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07/09-2010, Klokken: 14:13:00 UTC Picture three groups pitted together in titanic struggle for pride, honour and bragging rights. At the end of a tense, stress-filled hour, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck emerge from their rooms with their hands high, while Goofy can only shake his head and consider what might have been. Australia PM Gillard handed power by independents 07/09-2010, Klokken: 10:56:00 UTC Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard retained power by a tiny, one-seat majority Tuesday after winning the backing of two key independent MPs in the first hung parliament in decades. South schools in red zone close following attacks 07/09-2010, Klokken: 09:46:00 UTC A meeting of the Three Border Provinces Teachers Federation resolves that all 465 government schools in red zones and risk areas of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat be closed for three days, following the slaying of two teachers and a school janitor in the far South. Kasit 'explains' Somkid's rise to Saudi envoy 07/09-2010, Klokken: 09:21:00 UTC Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said on Tuesday he had met Saudi Arabia's charge d'affaires Nabil Ashri and explained the Police Commission's decision to promote Provincial Police Region 5 commander Somkid Boonthanom to the position of assistant national police chief. Boot camp in far South inappropriate for hooligan students 07/09-2010, Klokken: 05:16:00 UTC The idea to send hooligan students to a boot camp in the three southernmost provinces seems emotionally motivated and outlandish. It is also an insult to the locals down there. B167,000 daily fine to be imposed 06/09-2010, Klokken: 17:26:00 UTC The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) will start imposing a daily fine of 166,667 baht on each of the five telecom companies from Friday for failing to offer mobile number portability (MNP) service. AoT president removed from panel 06/09-2010, Klokken: 17:00:00 UTC Airports of Thailand president Serirat Prasutanond has been replaced as chairman of the agency's revenue committee by permanent secretary for the interior Manit Watanasen. Emergency rule casts long shadow 06/09-2010, Klokken: 17:00:00 UTC The long shadow cast by the emergency decree has hung over Thai society for five months since its invocation on April 7, but still the debate rages whether it truly helps curb violence or is itself another problem to be negotiated. Ministry wants violent youth offenders sent to South 06/09-2010, Klokken: 17:00:00 UTC Education officials are proposing that young people who commit acts of violence be sent to the restive South to do community work. New police chief's appointment official 06/09-2010, Klokken: 09:51:00 UTC A royal command announced on Monday confirms Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree as the new national police chief, effective from Sept 2, officially bringing to an end the year-long saga over the appointment. |
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