IN Brief
NAKHON RATCHASIMA :A man was arrested with 275 smuggled gold bars, worth about 10 million baht, on Mitraphap highway on Thursday.
Juttiset Naphatpan, 36, was stopped by highway police at a checkpoint in Khong district for a random search. He was travelling alone in his car.
Police found gold bars, altogether weighing 10 kilogrammes, neatly packed in a plastic bag sealed with a tape, hidden under his seat. He was booked for dodging tax after he could provide no evidence of the purchase.
Police said he later confessed having bought the gold from a broker in Nong Khai for seven million baht and hoped to sell the gold, which he said was smuggled from Vietnam through Laos, to jewellery shops in Bangkok.
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Bank robbery arrest
AYUTTHAYA :A team of 200 police was mobilised yesterday to arrest a suspected robber in Nakhon Luang district who made off with 590,000 baht from the Kasikornbank's Rojana branch in nearby Uthai district on July 3.
A lone robber in a black helmet jumped onto the bank counter after entering the place and aimed a gun at a cashier before grabbing a sackful of cash and making off with it.
The heist took less than five minutes.
Police secured a court warrant for his arrest based on eyewitness accounts.When officers raided his hideout, they found the suspect had already fled. Sommai Samakan, 45, was arrested later in a nearby village with 25 speed pills in his possession.
He was initially charged with drug possession, after denying the robbery charges.
During the house raid, police seized a jacket, a helmet, a toy gun and a motorcycle, which matched the robber's outfit and getaway vehicle as described by witnesses, as evidence, and detained his brother Thani, 23, and a relative named Papanggorn, 30, for questioning.
The three are also suspected of being purse-snatch thieves as purses, many ID and ATM cards and motorcycle licence plates were also confiscated.
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Aging population
GREYING SOCIETY: : Thailand is shifting towards an aging society as a quarter of its population will become senior citizens in the next 22 years, says a report.
The number of senior members of the population, aged over 60, will increase from 11 to 25% while the young population, aged below 15, will decrease from 21.5 to 13.5%, according to Mahidol University's Population and Social Research Institute.
The country's current population, as of July 1, is 63.1 million.
"It is worrying that an elderly population will increase the burden of working age people and this will affect national development in the long run," said Wicharn Meenchainant, deputy public health minister.
In Thailand, at present the birth rate is 0.4 % per year.
However, an imbalance between male and female populations could make the birth rate fall even further, he said.
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Oil smuggling case
ENERGY :Phuket customs authorities yesterday arrested two men on board a fishing vessel in the Andaman sea for trying to smuggle in 3,000 litres of petrol, worth almost 700,000 baht, for sale from Malaysia.
The men, including the ship's captain, were arrested after a tip-off from fishermen.
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