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Prayut promises to exercise absolute power ‘constructively’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Prayut promises to exercise absolute power ‘constructively’ The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday promised to exercise his powers under Article 44 of the provisional charter “in a constructive manner” – an apparent bid to allay concerns over a new order…
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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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Democracy activist arrested, charged with violating junta’s order
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Democracy activist arrested, charged with violating junta’s order The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Pro-democracy activist Pansak Srithep was arrested early yesterday and charged with three offences, including violating the order of the military’s ruling National Council for Peace and Order forbidding political gatherings of more…
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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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Govt rejects Amnesty allegations on torture
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Govt rejects Amnesty allegations on torture The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Foreign Ministry will defend the government against allegations that suspects behind grenade attacks were tortured while in military custody. It will also explain while the country remains under martial law, PM’s Office deputy…
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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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Bangkok’s dummy police to go ‘smart’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Dummy police to catch traffic offenders next month The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Starting next month, dummy traffic officers on some of Bangkok’s roads will officially become “smart”, as they will be able to catch violators red-handed via a newly introduced tech system. The so-called…
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Crackdown on human trafficking, slave fishing fleet
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Crackdown on human trafficking, slave fishing fleet The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Thailand is cracking down on human trafficking in the fisheries industry under a 180-day international protocol, Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan said yesterday. He said illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, dubbed…
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Nation Group to sue NBTC over hostile takeover bid
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Nation Group to sue NBTC over hostile takeover bid The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Nation Multimedia Group (NMG) will petition the Administrative Court against three members of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission’s broadcasting committee for alleged dereliction of duty in deciding the legitimacy…
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Russians and Iranians nabbed in drug raids
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Russians and Iranians nabbed in drug raids The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A Russian and three Iranians have been arrested along with 496.52 grams of crystal meth worth 1.5 million baht in Bang Lamung district in Chon Buri and Phaya Thai in Bangkok, the Police…
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Cabinet meet in Hua Hin to go ahead, despite explosives found
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Cabinet meet in Hua Hin to go ahead, despite explosives found The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The mobile Cabinet meeting scheduled on Friday and Saturday in Prachuap Khiri Khan will go ahead despite the discovery of explosives and assault rifle ammunition about three kilometers from…
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Death sentence for man who had his family killed
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Death sentence for man who had his family killed The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Bangkok’s Thon Buri Criminal Court yesterday handed down the death sentence to 23-year-old Kittinan Homchong, after finding him guilty of hiring killers to murder his parents and older brother in 2014.…
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Ex-princess’ family members get five-year jail terms
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ex-princess’ family members get five-year jail terms The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Three relatives of the former Princess Srirasm were given five-and-a-half-year prison terms yesterday for abduction, intimidation and lese majeste – crimes associated with a racketeering gang led by disgraced former crime-buster Maj Gen…
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Supreme Court to try Yingluck in rice case
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Supreme Court to try Yingluck in rice case The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders yesterday ordered former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to stand trial on May 19 on charges of alleged negligence in failing to stop corruption…
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Claims of torture over court attack materialize
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Claims of torture over court attack materialize The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police will have doctors to re-examine four of the suspects allegedly involved in the hand-grenade attack on the Criminal Court following allegations of physical assault and torture to obtain confessions. Police spokesperson Lt…
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No figures on civilians being tried by military court
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community No figures on civilians being tried by military court The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: At the heart of the fierce debate over whether civilians should face a military tribunal under martial law is the mystery and disagreement on the exact number of civilians who are…
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Woman held over court attack may be key operative
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Woman held over court attack may be key operative The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police believe a suspect arrested for her alleged role in the March 7 hand-grenade attack on the Criminal Court is a key operative coordinating with a high-profile US-based suspect who has…
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Stop hiring relatives, NRC members told
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Stop hiring relatives, NRC members told The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The National Reform Council has instructed its members to terminate the employment of their relatives after it was revealed that 12 NRC members had hired family members to work for them, Wanchai Sornsiri, spokesman…
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Iranian arrested as DSI busts fake-passport syndicate
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Iranian arrested as DSI busts fake-passport syndicate The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) yesterday arrested an Iranian as it cracked down on a syndicate engaged in making fake passports, and possibly linked to international human trafficking. S Rafil Bonda, a…
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Boonsong, 20 others indicted over rice deals
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Boonsong, 20 others indicted over rice deals The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and 20 others were indicted by the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) yesterday in the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders for alleged wrongdoing over “fake…
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Immigration police round up foreign fugitives
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Immigration police round up foreign fugitives The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Immigration Police have rounded up four foreign fugitives – three Americans wanted for fraud and theft, and a Finn sought for child sexual abuse – as well as a clutch of Somalis. Immigration Bureau…
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Haze worsens with highest ever reading at Doi Saket
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Haze worsens with highest ever reading at Doi Saket The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The haze in Northern Thailand worsened yesterday with Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket district reporting the highest amount of particulate matter (PM10) at 369 micrograms per cubic meter of air. This was…
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We will try to cut use of military courts: Prayut
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community We will try to cut use of military courts: Prayut The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: IN reaction to growing opposition, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said yesterday he would try to reduce the use of military courts for trials involving civilians held under martial law…
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Underboob selfies ban brings threat of jail
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Underboob selfies ban brings threat of jail Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Thailand’s military government warned women on Monday against posting ‘selfie’ photos of the lower half of their breasts – a social media trend that has gone viral – saying their actions could violate the…
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Mastermind of court attack reportedly in Australia
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Mastermind of court attack reportedly in Australia The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police will seek the extradition of a man suspected of masterminding the hand-grenade attack on the Criminal Court last week, who is also wanted for allegedly committing lese majeste and failing to report…
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