Slain man's family vows police protest
Chon Buri: The family of a man beaten to death by a gang of loan sharks has threatened to stage a protest outside Nong Prue police station if there is no progress in the investigation.
Woraprapa Hopet, 30, said the family will parade the coffin containing the body of her father, Jaran Hopet, 67, around the station three times to shame the police if investigators cannot tell them whether they have made progress in the case.
Jaran was attacked and critically injured in his home in Bang Lamung district by several men on Sept 25. The family immediately filed a police complaint.
He later died in hospital on Nov 4.
Cops nab man on most wanted list
crime: A suspected gunman on the police's most wanted list has been arrested in Tha Yang district of Phetchaburi, according to the Crime Suppression Division.
Chatchai Rodsawat, 24, was wanted on a court-approved warrant on charges of premeditated murder, firearms possession and shooting a firearm in public.
Mr Chatchai is accused of joining about 10 other people in shooting up a tattooist shop in Soi Taksin 44 in Thon Buri district of Bangkok in July last year. The shooting left one person dead.
Mr Chatchai was ranked at 166th on the police's most wanted list.
Police said Mr Chatchai denied the charges.
Kasetsart struggles with Asean terms
EDUCATION: Kasetsart University wants to reinstate the old terms once used and conforming to the academic calendar followed by universities in other Asean countries.
Kasetsart's acting rector, Jongrak Watcharaphonrat, said the university council is looking to move the start of the first term in the next academic year from July to the beginning of November. The second term will last from December through to April.
This is in contrast to the current arrangement, which conforms to Asean's university calendar year where the first term runs from August to the beginning of December and the second term from January to May.
However, this change is not final. The issue will need to be discussed with the Council of University Presidents of Thailand (CUPT). If the CUPT insists on sticking to the current format, the university will try to look at ways around it, Mr Jongrak said.
Members demand funeral fund redress
BURI RAM: People are demanding a criminal investigation into an association which reneged on its obligation by refusing to pay the funeral costs of its members.
About 300 people petitioned the Damrongtham centre in Buri Ram, alleging the association owed the heirs of its deceased members money to the tune of over three million baht.
The members contributed money monthly to the association, which is contractually obliged to pay for the funeral of their members upon their deaths. However, the association has stopped footing the funeral bills for more than 100 members in the past two years.
Surachet Phothong and Rampong Prachumdee, who are among the complainants, said they learned the association was planning to dissolve itself. If so, the contributions of living members should be returned in full, they said.
Tea shop sold 'ya ice' behind counter
Songkhla: Police yesterday apprehended Suthaphat Promsuth, a 29-year-old tea shop owner in Hat Yai district for allegedly selling amphetamine, or ya ice behind the counter.
Eight 38.75-gramme bags of amphetamine and paraphernalia including a digital scale were also confiscated from the tea shop named "Chan Pan", which means "Sharing Tea".
Ms Suthaphat immediately confessed. She said she had a lot of debt and that her friend had advised her to sell drugs. The friend, nicknamed "Ek", supplied the drugs that Ms Suthaphat sold.
Although she hid a package of amphetamine with her grandmother, Ms Suthaphat insisted her family members were not involved.