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  • Flight lands safely in LA after bomb threat
    Thai Airways flight TG794 en route from Bangkok to Los Angeles had landed safely following a bomb threat, Surapol Isarakura na Ayutthaya, head of crisis management at Thai Airways International, said on Wednesday.

  • Govt vetoes idea to send violent kids to the South
    The cabinet has shot down an Education Ministry suggestion to discipline violent students by sending them to the troubled South to do community work.

  • Relief aid rife with graft
    Corruption plaguing disaster relief projects across the country is costing the state more than 50 million baht, the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission says.

  • Schools closed in South danger spots
    The Three Border Provinces Teachers Federation has resolved to close all 465 schools in red zones and high-risk areas in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat for three days.

  • No laughing matter
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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.