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The country’s first air-conditioned bus stop powered by solar energy has attracted many happy commuters since it was officially launched on Thursday at Seacon Square shopping centre in Prawet district of Bangkok.

The ”Sabuy Square” bus stop was jointly launched by Seacon Square, Bangkok Cool Cool Co Ltd and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) under a pilot project as a model for energy conservation and to help preserve the environment. It also helps protect public transport commuters from heat and PM2.5 fine dust particles.

Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt cut the ribbon to officially open the shelter on Thursday. He thanked Seacon for using the innovation for the benefit of the public.

Powered by solar power, Sabuy Square, covering 40 square metres, can accommodate 40 people waiting for buses, taxis and vans. It is equipped with free WiFi, USB charging ports, a drinking water machine, a closed-circuit television camera, an emergency alarm system or a panic bottom to alert police, and a display showing oncoming buses.

People can use the bus stop every day from 6am to 11pm, according to the Seacon Square Facebook page.

Commuters wait for public buses, vans and taxis inside the air-conditioned bus stop. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt tests the emergency alarm system inside the bus stop. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

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The Samosorn Sannibat Ceremony, or the grand state reception, will be held on May 4 to celebrate Coronation Day, according to an announcement by the Cabinet Secretariat.

The announcement, signed on April 21 by cabinet secretary-general Natjaree Ananthasilp, also provided the timeline for all of the royal ceremonies associated with this year’s Coronation Day.

Royal attendance at this year’s ceremony will be cancelled, according to the announcement. This is because Their Majesties the King and Queen plan to attend the coronation ceremony of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey in London on May 6, meaning they will be absent that week as their London schedule runs from May 3-7.

“The cabinet, however, has changed its plan and will hold the Samosorn Sannibat Ceremony on May 4 at the Santi Maitri building at Government House,” said government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri.

Privy Council members, former prime ministers, the president and vice-president of a constitutional organisation, heads of government agencies, cabinet members, the governor of Bangkok, the president of the Bangkok Council, ambassadors in Thailand, heads of major public organisations and other major political figures were invited to the reception, he said.

The ceremony will be televised via the Television Pool of Thailand and Radio of Thailand on the same day, said Mr Anucha.

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After being reported missing from a home in Samut Prakan next year, two men who were employed as brokers for an immigrant labor trafficking gang were discovered dead on Thursday in Nonthaburi with numerous stab wounds.

After being informed at around 4 p.m. on Thursday that two body, wrapped in blankets, had been dumped that, national officers went to the region near Suan Ngam town in tambon Ratniyom of the Sai Noi area.

The cells belonged to Phanphisit Sukdolphat, 24, and Mongkhol Isaman, 23, two missing Thai soldiers.

Mongkhol suffered numerous tongue wounds to his back, while Phanphisit suffered three stab wound to the neck in addition to head injuries. According to the law, their legs and hands were bound with electric wire.

Next year, the two soldiers vanished from a Samut Prakan home.

Officials had attempted to find the two soldiers after family filed missing person reports, according to Pol Col. Mongkhol Onkaew, commander of the Bang Kahew police station in Samut Prakan, on Friday. They claimed that since Mongkhol and Phanphisit vanished from a home in the Bang Phli district’s tambon Rachathewa on April 21, they had not seen them.

Blood stains were discovered on the surfaces of the house after a policeman inspection. A cheap bag inside a room contained bloody clothing and similar items.

On the night of April 21, neighbors officially reported to the law that they heard voices of people pleading for their lifetime. The house’s closed-circuit tv cameras had been harmed by the lower lines.

Police were informed by Phanphisit’s lover, Wanatpreeya Prathumthong, 23, that her partner and friend were employed by a Malay man and his Thai woman who smuggled Myanmar migrants to Thailand and Malaysia.

People who had been brought into the country illegally from Myanmar and taken to a home in Samut Prakan’s King Kaew neighborhood were the responsibility of her partner. The woman claimed that in exchange for taking care of them, he was paid 300 ringgit per head and provided them with food and water. For three or four months, the two soldiers had been employed there.

Eight soldiers from Myanmar were thought to have participated in the murders, according to the previous police investigation. According to Pol Col. Mongkhol, the mob now loaded the body into a car and drove to the location in Nonthaburi where they were dumped.

The investigation also revealed that the eight suspects belonged to a global human trafficking crew, with the Malaysian man serving as its leader. While he was in Malaysia, his Thai family, Nuanchan, worked with other brokers to bring workers there. She had already employed soldiers from Myanmar.

Police say they will start their quest of the defendants even though they believe they have already left the country.

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The first shipment of 78 Thai residents from army – torn Sudan arrived at Bangkok’s Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base on Thursday evening.

The evacuees- 40 women and 38 men- were welcomed by caregiver Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prayut Chan – o – cha, Defence Forces chief Gen Chalermpol Srisawat, Air Force commander ACM Alongkorn Wannarot, Foreign Affairs Minister Don Pramudwinai, Prime Minister’s secretary – public Pirapan Salirathavibhaga, and other big – ranking officials. & nbsp,

Gen Prayut thanked executives from all authorities involved in the elimination activities. The next batch of residents is expected to arrive in Thailand on Saturday.

An Airbus A340 – 500 aircraft transporting the 78 residents departed from King Abdulaziz aircraft in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and arrived at Wing 6 around 10pm. The riders included 73 academics and five leaders from the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Most of the students were studying remedy, Muslim law, and faith in the African land.

There are 132 more Thais awaiting travelling up to Thailand. Of them, the second class of 66, who boarded the Air Force C – 130 from Sudan, had already arrived in Jeddah and met with Thai Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Darm Boontham, and mind of the Air Force’s removal company in Jeddah, Capt Anurak Rommarak. & nbsp,

The second class of 66 residents had come from the Port of Sudan to Jeddah by fleet, with more people actually joining them. The Air Force has carefully coordinated with the Foreign Affairs Ministry to ensure the safe elimination of all Thais.

The Airbus A340 – 500 is expected to return to transport them & nbsp, from Saudi Arabia, and there are two Air Force C – 130s available there.

Caretaker Prime Minister Prayut Chan – o – cha leads senior officers and officials to welcome the Thai evacuees from Sudan at Wing 6 at Bangkok’s Don Muang Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base & nbsp, on Thursday night. ( Photo supplied / Wassana Nanuam )

On Thursday, & nbsp, Syrian fighter jets pounded military posts in Khartoum while terrible fighting and looting flared in Darfur, despite the army and a foe force agreeing to enhance a peace deal.

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SAMUT PRAKAN: On Thursday, 23 unauthorized Myanmar migrant workers and a Chinese soldier who was entering the country on tourist visa were detained by police in the Bang Phli district.

The tip-off that unlawful workers were employed at the location near a bridge over the Paed river prompted the immigration police to conduct the raid.

Most people tried to flee when they saw the soldiers, but 23 of them were caught. According to Pol Col Chinnawut Tangwonglert, the director of the Samut Prakan immigration work, who oversaw the activity, all of them were Myanmar citizens without perform grants.

In order to learn more about the people, the officials questioned a man who appeared to be Thai of Taiwanese origin and was in charge of overseeing building. The man, however, behaved strangely, which led the team to learn that he was a Taiwanese subject by the name of Nibg Shoshi who had come to the country on an official tourist card.

The defendant admitted to working as a construction foreman without authorization during doubting. & nbsp,

The act was brought against him along with the 23 Myanmar citizens. They would be sent back to their various nations after being turned over to the Bang Phli police station for legal action.

The 23 many illegal migrant workers and the Chinese man in the center, who works as a construction foreman improperly, are being detained by police for legal action. Sutthiwit Chayutworakan( picture )

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A flight transporting 78 Thais from Sudan was scheduled to arrive in Bangkok at 10pm last night, the air force said, making them the first group of evacuees to arrive home since the conflict in the North African country began.

Spokesman AVM Prapas Sonjaidee yesterday said an Airbus A340-500 plane and two air force C-130s had already transported a total of 82 Thai nationals from Sudan to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

He said 78 of them were to board the Airbus A340-500 plane back to Thailand, while four planned to stay in Saudi Arabia with their relatives.

Many of the evacuees were tired from the travelling but everyone was in good spirits, he said.

The flight to Thailand would leave at 2pm Thailand time and arrive at Wing 6 at Bangkok’s Don Muang at about 10pm, he added.

The two military aircraft would remain in Jeddah for other Thai evacuees, he said.

Atthapol Sangkavasee, permanent secretary for education, said there were about 220 Thais, including 150 students, in Sudan and all of them were evacuated.

Two more evacuation flights will leave Jeddah for Thailand today, he said.

The Education Ministry is willing to help the students finish their studies at home if they wish, he said.

Most of the students were studying medicine, Islamic law and religion in Sudan, the permanent secretary noted.

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KANCHANABURI: Forty-two job seekers from Myanmar were arrested after illegally crossing the border into Sangkhla Buri district late on Wednesday night, authorities said yesterday.

Soldiers, border patrol police and immigration officers were despatched to tambon Nong Lu following a tip-off that a group of suspicious-looking people had been found in a forested area in Song Kalia village, said Col Thatchadet Arbuarat, deputy commander of the army’s Lat Ya task force, who was alerted at about 10pm.

By the time the officers arrived, there was no one at the scene. The same informant told them that the people had boarded a vehicle headed towards a pier at Wat Wang Wiwekaram in Wang Ka village Moo 2 in tambon Nong Lu.

The team later found the men and women gathered near Vajiralongkorn Dam behind the pier. On seeing the officers, they ran into a nearby forest. All 42 people — 27 men and 15 women — were subsequently caught. All were Myanmar nationals without travel documents.

During questioning, they said that they had travelled from Mandalay, Bago, Yangon and other parts of Myanmar. They entered Thailand via a natural crossing in Sangkhla Buri and were heading to promised jobs in Bangkok, Chon Buri, Phuket, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon and Rayong. Some were promised jobs in Malaysia.

The migrants told officers they had agreed to pay between 20,000 and 30,000 baht each to job brokers. The money was to be paid when they arrived at their destinations.

They were taken for body temperature checks as part of Covid-19 screening. All were normal. They were handed over to police at the Sangkhla Buri station for legal proceedings. Large numbers of migrants continue to cross into Thailand illegally every day from Myanmar, where economic conditions have deteriorated considerably since the military seized power two years ago.

About 80,000 illegal border crossers, the vast majority of them from Myanmar, were estimated to have been caught in 2021. But as many as 100,000 more probably slipped past authorities and were now employed in various parts of the country, say groups that work with migrants.

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The Appeals Court yesterday reversed a lower court’s decision to acquit a suspect charged with lese majeste over remarks deemed offensive to the monarchy.

According to the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, the Appeals Court found the defendant, identified only as Wutthipat, guilty of violating Section 112 of the Criminal Code.

Judges reasoned that his comment on Facebook’s Royalists Marketplace page was offensive to a former king and the current monarch.

The court initially sentenced him to five years in jail, but due to his making a statement useful to the hearing, the court commuted it to three years and four months.

The defendant was released on bail pending an appeal at the Supreme Court.

On June 2, 2020, Mr Wutthipat posted the comment online about the passing of King Ananda Mahidol, or King Rama VIII, in 1946.

On July 19, 2021, Siwaphan Manitkul, a private citizen, filed a police complaint accusing Mr Wutthipat of violating Section 112, as well as the Computer Crime Act.

During the court’s witness hearings on March 1-2 of last year, Mr Wutthipat admitted he had posted the comment and made a reference to King Rama IX, the younger brother of King Rama VIII, though he argued Section 112 did not cover past kings.

The Samut Prakan Provincial Court dismissed the case, reasoning that even though the defendant had posted a comment referencing King Rama IX with offensive remarks, Section 112 only protects the current king, queen, heir to the throne and regent.

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