Arrests spark backlash in Rusoh
More than 50 villagers surrounded Rusoh District Police Station in the southernmost province of Narathiwat yesterday, demanding police release four suspects detained earlier in the day in connection with murders and other acts of violence in the region.
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Spend 1-2% on education, Patten says
Lord Christopher Patten, the visiting chancellor from Oxford and Newcastle universities, suggested yesterday that developing countries should spend 1.5-2 per cent of their GDP on education.
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Seripisut set loose on fire-fighting equipment scandal
The Interior Ministry yesterday assigned police inspector-general Seripisut Temiyavej to head a fact-finding committee to dig deeper into the scandal-plagued Bt6.68-billion deal
to procure fire-fighting equipment from Austria.
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Minimum-wage hike gets approval
The Labour Ministry yesterday announ-ced a rise in the minimum wage for blue-collar workers amid speculation the ruling Thai Rak Thai Party had a hidden agenda in the lead-up to the next election.
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BMA opens shop at Siam BTS
Lost your ID card? And find it difficult to get a replacement in office hours?
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Hmong man slain as 'war on drugs' resumes
A special police squad shot dead a Hmong man on Bangkok's Henri Dunant Road late on Wednesday night in the first reported killing in the government's latest drugs crackdown.
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Is the DSI probe still on?
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) should tell the public how much progress it has made in the investigations into the disappearance of human-rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit and the murders of environmentalists Phra Supoj Suvacano and Charoen Wat-aksorn, a human-rights group said yesterday.
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