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Prolific British actor Christopher Lee dies at age 93


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LONDON (AP) — Christopher Lee, the prolific, aristocratic British actor who brought dramatic gravitas to the low-budget thrills of Hammer Studios' horror films, has died at age 93.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832253-prolific-british-actor-christopher-lee-dies-at-age-93/

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Govt offers monthly allowance for children of the poor


BANGKOK, 12 June 2015 (NNT) – The government is introducing a program to assist poor families with young children by providing them with a monthly allowance of 400 baht as a way to support child development in the long run.


Deputy Prime Minister Yongyut Yuttawong indicated that the first five years of life are the most crucial period for a child’s development, and it has been witnessed in many countries that the provision of proper care for the young ones from the very beginning can help them grow up to be quality citizens.


Therefore, he said the government has been studying measures adopted by other countries that are investing in child welfare and has come up with a program that targets low-income families in particular. Under the new program, every child in a poor family who is aged five or below will be entitled to an allowance of 400 baht per month.


According to Minister of Social Development and Human Security Pol Gen Adul Saengsingkaew, Thailand sees a total of 800,000 newborn babies every year. Out of the number, about 135,000 are born to impoverished families and they will be included in the financial aid program.


The program is expected to be piloted within this year and will be evaluated periodically. Teams of public health volunteers are being sent out across the country to identify the target group in each locality and they will also facilitate the registration process, which will take place at the local administrative office.


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TAT to carry on with 'Must-Visit Cities' campaign next year

BANGKOK, 12 June 2015 (NNT) – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is aiming to expand the “Must-Visit Cities” campaign in 2016 in a bid to cover more destinations, hoping to generate more income.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832295-tat-to-carry-on-with-must-visit-cities-campaign-next-year/

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Cambodian Troops Occupy Thai Farmer's Land in Sa Kaeo

By Khaosod English

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Thai border patrol police and Cambodian soldiers negotiate over farmland in Sa Kaeo province, 11 June 2015.

SA KAEO — A small-scale territory dispute broke out along the Thai-Cambodian border today over a plot of land that currently belongs to a Thai farmer.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832296-cambodian-troops-occupy-thai-farmers-land-in-sa-kaeo/

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Body of American-Canadian found in Pattaya Bay

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PATTAYA: -- The body of a 65 year old who holds American and Canadian dual nationality and had been missing for 2 days after he rented a boat, was recovered from the waters off Larn Island on Thursday morning.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832297-body-of-american-canadian-found-in-pattaya-bay/

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Pattaya Family injured in Elephant Attack at Thailand Forest

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PATTAYA: -- On Thursday it was revealed that a Thai Family who live in Pattaya were seriously injured in an elephant attack in the early hours of 1st June at a Forest in Kanchanaburi Province.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832298-pattaya-family-injured-in-elephant-attack-at-thailand-forest/

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National Police Chief orders Pattaya Facebook Page to Shut Down

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PATTAYA: -- The National Police Commissioner intervened on Thursday and forced a popular Pattaya Facebook Page to shut down due to posts which indicated to followers the location of Police Checkpoints.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832299-national-police-chief-orders-pattaya-facebook-page-to-shut-down/

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CHAO PHRAYA PROMENADE
Project worries river residents

PRATCH RUJIVANAROM
THE NATION

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BANGKOK: -- THE government's grand Chao Phraya River Promenade project has locals up in arms over its potential to marginalise the community, raise the flood risk and kindle crime.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832300-chao-phraya-promenade-project-worries-river-residents/

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MERS
Thailand on red alert for MERS threat

THE NATION, AGENCIES

As South Korea reels under crisis, Public Health Ministry to add disease to danger list

BANGKOK: -- THAILAND is swinging into full alert against the killer Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) threat, which has already had serious impacts on South Korea, compelling the country to cut its interest rate in a bid to soften the blow to its economy already burdened by slack demand.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832301-thailand-on-red-alert-for-mers-threat/

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PAKISTAN
No link between Thai students detained in Pakistan and insurgency

THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- INITIAL investigation found no link between Thai five students detained in Pakistan and either the insurgency in the far South or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832302-no-link-between-thai-students-detained-in-pakistan-and-insurgency/

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Mixed reactions on plan to create a new reform council
PRAVIT ROJANAPHRUK,
NITIPOL KIRAVANICH
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- THE DECISION to amend the interim charter to allow National Reform Council (NRC) members to be appointed to a new reform council is a way for Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha to ensure total obedience from the new body, as the members will not be royally endorsed, critics said.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832304-thai-politics-mixed-reactions-on-plan-to-create-a-new-reform-council/

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BURNING ISSUE
Govt's manipulation of referendum a masterstroke

NITIPOL KIRAVANICH

BANGKOK: -- THE government has finally come up with a good strategy to insert a tricky question in the national referendum on the draft charter set for January next year.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832305-thai-govts-manipulation-of-referendum-a-masterstroke/

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DIGITAL TV
NBTC chief backs away from idea of allowing digital TV licence transfers

Watchiranont Thongtep
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- After being criticised for his suggestion that regulations be amended to allow digital TV broadcasters to transfer their channels to a different company, the secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has backed away from the idea.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832306-nbtc-chief-backs-away-from-idea-of-allowing-digital-tv-licence-transfers/

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EDITORIAL
Combating the extremists' PUBLICITY MACHINE

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS LOSING THIS BATTLE, WITH THOUSANDS OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS HEEDING THE CALL OF ISLAMIC STATE

BANGKOK: -- Countering violent extremism has always been a tough nut to crack. In combating its proliferation in countries across the globe, there remains no one-size-fits-all solution.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832307-islamic-state-combating-the-extremists-publicity-machine/

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Governor speaks for first time on alleged corrupt Phuket officials
Nattha Thepbamrung

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Former Phuket Governor Wichai Praisa-Ngob has been accused of wrongly issuing deeds for and within Sirinart Marine National Park Lands.

PHUKET: -- Phuket Governor, Nisit Jansomwong, today (June 11) spoke for the first time about the 13 Phuket officials who have been accused by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) of being involved in corruption.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832308-governor-speaks-for-first-time-on-alleged-corrupt-phuket-officials/

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Red-shirt activist Jaran grateful France granted him political asylum
PRAVIT ROJANAPHRUK
THE NATION

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BANGKOK: -- FUGITIVE red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) Jaran Ditapichai, who has been residing in exile in France since late last year, claims he has been given political asylum since November.

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Probe into lost guns ordered
THE NATION

KORAT: -- Defence Minister General Udomdej Sitabutr said yesterday that the case of some 100 M16 rifles going missing from the Interior Ministry's 1st Nakhon Ratchasima territorial defence volunteer corps' armoury should be investigated in detail.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832312-probe-into-lost-guns-ordered/

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EIA waiver plan blasted
THE NATION

MUNICIPAL WASTE POWER PLANTS NEED IMPACT ASSESSMENT: ENVIRONMENTALIST

BANGKOK: -- LARGER power plants powered by municipal solid waste (MSW) should require an environmental impact assessment report before being constructed, environmental experts have said.


Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832313-eia-waiver-plan-blasted/

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Group eyes legal action over promenade plan
PRATCH RUJIVANAROM
THE NATION

HEAD OF ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP STRESSES NEED FOR EIA STUDY

BANGKOK: -- THE STOP Global Warming Association (SGWA) is threatening to lodge a complaint with the Central Administrative Court if the construction of the so-called Chao Phraya Riverside Promenade goes ahead without any environmental impact assessment.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832314-group-eyes-legal-action-over-chao-phraya-promenade-plan/

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Third-phase reforms in pipeline
THE NATION

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BANGKOK: -- AN OVERHAUL of the police is among several reform efforts yet to be carried out in the third stage of the government's road map, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has told a joint meeting of the Cabinet and the National Council for Peace and Order.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832315-third-phase-thai-reforms-in-pipeline/

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Prosecutor: Germanwings co-pilot feared going blind
By JAMEY KEATEN

PARIS (AP) — Fearing he was going blind, the co-pilot who slammed a Germanwings jet into the Alps took sick days at work, upped his dosage of an antidepressant, and reached out to doctors, but they didn't tell his employer they thought he was unfit to fly because of German privacy laws, a French prosecutor said Thursday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832316-prosecutor-germanwings-co-pilot-feared-going-blind/

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Union-backed Dems make final push to kill Obama's trade bill
By CHARLES BABINGTON and ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Union-backed Democrats launched a last-ditch effort Thursday to scuttle President Barack Obama's trade agenda by sacrificing a favored program of their own that retrains workers displaced by international trade.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832317-union-backed-dems-make-final-push-to-kill-obamas-trade-bill/

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Spain formally buries Cervantes, 400 years later
By CIARAN GILES

MADRID (AP) — Spain gave its greatest writer, Miguel de Cervantes, a formal burial Thursday nearly 400 hundred years after his death, unveiling a funeral monument holding recently unearthed bone fragments believed to include those of the author of "Don Quixote."

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832318-spain-formally-buries-cervantes-400-years-later/

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General: New US hub in Iraq could be model
By ROBERT BURNS

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — The Pentagon's top general said Thursday the U.S. military's reach could extend even further into Iraq if the anti-Islamic State campaign gains momentum, and he held out the possibility of eventually recommending to President Barack Obama that U.S. troops take on the riskier role of calling in airstrikes.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832319-general-new-us-hub-in-iraq-could-be-model/

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Former China security chief sentenced to life for corruption
DIDI TANG, Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — A court sentenced China's former security chief to life in prison Thursday after convicting him of corruption in a secretly held trial, underscoring President Xi Jinping's anti-graft campaign and further cementing Xi's authority by burying a once-powerful political faction.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832320-former-china-security-chief-zhou-sentenced-to-life-for-corruption/

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Murdoch's sons to become CEO, co-chair at 21st Century Fox
By RYAN NAKASHIMA and TALI ARBEL

NEW YORK: -- Rupert Murdoch will soon hand over the reins of the media dynasty that began with his father's Australian newspaper nearly a century ago to his sons.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832321-murdochs-sons-to-become-ceo-co-chair-at-21st-century-fox/

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Greece gets wake-up call: coming week could seal its fate
RAF CASERT, Associated Press
LORNE COOK, Associated Press

BRUSSELS (AP) — International creditors sent Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras home from a summit Thursday with a clear message: swiftly tone down your demands in the bailout talks over the next week or face financial ruin.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832322-greece-gets-wake-up-call-coming-week-could-seal-its-fate/

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Judge rules there's evidence to charge US officers
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) — Enough evidence exists to charge two police officers in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy who was holding a pellet gun outside a recreation center, a judge ruled on Thursday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832323-tamir-rice-us-police-face-charges-over-boys-death/

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Spain: Lawmakers approve Sephardic Jew citizenship plan
ALAN CLENDENNING, Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — Spain's lower house of parliament gave final approval Thursday to a law setting a citizenship path for descendants of Jews forced to flee the country after all Jews were told in 1492 to convert, go into exile or risk being burned at the stake.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832324-spain-passes-jewish-citizenship-plan/

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