Thailand Live Saturday 2 May 2015

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RT@AP: BREAKING: Nigerian military: 234 more girls, women rescued from Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest stronghold.

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Nigerian military: 234 girls, women rescued from extremists
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military has rescued 234 more girls and women from a Boko Haram forest stronghold in the country's northeast, an announcement on social media said Saturday.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/821964-nigerian-military-234-girls-women-rescued-from-extremists/

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RT@RichardBarrow: The "Indy Market" this weekend at Gateway Ekamai featuring food trucks & shops specializing in "hip fashion". Open from 3pm #Bangkok

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RT@RichardBarrow: “International Bangkok Bike 2015″ at Muang Thong Thani until Sunday, 10am-9pm (Pic @beaver_ch5) http://t.co/u9GdDRHb3r”

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Rock-throwers turn themselves in to Phuket police
Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: Two young thugs who threw rocks at a Swedish man’s car on Monday (April 27) were brought into Kamala Police Station at 4pm yesterday (May 1) by local provincial council member Sanya Singsrida.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/821494-phuket-police-look-for-rock-throwing-thugs/page-3?p=9363236#entry9363236

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Huge fire at Ang Thong plastic recycling factory

BANGKOK: -- A huge fire at a plastic recycling factory in Phothong district of Ang Thong province broke out Friday night and raged for almost seven hours before it could be kept under control before dawn Saturday.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/821968-huge-fire-at-ang-thong-plastic-recycling-factory/

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Thai authorities resume dig at migrant mass grave site
Agence France-Presse
PADANG BESAR

Thai authorities on Saturday resumed the excavation of a mass grave site in a remote patch of jungle where migrants believed to be from Myanmar and Bangladesh were held for months by people smugglers in appalling conditions.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/821757-mass-graveyard-with-rohinya-bodies-found-near-thai-malaysian-border/page-3#entry9363257

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RT@RichardBarrow: “Thailand Comic Con 2015” at Siam Paragon (100B) & “Thailand Toy Expo 2015” at CentralWorld (free) #Bangkok http://t.co/W663xD2Pgo

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RT@191Thailand: Tour bus on the Bangkok-Phrae route on fire in Ayutthaya province - TR @js100radio: http://t.co/9Z7yNpiVpD

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Inflation eases in March

BANGKOK: -- The Ministry of Commerce announced today that inflation figure for the month of April fell by 1.04% for the four consecutive months mainly due to lower fuel prices.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/821996-inflation-eases-in-march/

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Phuket tour boat owner, crew, face oil slick charges
Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: The owner and crew of a tourist cruise boat that flushed oil into the sea in Ton Sai Bay, Phi Phi, on Thursday (April 3) are to face charges of illegal pollution..

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/821998-phuket-tour-boat-owner-crew-face-oil-slick-charges/

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Officials begin checking markets ahead of school opening next week

BANGKOK: -- Schools across the country are going to open over the next two weeks and parents are expected to begin shopping this week for new school uniforms for their children.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/822001-officials-begin-checking-markets-ahead-of-school-opening-next-week/

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Hat Yai International airport closed it runway today after Thai Lion Air’s Flight SL 8531 skidded and obstructed its runway while taxing for take-off.

The flight was scheduled to leave the airport at 10.05 am and land at Don Muang at 11.45 am.

-- Thai PBS 2015-05-02

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Government troops are encircling a house in Pattani and are convincing three militants to surrender after a fierce exchange of fire Saturday morning.

One militant was killed in the firefight which broke out before dawn Saturday.

Two militants surrendered and walked out of the encircled house with their raised hands.

The house is still heavily surrounded by troops and police.

Authorities are asking spiritual leader to convince the two remaining militants to give up before noon today.

Troops surrounded the house after receiving tipoff that six militants were hiding in the house.

The killed militant has been identified as a wanted suspect in a recent car bomb in Pattani.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/107873

-- Thai PBS 2015-05-02

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EC concerned over referendum time frame

BANGKOK, 1 May 2015 (NNT) - Election Commissioner Somchai Srisuthiyakorn has stressed that it is necessary to provide forums on the pros and cons of the draft charter before a referendum takes place.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/822007-ec-concerned-over-referendum-time-frame/

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Phuket plainclothes cops catch five with meth
Eakkapop Thongtub

Wiwan Tontipraadit and the teenager, found with 11.63 grams of ice.

PHUKET: Three men and two women were arrested over the past three days on charges of possession of a total of 17.73 grams of crystal methamphetamine (ya ice) and five meth pills (ya bah).

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/822008-phuket-plainclothes-cops-catch-five-with-meth/

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RT@SkyNewsBreak: The Duchess of Cambridge has been admitted to hospital and is in the early stages of labour #RoyalBaby

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@RichardBarrow: 12:30am All flights to & from Hat Yai are being delayed or diverted due to a Lion Air plane obstructing the runway http://t.co/frpUBX7knb

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Thai Lion Air plane skids off runway in Hat Yai

HAT YAI: -- Thai Lion Air's Flight SL 8531 from Hat Yai international airport to Don Muang airport was aborted after the plane skidded off and blocked the runway.

The plane was taxing on the runway before taking off with about 100 passengers Saturday morning.

One of its wheels was reported to run on soft soil after it skidded off while taxiing on the runway.

About 100 passengers aboard the flight were all safe and later evacuated.

As the plane was blocking the airport’s only runway, all flights were delayed by over an hour to allow airport workers to tow the plane from the runway and clear safe passage.

Hat Yai airport director Jessada Phetmetyai said today that the plane’s wheels were stuck on the soft soil off the runway, thus making it unable to take off.

All passengers were then evacuated to make the plane lighter for towing off the subsided ground.

The process took about an hour, he said.

The incident has crippled all takeoffs as the airport has only one runway for takeoff, he said.

The flight was scheduled to depart Hat Yai at 10.05 am and arrive at Don Muang airport at 11.45 am.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/thai-lion-air-plane-skids-off-runway-in-hat-yai

-- Thai PBS 2015-05-02

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Key facts about the Nepal quake, one week on
Agence France-Presse
KATHMANDU

A week on from a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal, flattening large parts of the capital Kathmandu and causing devastation across the impoverished Himalayan nation, here are some key facts about the disaster.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/822016-key-facts-about-the-nepal-quake-one-week-on/

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Sand spa festival kicks off in Prachuap Khiri Khan

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, 2 May 2015 (NNT) – Public and private tourism agencies in Prachuap Khiri Khan have jointly organized sand spa festival as a treat for sea lovers and holidaymakers.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/822017-sand-spa-festival-kicks-off-in-prachuap-khiri-khan/

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Over 500 Thai & foreign cyclists to join Ayutthaya rally

AYUTTHAYA, 2 May 2015 (NNT) – Hundreds of local and foreign cyclists will be joining an upcoming international rally in Ayutthaya province.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/822018-over-500-thai-foreign-cyclists-to-join-ayutthaya-rally/

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Thai forensics exhume three skeletons from migrant mass grave

Padang Besar, Thailand | AFP |

BANGKOK: -- The badly decayed remains of at least three more migrants thought to be from Myanmar or Bangladesh were exhumed Saturday from a mass grave in southern Thailand, as details emerged of the maltreatment endured at the remote people smugglers' camp.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/822025-thai-forensics-exhume-three-skeletons-from-migrant-mass-grave/

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RT@RichardBarrow: 2 May - Thai Lottery Full Results: 543466 | 818 163 366 195 | 30 http://t.co/Uy140mRsN2 #Thailand http://t.co/vMok0Jkjhy

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RT@Telegraph: #RoyalBaby: Latest photos from St Mary's Hospital as Duchess goes into labour http://t.co/OZYDOOxqmj http://t.co/fVZXgVqwht

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RT@SkyNewsBreak: Rio Ferdinand's wife Rebecca has died after a short battle with cancer

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It's a girl! Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to princess
By SYLVIA HUI and DANICA KIRKA

LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has given birth to a baby, royal officials said Saturday.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/822053-its-a-girl-duchess-of-cambridge-gives-birth-to-princess/

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One militant killed, two surrender in predawn raid in Pattani

PATTANI: -- Government troops killed a southern militant and arrested three others in a predawn firefight at an encircled orphanage school in Muang district of Pattani on Saturday morning.

By noon today the Ban Sungai Pa Nae orphanage school in Tambon Bana of Muang district is still heavily surrounded by troops to pressure the three remaining armed militants to give up.

Community spiritual leader is still using megaphone to convince the three militants to surrender.

Security forces comprising soldiers, police and rangers encircled the school before day break today after receiving an tipoff group of militants with arrest warrants on their heads were hiding there and planning for violent attack in the province.

As the security forces moved in and encircled all the exits, they shouted for the militants to surrender.

However the militants opened fire.

The fierce gun battle resulted in one militant dead.

Spiritual leader was called in to convince the militants to give up.

Two agreed to surrender but three remained defiant and still fired at the encircling soldiers.

Negotiation is still going on but security forces would try to have the talk ends before nightfall as this would enable the militants to escape, and for the safety of the security forces.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/one-militant-killed-two-surrender-in-predawn-raid-in-pattani

-- Thai PBS 2015-05-02

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Thailand Live Sunday 3 May 2015

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