Phuket land in 'critical' shape

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Island accounts for 30% of encroachment

Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 00.00
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PHUKET : More than 12,000 rai of public land and forest reserve has been illegally encroached on nationwide, says the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

The situation in Phuket is the most critical in the country, accounting for 30% of encroachment on public land, a NACC member said.

The agency has partly solved the problem of public land encroachment in many areas, Vicha Mahakun told an anti-corruption forum on the resort island yesterday.

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wantmyony
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Discussion 17 : 12 Jul 2012 at 16.2917
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coruption from the top official as they too would like to steal public land for their own use, just look at how many politicians and their families encoached on public land even land belonging to the King. If a member of Privy council could do it why not the rest of lower rank and foreigners. The clean up must come from the top not bottom ups.
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Discussion 16 : 12 Jul 2012 at 16.1916
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Nasa could have told them and supplied the photographs as evidence you do not need the "expensive equipment"Oh sorry they have upset Nasa so may be the photos will not be free after all.Even more sinister could this be one of the many reasons government did not want Nasa to get involved.
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Discussion 15 : 12 Jul 2012 at 13.2015
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Greed over morals once again .
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Discussion 14 : 12 Jul 2012 at 12.3114
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A good start would be at Bangtao Beach, a real nice one with a very ugly huge restaurant directly on the beach, just built into the sand. It is for sure not legal, this ugly piece is there since years, get rid of it its a showcase for corruption.
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Discussion 13 : 12 Jul 2012 at 12.2913
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If land is confiscated, a good portion will likely wind up owned or controlled by VIP's. Incidentally, isn't all of Phi Phi islands 'Forestry Land'? Are there any Chanod there? If not, every business there is illegally sited.
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Discussion 12 : 12 Jul 2012 at 09.5912
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The budget at 1-2 billion baht? Survey equipment has been around for a long time and you pick up a GPS device for next to nothing, in fact it is probably in their smart phones already. This smells of budget "allocation" along with the usual "land distribution".
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Discussion 11 : 12 Jul 2012 at 09.5711
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Why don't they start with the government officials that approve and forge the documents? After all if they didn't approve it on paper, very little land encroachment would have happened.
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Discussion 10 : 12 Jul 2012 at 09.5110
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alot of illegal land which suppose to be for other use is indirectly owned by local elite and local government officals phuket like other province is full of corruption its a disease a cancer that is part of everyday life in this kingdom and will never be eradiated contrary to been seen to tackle these land issues
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Discussion 9 : 12 Jul 2012 at 09.259
NACC? Do they have guts? Been here many years but never heard high ranking official been prosecuted...thought thailand has 0 corruption except TS
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Discussion 8 : 12 Jul 2012 at 09.118
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To much money involved, they had tried to clean it up for 20 years, but so much corruption it is difficult !
Only way to make it happend, is to make clear maps and make them piblic, so all can see who had been stealing public land, then the pressure will ne to strong to that they can not push charges !
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