Phelps makes history – again! More highlights from the Olympic swimming pool

 

 

RIO DE JANEIRO: -- It was gold medal number 22 for US swimming legend Michael Phelps on Thursday in Rio.

 

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Bollywood's Shah Rukh Khan gets US apology for airport stop 

 

NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan tweeted Friday that he gets detained at U.S. airports "every damn time" after he was stopped at the Los Angeles International Airport.

 

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Police check meditation centres in Chiang Mai suspected of forest encroachment

 

 

Police are checking land documents of a meditation centre in Chiang Mai’s Hod district linked to Wat Dhammakaya after complaints from villagers in its neighbourhood that the centre may encroach on forest reserves.

 

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Bombs shake Thailand tourist towns, and industry confidence 
PENNY WANG, Associated Press
MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press

 

HUA HIN, Thailand (AP) — Tourists huddled in their hotel rooms and ducked inside buildings after bombs, one after another, exploded in at least five areas of Thailand, including popular beach cities, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more.

 

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Public health: 4 killed and 35 injured in bomb attacks in South Thailand

 

 

BANGKOK:-- Four people – alll of them Thais – were killed and 35 others injured in a spate of bomb attacks in seven southern provinces on Thursday night and Friday, deputy permanent secretary of public health Dr Pranom Kamthiang announced Friday.

 

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Police chief suspects bomb and arson attacks are politically connected

 

 

BANGKOK:-- The national police chief said today (Friday) that the spate of bomb and arson attacks in seven southern provinces in the past few days – most of them on Thursday night and today – were politically connected.

 

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Phuket police begin hunt for Patong bombers

 

 

PHUKET: Police are scrambling for clues in the hunt for the suspects who planted two bombs that detonated in Patong this morning (Aug 12).

 

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NCPO spokesman says security forces pursuing those behind explosions
Itiporn  Lakarnchua

 

 

BANGKOK, 12 August 2016 (NNT) – A spokesperson for the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has urged the public to remain confident in the government and has given an assurance it will not allow those of ill-will in this matter to go unpunished. 

 

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Female Rider Electrocuted by Broken Overhead Cable

 

 

At 11pm, on the night of August 11, Sawangboriboon Rescue Services received reports that a woman had been electrocuted by an overhead cable that had fallen loose.

 

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Thai Bag Snatcher Arrested

 

 

On August 8, at 1.30 in the afternoon, Mr Sang Wook Kim, a Korean tourist, had his bag snatched on Beach Road, Soi 10, Pattaya. 

 

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Update: Security stepped up nationwide after bombings

Gazette reporters

 

 

PHUKET:-- In a statement issued this morning, Phuket Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada said has ordered additional security personnel to be deployed across the island, in the wake of two blasts in Patong this morning.

 

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