Industry regulator says it is worried about affect of Bt9-billion deal on competition. The national telecom regulator said yesterday that it would examine whether Telenor’s take-over of United Communication Industry Plc (Ucom) would hurt market competition and consumers.

We need you more than ever, fans tell BBC

The British Foreign Office may be pushing press freedom in Thailand further into the Dark Age by closing down the BBC’s Thai language radio service, fans of the programme have warned. Last week, the BBC World Service Press Office informed The Nation that it would be debating the entire budgeting of all services, including the Thai-language broadcasts, with internal and external stakeholders and they expect reach a conclusion in the autumn.

Six thought to have bird flu

At least six people were suspected yesterday of having bird-flu - and all appear to have been in contact with birds before they fell ill, informed sources said. The first person to be listed was Thongpron Klompanya, 39, in Nakhon Pathom, after two initial lab tests suggested he might have caught the deadly H5N1 virus. He and his wife work on a farm where many ducks died on Sunday.

NWS: ‘Second chance school’

When she was only in grade six, Apinya (not her real name), now 15, was raped by her elder cousin and didn’t realise until the following year that she was pregnant.