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3 Days After Causing 2 Road Deaths, Auto Scion Not Yet Charged
By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter

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Jenphop Viraporn’s Mercedes-Benz comes to a rest upside down on the outbound stretch of Phahonyothin Road on Sunday in Ayutthaya province.

AYUTTHAYA — Police have yet to press any charges against the owner of a luxury car dealership who slammed his Mercedes Benz into another car on a highway, killing the two motorists inside.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903609-3-days-after-causing-2-road-deaths-auto-scion-not-yet-charged/

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Corruption Catch-22: Report a Bribe and Go to Jail?
By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter

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A police officer appears to extort a motorist in Bangkok’s Bang Na district a still image from a video uploaded Feb. 20, 2015. Image: The Thailand Life / YouTube

BANGKOK — It looked like a shut-and-closed case when a video went viral of a traffic police officer caught red-handed accepting a bribe last week from a truck driver in Nakhon Sawan province.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903611-corruption-catch-22-report-a-bribe-and-go-to-jail/

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Cho Airong police superintendent removed after the hospital seizure by insurgents on Sunday

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NARATHIWAT: -- The police superintendent in Cho Airong district in Narathiwat has been ordered transferred to the southern border provincial police operations centre “to assist work” for 30 days for intelligence failure to predict the seizure of the district hospital by insurgents on Sunday March 13.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903614-cho-airong-police-superintendent-removed-after-hospital-seizure-by-insurgents/

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AOT will be asked to cut prices of fast food and drinking water at airports

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BANGKOK: -- The Internal Trade Department will hold a discussion with Airports of Thailand Public Company Thursday about the possibility of slashing the prices of food and drinks at six airports, including Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903615-aot-will-be-asked-to-cut-prices-of-fast-food-and-drinking-water-at-airports/

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Sansern dispatched to patch up misunderstanding between PM and CDC chairman

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BANGKOK: -- Government spokesman Maj-Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd briefly met with Constitution Drafting Committee chairman Meechai Ruchupan on Tuesday at the order of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha reportedly to patch up any misunderstanding between the CDC chairman and the prime minister.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903618-sansern-dispatched-to-patch-up-misunderstanding-between-pm-and-cdc-chairman/

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People urged to use water sparingly during Songkran festival

BANGKOK, 17 March 2016 (NNT) - Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul discussed with officials of the Ministry of Culture a planned campaign for the public to use water sparingly while still engaging in Songkran festival and other cultural activities during drought season.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903619-people-urged-to-use-water-sparingly-during-songkran-festival/

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Phuket Immigration mulls kids caught in overstay blacklist ban
The Phuket News

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Phuket Immigration has yet to announce whether or not children will be caught in the blacklist ban that will come into effect on Sunday (Mar 20). Photo: Tanyaluk Sakoot

PHUKET: -- Officers at Phuket Immigration next week will publicly announce whether or not they will include children in the blacklist ban on re-entry on all “aliens” who overstay in the country, which comes into effect on Sunday (March 20).

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903620-phuket-immigration-mulls-kids-caught-in-overstay-blacklist-ban/

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Air India jet evacuated in bomb scare at Bangkok airport
The Associated Press

BANGKOK (AP) — Passengers and crew of an Air India jetliner were evacuated using emergency slides at Bangkok's international airport, and authorities searched the plane for explosives after an apparent bomb hoax Wednesday, officials said.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903608-air-india-flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-suvarnabhumi-after-bomb-threat/#entry10537631

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Obama nominates Garland to high court, challenging GOP
By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, thrusting a respected moderate jurist and former prosecutor into the center of an election-year clash over the future of the nation's highest court.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903622-obama-nominates-garland-to-high-court-challenging-gop/

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After a night of primary victories, Clinton looks ahead
By LISA LERER and CATHERINE LUCEY

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sweeping to victory in four key primary contests, Hillary Clinton has solidified her hold on the Democratic nomination, allowing her to begin the work of unifying her party against GOP front-runner Donald Trump.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903625-after-a-night-of-primary-victories-clinton-looks-ahead/

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More than 12 punished for mistaken hospital attack
By ROBERT BURNS

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen U.S. military personnel have been disciplined — but face no criminal charges — for mistakes that led to the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital that killed 42 people in Afghanistan last year, U.S. defense officials say.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903626-more-than-12-us-military-personnel-punished-for-mistaken-hospital-attack/

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Is it too late to stop the Donald Trump machine?

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"Today the name of Paul Ryan was floated, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and for the first time he did not particularly exclude the possibility of running against Trump"

PALM BEACH: -- It was dubbed Super Tuesday II, a crucial test of who is likely to be the presidential candidate for each of the main parties in the US ahead of elections in November.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/903631-is-it-too-late-to-stop-the-donald-trump-machine/

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