Prolonged floods in Chiang Mai raise subsidence risk

Due to the region’s two-month floods, experts are warning of feasible landslides and sinking in some areas of Chiang Dao region in Chiang Mai.

After a picture that @j_khamsan uploaded to TikTok on Monday showed water pouring from the ground at various locations in the area, making some roads in the area impossible, the alarm was set off.

The earth in some areas of the Chiang Dao area is made of stone, according to Kritsada Moonpa, a scientist at Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Science, which dissolves when exposed to water for a long period of day.

He claimed that large amounts of land in the area were submerged in water when the storms hit the North two months ago, which caused large caves to form filled with water.

Excess water had permeate through any gaps in the ground when these caves were filled.

The extra water frequently has no other choice because the opaque rock layer underneath the limestone-rich ground dissolves yet more limestone, he said, increasing the risk of land subsidence.

At this stage, it is unclear how significant these underground holes are, but more investigation is needed, the scientist said.

He expressed concern because of the district’s high danger of collapsing according to property collapse.

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Paetongtarn to visit Malaysia to boost ties, trade

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra attends the 10th Ayeyawady - Chao Phraya - Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (Acmecs) Summit, held at Wyndham Grand Plaza Royale Colorful Yunnan Kunming Hotel, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China, on Nov 7, 2024. (Photo: Government House)
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra attends the 10th Ayeyawady- Chao Phraya- Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy ( Acmecs ) Summit, held at Wyndham Grand Plaza Royale Colorful Yunnan Kunming Hotel, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China, on Nov 7, 2024. ( Photo: Government House )

Next month, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra may travel to Malaysia to further bolster ties and promote business while also promoting border security.

After the Malay embassy, Datuk Jojie Samuel finished his farewell visit, deputy prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Thursday that they had discussed issues along the southern boundary that needed more cooperation, as well as measures to increase financial value, transportation, and security.

According to Mr. Anutin, who is also the internal secretary,” Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is scheduled to visit Malaysia in December, and she is assured that border management needs to be discussed so that both nations can benefit.”

In order to facilitate logistics and commerce, Mr. Anutin will also be discussing the development of the following connection bridge over the Sungai Kolok River in Rantau Panjang in Malaysia and the namesake area of Narathiwat province, according to Mr. Anutin.

In related information, Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong led delegations from Thailand, including Lada Phumas, the Thai embassy to Malaysia, Suriyapong Tubtimtae, the institute’s director, and a committee to the” Kuala Lumpur Forum on International Arbitration 2024: The Future of International Arbitration– Reforms and Innovations in Malaysia.”

Thai members joined the community at the offer of Azalina Othman Said, Minister of Malaysian Prime Minister’s Department on Legal and Institute Revolution, who served as the website’s chair.

According to the minister, the aim was to exchange information on effective global arbitration models, create new innovations to help arbitration work, and build networks to enhance arbitration work in the East Asian region.

He spoke with Ms. Said, who also stated that Malaysia is eager to lead mediation efforts in the area and work with Thailand to develop mediation projects in order to prepare for the “digital fairness” era.

Finally, the Minister of Justice and his group met with Tan Sri Dato ‘ Johari Abdul, the Speaker of the Malaysian House of Representatives, at the Malay parliament.

They discussed ways to strengthen cooperation between the Thai and Malaysian governments, such as staff markets, studying congressional designs, building harmony in the southern border regions, and looking after Thai staff in Malaysia, according to Mr Tawee.

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People’s Party submits push to limit Senate’s role

The Democracy Monument in Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, in July 2024. (Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill)
The Democracy Monument in Phra Nakhon area, Bangkok, in July 2024. ( Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill )

According to the House of Representatives ‘ secretariat, one of the constitutional amendment proposals submitted by the People’s Party ( PP ) seeks to outlaw the Senate from the process of changing the Constitution.

According to the House committee, the PP has submitted 17 ideas seeking to amend the constitution part by area.

The important changes to Section 256 that would allow for the creation of a new charter are among the key ideas. A law act act needs the support of at least one-third of the novel 200-member Senate, or 67 legislators, according to the area.

However, the PP has said that the support of two-thirds of Members should be enough, without the need for the Senate’s membership.

Unlike their predecessors, the former lawmakers are no authorised to co-elect a prime minister. They also, however, retain the power to move legislation and modifications to rules and the law.

Additionally, they are authorised to support the nomination of people of separate organizations, constitutional court judges, and attorney-general, as well as regulating the executive branch.

Before the fresh parliament period begins on December 19, House Speaker Wan Muhammad Noor Matha has recently stated that he will meet with the government’s, the opposition’s, and the Senate’s top whip to discuss the process for taking the proposed contract changes into consideration.

Part 106 of the contract, which would help the opposition head to serve as both the House speaker and the House speaker, is another amendment proposal that the PP has made.

Another proposal seeks to alter Section 50, which forbids female Thai people from serving in the military. Conscription, according to the PP, should only be used during wartime.

The Move Forward Party advanced three law article ideas before it was disbanded and reborn as the PP.

Of the three charges, one sought to dismantle Part 279 of the contract, which says all announcements and orders of the now-defunct National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO ) and its chief remain valid and legal.

Another attempted to stop and stop upcoming coups by allowing state officials to defy orders from those who are trying to seize power and preventing judges from applauding a revolution as a means of establishing a legitimate government. The 20-year regional plan was proposed in the most recent bill.

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Trio busted for child trafficking

10-year-old child smuggled in from Myanmar was a’ slaves’ to two defendants, state police

A woman accused of trafficking a 10-year-old girl from Myanmar to work as a “slave” is taken to a police van after she and two other suspects were arrested in Chon Buri on Thursday. (Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham)
After being detained in Chon Buri on Thursday, a woman who is accused of trafficking a 10-year-old girl from Myanmar to work as a” slave” is taken to a police van. ( Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham )

On Thursday, two Thai nationals and a member from Myanmar were detained in Chon Buri on suspicion of making a 10-year-old child their” slave” at work.

Following a court-issued warrant, the police Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division ( ATPD ) and the Chon Buri office of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security carried out the arrests.

The Thai suspects were identified solely as Porntip, 65, and Saman, 50, and the Burmese regional was Naw Tha Tha Yee, according to a police source. They are accused of conspiring to join in human smuggling and child abuse.

The investigation began in February when a 10-year-old child was discovered sleeping in a tomb in Chon Buri, and the arrests came to an end.

The Social Development and Human Security department located the woman after she was discovered with scars and marks on her arms and legs.

The police investigated the situation after officers discovered that she had entered Myanmar fraudulently and had been brought into the country.

Naw Tha Tha Yee registered the woman as her adopted baby in 2022 and made arrangements for her to be smuggled into Thailand via Tak state, according to researchers who discovered that the child had been purchased from her relatives in Myanmar by Naw Tha Tha Yee.

Before being forced to work as a private companion at Mr. Saman’s home in Samut Prakan, the girl was taken to Ms. Porntip’s Chon Buri.

The woman made the decision to run away after telling the government that she frequently was beaten, locked up, and prohibited from eating.

Authorities discovered another woman and evidence that suggests a second girl may have been trafficked into the country when the suspects were being detained.

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US embassy returns Ban Chiang artefacts

Returning to the National Museum as part of a larger campaign to track historical heritage materials

Four Ban Chiang artefacts are put on display in the Issara Vinijchai Throne Hall at the National Museum in Bangkok after they were returned on Thursday from the United States. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)
Four Ban Chiang documents were returned from the United States on Thursday, and they are now on exhibit in the National Museum of Bangkok’s Issara Vinijchai Throne Hall. ( Photo: Apichart Jinakul )

Four 3, 000-year-old Ban Chiang objects were returned on Thursday from the United States to Thailand.

A relocation ceremony was held in Issara Vinijchai Throne Hall at the National Museum in Bangkok to mark International Day against Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property.

The artefacts have been kept at the embassy ever since, according to US Ambassador Robert Godec, who claimed the items were given to an American man in the 1960s as a product from the Thai state. According to him, the items were kept in the ministry’s safe and were kept there for a while, with the consulate just asking for their return.

He said,” This is the right time to return these priceless items to their proper homes.” Especially as the United States government has taken major steps to proactive return social objects from various places to their legitimate owners in recent years.

US Ambassador Robert F Godec, speaks at a ceremony to patriate the artefacts at the National Museum Bangkok’s Issara Vinijchai Throne Hall. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

The Issara Vinijchai Throne Hall, home to US Ambassador Robert Godec, is the site of a festival where the National Museum in Bangkok holds a repatriation service. ( Photo: Apichart Jinakul )

The” Golden Boy,” or standing Shiva, and a standing person from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York were returned to Thailand in May after the relocation. The National Museum currently houses both monuments.

” We hope]these artefacts ] will contribute to the further study and understanding of one of Southeast Asia’s most important prehistoric societies”, Mr Godec said.

The objects, according to Culture Minister Sudawan Wangsuphakijkosol, represent evidence of human settlement in Southeast Asia during the late ancient time, which lasted for about 3, 000 decades. She claimed that the materials ‘ return would strengthen cultural ties and promote mutually beneficial cooperation.

According to Ms. Sudawan,” The United States has been a major supporter of different projects involving the Ban Chiang archaeological site, especially through the 1974 combined excavation and research conducted by the Fine Arts Department and the University of Pennsylvania.”

The research led to the determination of the age of the historic site’s documents, which was later acknowledged internationally.

Phnombootra Chandrajoti, the director-general of the Fine Arts Department, said several objects have been looted and smuggled out of Thailand. To follow their return, a council consisting of members from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Thai Police, and the Fine Arts Department has been established.

The commission is checking whether two ancient Hindu treasures are from Thailand and has just discovered two that are kept in the US. ” Documents are crucial to society and best kept in their motherland”, he added.

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Global diabetes cases far higher than estimates

More than 800 million people affected and some treated, research suggests

A person receives a free blood sugar test during a campaign to mark World Diabetes Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov 14. (Photo: Reuters)
A person is given a complimentary blood glucose test as part of a Nov. 14 plan to commemorate World Diabetes Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh. ( Photo: Reuters )

A new research found that more than 800 million people worldwide have diabetes, which is nearly twice as many as previous estimations had predicted, and that more than half of those over the age of 30 are not receiving treatment.

The authors of the study, which was published in The Lancet, suggest that the rise in diabetes cases has been largely attributable to rising cases in low- and middle-income nations. The global prevalence has increased from around 7 % to 14 % since 1990.

The authors claimed that while there are much more cases, the number of cases treated in those areas has hardly increased while some higher-income nations ‘ conditions have improved, opening the treatment gap.

In 2022, there were around 828 million people aged 18 years and older with type 1 and type 2 diabetes international, the investigation found. Among people aged 30 years and older, 445 million, or 59 % of them, were not receiving cure, the authors said.

The World Health Organization has recently estimated that about 422 million people have diabetes, a chronic physiological disorder involving blood sugar levels, which can damage the heart, blood vessels, emotions and other tissues if neglected.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director-general, said in a statement that the surge documented in the investigation was disturbing.

” To take the world diabetes epidemic under control, states must immediately get motion”, he said, including with guidelines supporting healthier diets and physical activity, as well as health systems that can prevent, detect and treat the condition.

In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, just 5-10 % of those estimated to have diabetes were getting care, said Jean Claude Mbanya, professor at the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon. Treating insulin, either with insulin or pharmaceuticals, can be costly.

” A huge number (are ) at risk of serious health complications”, he said.

The creators claim that the study, which was conducted by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration and the WHO, is the first worldwide analysis to contain costs and care projections for all nations. It is based on more than 1, 000 experiments involving more than 140 million people.

High fasting blood glucose levels and higher glycated hemoglobin, both of which are common diagnostic tests for the problem, were included in the definition of diabetes, as well as taking diabetes medication.

The authors claimed that both tests were used to reduce prices in some places around the world, especially South Asia, where fasting plasma glucose only caused cases to decline.

Although the investigation was unable to distinguish between type 1 and type 2 circumstances, the writers claimed that obesity and poor diet have contributed to the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in people. &nbsp,

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Pattani motorcycle bomb injures 5 police officers

A six-wheel truck carrying five border patrol police was damaged when a motorcycle bomb went off on a bridge in Yaring district of Pattani on Thursday afternoon. The five officers were injured. (Photo supplied/Abdullah Benjakat)
A scooter bomb went off on a gate in the Yaring city of Pattani on Thursday evening, damaging a six-wheel vehicle carrying five frontier police officers. The five soldiers were injured. ( Photo supplied/Abdullah Benjakat )

In the southern province of Yaring, a bicycle bomb went off as their vehicle drove over a gate, injuring five border patrol officers on Thursday evening.

The weapon, which was hidden in the motorcycle on the Tanyong Dalor gate in the Yaring area, detonated when the 446th border patrol unit’s five officers passed the six-wheel vehicle, according to Pol Col Theerapot Yindee, the Yaring authorities station’s chief, who was called at 2.40pm.

All five officers officers were hurt by the explosion’s power.

Pol Snr Sgt Maj Preecha Khotnane, the driver of the vehicle, suffered debris wounds to his head and face. The four people, Pol Lt. Winai Chaichanasongkhram, Pol Snr. Maj. Anon Laemae, Pol Cpl. Kittiphum Morakot, and Pol Cpl. Muhammad Musordee, experienced neck pain and ringing in their ovaries. They were all taken to Yaring clinics.

According to police investigators, the attack may have been connected to the continuing unrest in the southern region.

A motorcycle bomb explodes on Tanyong Dalor bridge in Yaring district, Pattani.

On Thursday afternoon in the Yaring city of Pattani, the motorcycle bomb’s wreckage can be seen on the Tanyong Dalor gate. ( Photo supplied/Abdullah Benjakat )

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Policeman drowns while chasing drug suspect

Pol L/C Sitthipong Kanta, 22. (Photo: Phrae reporters)
Pol L/C Sitthipong Kanta, 22. ( Photo: Phrae reporters )

During a pursuit of a drug-suspect in a valley, a 22-year-old police officer was discovered dying from drowning.

On Wednesday, on 2 p.m., the tragedy occurred. Officials from the Sa-Iap place were inspecting a viaduct over a valley in Song area, where they found a 37-year-old construction contractor, identified only as Komkrit, who was believed to have been using drugs.

The terrified think ran into the valley and jumped into it. Sitthipong Kanta, the Pol L/C, followed him and jumped in as well. However, according to his heavy costume, the young officer was washed away by the powerful present.

A research ensued and at 6.15pm fishermen found Pol L/C Sitthipong’s system and brought him up. If the medicine user had been apprehended, it was unknown.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau Investigation Division Facebook page, where a sympathy speech was posted, received several online rants from citizens who claimed the young officer was fearless and deserving of respect.

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Thaksin’s Udon Thani vote pitch raises eyebrows

Former poll director claims that the ex-premier’s statement may have violated regional election laws.

Thaksin Shinawatra poses for photos with supporters in Udon Thani on Wednesday. (Screenshot from Pheu Thai Party Facebook page)
On Wednesday, Thaksin Shinawatra poses for photographs with backers in Udon Thani. ( Facebook page for Pheu Thai Party screenshot )

According to a previous election director, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra may have violated a regional election laws by encouraging residents of Udon Thani to “vote for Thaksin” while supporting a statewide candidate for the Pheu Thai Party it.

Making a false or misleading assertion that causes confusion about a candidate’s popularity violates Part 65(5 ) of the Local Council and Regional Directors Act, according to Somchai Srisutthiyakorn.

Violators may face a prison term of 1-10 years and/or a great of 20, 000 to 200, 000 baht, and reduce their political rights for 20 years, Mr Somchai wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Mr. Somchai made comments about Thaksin’s visit to the northeast province’s Kumphawapi district. The former prime minister told a crowd of supporters that that they only needed to remember Thaksin if they could not recall the candidate’s name from the Pheu Thai Party.

” If (you ) forget about number two, vote for Thaksin number two then”, he said.

The former prime minister campaigned in Udon Thani on Wednesday and Thursday for member No. Sarawut Petphanomporn, whose child Paetongtarn Shinawatra is the current prime minister and leader of Pheu Thai. In the November 24 election, the municipal operational organization received a 2 for head.

Thaksin stated during his campaign stops that he wanted to aid in the release of locals from hunger and narcotics. Udon Thani citizens may give a landslide get to the Pheu Thai Party, he said, then, he would be “embarrassed”.

Pheu Thai, according to experts, is determined to regain its standing in Udon Thani, where it has traditionally won a majority of standard elections seats. Last season, it was defeated in three of the 10 districts in the state.

The Thai Sang Thai Party won two seats, the principal opposition’s Women’s Party.

The People’s Party’s Kanisorn Khurirang and Mr. Sarawut may contest the election on November 24.

Four petitions by Thaksin are currently being reviewed by the Election Commission (EC ), all of which claim that he has unchecked his Pheu Thai Party influence. The party’s breakdown is feasible if the issues are accepted and the committee sends them to the Constitutional Court.

The four issues have been merged into one, according to EC president Ittiporn Boonpracong, who recently stated that they are related in nature. He said evidence-gathering may take some time and he promised a good analysis.

The Move Forward Party’s attorney, Therayut Suwankesorn, has requested that the Constitutional Court stop Thaksin from influencing Pheu Thai and threaten the constitutional king in a separate event.

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Two Myanmar men gunned down in Ratchaburi

Intruders who were still at large were operating in Samut Sakhon at the time of the attack.

Police examine the scene were two Myanmar men were shot dead on a local road in Suan Phung district of Ratchaburi province on Thursday. (Photo: Prachanukul Ratchaburi Foundation)
On Thursday, two Burmese men were shot dead on a remote road in Ratchaburi’s Suan Phung area. ( Photo: Prachanukul Ratchaburi Foundation )

In the Suan Phung city of Ratchaburi state, two Burmese men who were employed in Samut Sakhon were discovered dead early on Thursday from bullet wounds.

According to Pol Maj Chaiwat Purinthrapibarn, a work officer at the Suan Phung place, who was called at around 4.30am, the bodies were discovered on a gravel path leading to Pong Song Koh Village Moo 7 in tambon Suan Phung.

Aung San, 43, had been shot half: in the chest and head. On his right side, he also suffered a scar. On the way, a spent gun was discovered. A wireless telephone, some money, a migrant cards and a driving permission were found on his body.

The next man’s body, later identified as Saw Saw, was found about 300 meters away with a bullet wound to the back. The place had a sizable pool of blood. Two spent guns were discovered outside, along with two sandals that were thought to belong to him.

The road was mostly used by motorcycles because it was too narrow for cars and huge vehicles, according to Naruemol Kaewchaemsri, Village Moo 7’s assistant head. She believed the attackers might have been aware of the road.

The two patients, according to police interviews, had left their Samut Sakhon homes on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. with four different companions in two cars. The family tried to talk to them, but nothing was said.

Along the way and nearby neighborhoods, police authorities were looking for potential answers about the attackers by looking through film from closed-circuit broadcast cameras. The cause of the deadly shootings is still unknown.

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