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Big hunt for drug suspect who escaped from police station

  A BIG team of policemen accompanied by their dogs are hunting for a drug suspect who managed to escape from Phanom Thuan police station in Kanchanaburi province two days ago and is still at large, TV Channel 7 said. Pol. Lt. Gen. Thanayuth Wutticharathamrong, commander of the Provincial Police Region 7, and Pol. Maj. […]

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Business

From cassava to Okinawa Purple

By Thai Newsroom Reporters OKINAWA PURPLE has quickly become the highest-priced sweet potatoes grown on parched, rainless farmland in the western region of Thailand which may not be very friendly to other types of subterranean food plants. Given an ex-farm price of no less than 60 baht per kilogramme today, the Okinawa Purple sweet potatoes […]

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British tourist slashed to death in Kanchanaburi, friend badly wounded

  TWO BRITISH men holidaying in Kanchanaburi province were attacked by a Thai man wielding a sickle at 3 a.m. this morning (Jan. 22) as they sat drinking and singing at a rented house with one of them killed and the other seriously wounded, Sanook.com said. The attack took place at the house in Soi […]

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