Water transport reviewed for Thammasat graduation
By Suriya Patathayo, 
Jakkawan Salethu 
The Nation 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- NATIONAL POLICE chief General Chakthip Chaijinda has instructed marine and highway police to accommodate mourners heading to the Grand Palace in Bangkok to pay their respects to His Majesty the King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

 

The adjacent area of Sanam Luang has already been equipped with eight checkpoints and 3,500 policemen have been deployed, said deputy police spokesman Maj-General Songpol Wattanachai yesterday.

Songpol added that police had reunited 95 people who had become lost with their relatives, arrested at least two pickpocket suspects in the area outside the checkpoint perimeter, and taken legal action against 20 undocumented foreigners, he added.

 

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Thammasat has two campuses. For once, they should have moved this to the other campus. The connection to the downtown campus's history is long gone. There is no reason to hold graduation ceremony there anymore as most students do not study there or even know the place; meanwhile, the other campus is basically unused most weekends. Thammasat's history is not respected by the present people controlling the university so why do they try to connect to it.

"and taken legal action against 20 undocumented foreigners,"

 

I hope this doesn't mean visitors to Wat Phra Kaew who simply weren't carrying a passport. I know it is the law, but it seems a bit of an overkill if this is the case.

2 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

"and taken legal action against 20 undocumented foreigners,"

 

I hope this doesn't mean visitors to Wat Phra Kaew who simply weren't carrying a passport. I know it is the law, but it seems a bit of an overkill if this is the case.

I think translated it just means they did not have enough money to pay to prevent "legal action" being taken against them.