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Former Pheu Thai MP on B11mn fraud charge
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Former Pheu Thai MP on B11mn fraud charge The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Former Pheu Thai Party MP Chaowarin Latthasaksiri was arrested yesterday for allegedly trying to cheat a Cambodian firm out of 11 million baht. Immigration Police arrested Chaowarin at Suvarnabhumi Airport at noon,…
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Police accused of kidnap, Bt2m ransom from Korean gambling ring
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Police accused of kidnap, Bt2m ransom from Korean gambling ring The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Seven police officers will be summoned to explain their role over allegations that they demanded Bt2 million from South Koreans who have illegally operated online gambling services. Investigators are also…
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Rohingya woman dead, dozens of children among 98 trafficking victims
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Rohingya woman dead, dozens of children among 98 trafficking victims Reuters / The Nation PHUKET: One woman was found dead in the back of one of five vehicles being used to traffick 98 Rohingya through Phang Nga, north of Phuket, and were intercepted by police in…
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Rows over energy issues heat up
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Rows over energy issues heat up The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Several energy issues are threatening to trigger serious conflicts between the government and communities this year. Just as activists, conservationists and local communities have expressed their firm intention to protect their environment from potentially…
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Stateless children make plea for Thai nationality, rights
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Stateless children make plea for Thai nationality, rights Phuket Gazette / The Nation PHUKET: As New Year and National Children’s Day gifts, homeless and migrant children in Thailand are asking for Thai nationality and basic rights. Kaloh Ma-yeur, a 21-year-old freshman at Loei Rajabhat University, recalled…
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Thai charter clause to prevent media domination
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Charter clause to prevent media domination The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The new constitution will have a clause that is designed to prevent investor domination over media businesses through hostile takeovers, a member of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) said yesterday. The move follows the…
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Actress ‘Pinky’ questioned by police, cleared in B1.5bn embezzlement case
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Actress ‘Pinky’ questioned by police, cleared in B1.5bn embezzlement case The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Actress Savika “Pinky” Chaiyadej yesterday told police that she didn’t know Kittisak Mattujad, who is believed to be a key person in the Bt1.5-billion embezzlement from the King Mongkut Institute…
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Fifty-nine Bangkok police station chiefs face transfer
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Fifty-nine Bangkok police station chiefs face transfer The nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The planned transfers of a large number of police-station chiefs in Bangkok, accused of benefiting from the unlawful display of electronic advertising signboards, went closer to final approval when the Police Commission yesterday…
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Police seeking stolen Misiem Yipintsoi sculpture
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Police seeking stolen Misiem Yipintsoi sculpture The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Misiem Yipintsoi’s last unfinished sculpture – Coy Girl (1988) – has gone missing from the private Misiem’s Sculpture Museum in Nakhon Pathom province. “It was stolen on December 26. Displayed at the garden along…
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Police corruption scandal: DSI agent sacked, faces charges; 2 others face probes
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Police corruption scandal: DSI agent sacked, faces charges; 2 others face probes The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Two Department of Special Investigation agents face disciplinary probes after initial findings showed they were involved in the contraband petrol trade in the far South, associated with racketeering…
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Fugitive bomber Singh arrested, faces extradition
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Fugitive bomber Singh arrested, faces extradition The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Thai Police have arrested a Pakistani passport holder convicted of involvement in a high-profile bomb attack in India two decades ago that killed 18 people, including the Punjab chief minister at the time, Beant…
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Man rescued after falling off cliff in Prachuap
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Man rescued after falling off cliff in Prachuap The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A Thai tourist was rescued yesterday after plunging off a cliff in a national park in Prachuap Khiri Khan province and being stuck there for 18 hours. Khao Ta Mong Lai Forestry…
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Police deem Frenchman hanged on Koh Tao a suicide
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Police deem Frenchman hanged on Koh Tao a suicide The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police are treating the death of a 29-year old Frenchman found hanged with his hands tied behind his back on Koh Tao, in Surat Thani, on Thursday as suicide. The incident…
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Daughter warned of suicide before family found poisoned, children hanged
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Daughter warned of suicide before family found poisoned, children hanged The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The former wife of a man who was found dead with four members of his family in a rented house in Bangkok’s Thon Buri district on New Year’s Eve told…
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128 killed in accidents over first two days of New Year
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community 128 killed over first two days of New Year The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The first two of the New Year period’s “seven dangerous days” have seen 128 people killed and 1,158 others injured in 1,133 accidents nationwide, the Road Safety Center said yesterday. Phetchabun,…
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Two flights report problems, turn back to Bangkok
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Two flights report problems, turn back to Bangkok The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A domestic flight of Thai AirAsia – and a long haul Bangkok-London flight of Thai Airways International – both made emergency landings yesterday due to technical problems. Thai AirAsia’s flight FD3254 departed…
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NRC votes for Andaman coast to be listed as World Heritage Site
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community NRC votes for Andaman coast to be listed as World Heritage Site The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A National Reform Council panel on natural resources and the environment yesterday agreed to push for a vast marine conservation site in the Andaman Sea to be recognized…
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Websites with lese majeste content to be shut down
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Websites with lese majeste content to be shut down The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) intends to shut down all websites carrying lese majeste content by the year-end, according to its secretary-general Takorn Tantasith. If websites violate Article 112…
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Four police linked to online gambling gang surrender
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Four police linked to online gambling gang surrender The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Four commissioned policemen yesterday turned themselves in to face charges related to claims they took bribes from an online gambling organisation. A gambling network allegedly run by Abubakar bin Sulaiman is said…
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People flock to beaches to honour 2004 tsunami victims
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community People flock to beaches to honour 2004 tsunami victims The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: One decade on, people gathered at various seaside spots in tsunami-hit provinces to remember those who perished in the deadly waves. Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of the tsunami that killed…
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PM Prayut gives officials three months to show results
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community PM Prayut gives officials three months to show results The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-ocha said he would give civil servants three months to deliver work results as per government policy and those found to be slacking would be “dealt with”.…
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Former police officer jailed for offering bribe to Constitutional Court judge
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Former police officer jailed for 3 years for offering 30 million baht bribe to Constitutional Court judge The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Criminal Court today jailed former Tambon Phokaew police chief Col Charnchai Netiratthakarn for three years for offering a bribe of 30 million…
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Two arrested over B1.6bn university embezzlement
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Two arrested over B1.6bn university embezzlement The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Following the arrest yesterday of two suspects for allegedly embezzling some 1.6 billion baht from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Lat Krabang (KMITL), the institute said a committee had been working over the past…
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Legal aid fund ‘needs a boost’: Justice Minister
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Legal aid fund ‘needs a boost’: Justice Minister The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A State Justice Fund needs to be boosted and made easier to access so that poor people who face legal charges get equal access to bail, Justice Minister Gen Paiboon Khumchaya said…
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Local bodies awash with graft, PACC says
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Local bodies awash with graft, PACC says The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Many of the 8,000 local administrative bodies nationwide are hotbeds of graft and corruption, the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission said yesterday. Prayong Preeyajit, chief of the PACC, said there was little oversight for…
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Police corruption scandal: Pongpat, 5 others face dishonourable discharges
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Police corruption scandal: Pongpat, 5 others face dishonourable discharges The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Former Central Investigation Bureau commissioner Pol Lt Gen Pongpat Chayaphan and five officers accused of racketeering and intimidation are to be dishonourably discharged after being found guilty of severe malfeasance by…
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Norwegian tourist dies after hit by boat propeller off Koh Tao
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Norwegian tourist dies after hit by boat propeller off Koh Tao The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A Norwegian tourist was fatally injured by a boat propeller while diving off Koh Tao in Surat Thani’s Koh Pha Ngan district yesterday. The 22-year-old tourist, Silje Fauskerud Mathisen,…
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Army flood-relief helicopter crashes in Yala
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Army flood-relief helicopter crashes in Yala The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: An Army helicopter flying flood-relief missions crashed in Yala yesterday, injuring the four crewmen on board. The helicopter, from the Royal Thai Army’s Region 4 base in the South, crashed in Yala’s Muang district…
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Warrants issued for police over links to online gambling
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Warrants issued for police over links to online gambling The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Arrest warrants have been issued for three suspects, including two police, in connection with an online gambling organization allegedly run by an Indian businessman with ties to disgraced and now-arrested former…
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Govt seeks help over fugitives
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Govt seeks help over fugitives The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Royal Thai Government will try to convince other countries not to allow Thai fugitives to engage in anti-government activities, particularly those who commit lese majeste, Foreign Ministry spokesman Sek Wannamethee said yesterday. He said…
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