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Day: October 3, 2024

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House gives green light to arrest Pisal in Tak Bai massacre case

  THE House of Representative today (Oct. 3) gave the go-head to Narathiwat Provincial Court to immediately arrest Gen. Pisal Wattanawongkiri, Pheu Thai’s party-list MP, for not attending a hearing of a lawsuit on the dispersal of a protest at Tak Bai district that led to 85 people dying on Oct. 25, 2004 when he […]

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Chinese loan shark gang busted in Pattaya

  PATTAYA police raided three luxury houses and rounded up approximately 20 Chinese loan sharks lending money to people in their homeland and also operating online gambling websites, TV Channel 7 said late afternoon today (Oct. 3). Pol. Lt. Gen. Chatchai Surachetphong, deputy commander of Provincial Police Region 2, and Pol. Col. Nawin Thirawit, superintendent […]

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Gas leak at inferno bus confirmed : Education panel

  THE Office of Basic Education said today (Oct. 3) it has been confirmed gas leaked at the front of the bus that caught fire killing 23 schoolchildren and teachers while travelling on a field trip last Monday, Naewna newspaper said. Pol. Lt. Gen. Trairong Phiwpaen, the head of the commission, however said it has […]

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Social media mourns heroic boy who died trying to save friends from burning bus

  EVEN AS Thai netizens joined the whole country in mourning the tragic death of 23 mainly kindergarten and primary schoolchildren and teachers in a bus that caught fire on Vibhavadi Rangsit road while on a field trip on Monday (Oct. 1), a special focus is on an heroic young boy who had managed to […]

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