News from Thailand – Sunday, May 3, 2015
This page contains a selection from the Thai news. We include headlines from major news sources including: Bangkok Post, The Nation, ThaiPBS, MCOT, etc., as well as some regional newspapers such as Phuket Gazette and Pattaya One. Behind the news items is a web link, when you click on it you can read the full article at the English source.
News from Thailand, including:
– Military must lower state lot prices
– At least 800 refugees in death camp Songkhla
– Budget airline NokScoot in heavy weather
THE NATION
The Nation opens on Sunday with an article about the prices of a state lottery ticket in Thailand. A lot should cost 80 baht, but resellers sometimes ask prices between 90 and 120 baht. After the coup, Prayut promised to put an end to lottery prize cheating. The prime minister has now used Article 44 of the interim constitution to put things in order. For example, he fired the board of the Government Lottery Office. The chairman had already resigned because he had not succeeded in bringing the price structurally to 80 baht. Prayut has now assigned Apiratch Kongsompong, a military man, to do the job. The major general immediately announced that sellers who charge too much can expect strict measures: http://goo.gl/5nAqjF
BANGKOK POST
Bangkok Post opens with the refugee drama in the 'death camp' in Songkhla near a camp on the border with Myanmar. 26 bodies have now been excavated from shallow graves. Two teenagers found near the camp stated that at least XNUMX refugees were staying in the camp. They stayed there for eight months and were detained because they could not pay the ransom. The two have stated that many refugees were mistreated and abused by the traffickers who set up the camp. The camp leadership consisted of eight Rohingya and Malaysians. The exhumed bodies will be buried in Ban Phru (Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province) after autopsy and DNA testing. Searches are underway for other survivors in the area. Human Rights Watch wants an independent investigation in cooperation with the UN: http://goo.gl/taAG3V
OTHER NEWS
The budget airline NokScoot is not doing well. According to sources, the airline is losing two million baht per day. NokScoot is a joint venture of Nok Air (Thailand) and Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines. The airline wants to fly to Japan and South Korea in August. NokScoot is affected by the ban on expanding the number of scheduled and charter flights from Bangkok previously imposed by the International Aviation Commission (ICAO) because Thailand does not meet certain safety requirements. A planned route extension from Bangkok-Nanjing cannot go ahead because China has not granted the required permits. Japan, South Korea and China do not want to increase the number of charter flights from Thai airlines due to the warning from the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization: http://goo.gl/TODkt4
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How busy we are to check the price of a state lottery ticket for the poorest in society.
That is the highest priority in society. Purchasing such a lot is already more than 80 Bht through the middlemen and therefore the criminals. No, we deal with the sleaze who ask for 100 Bht.
Cheapest solution right?
Cor van Kampen.
The sale of those lottery tickets will drop drastically if the sellers can no longer earn anything from them.
But is that so bad?
De bedoeling is dat de 7 eleven keten de loten zal gaan verkopen, dat is althans de bedoeling, maar goed.
De loterij verkopers zitten dan zonder werk, en dat zijn er heel veel, wat is de optie voor deze mensen dan?
Heeft de regering wel goed nagedacht over de stroom werklozen.
Maakt de prijs gunstig, zo dat de verkoper er ook nog een rijstkorrel mee kan verdienen.