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Undeserving pay rise for lawmakers
09/09/2010 : The fact that the pay rise for senators and MPs was concealed in the Central Fund is enough to suggest that the government is not being honest with the people and is hiding something from them.
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Unexploded bombs raise tensions in Bangkok
09/09/2010 : Police in Thailand defused three unexploded bombs discovered in Bangkok and surrounding suburbs over a matter of hours, one of them in front of a school and one in a shopping mall, they said Thursday.
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3G hopes face new legal hurdle
09/09/2010 : Thailand's hopes for third generation mobile phone services face another potential legal obstacle after CAT Telecom's labour union said it will pressure the company to file a lawsuit with the Administrative Court to stop the auction of 3G licences on Sept 20.
TERRORISM
THAI jet clear after bomb message found in toilet
09/09/2010 : US authorities have cleared a Thai Airways International aircraft which was subject to a bomb hoax to return to Bangkok after they found no evidence of explosives on board.
War of words erupts over Viktor Bout case
09/09/2010 : The house committee on foreign affairs meeting yesterday degenerated into a bitter war of words between Democrat MP Sirichoke Sopha and Puea Thai Party MP Jatuporn Prompan over the Viktor Bout issue.
PLAYFUL PETS
A sad tale of 2 best mates
09/09/2010 : AYUTTHAYA : It was a heart-breaking scene ... Taew, a one-year-old male long-tailed macaque was caressing the face of the lifeless body of Suea, a two-year-old mixed breed dog.
BoT told not to block FDI flow
08/09/2010 : The Bank of Thailand (BoT) should not introduce measures to curb foreign direct investment inflow to the Thai capital market, chairman of the Federation of Thai Capital Market Organisations Paibul Narintarangkul said on Wednesday.
PM asks ministers to visit restive South
08/09/2010 : Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has assigned Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat and Deputy Interior Minister Thavorn Senniam to visit the far South immediately to look into the slayings of teachers in the violence-plagued region.
Sudarat denies forming new party
08/09/2010 : Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, former leader of the dissolved Thai Rak Thai Party, on Wednesday denied a report she is forming a new political party with eight other former TRT executives under a five-year ban from politics.
Flight lands safely in LA after bomb threat
08/09/2010 : Thai Airways flight TG794 en route from Bangkok to Los Angeles had landed safely following a bomb threat, Surapol Isarakura na Ayutthaya, head of crisis management at Thai Airways International, said on Wednesday.
Relief aid rife with graft
08/09/2010 : Corruption plaguing disaster relief projects across the country is costing the state more than 50 million baht, the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission says.
DELINQUENCY
Govt vetoes idea to send violent kids to the South
08/09/2010 : The cabinet has shot down an Education Ministry suggestion to discipline violent students by sending them to the troubled South to do community work.
