| Matichon - May 24, 2005 * Thaksin is confident the events at Khao Praviharn at the border will not continue. The Sri Saket governor and the Cambodian officers have talked and understand the situation and informed Hun Sen, the PM of Cambodia, already. This area is developed to be a tourism point. Meanwhile, the Thai envoy has checked and there is no pessimistic news in the Phnom Penh media. He is confused how the news that a Thai soldier shot Cambodian people came out. |
* May 23 - The heavy rain on May 22 made hundreds of thousands tons of stone from a mountain collapse on Wat Tam Khao Jeen Theerapradit in Satun Province. Only trees and one monk’s house was damaged and no one was there, but the monks had to move away from the area. Meanwhile the Satun governor ordered the officers to survey the caves and mountain where there are communities to check for safety as it may happen again during the rainy season. |
| Thairath - May 24, 2005 |
* May 23 - The Thai Health Promotion Foundation revealed the the Thai Health report for 2005. One of the surveys is “Thai Society and Rape.“ It found that the index of sex crimes against women increases 35% in 8 years compared to 1997 when there were 3,741 cases. In 2004 were 5,052 cases. It is expected that only 5% of incidents are reported. There are lots of crimes not reported to the police. |
| Matichon - May 26, 2005 * Dr. Suchai Charoenrattanakul, Public Health Minister, pointed that cigarettes cause 36 harmful diseases and killed 130,000 people per day. Smoking causes death to Thai people which averages 142 people per day or 6 people per hour. It planned to extend the control area in schools, public parks, and temples. Meanwhile, Dr. Thawat Suntraporn, Director General of Disease Control Department, warns that the shops selling cigarettes with no warning pictures to remove the packs and put the new ones with warning pictures instead. |
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Thairath - May 26, 2005 |
| More on Thaksin at Wat Phra Kaew - May 27, 2005 |