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PM wants world to accept the new charter
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community PM wants world to accept the new charter The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The new charter must be accepted by the international community, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said yesterday. After the Cabinet meeting yesterday at Government House, PM Prayut said he was not worried…
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Tourism rebound rise in spending expected to hike GDP by 3.5%
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Tourism rebound rise in spending expected to hike GDP by 3.5% The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry, and Banking still believes that gross domestic product can expand by 3.5% this year, as the rebound of tourism and the expected…
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Medical official slams new malpractice bill
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Medical official slams new malpractice bill The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Doctors are continuing their campaign against the controversial Protection of Victims of Medical Mistreatment Bill, saying the draft law will further complicate issues surrounding malpractice and sow seeds of reluctance among medical workers when…
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Malpractice bill touted as ‘best solution’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Malpractice bill touted as ‘best solution’ The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Supporters of the Protection of Victims of Medical Mistreatment Bill see no reason that would lead to some doctors wanting it scrapped. “Every article in the bill will benefit doctors and improve patient-doctor relations,”…
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Russian PM arrives today on official visit
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Russian PM arrives today on official visit The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is to arrive in Bangkok today to cement ties with Thailand in various domains including politics, economy, security, energy, science and technology, education, tourism and culture. Foreign Minister…
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South Korea bans Thai airlines over safety concerns
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community South Korea bans Thai airlines over safety concerns The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: South Korea has started banning charter flights from Thailand over safety concerns after Thai negotiators from the Civil Aviation Department failed to convince officials to ease restrictions. A source in the Civil…
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Cranes help lift moon bears out of Tiger Temple
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Cranes help lift moon bears out of Tiger Temple The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Forest rangers and wildlife protection officials yesterday retrieved six moon bears – a protected species – from dens at a famous temple in Kanchanaburi known to tourists as the Tiger Temple,…
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Media seek clarity over ‘peacekeeping’ officers
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Media seek clarity over ‘peacekeeping’ officers The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Four media organizations yesterday issued a joint statement asking the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to shed more light on Peace and Order Maintaining (POM) officers in order to ensure that the…
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US, UN envoys voice worrying concerns over Article 44
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community New junta order ‘more worrying’ The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The government may have received some plaudits for lifting martial law from the local business community, notably the tourism sector, but the international community, especially the United States and the United Nations, besides rights groups…
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CDC to go ahead with merging of rights body with ombudsman
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community CDC to go ahead with merging of rights body with ombudsman The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Constitution Drafting Committee yesterday stood by its plan to merge the National Human Rights Commission with the Office of the Ombudsman as stipulated in the new charter’s Article…
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Blasts rock Pattani, power poles felled
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Blasts rock Pattani, power poles felled The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Explosions rocked four locations in Pattani’s Muang district, while five power poles were blown up in separate incidents on Wednesday night, causing heavy property damage and blackouts in a wide area. However, no casualties…
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NCPO’s 14-point order on maintaining national security
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community NCPO’s 14-point order on maintaining national security The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister and National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) head Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday replaced martial law with its 14-point Order on Maintaining Public Order and National Security. Here is a…
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Rights groups slam use of Article 44
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Rights groups slam use of Article 44 The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: International rights groups aired criticism against the government’s imminent use of absolute power under Article 44 of the interim constitution, with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) calling for a return to civilian…
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Pongpat gets another two and half years in jail
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Pongpat gets another two and half years in jail The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Criminal Court yesterday sentenced Pongpat Chayapan, former chief of the Central Investigation Bureau, to another two and a half years in jail for failing to report the discovery and acquisition…
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Domestic accuses WHO executive of exploitation
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Domestic accuses WHO executive of exploitation The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Law Society of Thailand has taken up the case of an Ethiopian domestic worker, who has filed a police complaint, accusing her employer – an executive at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in…
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Martial law lifted, as Article 44 leveraged to legitimize PM Prayut’s powers
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Martial law lifted, as Article 44 leveraged to legitimize PM Prayut’s powers The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej has signed a royal decree to lift martial law. The news was announced on a nationwide television broadcast last night. While international right groups…
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Charter flights by five airlines hit amid aviation safety concerns
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Charter flights by five airlines hit amid aviation safety concerns The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: AT least five airlines operating from Thailand to Japan, China and South Korea, and expected to carry about 150,000 passengers, will be affected in the wake of safety concerns expressed…
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Lifting of martial law gets the thumbs up
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Lifting of martial law gets the thumbs up The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday sought royal approval for lifting martial law, which was imposed shortly before the coup in May last year, and replacing it with Article 44 of the…
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Decree for lifting martial law sent for royal command
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Decree for lifting martial law sent for royal command: Prayut The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha today confirmed that that he has submitted a draft royal decree for His Majesty the King to sign to lift the martial law. He said…
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Human trafficking to become national priority in bid to avoid sanctions
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Human trafficking to become national priority in bid to avoid sanctions The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The suppression of human trafficking will be made a national priority on Friday to avoid the risk of Thailand being downgraded under an international protocol against trafficking, Deputy Prime…
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Man arrested over alleged killing of 2-year-old stepson
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Man arrested over alleged killing of 2-year-old stepson The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A man was arrested yesterday for violently assaulting his two-year-old stepson, who later died of his injuries in Klong Sam Wa district. The incident was caught by a surveillance camera. Former truck…
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Yingluck defends record on human trafficking, fishing ‘slaves’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Yingluck defends record on human trafficking, fishing ‘slaves’ The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday defended her administration after Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha claimed that it did nothing to solve human trafficking or forced labour on trawlers. Yingluck posted a…
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PM mulls alternative to martial law
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community PM mulls alternative to martial law The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said yesterday he was thinking of replacing martial law with other laws including giving himself “absolute power”. “I have been thinking [that] for a long time,” PM Prayut pointed…
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Slain insurgents were plotting attacks: Isoc
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Slain insurgents were plotting attacks: Isoc The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Following Wednesday’s operation in which four suspected insurgents were killed and 22 others arrested in Pattani’s Thung Yang Dang district, the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc)’s 4th Region Front Command yesterday told the press…
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Human trafficking to carry death penalty
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Human trafficking to carry death penalty The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Parliament voted overwhelmingly yesterday to introduce harsher punishments for human traffickers, including life imprisonment and the death penalty in cases where their victims had died. The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) voted to amend the…
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PM fumes over report on slave trawlers
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community PM fumes over report on slave trawlers The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday warned a journalist from Channel 3 to speak to officials before spreading news about Thais forced to work on trawlers near Indonesia to avoid damaging exports of…
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Hired gunman confesses to slaying revered monk
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Hired gunman confesses to slaying revered monk The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police have arrested a janitor who allegedly was hired to kill the revered monk from Udon Thani who was found shot dead this month. They also named a junior policeman as an accomplice…
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Bangkok governor takes the blame for flash floods
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Bangkok governor takes the blame for flash floods The Nation/ Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Fuming from the public and social media griping over the flash flood that paralysed much of the capital on Tuesday, Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra yesterday confessed to failing to take precautionary measures like…
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Abhisit wants Anupong, Thawil to testify
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Abhisit wants Anupong, Thawil to testify The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday petitioned the NACC (National Anti-Corruption Commission) to question two more witnesses with key roles in the deadly 2010 crackdown on protesters when he was prime minister. The two…
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‘Kamnan Sia’ and wife get 11 years jail for seizing state land
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community ‘Kamnan Sia’ and wife get 11 years jail for seizing state land The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Former Democrat Party candidate Pracha “Kamnan Sia” Phophiphit and his wife were yesterday sentenced to 11 years jail for seizing state land. They had encroached on a large…
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