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Thailand dodges US sanctions over human trafficking
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Relief as US opts against sanctions The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Thailand yesterday welcomed US President Barack Obama’s decision not to impose sanctions against the Kingdom over its failure to combat human trafficking, assuring it would continue to work hard to improve its performance in…
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Koh Tao Murders: Police seek help from FBI on DNA
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Police seek help from FBI on DNA The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police will request help from the United States’ Federation Bureau of Investigation to test semen found in the body of a female British backpacker brutally murdered on the resort island of Koh Tao…
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Hunt for Koh Tao killers stalls
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Hunt for Koh Tao killers stalls The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police are confident that their investigation and the evidence obtained will help them catch the killers of the two British backpackers who were bludgeoned to death on Monday on the resort island of Koh…
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Prayuth apologises for bikini remark after global outcry
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Prayuth apologises for bikini remark after global outcry The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday apologized for his bikini remarks in the face of an international outcry. Britain raised concerns after the junta leader suggested tourists in bikinis could be more vulnerable…
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DNA test clears British suspect from Koh Tao murders
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community DNA test clears British suspect from Koh Tao murders The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A Briton questioned over the murder of two countrymen on Koh Tao on Sunday did not match DNA found on the female victim, police confirmed today. The man, Chrtstopher Alan Ware,…
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Six arrested over rival student street slayings
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Six arrested over rival student street slayings The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Six students are facing the charge of premeditated murder for fatally shooting three students from a rival college to take “revenge for a female friend” who was killed last month. This case provides…
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Man who hanged 2 dogs named amid online furore
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Man who hanged 2 dogs named amid online furore The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police have identified a man who allegedly killed his two pet dogs by hanging them from a petrol station’s garage roof beam in Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district on Tuesday and…
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Cabinet members required to declare assets by Oct 3
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Cabinet members required to declare assets by Oct 3 The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Members of the new Cabinet are required to declare their assets and liabilities by October 3 – 30 days after having been sworn in on September 4, Worawit Sukboon, deputy secretary-general…
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British backpacker arrested for Koh Tao murders
PHUKET: Surat Thani Police have arrested a British tourist suspected to be involved in the murders of fellow Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao late Sunday night, reported Thai news agency PBS. Police named the suspect as Christopher Alanvare, said the report (click here). Mr Alanvare was arrested after resort employees reported seeing him walking near the…
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Income tax to drop
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Income tax to drop The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Cabinet yesterday approved the reduction of personal income tax to 5-35 per cent from 10-37 per cent, while corporate income tax has been set at 20 per cent of net profit. Government spokesman Yongyuth Mayalarp…
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Myanmar suspects of British tourists’ murder released
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Myanmar suspects of British tourists’ murder released The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police last night ruled out three Myanmar workers being involved in the murder of two British tourists, as the government appeared to call into question the “behaviour” of the victims themselves. The bodies…
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Three suspects questioned about murder of British tourists on Koh Tao
PHUKET: Three Myanmar workers were detained on Tuesday to be questioned about the murder of two Britons on Koh Tao, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said today. The bodies of David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, were found early Monday morning with severe head wounds. A bloody hoe was found 35 meters from the murder scene. Police will question…
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Workers injured in Rayong building collapse
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Workers injured in Rayong building collapse The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A commercial building under construction in Rayong province partially collapsed yesterday, injuring four workers. General Jatuwat Khingbualung, head of Klaeng district police, said a concrete balcony of the two-storey commercial building collapsed and fell…
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Govt warned of ‘fishy’ deals, like microphones for the Cabinet
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Govt warned of ‘fishy’ deals, like microphones for the Cabinet The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Almost half the local leaders from 600 communities surveyed by Master Poll wanted the government to cancel a plan to buy 89 high-tech microphones for the Cabinet room that cost…
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‘Men in black’ arrested
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community ‘Men in black’ arrested The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police have arrested four men and one woman in connection with the killings of several soldiers in Bangkok, including Colonel Romklao Thuvatham, during the political unrest in 2010, and are hunting for two more suspects. Romklao…
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Dutch national quarantined for suspected Ebola
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Dutch national quarantined for suspected Ebola The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Public Health Ministry has quarantined a 52-year-old Dutch national, who had high fever after returning from a business trip to Ebola-hit Nigeria, said Dr Sophon Mekthon, director general of the Disease Control Department.…
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Price of Cabinet audio slashed to just B53mn after public outcry
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Price of Cabinet audio slashed after public outcry The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Following a public and media outcry, the price of 89 microphones intended for communication in the Cabinet meeting room at Government House has been reduced by 35 per cent. Monthon Sudprasert, director…
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Man boards Chiang Mai plane with fake gun
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Man boards Chiang Mai plane with fake gun The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Chiang Mai International Airport has launched an investigation into reports that a passenger managed to board a flight with a fake gun inside his bag. The passenger, flying from Chiang Mai to…
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Governor orders monk’s rescue from coffin
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Governor orders monk’s rescue from coffin The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A renowned monk who was imposing his own death was rescued yesterday from a coffin at the order of the Chaiyaphum governor, who cited humanitarian reasons. Luang Pu Phim, the abbot of Wat Weluwan…
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Shigeta ‘wants 20 babies to run his empire’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Shigeta ‘wants 20 babies to run his empire’ The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Japanese man at the centre of a surrogacy scandal has fathered 12 babies through Thai surrogates because he wants children to take care of his many family businesses, his lawyer has…
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Study exposes scams in stream of stolen cars crossing from M’sia
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Study exposes scams in stream of stolen cars crossing from M’sia The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Sadao border checkpoint in Songkhla sees up to Bt300 billion in border trade per year – but it is also a top entry point for smuggled goods and…
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Guard held for murder of 4-year-old girl in Thon Buri
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Guard held for murder of 4-year-old girl in Thon Buri The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police have arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting and killing a four-year-old girl in Thon Buri in Bangkok. The girl went missing in her neighbourhood on Wednesday and was…
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Sukhothai and Ayutthaya hit hard by floods
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sukhothai and Ayutthaya hit hard by floods The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Flooding in Sukhothai and Ayutthaya remains critical with hundreds of homes inundated, while a flash flood hit Chiang Rai’s Muang and Mae Sai districts yesterday morning. Meanwhile, ML Sukhumbhand Paribatra, who resumed as…
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Customs staff face probe over 500 ‘missing’ cars
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Customs staff face probe over 500 ‘missing’ cars The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Two officials from the Customs Department have been moved to inactive positions pending investigation into their role in the disappearance of some 500 luxury vehicles that went missing from the customs’ bonded…
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Sukhothai fights flood, as barrier on Yom breaks
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sukhothai fights flood, as barrier on Yom breaks The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Floods have wreaked havoc in 25 provinces and claimed eight lives over the past two weeks. Five of the flood-hit provinces – Sukhothai, Nan, Chaiyaphum, Tak and Nakhon Sawan – are still…
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Prayuth assures fair selection of reform council members
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Prayuth assures fair selection of reform council members The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday gave his assurance that members of the National Reform Council (NRC) would be selected fairly and carefully, with none of the candidates being especially favoured because…
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Attorney General declines to prosecute Yingluck – for now
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Attorney General declines to prosecute Yingluck – for now The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Attorney-General’s Office on Thursday decided to set up a joint committee of public prosecutors and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to conduct further investigations into the rice-pledging case against former…
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Surrogate dad Shigeta to see police ‘soon’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Surrogate dad Shigeta to see police ‘soon’ The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The lawyer of Mitsutoki Shigeta, a 24-year-old Japanese man who fathered over a dozen children via surrogate mothers in Thailand, has affirmed Shigeta would give information to police in person soon, an assistant…
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Two top cops among land encroachment suspects
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Two top cops among land encroachment suspects The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: TWO high-level police officers are among suspects involved in alleged land encroachment in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Chong district, a senior Army officer said yesterday. Army Region 2 chief of staff Colonel Sommai Budsaba…
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Attorney-general’s decision on Yingluck corruption charges due today
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Attorney-general’s decision on Yingluck corruption charges due today The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Attorney-General’s Office will decide today whether to prosecute ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra on charges of dereliction of duty for neglecting to act on corruption in the rice-pledging scheme and inflicting damage of…
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