Thaksin to meet Malaysia prime minister on Thursday

Thaksin: To talk regional development
Thaksin: To chat local development

According to a report from The Edge Malaysia, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra may meet with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday to talk about the state of the region and Asean advances.

Prior to his scheduled meeting with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Monday, the Malay leader did meet with Thaksin, who was Mr. Anwar’s special adviser while his daughter, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, visited him last month.

” ]Mr Prabowo ] has strong ties with Asean leaders and extensive experience, both of which will be valuable in addressing]regional ] issues”, Mr Anwar said.

When asked about conference with Thaksin, Mr. Anwar said he anticipated to talk about local development issues and diplomatic solutions to common problems.

Malaysia does take over as chairman of Asean on January 1. The design for Malaysia’s Asean authority in 2025 is” Inclusion and sustainability”. Malaysia formerly held the Asean chair in 1977, 1997, 2005 and 2015.

Mr. Anwar said the discussions with Mr. Prabowo and Thaksin show Malaysia’s commitment to keeping Asean united in the face of world problems. He said,” The meetings are anticipated to lead to positive outcomes that will strengthen regional connections and contribute to Asean’s stability and prosperity.”

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Govt tracking cholera cases

Following two suspected cases discovered in hospitals in Tak province, the Ministry of Public Health established an emergency operations center ( EOC ) to monitor the cholera situation.

In Shwe Kokko, a city in Myanmar close to Sangat, the disease has claimed two lives and infected 300 people.

The permanent secretary for public health, Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, stated yesterday that the proximity of Shwe Kokko and the Mae Ramat and Mae Sot districts in Tak province pose a great risk.

These areas contain many factories and a combined population of unusual nationals, he said, adding the future New Season celebrations, involving social gatherings and shared meals, farther increase the risk of infections.

The Provincial Public Health Office serves as the main operational center for preparation, and there is now an emergency operations center in Tak.

Now, 300 cases have been reported in Shwe Kokko, with two mortality and 56 people hospitalised.

In Thailand, there are two feared individuals, one being treated at Mae Sot Hospital and the other at Mae Ramat Hospital, which are pending laboratory assurance.

Both people, male and female, are Myanmar immigrants residing in Thailand.

The girl traveled to Thailand to give her child. She was thought to have had the illness from Myanmar-based family who had visited her.

Dr. Opas stated that Thailand was prepared to assist Myanmar by putting together guidelines for disease prevention and control and reducing cross-border transmission by deploying outbreak research team.

Protective measures include monitoring Thai patients who have symptoms of gastroenteritis and educating Myanmar occupants on disease prevention. As part of the steps, diligent security has also been put in place in high-risk places like border populations, factories, and temporary shelters.

In immigrant care, pharmacists, community leaders, and volunteers have been instructed to be on the lookout for severe diarrhea, ensure clean water source, and keep an eye on the quality of food vendors sell at public events.

To ensure adequate resources, the EOC has been asked to check and stock regional health supplies, including salt solutions, chlorine, seat testing kits, and swift test kits.

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Northern Thailand’s Phu Kradueng park reopens after tourist death

Tourists watch sunrise at Phu Kradueng National Park in Loei.
Tourists in Loei’s Phu Kradueng National Park watch the sun.

After the tragic demise of a sexual traveler who was attacked by a wild elephant, Phu Kradueng National Park in Loei has been closed since December 12.

Atthapol Charoenchansa, director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation ( DNP ), said the park has conducted thorough inspections and implemented new measures to ensure visitor safety before reopening.

He added that park officials also take precautions to keep animals apart from holiday areas, as well as the importance of educating customers about safety methods when visiting the area and encountering wild animals.

An elephant attacked a 49-year-old girl from Chachoengsao state while walking along a road from her traveling page to Phen Phop Mai river on December 11th.

After the shutdown was announced as an precautionary measure to avoid losing both lives and property, nearly 900 travellers were evacuated.

The area was immediately scheduled to close for two weeks before it reopened on December 25.

Mr. Atthapol cited the DNP’s recent efforts to address issues involving exotic elephants roaming inside jungle boundaries and eutrophicating on farms and residential areas.

He added that inspections will be increased to track elephant movements and direct them back into the forest, and that alerts will be sent right away to local communities if they are found outside.

More than 4, 000 exotic elephants are now residing in 16 woodland complexes in 94 restoration zones across the nation, according to a recent report from the Wildlife Conservation Office.

The Eastern Forest Complex reported the most outrageous elephant escapes from the trees in terms of situations. The regions most affected by this trouble were Chachongsao, Chanthaburi, Kanchanaburi, Prachin Buri and Trat.

More than 37, 000 wild elephant reports were made outside forest places between 2021 and 2023 after they harmed vegetables and home. Over the last 12 years, there have been 239 murders and 203 accidents related to human-elephant issue.

This year alone, 11, 468 incidents involving prowling animals were reported to authorities, causing 34 wounds and 39 incidents — an increase from last year’s history of 29 wounds and 22 deaths.

To monitor and study long-term strategies for reducing the number of wild elephants, a previous ad hoc House committee was established.

Its recommendations included updating the compensation systems for wild elephant damage and introducing techniques to stop their movements, such as installing more barriers to obstructing conservation forests.

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Cholera alert in Tak after breakout across Myanmar border

Myanmar people cross the Moei River to Thailand's Tak province by boat in 2016. (File photo)
In 2016, people from Myanmar travel by boat from Myanmar’s Tak state to Thailand’s Moei River. ( File photo )

In a bid to stop cholera from spreading to the nearby city of Shwe Kokko in Myanmar, the Public Health Ministry has established an emergency operations center ( EOC ) in Tak province. There have been two cases reported in Tak thus much.

Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, permanent director for open heath, said on Sunday that the public health department of Tak then functioned as the EOC and Dr Supachok Wechaphanphesat, acting wellness inspector-general, was its chief.

The EOC was watching for probable cholera cases in border areas, factories and refugee tents, he said.

He added that the center was even monitoring the quality of drinking water, providing health advice to people and migrants, overseeing foods fairs and suppliers, and setting up medical supplies, including rapid test kits to treat cholera, as well.

Because they are located directly reverse Shwe Kokko and have a large number of companies and migrant populations, the Tak districts of Mae Ramat and Mae Sot are in particular at risk. People may have parties and eat together over the New Year’s breaks, according to Dr. Opas.

According to the everlasting director for heath, there have been about 200 cholera cases in Shwe Kokko, with two fatalities. In Mae Sot city, there have been two cholera situations.

According to reports, the two circumstances were taken to Mae Sot Hospital. Authorities assumed a pregnant woman from Myanmar who had dysentery gave birth on the Thai side of the border, and that a relative from her country who lived in Tak visited her and contracted the disease.

Soldiers were conducting border patrols in the Mae Ramat and Mae Sot districts to temporarily thwart illegal immigration through normal border crossings. Tak specialists provided medical supplies to their Shwe Kokko counterparts in exchange for requests to help with disease control it.

The majority of cholera cases in Shwe Kokko were reported by Thai residents living close to the border to be caused by Taiwanese companies and their Myanmar employees.

A gentleman and a woman from Myanmar who frequently cross the border to operate in Tak were the victims of cholera, according to Dr. Supachok, the captain of the EOC in Tak. Both had gentle signs, and one of them was discharged from the hospital.

He advised people to maintain health and consume well-cooked food to keep themselves from cholera.

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Romance, friend impostor, SMS scams top fraud cases, police say

National police chief Pol Gen Kittharath Punpetch holds a press briefing on the progress of “Operation Fallen Bridge” aimed at arresting scam gangs and seizing illegal SIM cards, internet cables, telecom towers and transmission antennas, at the Royal Thai Police headquarters on Oct 11, 2024 (Photo: Apichart Jinakul).
On October 11, 2024, at the Royal Thai Police office, federal authorities key Pol Gen Kittharath Punpetch provides a media briefing on the development of” Operation Fallen Bridge” aimed at detaining illegal SIM cards, online wires, telecoms towers, and transfer antennas.

The most common scams carried out in 2024 were friend fake scams, little messages with fictitious links, and false claim calls, according to a lieutenant spokesman for the Royal Thai Police Office, which was made public on Sunday.

Sufferers of threats filed 739, 000 online issues via website. thaipoliceonline. come. th between Mar 1 and Nov 30 this time. According to Pol Maj Gen Siriwat Deepor, they caused a total of 77 billion rmb, or an average of 77 million ringgit per day. &nbsp,

The four most common schemes are as follows:

1. using a false social media account to start a passionate relationship with the victim, making claims that they sent tax-sensitive items to Indian customs and that they asked the victim to give the tasks with promises of payment. Romance swindlers even deceive victims into funding fictitious schemes.

2. posing as a friend or relative and making a telephone call to the sufferer to find out which of their companions was speaking. The fraudster do take cash when the victim fell into the pit.

3. Providing little, phishing text messages to the victim’s phone with false links that urge them to sign up for lucky draw prizes, product discounts, or to retrieve their lost packages. The goal is to deceive the victim into giving them access to their banks records or data.

4. Asking and posing as a federal standard, telling the victim they were involved in an illegal activity and they must move funds for exam, or luring them to place an application.

People should be wary of these online and telephone schemes, according to Pol Maj Gen Siriwat, and keep an eye out for those who risk losing their loved ones. If one believes they are a sufferer, they may send website complaints via website. thaipoliceonline. come. th or call the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau ( CIB )’s 24-hour hotline 1441, he said. &nbsp,

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Smuggler arrested in Chumphon with 200 exotic Indonesian animals

Police seize baskets containing smuggled exotic animals in Sawi district, Chumphon, on Saturday. (Police photos)
Authorities seize baskets containing seized wild creatures in Sawi area, Chumphon, on Saturday. ( Police photos )

CHUMPHON: A man was arrested with about 200 wild wildlife on his way from the deep South to Bangkok.

As a result of a tip-off about a smuggling wild animals from Indonesia to Thailand, police were tipped off that the suspect’s light Subaru, only identified as Sarawut, 43, had been stopped at a gas station on Highway 41 in the Sawi neighborhood on Saturday.

The creatures from Indonesia were smuggled into Thailand via a pier in the southwestern province of Satun, according to Pol Col Arun Wachirasrisukanya, assistant chief of the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division.

Authorities searched the automobile, and they discovered 17 baskets totaling approximately 200 animals. They included 70 snakes, 49 salamanders, 40 snakes, five Sulawesi keep cuscuses, four Sulawesi birds, three small-clawed animals and a Javan monkey.

The suspect claimed that a person contacted him via the LINE chat app and paid him 10,000 ringgit to drive the vehicle from Satun to Bangkok. He claimed he was informed that outlawed animals smuggling was occurring but was drawn to the money.

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Thai economy ‘most tiresome’ thing in 2024: poll

Shoppers walk past food stalls and eateries at Wang Lang market located opposite Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok. (Bangkok Post file photo)
At the Wang Lang business, which is directly opposite Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, customers pass foods vendors and restaurant. ( Bangkok Post file photo )

According to a study conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll, the majority of Thai people said that while financial, hacking, and political issues were the top three issues facing them in 2024, they were content with their lives overall.

The study sought to find out what people thought of” Things that you felt fed up with in 2024″ in the general. The comments were as follows:

• 52.14 percent of respondents chose financial issues that had adverse effects on their earnings and well-being.

• 28.09 % threats, such as name center schemes and hacking

• 27.86 % political disorder both inside and outside parliament

• 21.60 % the spread of illicit drugs

• 14.89 % energy prices

• 13.59 % economic problems and tragedies

• 13.44 % health problems and diseases &nbsp,

• 12.98 % crimes and public health

• 12.90 % prices of agricultural produce

• 12.75 % said they had nothing to feel exhausted of

• 11.45 % social conflicts

• 9.85 % corruption from top down

• 9.69 % traffic congestion

• 5.57 % discrimination in the justice method &nbsp,

• 4.81 % wrong offers and reshuffles in government

• 2.06 % conflict and global political problems

When asked to rate their joy in 2024, the responses were as follows:

• 39.92 percent of respondents said they were generally content with their lives, including their jobs, and families; they also said they didn’t face difficulties. &nbsp, &nbsp,

• 32.52 percent were largely unsatisfied with their finances as a result of rising life expenses and feeling uneasy about their local political climate.

• 18.1 % very happy because everything in life went smoothly, they were in good health, and they didn’t have any worries. &nbsp,

9.39 % were completely unhappy because they had higher loan as a result of economic weakness, and their way of life was hard and did not go as planned.

1, 310 people aged 18 and over in various levels of education and employment were sampled throughout the state for the December 16 to December 2018 surveys. &nbsp,

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Pattaya visitor swallows traffic ticket

Pattaya police stop a motorcyclist not wearing a helmet on Saturday evening. (Photo: Chaiyot Pupattanapong)
On Saturday night, Pattaya officers stop a motorcycle rider who is not helmeted. ( Photo: Chaiyot Pupattanapong )

PATTAYA, Fla.- A guest was stopped Saturday night by police after swallowing a traffic ticket.

The skeletal stranger was stopped at a station in front of the Pattaya police station as he rode a motorcycle without a shirt and crash helmet. He refused to turn in a policeman request for a driving license.

He was ticketed for driving without a license and hat, according to the police. He received the seat, &nbsp, popped it in his tongue and swallowed it with a sip of water.

Officers attempted to lock him but were unsuccessful in locking the front wheel of his bicycle. Suddenly, he agreed to enter the police station for trial.

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Pattaya visitor swallowed traffic ticket

Pattaya police stop the visitor on Saturday evening. (Photo: Chaiyot Pupattanapong)
On Saturday night, Pattaya officers stop the user. ( Photo: Chaiyot Pupattanapong )

PATTAYA, Fla.- A guest was stopped Saturday night by police after swallowing a traffic ticket.

The skeletal stranger was stopped at a station in front of the Pattaya police stop while riding motorcycle without a shirt and hat. He refused to give a driving license in response to officers requests.

He was ticketed for driving without a license and hat, according to the authorities. He received the seat, swallowed it and drank waters.

Officers attempted to lock him but were unsuccessful in locking the front wheel of his bike. He finally consented to provide the police station to be pursued.

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Bangkok taxi driver flees petrol station, collides with police vehicle

Police inspect a taxi involved in collisions with a truck and a police vehicle after fleeing a petrol station without paying in Chaiyaphum on Saturday. (Photos: Makkawan Wannakul)
After escaping from a gas station in Chaiyaphum on Saturday without paying, authorities inspect a vehicle that has been involved in incidents with a vehicle and a police car. ( Photos: Makkawan Wannakul )

CHAIYAPHUM: A taxi driver who was registered in Bangkok fled a gas place without paying for the gasoline.

Sanya Polkong, the 36-year-old car driver, was arrested after the incident on Chaiyaphum-Bua Yai Road in Muang area on Saturday night.

After he fled a gas station opposite the Lat Yai police stop in the Muang area at around 8.20am on Saturday, the incident occurred as he attempted to elude a police car.

The car drivers was about to return to Bangkok after speaking with authorities about his mother’s visit. He sped over to the gas station to refill his gas tank and fled without paying 1,750 Baht.

The pilot claimed that he escaped because he was wanted in connection with a scam investigation.

The taxi drivers was unharmed. The driver of the truck was injured.

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