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Cannes report Festival favourites
After 11 days of hits and misses, of expectations fulfilled and dashed, the 66th Cannes Film Festival will announce the Palme d'Or winner on Sunday. As usual, the guessing games, conspiratorial buzz and swirling rumours descend on the gathering of journalists; for instance, it is believed that Steven Spielberg, who heads the jury this year, is unlikely to award an American film because ...
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Five injured in condo fire in Pathum Thani
Pathum Thai - Five people were injured when a fire broke out at a ten-storey condominium building in Pathum Thani early Sunday. The fire broke out at 5:30 am at the Muang Ek Condo's N 208 buildign in Muang district. The five were injured after inhaling smoke They were rushed to the Rangsit Hospital after fire fighters rescued them form the building. Police said the fire broke out at the ...
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Apple computer from 1976 auctioned for 666000 dollars
Berlin - One of the first computers Apple ever made was auctioned off in Germany on Saturday for 516,000 euros (666,000 dollars). The original Apple 1 computer from 1976 is one of only six in the world known to still be functioning. It was sold to an anonymous buyer in Asia, said Cologne auction house Breker, which sold an Apple I computer for 490,000 euros last year. The Apple I was assembled ...
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Villagers want creek cleaned up before more mines open
A lawyer representing Karen villagers in lower Klity Creek in Kanchanaburi's Thong Pha Phum district, who have suffered lead poisoning since the 1990s, said yesterday the Pollution Control Department (PCD) had ignored a Supreme Administrative Court order to rehabilitate the creek. The lawyer also revealed that the Mineral Resources Department plans to re-open three nearby mines closed since ...
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Rape victims in deep South silenced by state payouts Angkhana
Angkhana Neelaphaijit, a leading rights advocate for Thai Muslims, has voiced concern over continued sexual assaults against Muslim women by security officials stationed in the southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. The widow of abducted lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit, who has been providing legal assistance to Muslim suspects in the three southern border provinces, voiced concerns ...
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Accused aunt denies prostitution charges
The court has allowed police to detain a woman who allegedly lured her 17-year-old niece into prostitution in South Korea. Police did not oppose her release on bail, however, the woman is still in Central Remand Prison, Bang Khen waiting for a bail application, which will be made on Tuesday, Lt-Colonel Chusak Apaipak of the anti-human trafficking police, said yesterday. He said her relatives ...
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Brunei Role In Ending Southern Thai Unrest
Satun, Southern Thailand - Brunei Darussalam could play a role in helping resolve the unrest in Southern Thailand through the dissemination of information via the media to enable the insurgents to come to an understanding with the Thai ...
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5 soldiers killed as rash of bombings hits southern Thailand
Police officers and soldiers in southern Thailand escaped death in bombings Saturday, one day after a bomb killed five military rangers, authorities said. A roadside bomb hit a truck carrying five soldiers in Narathiwat province, the Bangkok Post reported. Police officers in the same province responding to a report of gunshots were ambushed by a bomb but escaped without injury. Other bombings ...
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Invasion of the job snatchers
SACRED SPOT: Phuket’s Wat Chalong is one of the most frequently visited temples on the island. The majority of those arrested in the raid were working as taxi drivers or tour guides. In the past two months raids by local police authorised by the DSI have netted 17 foreign nationals from Russia, Kyrgyzstan and the UK. Yaowapa Piboonpol, chief of the Phuket Provincial Employment Office, ...
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Young monks struggle with gender issues
Though the faith's teachings transcend issues of sexual identity, the monkhood in Thailand is struggling to accept or even come to terms with the truth about the gay and transgender men within its ...
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South hit by more bombs
Thirteen people, including 10 security officers, were wounded in a wave of bomb blasts that struck Yala and Narathiwat provinces Saturday. The attacks happened a day after five military rangers were killed in a bomb attack in Pattani's Sai Buri district. In Yala, a bomb went off about 10.50am between kilometre markers 3 and 4 on Highway 409 (Yala-Ban Niang) in Limud village of Muang ...
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Pheu Thai wont back Chalerm bill
The Pheu Thai Party Saturday criticised the Democrat Party for trying to mislead the public into thinking the government intends to sponsor the unity bill proposed by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung. The ruling party has already resolved to sponsor the draft submitted by Samut Prakan MP Worachai Hema, Anusorn Iamsa-ard, deputy party spokesman, said. The opposition is trying to distort ...
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Five soldiers four police injured in southern attacks
Five soldiers were injured in a roadside bomb attack Saturday in Narathiwat's Reu So district while another roadside bomb in Yala's Yaha district, targeting a bomb squad police car, left four policemen and two civilians wounded. The bombing in Narathiwat occurred at 11am on Tha Reu-Kota Baru Road in Tambon Batong. Police and bomb squad officials rushed to inspect the scene where they ...
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Four policemen injured in Yala bomb attack
At 10.50am Saturday in Yala's Yaha district, a roadside bomb placed in a 30kg gas cylinder hit the bomb squad police car on Yala-Tao Poon Road in Tambon Tha Sap. Investigating police found the wrecked car in the middle of the road along near a three metres wide and one-metre-deep crater while another police van plunged into a roadside ditch. Four policemen were injured in the attack - ...
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Minister must quit over blackout poll
Energy Minister Pongsak Ruktapongpisal must resign to take responsibility for the blackout in all 14 provinces of the South last Tuesday, according to the majority of respondents in an Abac Poll. Of the 2,075 respondents, 55.7 per cent said the energy minister should be held responsible for the embarrassing power outage. They said he must also take responsibility for the damage to electricity ...
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Klity cleanup making little progress
The Pollution Control Department (PCD) is facing increased pressure to prove to villagers around Klity Creek in Kanchanaburi that it is serious about cleaning up the lead-contaminated environment. The Administrative Court on Jan 10 gave the PCD 90 days to propose a plan for screening water quality in Thong Pha Phum district to ensure there is no lead contamination in the environment. One ...
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South Korea edges Thailand to reach seventh Sudirman Cup final
Three-time champion South Korea defeated Thailand 3-1 here on Saturday to reach its seventh Sudirman Cup final.South Korea will meet the winner between defending champion China and Denmark, who will take on each other later Saturday.Thailand, making its debut in the world team badminton championships, lost to South Korea for the second time in five days.On Saturday, South Korean pair Ko Sung ...
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5G tests under way in New York
Tests have begun in New York City of 5G wireless broadband, but it could be 2020 before the lightning-fast technology - at least one gigabit per second - becomes a reality. Engineers from Samsung Electronics are carrying out the tests, according to a report in ...
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UTCC Policy rate cut unlikely
The Bank of Thailand is not likely to reduce its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday even though economic growth has not been as strong as expected, says economist Thanavath Phonvichai. Mr Thanavath's view is at odds with the market consensus that the central bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will trim its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 2.50% this week. The central bank ...
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PM hopes for Japan investment
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she hoped more Japanese investors would take part in the government's infrastructure megaprojects following her visit to Japan. The premier on Friday delivered a speech in Tokyo in which she said the Thai government had listened to the concerns of Japanese investors and was ready to do more to accommodate them. Speaking on Saturday on the ...
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Blasts hit Narathiwat and Yala
Officers inspect the damage to the Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) vehicle after Saturday's bombing in Yala. In another incident, several police officers in Narathiwat narrowly escaped injury when a bomb was detonated after they were lured to the scene to investigate gunshots in the area. More bombings also took place in Yala, as security officials and civilians endured another ...
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Vesak Day in honor of Buddha in Thailand
A Buddhist believer meditates during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at Wat Dharmmakaya in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok on May 24, 2013. ...
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Chit fund scam Sudipta Sen cash trail may lead to Singapore Bangkok
probe to foreign shores. According to sources, FIU may seek the help of the international Egmont Group sharing financial information across member countries to spot money laundering. The Centre had set up the FIU-IND in November 2004, and India is a member of the Egmont Group. The Reserve Bank Of India has already decided to set up a coordination committee to look into the Ponzi and Collective ...
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Google to develop wireless networks in third world
San Francisco - Google is developing wireless internet systems to deploy in south-east Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to give web access to 1 billion more people, according to The Wall Street Journal on Friday. The report said that the internet software giant would team up with local communications companies to develop the wireless networks outside major cities where wired Internet connections are ...
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Chalerm vows Thaksin will be home this year
Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung has vowed to bring ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra home a free man before the New Year. Addressing a red-shirt rally in Udon Thani on Friday, Mr Chalerm defended his reconciliation bill which he hopes will be instrumental in bringing the deposed premier home. "If I fail [to bring Thaksin home] I'll accept sole responsibility. You can behead ...
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Bangkok’s reputation under threat
Bangkok has long-been the site of political instability for the country, but this has rarely escalated into full-scale violence, now as talks between government and protests breakdown, and acts of violence increase, the city faces a difficult situation.
There is currently a days-long standoff between the government and anti-government protestors who claim the present government headed by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajjiva was supported by the military when they came to power fifteen months ago. Read more
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