Dr Surakiart Sathirathai, Thailand’s candidate as the next UN secretary-general, describes his intense overseas campaigning as a ‘listening tour’. He talks to Nation editor Pana Janviroj.

Businesses move to save energy

The private sector is responding to the government’s energy-saving policy, with companies committing to making changes from within their organisations before promoting the policy to the public.

In Brief: CAMBODIAN-WORKER MURDERS

Man claims from hospital bed that police beat him to get confession

Some good reasons to quit

Smokers who suffer from erectile dysfunction stand a chance of re-covery if they take the advice of the Public Health Ministry and quit smoking.

Wife slices husband’s penis

An enraged woman almost completely severed her husband’s penis with a pair of scissors in Bangkok’s Prawet district yesterday, after the man tried to leave her for his lover.

Teachers get warning letters

Schoolteachers in the deep South have been receiving threats in mysterious notes left outside their homes every morning, warning them to stay away from soldiers and police officers and to refrain from cooperating with them.

Give ethnic Malays a say: senator

Senator and National Reconciliation Commissioner Sophon Supapong yesterday called for the establishment of a centre for ethnic MalayThais in the deep South.

ALTERNATIVE THERAPY: Local hospitals turn to maggots

Imported sterile fly larvae used to treat ulcers, infections and burns

Boy, 15, stabbed to death on city street

A 15-year-old boy was viciously stabbed to death in Bangkok’s Bang Rak district on Saturday night while on his way to visit his grandmother.

Transport fight hits North

More than 2,700 Chiang Mai City songtaew drivers are planning protest rallies and appeals to local authorities and Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on June 11 to stop the granting of overlapping route concessions to new eco-friendly municipal buses.

‘300,000 textile, garment jobs at risk’

Unionists claim that the abolition of international import quotas for textiles and garments and the implementation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade initiatives could result in layoffs for 300,000 of the one million Thai textile and garment workers.

THAI flight turns back

A Bangkok-bound Thai Airways flight yesterday made an unexpected return to Beijing Capital Airport, 30 minutes after taking off from the Chinese capital because of “engine problems”.

AOT ‘given different data on scanners’

A senior executive of the state agency that oversees Suvarnabhumi Airport said yesterday information supplied by its consultants about the CTX bomb scanners was “totally different” from that given to a Senate committee investigating the scandal.

Not enough time for radio checks: NTC

The chairman of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) yesterday claimed the panel could not finish checking the broadcasting power of community radio stations because the time slated by the government was too short.