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More flooding is on the way, experts warn
News, Published on 26/01/2012
» Thailand remains at risk of more flooding this year mainly because the level of water stored in major dams is higher than this time last year, a seminar on flood risks was told.
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Locals live in fear of annual fireworks terror
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 26/01/2012
» The annual Chinese New Year celebrations in downtown Suphan Buri, including spectacular fireworks displays, have given residents reasons to be nervous.
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Speed is of the essence with rail services
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 18/02/2012
» Speed is of the essence, goes an old saying, and Thailand certainly could use some in both its much-maligned railway service and a decision by the government to get bullet trains burning up the tracks.
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A mercenary's tale
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 06/05/2012
» Peter Slade was once in prison for five years on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit another murder and attempting to overthrow a foreign government _ partly a victim, he says, of a corrupt Australian judicial system. He fought in the Vietnam War, was a security contractor in 1973 Rhodesia, a debt collector at home in Melbourne and as far afield as Nigeria, and arrived in reconstruction-era Cambodia and Iraq without connections but a desire to start anew, in stints that would last some seven years each. He witnessed first-hand the Bangkok coup that killed journalists Neil Davis and Bill Latch in 1985 and was on the beach in Patong the morning the tsunami struck Phuket in 2004.
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Locals fear impact of new mosque
News, Published on 15/05/2012
» An ongoing protest against the construction of a mosque in the midst of a Buddhist community looks set to succeed in aborting the project.
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Chinatown temple fight far from over
News, Published on 19/05/2012
» Bangkok's Chinatown residents are taking at face value the promises of a modern developer not to debase the sanctity of an ancient and revered temple which shares an adjoining wall with an old building now under renovation.
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Cabinet OKs clean-up plan
News, Manop Thip-Osod, Published on 20/06/2012
» The cabinet has agreed with a comprehensive plan to help clean up pollution in the Map Ta Phut area in Rayong.
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Curbs on development urged
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 29/06/2012
» Thailand should curb its industrial development as it has ruined the country's natural resources and environment, environmental advocates say.
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Thais in Syria 'safe', students fleeing home
Published on 25/07/2012
» The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday confirmed that all Thai nationals living in Syria were safe and the ministry was in the process bringing some of them home.
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Curfew planned for deep South
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/08/2012
» Authorities are planning to impose a curfew in the deep South to curb the escalating violence, amid mounting concerns over the impact it is having on the region's economy.
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