2 students read news without clothes.

The Delimail Newspaper of England, published on Feb 06 that a male and a female students of Cambrigde University made an exciting event by reading news through the education channel of the university, without clothes, because the male wore only glasses and the female had only stickers of the channel for cover her mammaes. That became the most popular clip in YOUTUBE.

They reasoned for their behavior that they wanted other students who got stress from their lesson to feel relax. The polices of Cambridge said they would not arrest the students, but they reminded that if any people petition about this case, they must invite the students for interrogation. For the headmaster of Cambridge University, they avoided to comment about this case.

I think this is an interesting news, so I choosed this news to wrote in my blog. I agree that this is a relaxant and joking news, not shameless news. I do not want Thai people to follow that behavior, but I just think that they were right that they think that the lesson for students in nowadays is too serious.

2 years old with 41.5 KG. of weight.

This is a photo of Pangyar, a chinese 2 years old chubby girl, who has the weight of body about 41.5 kg.

Pangyar born in Yuncheng, Shansie, a stage in the north of China. Her parents very worried about her health, because any doctors can not specify the cause of her adiposity. However,the doctors insisted that her health was fine, and she can eat any food as same as other childeren.

The liasion from the west of the world associate the case of Pangyar with the growth u of the economy of China, because they found that 60 million Chinese people become adiposity during 2535-2545 after there were more branches of Fast-Food in China.

I think that this news could be an example for most people around the world who like to get Fast-Food. As we know in our heart that Fast-Food is not good for our health, but it still is the most popular kind of food of the world. Then this could show that the most people around the world work heavily in nowadays, so taking Fast-Food can help them to save the time.

35000 trucks of red-shirt mob from Korat.

According to Khaosod Newspaper reported, the leaders of red-shirt mob proclaimed that they will come from Korat to assemble at the Pan-Fah brigde by 35000 local trucks with a large stage, and they will be there until their group get the victory. Then they said that they need the people in Bangkok to understand and endure with the traffic problem, because their behavior will be the benifit of our country. While the assistant of Minister Apisit Vechacheeva also prepared to mobilize digging trucks. He reminded the group that the local trucks are not be allowed to get out their own provinces.



All that, everything will be happen because of phoning in to the group of Korat, from Mr.Thaksin that he said he need Thai people to overthrow the government, and he is ready to became the minister of Thailand again.

In my opinion, this shew clearly about the selfishness and avarice of Mr.Thaksin, and I think that most people in Korat might not understand and agree with my opinion, because according to the education of Thailand, the most people in the northeast of Thailand have not get the good education since long time ago, so they might be influenced easily especially from who are crafty like Mr.Thaksin.

Hi5, DANGEROUS LIAISON

Today, in the morning, I read some news from the website of Khaosod newspaper. That made me found a news that I think it was very interesting news, especially for teenagers, because this news happened from communication by Hi5 which is very popular for teenagers in nowadys. This event happened in the evening of yesterday, at Nakhonpathom, not too far from Mahidol University where I am attending.



An owner of a famous beauty shop was killed by her boyfriend who did she knew from Hi5. From the investigation of polices, they met each others via Hi5 and and kept contact each others for a moment, before she invited the man to live with her at her home or the beauty shop.

They lived together for about 2 months. In the evening of yesterday, the man tried to steal some assests from her room, but she reached and saw him, so they had a brawl, before the man took a knife to stab her. Then he got some precious things and rode a motorcycle to flee.

I think that this event could show about the danger of technology, so teenagers should be careful about communicate with strangers via the online liaisons. Also, parents should look after their own children, and teach or suggest them about the advantages and disadvantages of anything.

Poisoning effect of love and jealousy

In the morning while I was going to university, I listened a news from the radio that the taxi-driver turned on. It was the news about an murderous event that happened at about 12.30 am of March1.

A polices team of Samutprakarn found a lady's corpse in a jungle at Bangpoo, Samutprakarn. They concluded that she dead because her head was hit by the stones which were beside her body and still marked with her blood. The polices also found many wounds on her body and a crack on her head.

From the polices's detection, she was killed by her real female aunt, because she was the paramour of her aunt's husband. Her aunt lied to take her from home, and hired two ablebodied man for attack her and finally, her aunt used stones to hit her head extremely for many times until she dead, and leaf her corpse over there. Polices went to the aunt's homes, but they did not find her. They guessed that she might escape to another province for shelter.

For me, this was a shameful event that somebody injured and killed own relative insensately because of that reason. Actually, it was not difficult to behave own position, and did not fault about that relationship.

A dozen of children

Here is 12 puppies when they were absorbing the milk from their mom's udders at a home in Beijing, the capital of China.

Following the government of China issued a new law in the last January, for stop eating the meat of dogs and cats, which were the expensive menus in China, because that was curelty animals. However, eating the meat of dogs and cats still been widespread behavior in China and also in some of other countries.

I desire extremely that the government issued the law, because dogs and cats are cute animals which appropriate to be pets, or family animals, more than being the animals for eating of humans. In the past, most people in China needed to eat the meat of dogs because of poorness, but they still keep eating them in nowadays because of familiarity, so they should strict about this.

Damage from earthquake in Chile

From the tragedy of earthquake in Chile, on Feb 21, which was the most violent earthquake wihin 50 years ago, many houses and buildings got damage severely. And the earthquake ignited Zunami to the bank of Chile and other bank of the countries which closed the Pacific Ocean.

According to the local radio station, almost 100% of bulidings in KonCepCiAong, a city in the centre of Chile, were broken. ALso, the clause from the broken of walls could be the exit for some prisonors from the prison of the city. At the moment, the special operating agencies have been rushing to help about 100 people who still were in the wreckage. Then another team of operating agency found 13 corpses from the wreckage in Santiargo, the capital of Chile.

From the event, the ministry of foreign of Thailand already communicated with the Thai embassy in Chile that they could contact with all of 60 Thais over there. All of them were secure from the harm, and nobody of them submit the request to come back to Thailand yet.

After the verdict

From verdict that the court ordered to seize 4.6 billion baht from 7.6 billion baht of Mr.Thaksin Shinawatra's assets, The court explained that the money will be transfer to the asset of Thailand, however, Thaksin still contradicted that the verdict was unfair.

Today, Thaksin phoned in from his homstay at Dubai to Puea-Thai Party headquarters. He swore to many audiences's face that if he made corruption when he held the position of the prime minister, he wished he meet with something untoward within 7 days.

Also, red-shirt supporters of him gathered at Puea-Thai Party headquarters, looked glum and cried heavily after the court made the decision and Thaksin phoned in to them.

For me, it is an anoying event of Thailand. I do not want to say who do I support, but Mr.Thaksin always has been insisting that he was pure, because he never made corruption, then he like to help poor people, and develope Thailand to be better, so why he rejected the verdict that his 4.6 billion from all 7.6 billion baht, will become the asset of the country. Also, I want to know extremely that how much he paid to who came to pretend crying in the headquarters, and will they cry heavily like this if their own parents died?

Bombs at Silom and Rama2

At 9.45 pm. of Feb 27, there were two violence events at Silom Road and Rama2 Road of Bangkok. Someone threw a bomb into the Bangkok Bank, Silom Branch, which located opposite WatKak, the best famous temple of the road. That bomb effected the road in front of the bank become a deep hold. A public telophone in front of got damage. The mirror of the bank was broken. A taxi that was park closed the bank lost a wheel in the back side. Then the mirror a new car under Mazda Brand, also was broken.

Police tried to find information from people who were around there until they knew that two men wore black clothes, rode a motorcycle and parked in front of the bank. And the man in the back side of the motorcycle threw the bomb to the gate of the bank. Then they rushed to drive for escape suddenly when the bomb started to explode.

And the another scene, there was the same event at the Bangkok Bank, Rama2 Branch.

The King of Thailand got off from hospital

At 8.50 pm. of Feb 27, The King Bhumiphol got off Siriraj hospital.

The King wore a pink suit and black shoes. Then the King led Mr.Thongdang while waving his hand and smiling to many people who went to wait the time that the King would come out from the hospital. They felt very happy that the King's health was better. Some of them could not stop their own tear because of happiness.

The King prefered to see the river in front of the hospital and the scenery that surround there before went back to the Jitrada-Rahotarn, Dusit Palace.

This was a very good new for Thais, especially when Thailand is during a lot of violence problems at the moment.

Thaksin: I do not accept the verdict

Fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in that he do not accept the verdict, after the court of Thailand considered his case and decided to seize his 46 billoin baht in assets. He thought it was something like he was robbed.

However, the ex-premier called on his supporters to refrain from moving to help him but to use peaceful that means to bring back true democracy and to solve problem of injustice in the country.

The lawyer of Shinawatra family said a team of lawyers is studying to bring the Thaksin assets sezure cause to the international court of justice.

He also stated that Thaksin will definately appeal against the court's ruling, but that details will be disclosed by Thaksin's lawyers who manage this case.

An old man in Veitnam won lottery cost 13 million baht

AFE reported that in Feb 23, a poor farmer in Veitnam who were 97 years old became a famous person around the country, because he won a lotery cost 400,000 dollars or 13.2 million THB.

According to a newspaper of Vietnam, the farmer have been living with his wife.

They were very poor. They knew truely that they should keep this money as best as they can.

However, after he had recieved money cost 13.2 million THB, a lot of his relatives went to request some money from him until the government had to sent a group of public officials to look after and help him and his wife.

Request a lucky number

According to the news of yesterday, many people in Rayong went to the shrine of Mr.Adisak's home that he dedicated a black motorcycle, for request a lottery number.
They trust that the guardian spirit of the shrine will give a number for them as soon as motorcycle speed.

It is normal in Thailand. I always hear the story like this.
Most of Thai people like to buy lotteries and they still believe in bless from scared articles.

Dedicate to shrine

I read the interesting news from Khaosod Newspaper of Feb 22, 2010.

Someone in Rayong, a province of Thailand, took a motorcycle to dedicate for the shrine.

Mr.Adisak Bupphachart, a police of Rayong, change a motorcycle to all black color and sticked the wheels with the floor in front of the shrine, by cerment.

He said that he need the guardian spirit of the shrine to use it as a vehicle substitued a horse or an elephant, because it can move faster.

It was an astonished event that happened in Thailand, by a Thai person.

I think that most people who know the news might like his reason.

Also, I agree with him extremely. I think that it is not ridiculous.

Contrarily, it can be a sample to show that someone still need the god to destroy evil people in the world quickly.

Practice to cope with mob.

The prime minister of Thailand, Mr.Aptsit Vechacheeva, prepared an army including 3,900 of polices and soldiers to practice for cope with the red-shirt mob, because the mob still keep meeting at the moment.

They started to practice heavily at the 11th barrack under control of the deputy prime minister, Mr.Suthep Theaksuwan, on Feb 20, while Mr.Apisit Vechacheeva was imploring the mob to stop violent and accept the decision from the court.

12 injured by Pattani motorcycle-bomb

To begin with an exploded event which just happened in Pattani, there was 12 people who got wound by exploding from a motorcycle which parked on the roadside in front of the central prison of Pattani.

From the evidence, most people thought that the bomb might hidden inside the fuel tank of the motorcycle, but nobody could guess why the terrorist(s) who establish the bomb, needed this event to happened in front of the prison.

According to a lot of evil behaviors from the separatist insurgents in the south of Thailand that had happened for long time continuously, the polices of most provinces in the sourt of Thailand believe that the insurgents still keep making violent events around the area in nowadays, and this event might be one of their behavior also.

Seven indicated for Santika Pub fire

Acoording to the event of fire in Santika Pub on New Year's Eve 2008 which caused 66 people died and many people were injured.
In Wednesday, Febuary 17, the public attorney arraigned 7 people who were the partners of Santika Pub.
But only 4 people of them went to the court in that day.

Most families of people who got damange from that event think that they should show some responsibility to the cases of deaths and injuries, but they did not.
They still insisted with the reason that the fatal blaze happened by the band which was playing in that time.

A counselor of them request a postponement of the indicatement, but the court rejected.

Then the atthorney decided to give other 3 defendants who did not appear in the court, 15 days to report and acknowledge the indicatemant unless they want to the court to send polices to arrest them, and they will be prisoners seddenly.

BRAZEN BANDIT HOTFOOTS IT

Police are searching for a man who politely removed his footwear at a gold shop in Phra-Nakhon-Sri-Ayutthaya, before snatching a 17,000-baht gold necklace and fleeing barefooted.
He grabbed a necklace and ran from the shop. He jumped on to a yellow Honda Wave motorcycle and sped off as a pillion passenger.
This event happened in the time that there was only one woman in the gold shop, because other staffs were at lunch.

It was a bad event in Thailand again. Actually, I think that most of Thai prople might be familiar with any matters like this, because they had happened very offten around Thailand.

In my opinion, I believe that anyone who steal or rob something for change it to money, has no choices to choose. Most or robbers are poor people, and sometime they also need to use money.
According to some Thai dramas, some families are very poor. They have no money to buy food, so someone went to outside to rob something and sell it, then buy food for their own old parents or younger sisters and brothers.

Great packages from two luxurious hotels of Thailand

According to Bangkok Post newspaper and many magazines about tourism, I would like to suggest extremely the fantastic packages from a couple of 5 stars hotels of Thailand.



The first place is Zeavola Resort, PhiPhi Island, Krabi.

Zeavola had offered "Sweet @ Zeavola".

This is a three nights package in a Garden Suite.

The price for this package is only 29,700 baht, including dailybreakfast for 2 persons, internet access, a dinner on the beach, island hopping for 2 hours accompanied be a tour guide, and a choice of either an hour of PhiPhi Lomi, aromatherapy, sport, or foot massage, for both persons.

Then the price will be available until only March 31, 2010.

For more information, call 075-627-000 or send e-mail to reservation@zeavola.com



And the next place where not too far from Bangkok, is Dune HuaHin, Prachuap Khiri Khan.

The package from Dune HuaHin is "Ultimate Romance", a two nights package in a superior room available until Feb 28, 2010.

The price is 7,600 baht during weekdays and 8,600 baht on weekends.

It includes daily breakfast for 2 persons, early chech-in and late check-out until 4 pm, sparkling wine glasses, and WI-FI internet in room.

For more information, call 032-515-051-3 or send e-mail to reservation@dunehuahin.com

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Heart to heart

Naoto Fukasawa, a famous designer of Japan designed a product for the season of love. It called "Twelve in Love".

There are two sizes for both gentlemen and ladies, made from genuine black and leather straps.

You can get more information at http://www.trocaderotime.com

or call 02-677-4500

I think, it is one of best presents for Valentine Day, because the meanings of time and love can be matched each other.

New Year reveller will be pretty in pink

A shopper in Chinatown, Yaowarat selects a pink T-shirt to wear for Chinese New Year celebrations. To avoid political associations, people are being urged to switch to pink from the usual red colour used for the Chinese holiday, because red has become a symbol of social division in the country.
Red is the auspicious colour traditionally worn to usher in Chinese New Year. The campaign to switch to pink has speard confusion among garment sellers and other people planning to join the festivities in Chinatown.

In my opinion, I agree with this change. Red has become to the symbol exactly and it would be confuse surely if people wear red clothes in Chinese New Year. Then another thing, it would be so cool that Thai people would wear pink clothes in Chinese New Year of this year, because the day is also Valentine Day for universal.

Thaksin calls for red-shirt unity

Published: FEB/9/2010 at 01:24 PM

Key leaders of the United front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) should end their conflict with Gen Panlop Pinmanee, a key member of the opposition Puea Thai Party, and army specialist Maj Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol, fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in a tweet.

“There must be unity in the red-shirt people group as a big mission awaits them," Thaksin said in a posting on his Twitter page about 11.20am on Tuesday.

He thanked red-shirts who were worried about the rift within the group and had phoned to ask him to help settle the dispute.

The three core leaders of UDD, Veera Musikhapong, Jatuporn Promphan and Natthawut Saikua, were not happy with the Gen Panlop's announcement of a "people’s army", which was supported by Maj-Gen Khattiya, widely known as Seh Daeng.

Mr. Jatuporn strongly criticised Gen Panlop and Seh Daeng, saying they had created problems for the UDD.

He said the two officers were outsiders, not members of the red-shirt people group.

Coalition parties' projects not dumped

Bangkok Post
Published: FEB/8/2010 at 11:57 AM

There are no plans to scrap any of the Thai Khem Khaeng economic stimulus projects supported by the Democrat Party's coalition partners, Deputy Prime Minister Trairong Suwannakhiri said on Monday.

Mr. Trairong denied rumours that the junior coalition parties plan to boycott projects under the 400-billion-baht loan act if the Democrat-led government cancelled the dustless road project, a favourite of the Bhumijaithai Party.

"The government will consider the projects that are necessary and beneficial, such as the dual track rail system and the irrigation system, but the dustless road project is not a priority since it does not bring in revenue to the country."

"I believe the coalition partners can distinguish between the importance of various projects," the deputy premier overseeing economic matters said.

He said the Budget Bureau and the Department of Internal Trade will determine which projects could have their budgets reduced.

There were no plans at this stage to cancel any projects."The Bank of Thailand is moving in a direction by giving Thai investors more freedom to invest overseas, but it will be two to three months before we see the result," he said.

Thaksin's assets like ly to be seized

Bangkok Post
Published: FEB/06/2010 at 01.33 PM

The 76 billion baht frozen assets of ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra could be seized as the court is being pressured to do so by Thaksin’s rivals, Jaturon Chaisaeng, former acting leader of the dissolved Thai Rak Thai Party, said on Saturday afternoon.

Mr Jaturon claimed that the court is being led to rule against Thaksin by people in the government, the anti-Thaksin People’s Alliance for Democracy and the now defunct Assets Scrutiny Committee.

The opponents of the former prime minister have been trying to mislead the society that there could be unrest if the court ruled not to seize Thaksin’s assets.

He called on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the Democrat-led coalition administration to stop pressuring the court.

Mr Jaturon insisted that his move was not for putting pressure to the court, but he just wants to bring back peace and order in the country.

The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions is scheduled to read its verdict on Feb 26 on whether to seize the 76 billion baht frozen assets of Thaksin and his family.

Pills you can't take

Bangkok Pot
Publish: FEB/04/2010 at 12.00 AM

A requrie that dextromethorphan had aesthetic, not to refer anaesthetic properties, is being blamed for encouraging a schoolgirl to quip down five of the small yellow tablets.

Less than half and hour later, she was among 80 students at Wat-Tha-Phra School who were rushed to hospital yesterday suffering symptoms of drug intoxication.

"A senior student told me the drug had cosmetic properties. It would whiten my face and smoothen my skin" the girl said.

She said she heard about the pill on Monday, Feb 1, but hesitated to tery them. She decided to give them a go when they were offered in her classroom yesterday.

The girls also said the pills were supposed to help the users feel relaxed and enlivened after stressful classes.

"Some people saw vampires or the superheroes they liked after taking the drug" she said.

Another said she took the pills because others did.
"My friends said if we took the drug, we would not feel hurt when anyone hit us" she said.

"Well, I got dizzy." Another student said he took the pills to test the pain-free claim.
"At first, I took three pills and told my friends to hit me. It hurt very badly, so I took four more" he said
"After that, I had shortness of breath and was taken to hospital."

The medical teams ready for Haiti

An advance medical team left for Port-au-Price, the earth-hit capital of Haiti,
on Jan 29 to accumlate information on what medical assistance was neccesary,
Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanavisit said on Feb 1.

The team is led by Pairote Boonsirikhamchai, deputy director-general of the
National Institute for Emergency Medical Service (Nimes). They would report
back to the Public Health and Foreign Afffair ministers.

Mr.Jurin said the Public Health Ministry is ready and willing to provide
medical assistance to Haiti, which was destroied by an earthquake last month.

Three medical teams, including physicians from some haspitals of Saraburi
and Khon Kaen, were now ready to leave for Haiti on Feb 8. The equipment they
take with them would depend on the advance team's report.

Each team will be working in Haiti between for between two weeks and one
months, he said.


Published: Feb 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM
Bangkok Post

Khattiya reports to police

Bangkok Post
Published: 1/FEB/2010 at 01:17 PM


Khattiya Sawasdipol, or Seh Daeng as better known, reported to police on Monday to hear charges against him.

He showed up at the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) to answer charges of possessing war weapons. Police on Jan 21 raided his home in the compound of the 4th Cavalry Battalion in the Kiakkai area of Bangkok and the living quarters of his aide and found war weapons.
Police said they seized an M26 grenade, a .38 calibre pistol and a number of bullets in his house.

The raids followed the grenade attack in the morning of Jan 15 on the offices of army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda at army headquarters on Ratchadamnoen Avenue. Sae Dand has denied involvement in the attack. He has also denied owning the weapons seized in raids on his home, saying that he was framed. He was suspended from work on Jan 5 for violating army regulations. The order was signed by Defence Minister Prawit .
Red-shirts gather at the Crime Suppression Division on Monday to show their support for him.

World best target Prix d'Amerique

Bangkok Post
Published 31/Jan/2010 (01:53 PM)

Eighteen of the world's best trotters take part in the 89th Prix d'Amerique on Sunday, an event founded in 1920 to honour American soldiers fighting in World War I.

French rider Pierre Levesque celebrates before crossing the finish line to win the world's most prestigious trotting race, the 86th Prix d'Amerique, driving Offshore Dream at Vincennes horsetrack near Paris, in January 2007. Eighteen of the world's best trotters take part in the 89th Prix d'Amerique on Sunday, an event founded in 1920 to honour American soldiers fighting in World War I.
Around 40,000 spectators are expected to watch the action unfold at the Paris-Vincennes course here, while millions of dollars are waged worldwide.
"To take part in the Prix d'Amerique, it's a dream. To win it would be the ultimate," said Christian Bigeon who will be in charge of Paris Haufor in Sunday's event.
The speed record for the course is held by Offshore Dream (winner in 2007 and 2008), the horse of Pierre Levesque, who in 2007 set an average speed of 1:12.00.
This year, Levesque will drive Meaulnes du Corta - last year's winner with Franck Nivard - the most successful horse in terms of prize-money having won 2,355,760 euros.
"Meaulnes is very tough, in form and can pull off the double," said Levesque.
Fifth last year, and second in 2008, Swedish entry Opal Viking, driven by Jorma Kontio, is the best hope of the foreign entrants while Dutch hopeful Russel November (driven by Hugo-W-Langeweg Jr) and Ghiaccio Del Nord (Enrico Bellei) are among the leading amateurs.
The prize money for Sunday's race is a million euros, the majority of which goes to the winner.
The Prix d'Amerique will be closely followed in real time throughout the world, from London to Hong Kong, with massive sums of money waged.
In France, the record amount of money bet on the event was 37.9 million euros in 2006.

Bangkok Bank:Finance and the Axis of Evil

By Pooky, this blog economics journalist
Bangkok Bank was started long time ago, by Chin Sophonpanich.
Chin braved a great deal, meaning he is Chinese and back then, Thailand was very anti-Chinese influence in Thailand. That saw Chin escaping Thailand under political pressure-and Bangkok Bank growth, “Mothballed” for many years.
If anyone should have learned a lesson about freedom and prosperity, it should be the Bangkok Bank. But apparently the Bangkok Bank did not learn a thing.
It started with rumors that Bangkok Bank went opening bank accounts to the Yellow Shirt, while they occupied the Thai government House.
That rumor followed the former Bangkok Bank president becoming the Finance Minister of the coup government of 2006. Yes, as rediculous as it seem, a top banker of a top Thai bank-went running the coup government finances.
The Red Shirt, fighting for Democracy and Liberty here in Thailand, got so freaked out by Bangkok Bank’s opening bank accounts in the occupied government house, it started to boycott Bangkok Bank, calling for Red Shirts to “Burn” their Bangkok Bank savings account book.
And many Thais, in deed, burned their Bangkok Bank savings account, after closing their accounts. Look around, member of the Sophonpanich family, is deeply involved with the Democrat Party in Thailand, that is being proped up by the Thai military.
Then it graduated the current Thai Finance Minister, Korn, selecting Bangkok Bank to be a major lender to the massive government borrowing to finance the Thai stimulus-and we are talking billions and billions here.
The picture becomes very clear now, with rumors that member of the Bangkok Bank are somehow involved with a golf course, existing right smack in the middle of a forest, with Prem, the Thai councilor that runs Thailand as a member.
Meanwhile, another major Thai bank, Kasiforn Bank, have seen a family member ditching politics-and resigning from a cabinet position in the current government.
As always, Kasikorn Bank is at the cutting edge in Thailand.

FUTURE IN DOUBT

Front page news of January 29, 2010, is the GT200 bomb detector as Thai military officials
are starting to admit there may be a problem with it. We will get the details in general news.
And we will find out why health authorities suddenly suspended H1N1 flu vaccinations for every pregnant women, in easy Engliah news. Therefore, that means in easy bussiness news, Jon Fernquest looks at how free trade agreements are lowering costs and benefitting some agricultural exporters. Then we will learn why some Chinese students are working to buy fake passports for staying in China. This is a funny and interesting lesson.



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Newzealand: Police identify body found in garage

Police have identified the man who was apparently killed and his body dumped in a New Plymouth garage.
He was 38-year-old Dean Stuart Browne, thought to be from Auckland.
A homicide investigation was launched after Mr Browne's body was discovered in a double garage behind a Drake Street house about 8pm on Friday.
Detective Senior Sergeant Grant Coward said Mr Browne's body appeared to have been in the garage for 12 to 24 hours before being discovered.
Police believed he was killed elsewhere before his body was dumped at the address.
The house was believed to be occupied by a young couple and their three children, who had been unable to help police identify Mr Browne.
About 20 staff, including detectives and scientists, were working on the case.

Martin Luther King Day 2010

Bright Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, site of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day worship, was packed beyond capacity with folding chairs set up in the sanctuary to catch the overflow from the pews, people standing along the back wall and several groups standing outside the main doors.Participants convened at Badcock Furniture Store for the symbolic walk to the church.Robert Malloy, the new NAACP president, told the audience about purchasing used books from the white schools so that he could have texts and how those books were often filled with derogatory comments aimed at African-American children.The retired police chief said that such inequality was one of the reasons he joined the NAACP. He also recalled institutional racism from his time as a patrol officer, where he was directed to rip up tickets he wrote to white people."Now, what's your excuse for not joining this very organization that was instrumental in all of us being able to walk from Badcock?" Malloy said. "Remember, when you walk today, you didn't have to worry about the dogs. You didn't have to worry about the people taking pictures so tomorrow, when you go into your job, they say you are out of work because you marched. You don't have to worry. What you did today was only symbolic because you were walking in other people's steps."Scotland County Chairman J.D. Willis received a standing ovation from his speech on the successes of black politicians in an area that had once been dominated by whites."Thirty years ago, who would have thought Scotland County would have four black members of the school board?" Willis said. "Thirty years ago, who would have thought Laurinburg would have three black councilmen at one time? Thirty years ago, who would have thought Scotland County would have a black chief of police? Thirty years ago, who would have thought Laurinburg would have a black representative working in the state House of Representatives? Who would have ever thought Scotland County would have a county commission with five black members out of seven? Thirty years ago, who would have ever thought Scotland County would have a black sheriff? This is a great accomplishment. This is an accomplishment Scotland County would never have made without blacks and whites coming together."While the group was recognizing the successes of minorities in Scotland County and the contributions of King in the national struggle for equality, the audience also remembered the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.Rev. Garland Pierce collected $561.83 from those in attendance. The money will be contributed to the American Red Cross's efforts to take aid to Haiti.Monday's event was just one of a number of celebrations sponsored by the Scotland County Ministerial Alliance and the Scotland County Branch of the NAACP over the weekend.On Friday, the NAACP Youth Council honored the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the group's 14th annual Martin Luther King Celebration, held at Avinger Auditorium on the campus of St. Andrews College in Laurinburg. The event was the first of the weekend's activities designed to reflect on the past, present and future effects of King's legacy. Audience members experienced a reading of excerpts from King's speeches, music, dramatizations of figures who played key roles in African-American history and culture, and performances by choirs and mime groups. Pastor Darrel "BJ" Gibson was the keynote speaker. "Thank you for the warm welcome, but all glory and honor belongs to Jesus Christ," he said in his opening remarks. "I thought long and hard about what I would talk about tonight as we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; there's not much that hasn't been said about him, but the preacher in me said 'don't forget about Jesus'. And I realized that if not for the Lord, Martin Luther King wouldn't be who he is."Gibson then discussed the greatness inherent in all people, local as well as those more famously known."Why, when we celebrate Black History Month, do we have to look for people nobody knows about?," he said from the podium. "Local people right here in Scotland County are trend makers, too. What happened to honoring people of this county who made possible all the privileges we have today? Martin Luther King said that every man can be great because every man can serve. We don't have to go to New York or to Washington, D.C. to find greatness; we are sitting beside great people right now."Gibson's speech was met with clapping, shouts, and a standing ovation at the finale. Roy Thomas of Laurinburg was perhaps one of those in the audience possessing the "greatness" to which Gibson referred. "I was a corporal in the Marine Corps, serving in Viet Nam when Martin Luther King was assassinated," Thomas said. "When it happened, all of the black Marines were called to the rear, where we were seated before a chaplain who told us the news. We were shocked. People started asking, 'Why are we fighting here in Vietnam after what has happened at home?' There was a lot of tension between the black and white Marines, and some of us thought there was going to be a race war. We were given a cooling off period of about two to three weeks before they sent us back out. When we went back to fighting, things weren't the same, but we had a job to do."Thomas has seen a lot of improvement in the 40 years since King's assassination, he said, but acknowledges that more needs to be done. "Things have changed, but we still have a long way to go," he said. "Nobody knows everything."Other events for the weekend included a Unity Prayer Breakfast at the Highlands, where Pastor Kenneth Blease of Northview Harvest Ministries gave the address. On Sunday evening a Unity Service was held at Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church in Laurinburg. Dr. O.T. McMillan, director of Bureau Evangelism of A.M.E. Zion International, was the keynote speaker.

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