News from Thailand – January 10, 2015

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News from Thailand – January 10, 2015

The Nation opens today with the message that the Minister of Justice wants the DSI (Thai FBI) ​​to investigate whether The Nation Media group (NMG) has fallen prey to businessmen who, through a share purchase, have weakened its influence on the company and thus to expand the media. NMG employees are seriously concerned about this: http://goo.gl/D0lYG7

– Premium Prayut announces that mobile phone providers may only pay per second from March. This is cheaper for the consumer and prevents providers from making too high a profit on the backs of their customers: http://goo.gl/eXRJ90

– The former Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra says he is innocent of charges of corruption, dereliction of duty and mismanagement. She had a list of arguments against why the rice system of the previous government failed completely. Yingluck nevertheless believed that her government had taken sufficient measures to prevent corruption. She was therefore satisfied with her own performance for the NLA. With this indictment, the NACC wants to ensure that Yingluck is formally deposed and that she can be prosecuted for corruption, among other things: http://goo.gl/L0SiSn

– Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced on Friday that the government will examine the method of selling lottery tickets. According to him, that is the only way to deal with the excessively high price differences of lottery tickets: http://goo.gl/m3bYse

– A watch seller in Pattaya stabbed a Russian tourist (22) because he did not want to buy an imitation brand watch from him. The man suffered a serious wound to his left ribcage. The incident took place at Starbucks at the Central Festival shopping center on Friday night: http://t.co/iRt1y69h6l

– Today January 10 is Childrens Day in Thailand. If you want to give a gift to a Thai child, a tablet computer is the best choice, according to a study by Dusit: http://t.co/ytQSHXlXxE

– In Pattaya, a jet ski rental company (27) was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Swedish tourist (51)/ who mediated in a quarrel between a tenant and the rental company of the jet ski. The landlord wanted the renter to pay for damage to the jet ski, a well-known scam. The Swedish man intervened and suggested that the police be called in, as a result of which the jet ski operator would have attacked him. The incident took place in front of Royal Garden Plaza: http://t.co/nPuVp36LCk

– A Chinese tourist (39) who fell into a coma while swimming near the coast of Mai Pai Island near Phi Phi, died in hospital the next day. The woman had gone swimming after eating and with a full stomach, which according to a doctor is not wise: http://t.co/2KWfnMrFm8

– Three neighbors in Talang (Phuket) were robbed in one night. It concerns two Belgian expats and a Frenchman who live next to each other. The expats have been living there for years, it is a quiet neighborhood so none of them had their house locked. The next morning it was noticed that items and money had been stolen including: cash, debit cards, credit cards, laptop, etc.: http://t.co/qxhbs5Q8NF