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Dramatic Trang River bank collapse hits homes
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/12/2017
» Many communities in low-lying areas on both sides of the Trang River have been flooded, with some houses nearly submerged, after two riverbanks collapsed Sunday.
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School's stolen wood recovered
News, Yongyuth Phuphuangpet, Published on 04/12/2017
» Police in Kalasin have recovered Siamese rosewood stolen from a school over the weekend.
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Four arrested in meth bust
News, Published on 04/12/2017
» UTTARADIT: Four men were arrested with 40,000 methamphetamine pills in their possession in Tha Pla district early yesterday.
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Back to the war on drugs
News, Editorial, Published on 04/12/2017
» For a while there, it appeared that Thailand and the military regime were preparing to take new steps to update the worn and losing campaign against illicit drugs. Instead, the people in charge of reforming and modifying policies have largely doubled down on the old ones. The losing ways of the country's war on drugs will remain in place and dominate the amended and now patchwork Narcotics Control Bill.
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Report sheds light on Thai sex assaults
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 04/12/2017
» In Thailand and Vietnam, discriminatory attitudes and gender bias in the criminal justice process create barriers to justice that result in a high rate of failure in rape and sexual assault cases, a new UN report finds.
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War crimes justice slow in coming
News, Noah Feldman, Published on 04/12/2017
» The suicide of Croatian war criminal Slobodan Praljak in open court last week was bizarre -- mostly because it felt like something out of another century. Sure, Hermann Goering famously cheated the executioner at Nuremberg by swallowing cyanide. But Praljak wasn't going to be executed, no matter how many innocent civilians he was found guilty of killing. In the highly civilised, highly bureaucratic world of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the worst thing that can happen is a long jail sentence -- like the 20 years awarded to Praljak.
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Suu Kyi should heed Pope's suggestion on UN role
News, Larry Jagan, Published on 04/12/2017
» Pope Francis' visit to Myanmar last week was an overwhelming success and may provide the much needed spark to ignite the government's peace process and its efforts to bring reconciliation to the country's violence-torn western region of Rakhine. The Pope's message was loud and clear: the only way forward for Myanmar was "love and peace", the title used for his visit.
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An Ithaca idyll with Surin Pitsuwan
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 04/12/2017
» During Surin Pitsuwan's visit to Ithaca, New York, this past September, a barbecue party was arranged by long-time family friends who live on the edge of town where the still lush and green rural surroundings could at a glance be mistaken for rural Thailand. Chickens cackled in a nearby coop and birdsong was everywhere in the air.
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A tilted playing field
News, Postbag, Published on 04/12/2017
» Re: "E-business tax to be levied in 2018," (BP, Dec 1).
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Europe calls for excise parity
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 04/12/2017
» The European Association for Business and Commerce (EABC) has asked the Finance Ministry to adhere to the current excise tax structure on cigarettes after recent reports that the levy may be reviewed.
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