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January 22, 2011December 6, 2023

Photojournalists face deportation in Thailand

Bangkok, January 21, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the charges and threatened deportation of Thailand-based freelance photojournalists John Sanlin, a Burmese passport holder, and Pascal Schatterman, a Belgian national. “We call on Thai authorities to reconsider the deportation of journalists John Sanlin and Pascal Schatterman and take into consideration the prospect […]

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January 20, 2011December 6, 2023

Thailand closes 18 dive sites to save coral reefs

Eighteen popular diving sites will be closed in Thailand for up to 14 months to allow coral damaged by bleaching to recover. Over 80% of the coral at each diving site had been damaged, National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department chief Sunan Arunnoparat said yesterday. Bleaching, or a whitening of coral as it loses […]

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January 20, 2011December 6, 2023

Brit pensioners start murder fund in Thailand

British pensioners in Thailand have started a murder fund after a court released a Thai wife who allegedly commissioned the death of her London husband and then began to milk his bank accounts. In Hua Hin, 200 miles south west of Bangkok, pensioners Peter Rees, 71, and David Williams, 65, have put £11,000 into a […]

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January 20, 2011December 6, 2023

Closing Thailand’s marine parks ‘won’t save coral’

The National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department will not close all the marine national parks along the Andaman Sea coast to save damaged coral reefs from bleaching. “Closing the marine national parks will not help the coral reefs recover from bleaching,” the Department’s directorgeneral Sunant Arunnopparat said. The Marine and Coastal Resources Department prepared […]

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January 20, 2011December 6, 2023

Thai teens urged to prevent unwanted pregnancy, unsafe sex

BANGKOK, 19 January 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Education is pressing ahead with its campaign to raise awareness about unwanted pregnancy and unsafe sex among teenagers. Speaking upon the launch of the campaign, Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat elaborated that the campaign would educate teenagers aged between 15 and 19 years old to realize the […]

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January 19, 2011December 6, 2023

Tighter Road Safety Measures in Store for Thailand

The transport minister is poised to enforce strict control on the speed limit on highways and regulate school buses across the country in the interest of safety. Transport Minister Sopon Sarum stated he has unveiled two urgent policies on road safety. The policies are in accordance with the Transport Ministry’s mandate to decrease road accidents […]

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January 18, 2011December 6, 2023

Death and illness as cold weather embraces Thailand

The Public Health Ministry confirmed yesterday that at least two people had died in the cold weather – one in Loei and the other in Chiang Rai. “Victims in this category are people who died because they lacked warm clothes and lived in areas declared as being hit by a cold spell,” Public Health Minister […]

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January 18, 2011December 6, 2023

Over 50 Thai girls missing after online chats

A three-day-old baby was a victim of physical abuse last year – and some 56 young girls went missing after online chats with strangers, the most in 11 years. These were some of the disturbing details in an annual report released yesterday by the Paveena Hongsakul Foundation. The foundation received 7,855 complaints, 635 involving rapes […]

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