About 25,000 inmates to be freed
Over 25,000 inmates nationwide have received a royal pardon and will be released soon, Corrections Department Director-General Wanchai Rujanawong said Tuesday.
A total of 85 inmates on death roll have also received a royal clemency and had their term reduced to life imprisonment, Wanchai said.
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Sornram gets suspended jail term
Popular actor Sornram Theppitak Tuesday got a suspended jail term for killing a woman in a road accident in June.
The court sentenced Sornram to one year and six months in jail and ordered him to pay a fine of Bt10,000 for reckless driving that killed Pitploen Takoma in the night of June 20.
The court suspended the jail term for two years and ordered Sornram to do social works for 48 hours.
Sornram was also ordered to report himself to probation officials four times during the first year.
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Cold spell continues in North, Northeast
The Meteorological Department Tuesday predicted that cold spell will continue in northern and northeastern provinces with the lowest temperature of 5 Celsius degree.
In its daily forecast issued at 4 am, the department said the temperature at mountain tops in northern provinces would be about 5 to 10 degrees.
It said the lowest temperature on the lowland of the region would be 13 degree.
The department said the temperature at mountain tops of northeastern provinces would be between 10 to 15 degree and the lowest temperature on the lowland in the region would be 16 degree.
The lowest temperature in Bangkok would be 23 degree.
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Norman Pajasalmi, leading public relations figure, passes away
Norman Pajasalmi, 48, for many decades one of the leading figures in public relations in Thailand, passed away suddenly on Monday at Bumrungrad Hospital after a long illness.
Pajasalmi was a fluent Thai speaker and colourful raconteur with a huge appreciation and affection for the land of his birth, Thailand. He was the only son of Esko and Anja Pajasalmi who came to the kingdom in the late 1950s as missionaries from their native Finland and never left.
Esko Pajasalmi opted to go into business in the 1960s and founded Presko, Thailand's first full-service PR consultancy. It served for many years as the flagship for the industry in the kingdom.
After Presko was taken over in the early 1990s by Britain's Shandwick plc, at the time the world's largest independent PR group, father and son stayed on as chairman and joint managing director respectively.
Esko passed away in 2000 not long after retiring. By then his son Norman had moved on from Shandwick to pursue other business interests, which included establishing a new PR consultancy, PR & Associates, with longtime colleague and Presko veteran Sakchai Ruangkittikul.
Norman is survived by his mother Anja, his former wife Lan and their son Pol.
[For details of memorial arrangements after a private family cremation, please contact Khun Siriwan on 026518989}
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Suspected insurgent arrested in Narathiwat
Narathiwat - A suspected insurgent was arrested in this southern border province Monday morning, police said.
Mama Sohtima, 32, was arrested at his house in Moo 4 village in Tambon Tohdeng of Narathiwat's Sungai Padi district by about 100 soldiers and police who laid a siege around his house at 6 am.
The authorities seized a .38 revolver from his house.
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Khon Kaen University to confer honorary veterinary degree on His Majesty
The Khon Kaen University Council has voted unanimously to confer the honorary veterinary degree on His Majesty the King for his contribution to animal treatment, a vice rector said Monday.
Assoc Prof Kulthida Thuamsuk, vice rector of Khon Kaen University, said the council saw that His Majesty had contributed to veterinary through many projects apart from providing proper care for his own pets.
His Majesty also has mercy for stray and injured animals, she said.
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8 Narathiwat districts announced flood disaster zone
Narathiwat - The Narathiwat provincial administration Monday announced its eight districts as disaster zone following heavy flooding.
Narathiwat governor Karan Supakitwilekarn said the eight districts had been severely affected by flooding.
They are Waeng, Sungai Kolok, Sukhirin, Si Sa Khon, Chanae, Ragnae, Sungai Padi and Rusoh districts.
He said 11,146 families in 102 villages in 30 tambon of the eight districts were affected.
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Heavy rains predicted in South
The Meteorological Department Monday warned residents of southern provinces to brace themselves for possible heavy rains because of a power monsoon wind.
In its morning forecast issued at 4 am, the department said provinces down from Surat Thani could see heavy downpours because of the northeast monsoon over the South and lower party of the Gulf of Thailand.
The department also predicted cold spell in northern and northeastern provinces.
It said the temperature on mountains in northern provinces would be about 5 to 10 Celsius degree while the lowest temperature in the lowland of the region would be about 15 degree.
It said the temperature at mountain tops in northeastern provinces would be about 10 to 15 Celsius degree and the lowest temperature in the lowland of the region would be 18 degree.
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PPP did not distribute VCDs: Surapong
People Power Party secretary-general Surapong Suebwonglee said Sunday that video clips of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on a video CD distributed in northeastern provinces were shot before the election royal decree was enacted.
But Surapong claimed that his party had nothing to do with the distribution of the video CDs.
Surapong was defending the PPP a day after Election Commission chairman Apichart Sukhagganond said the EC would Tuesday launch an investigation into the distribution of the video CDs.
The video CDs contain several clips of Thaksin speaking with his supporters and in one clip, he urged voters to vote for the PPP.
Surapong said since the clips were shot before the activation of the election process by the decree's enactment, there should be nothing wrong with Thaksin's speeches.
"But the PPP has no knowledge about the distribution of the video CDs. I can affirm that we have done nothing illegal," Surapong said.
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Sonthi calls on Thais in Singapore to elect royalists
Singapore - Deputy Prime Minister Sonthi Boonyaratglin Sunday called on Thai voters in this city-state to elect good politicians who do not buy votes and who are loyal to the Royal Family.
Sonthi was speaking to a a group of Thai workers in the East Coast area as part of his campaign against vote buying.
Sonthi told the gathering of Thai workers that over 6,600 of them have registered to cast vote in advance as expatriates.
Sonthi said about 20,000 Thais are working legally in the city-state and the Thais in Singapore made the biggest group of Thai expatriates to register to cast vote in advance. About 70,000 Thai expatriates in 65 countries have registered to vote in advance.
Sonthi told the workers that they should vote for good and honest politicians who also loyal to the Royal Family because there were ongoing attempts to discredit the "institution we love".
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Urgent: "Big" of D2B band dies Sunday morning
Parnrawat Kittikorncharoen or Big of D2B band died Sunday morning after being coma for four years, doctors announced.
Parnrawat has been in coma following a road accident four years ago after bacteria destroyed his brain.
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Ballots cast by Thai expatriates to reach kingdom on Dec 18
The vote casting by Thai expatriates in 65 countries will conclude on December 16 and their ballots will reach Thailand on December 18, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.
Chet Thirapattana, deputy director-general of the Department of the Consular Affairs, said the advance voting by Thai expatriates has been carried out from December 3 without any problem.
Thai expatriates could cast their vote at 172 polling stations in 90 cities of 65 countries, he said.
He said his department would continue campaigning for Thai expatriates to vote until the last day on December 16.
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Over 100 Thai women file for divorce with foreign husbands in Khon Kaen in 3 months
Khon Kaen - A total of 142 divorce cases were sent to the Khon Kaen Civil Court in just three months, most of them involving with Thai women seeking divorce from their western husbands, a senior judge said Saturday.
Patikorn Khonpipit, chief justice of the Juvenile and Family Court in Khon Kaen, said the divorce cases reached the court during July 1 to September 30.
He said most of the cases were filed by Thai women who wanted to get divorce from their foreign husbands.
The judge said Khon Kaen was one of the provinces with a lot of Thai women getting married with foreigners and many of them became disillusioned later so they filed for divorce.
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Too soon to talk about national unity Govt: Abhisit
Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjjajiva said Saturday that it was too soon to talk about the government of national unity as proposed by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Abhisit said the proposal would cause public confusion as the people would doubt why the election was needed if all political parties would become partners of the next government.
The Democrat leader said the political atmosphere could be reconciliatory without the need of a national unity government if all parties refrained from mud-slinging campaigns during the run-up to the election.
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Alleged 7-Eleven robber arrested
Police have arrested a man for allegedly robbing four 7-Eleven shops in Bangkok late last month, a source said.
The man was arrested at his rented room at the Leo Mansion on Soi Onnuj 44 near the four shops.
The police source would not give further details, saying the Metropolitan Police Bureau would hold a press conference to announce the details Saturday.
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