a frenzy.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777578-thai-opinion-nong-laila-shows-us-how-to-scold-thieves/

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100 Ladies and Ladyboy’s "of the night" arrested by Police on Pattaya Beach

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PATTAYA: -- In the early hours of Tuesday and in response to the recent case of a drugging and robbery of a Pakistani Tourist by two women picked-up from Pattaya Beach, Pattaya Police arrested 100 suspected prostitutes who were found loitering in the Beach Road area.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777580-100-ladies-and-ladyboys-of-the-night-arrested-by-police-on-pattaya-beach/

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District Officers raid fun fair and Pattaya Bars

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PATTAYA: -- In the early hours of Wednesday the Banglamung District Licensing Unit was out in full force and checked a fun-fair in North Pattaya and a selection of Bars in South Pattaya’s Walking Street in search of licensing irregularities and illegal drugs.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777582-district-officers-raid-fun-fair-and-pattaya-bars/

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THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- Borwornsak Uwanno, president of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), said the prospects of a national public referendum on the new constitution might be hindered by the martial law, and suggested that provincial public hearings led by CDC subcommittees be held instead.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777585-martial-law-may-hinder-referendum-on-new-thai-charter-cdc-chief/

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'Bumfights' duo in body-parts mail scam
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- POLICE said two Americans behind the bid to smuggle body parts out of the country had been very cooperative during interrogation this past weekend. That was why police said they believed Ryan McPherson and Daniel Tanner when they said they were just tourists and could not remember exactly where they had bought these human organs.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777428-fbi-probes-into-human-parts-case-in-thailand/page-3?p=8690126#entry8690126

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NHSO to tackle drug resistance issue
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Some 38,000 Thais reportedly die from drug-resistance each year, according to the National Health Security Office (NHSO).

As a result, it plans to push Public Health Ministry pharmacies to enter its universal healthcare scheme. The scheme would place pharmacists at all drug stores under the ministry in order to provide patients with accurate information. It would be submitted for the NHSO board to consider after the New Year holidays, NHSO deputy chief Dr Weerawat Phankhrut said yesterday.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/NHSO-to-tackle-drug-resistance-issue-30248101.html

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Van operators urged to register with BMTA or Transport Co. Ltd.

BANGKOK, 19 Nov 2014, (NNT) - The Department of Land Transport has urged van operators who have not registered their names with either the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) or the Transport Company Limited, to do so within December or they may loose their licenses.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777612-van-operators-urged-to-register-with-bmta-or-transport-co-ltd/

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Man arrested in Prachinburi with huge assortment of firearms

PRACHINBURI: -- Police raided a house in Prachinburi's Nadee district Tuesday night and arrested a man after they found some ecstasy and methamphetamine pills and 31 items guns and ammunitions in the house.


The man was identified as Pannathat Chaywattana 31.

The seized weapons included an M79 grenade launcher, two M6 assault rifles and two RGD-5 grenades.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Man-arrested-in-Prachinburi-with-huge-assortment-o-30248113.html

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