Thailand Live Saturday 6 Jun 2015

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MOPH issues solutions to costly private medical services

BANGKOK, 5 June 2015 (NNT) – The Ministry of Public Health has mapped out solutions to the costly medical services of private hospitals following the public outcry.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa....dical-services/

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Bangkok:- A Thai man and two Thai women have been arrested for robbing a Nigerian man of cash and valuables worth some Bt130,000.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830752-three-thais-arrested-for-robbing-nigerian-man/

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Operation launched to crack down on illegal rubber plantations in Kanchanaburi

Kanchanaburi provincial administration in cooperation with officials of the National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation Department, Forest Department, police and military personnel on Friday launched an operation to reclaim over 7,000 rai of rubber plantations from encroachers.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa....n-kanchanaburi/

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'Staying longer may hurt faith in junta, government'
KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN
ANAPAT DEECHUAY
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- Political groups warn that the public may not like the reform process being extended before an election

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830776-staying-longer-may-hurt-faith-in-junta-government/

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Govt expects an upgrade for TIP, fishing crackdowns
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- THE GOVERNMENT anticipates receiving upgrades for two key international rankings on human trafficking after its sustainable crackdown - but the public should not get its hopes up, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha said yesterday.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830777-govt-expects-an-upgrade-for-tip-fishing-crackdowns/

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'Military court must try Manas'
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- LAWYERS CLAIM RULE SET BY JUNTA LAST YEAR ALLOWS THIS

A TEAM of lawyers representing key human-trafficking suspect Lt-General Manas Kongpaen plans to to make a legal request asking that he be prosecuted and tried in a military court, citing an early junta rule that they say enables such an option.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830778-military-court-must-try-manas/

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Football club owner faces assets seizure
Piyanut Tumnukasetchai
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Businessman Samrit a suspect in OTEP loan case

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830779-football-club-owner-faces-assets-seizure/

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Drafters worried about public response to 2-year reform
KHANITTHA THEPPHAJORN
KRIS BHROMSUTHI
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- SOME Constitution Drafting Committee members have voiced concern over the impact that allowing a two-year reform process before holding the next general election would have on the public's confidence towards the CDC and the drafting process, a CDC source said yesterday.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830780-drafters-worried-about-public-response-to-2-year-reform/

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Mismanagement causing food wastage in Thailand, says FAO
Pratch Rujivanarom
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- RESTAURANTS say the proper management of fresh-food storage would ensure low food wastage in keeping with this year's World Environment Day theme of promoting responsible consumption.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830781-mismanagement-causing-food-wastage-in-thailand-says-fao/

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Sale of lottery tickets above Bt80 to be taxed
Bunchoo Sritraiphob
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- PRASONG Poontaneat, the director-general of Revenue Department, said yesterday that the department will join hands with the Government Lottery Office to investigate lottery retailers who sell lottery tickets priced at above Bt80 and the department will collect revenue tax on the amount exceeding Bt80 per ticket.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830782-sale-of-lottery-tickets-above-bt80-to-be-taxed/

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Chance of human-to-human Mers transmission "lower than Sars"
Puangchompoo Prasert
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- THE CHANCE of human-to-human transmission of the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) coronavirus is only one-fifth that of the virulent severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), an expert said yesterday.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830783-chance-of-human-to-human-mers-transmission-lower-than-sars/

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Tips for academic success from top students
Chuleeporn Aramnet
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- ONE OF EIGHT students who got the top score in university admissions this year gave three tips for academic success: Stay focused in class, ask questions of teachers, and join in extracurricular activities.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830784-tips-for-academic-success-from-top-students/

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Six pro-democracy student protesters to be charged
NITIPOL KIRAVANICH
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- SIX STUDENTS who were arrested and detained briefly for opposing the junta by publicly marking the first anniversary of the May 22 coup have been charged with violating the junta's ban on political gatherings.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830785-six-pro-democracy-student-protesters-to-be-charged/

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Junta is not as impartial as it claims, Thai lawyers group says
PRAVIT ROJANAPHRUK
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- THE military junta is not impartial as it claims to be and the exercise of power and orders by the National Council for Peace and Order over the past year widely undermined the rule of law and human rights, the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights group said in its report to mark one year since the coup.

"Although the NCPO attempted to present itself as an impartial actor who would resolve the country's problems, including addressing conflict and creating reconciliation, the Army is not impartial. The Army is one of the parties of the conflict in Thai society and in the year since the coup, the people have had their liberty restricted in various ways," said the group, which had been due to discuss the report at the Foreign Correspondents Club before the event was banned on Thursday.

"The majority of those who have been prosecuted have been citizens whose ideas are not in line with the Army or the NCPO," the group said.

The 18-page report cited many legal and rights problems that stem from military rule. "The exercise of illegitimate authority, an absence of checks and balances, a lack of respect for the principles of the rule of law and international human rights law, and the violation of the basic rights and liberties of the people were manifest during the first year of rule by the NCPO."

The group noted that 77 laws have been promulgated by the junta-appointed National Legislative Assembly without "the consent and participation" of the people. The junta had intervened in or shut down at least 71 seminars or public activities, and more than 1,000 households had been affected by its Forestry Master Plan.

The group said the summoning of at least 751 people since the coup constituted a violation of their rights.

"The summoning of individuals to report when the individuals do not know the reason they have been summoned, and perhaps not knowing where they have been taken for detention and are unable to contact people outside, plus stipulations that not reporting oneself is a crime and release carries conditions with it, are violations in themselves," the group said in the report. This contravened the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

NCPO order No.7/2014, which prohibits a political assembly of more than four people, was at times used in combination when forcing those arrested to accept the condition of not carrying out further political activity before being released, the group said.

The lawyers said the use of absolute power under Article 44 of the provisional charter contravened the principles of separation of power and granted the junta leader, General Prayut Chan-o-cha, power without accountability and no guarantee of rights and liberty for those prosecuted under this special power.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Junta-is-not-as-impartial-as-it-claims-Thai-lawyer-30261764.html

-- The Nation 2015-06-06

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Posting on social media can get you in trouble
KORNCHANOK RAKSASERI
@Aim_TH

BANGKOK: -- A WARNING is doing the rounds on Line of how social-media users could face a criminal charge if they carelessly post photos of inappropriate acts by other people or themselves.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830787-posting-on-social-media-can-get-you-in-trouble/

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EDITORIAL
Deadly force by US police compounds global disdain
The Nation

WASHINGTON: -- Statistics show that America's racial issues aren't going away

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830788-deadly-force-by-us-police-compounds-global-disdain/

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PM: Govt strives to help the poor amid sluggish economy

BANGKOK, 5 June 2015 (NNT) – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has admitted that the Thai economy is recovering slowly due to external factors while affirming the government will continue to find measures to assist low-income earners and uplift their quality of life.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830789-pm-govt-strives-to-help-the-poor-amid-sluggish-economy/

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DSI joins anti-trafficking drive with Indonesia and Myanmar

PATTAYA, 5 June 2015 (NNT) - Over thirty agents of law enforcement units from Thailand, Indonesia and Myanmar gathered in Pattaya, Chonburi, during 4-5 June for a trilateral meeting on anti-human trafficking in the fishery sector.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830791-dsi-joins-anti-trafficking-drive-with-indonesia-and-myanmar/

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Tariq Aziz, top aide to Saddam Hussein, dies in hospital
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press
SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) — Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a hospital in southern Iraq, officials said. He was 79.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830793-tariq-aziz-top-aide-to-saddam-hussein-dies-in-hospital/

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Pakistan police say 8 men in Malala attack were acquitted
SHERIN ZADA, Associated Press

MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani police and the country's public prosecutor said Friday that eight out of 10 militants charged with involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist and later Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai were actually acquitted in April — and not sentenced to life in prison as reported at the time.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830794-pakistan-police-say-8-men-in-malala-attack-were-acquitted/

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Woman says her brother was sexually abused by Dennis Hastert
By MARY CLARE JALONICK

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Montana woman says her brother was sexually abused by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert during the years when the GOP leader was a wrestling coach at a suburban Chicago high school.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830795-woman-says-her-brother-was-sexually-abused-by-dennis-hastert/

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BKK Airport Apologizes for Searching Muslim Cleric's Turban

By Khaosod Eng.

BANGKOK — Thailand's airport director has formally apologized for subjecting the spiritual leader of Thai Muslims to a security search that involved inspecting his turban with a metal detector.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830804-bkk-airport-apologizes-for-searching-muslim-clerics-turban/

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RT@RichardBarrow: At QSNCC #Bangkok this weekend: Thailand Baby & Kids Best Buy 2015 and Supersports Super Sale Up to 70% http://t.co/hbliLJORTbRT

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Public support pours in for farang woman denounced by press

Chiang Mai:- Manager Online and some other Thai news websites cried foul and published a photo of a western woman in bikini bathing at the canal in the heart of Chiang Mai, saying she has acted improperly.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830819-public-support-pour-for-farang-woman-denounced-by-press/

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Out-of-control Truck slams into parked vehicles in North Pattaya

PATTAYA:--There was traffic chaos on the North Pattaya Road on Friday Morning after a 6-wheel truck suffered a major mechanical failure and its driver lost control of the vehicle which slammed into parked cars, pick-ups and motorbikes.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830822-out-of-control-truck-slams-into-parked-vehicles-in-north-pattaya/

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RT@RichardBarrow: Jet Ski Championship this weekend, 6-7 June, in Ao Prachuap in Prachuap Khiri Khan province #Thailand http://t.co/TuhjV2MN3U”

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PM announces plastic-bag-free campaign on World Environment Day

BANGKOK, 6 June 2015 (NNT) – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has marked 5 June World Environment Day with the launch of a plastic-bag-free campaign to urge Thai people to help reduce the volume of trash.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830852-pm-announces-plastic-bag-free-campaign-on-world-environment-day/

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UPDATE:

Sabah quake: Missing mostly Malaysians and Singaporeans

KUNDASANG: Most of the 17 people who are still missing on Mount Kinabalu after Friday's 5.9-magnitude quake are Singaporeans and Malaysians.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830579-strong-earthquake-hits-malaysias-sabah/#entry9487324

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UPDATE:

Cops Arrests Taxi Driver for Robbing Foreigner

By Khaosod Eng.

BANGKOK — Police have arrested a taxi driver and two waitresses who allegedly robbed a Nigerian man in Bangkok this week.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830752-three-thais-arrested-for-robbing-nigerian-man/page-2?p=9487530#entry9487530

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District Officials confirm ban on the sale and use of Shisha in Pattaya

PATTAYA: -- On Friday Night a letter was circulated amongst bar owners in Pattaya from the Banglamung District Licensing Unit which confirms an immediate ban on the sale and use of Shisha in entertainment venues.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/830869-district-officials-confirm-ban-on-the-sale-and-use-of-shisha-in-pattaya/