Bt1 million offered for leads to arrest of Pattani oil smuggling ring boss

BANGKOK: -- Police Commissioner-General Pol Gen Somyos Pumphanmuang Monday offered Bt1 million a reward for anyone who could provide leads for the arrest of Sahachai Jiansermsin Jo, a businessman in Pattani who has been on the run on charge of oil smuggling.

Sahachai, alias Sia Jo, is suspected of having paid bribes to former Central Investigation Bureau chief Pol Lt Gen Pongphat Chayaphan and his accomplices to help facilitate the oil smuggling.

Somyos said the money reward would come from some persons who would like to help police track down fugitives.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Bt1-million-offered-for-leads-to-arrest-of-Pattani-30248926.html


-- The Nation 2014-12-01

China Winning in OPEC Price War as Oil Hoarding Accelerates
BY BLOOMBERG

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — China is emerging as the winner from OPEC’s battle with rival oil producers as the world’s biggest energy consumer stockpiles crude.

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Constitution Drafters Look to German Model of Elections
By Khaosod English

BANGKOK — The junta-appointed committee tasked with drafting Thailand’s 19th constitution is considering adopting the German model of elections, officials say.

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A European Tour will return to Thailand as "Thailand Classic" golf championship;U$2 mn total prize money;at Black Mountain Golf Club,Hua Hin Feb.12-15,2015. /The Nation

Mae Hong Son declared Muang and Pangmapha districts as cold-spell disaster zones which have affected 29,000 people. /The Nation

Palestinian woman stabs Israeli, shot by security forces
JERUSALEM

(Reuters) - A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli in the occupied West Bank on Monday and was then shot and wounded by security forces, the military and police said.

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Public health ministry to declare Bamako as Ebola-affected

BANGKOK, 1 December 2014 (NNT) - The Ministry of Public Health will declare Bamako in Mali as a new Ebola-affected area for surveillance purposes. The ministry will also withdraw Congo from its list since the country has been free from an Ebola patient for 42 days.

Deputy Permanent Secretary for Public Health MD Wachira Phengchan said Bamako in Mali would be declared an infected area after its Ebola patient number increased by one person last week. Congo would be the second area that the ministry deleted from the list. The first one was Nigeria, said the official.

Thailand’s main measure to tackle the disease is the monitoring of symptoms of every traveler who have traveled from the Ebola-affected areas. So far, the ministry has checked over 3,000 travelers and contacted 12 of them daily for 21 days after they left the areas.


-- NNT 2014-12-01

An ex-politician in BBC scandal jailed 155 years

BANGKOK: -- A former member of the now disbanded “Goup of 16” political group was today sentenced to 155 years imprisonment, fined 31 million baht and ordered to pay 732 million baht in compensation for damages in connection with the Bangkok Bank of Commerce (BBC) fraud.

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