Oil pipeline leak: Clean-up targeted to be competed in ‘coming days’
National liquid firm PUB may continue to monitor water intakes at its desalination plants, according to a joint statement released on Tuesday. Seawater value observations remain standard, the regulators added. There are no studies of seafood fields being impacted by the oil leak. Companies will continue to monitor for fuelContinue Reading
Gardens by the Bay says it does not tolerate poaching after birds found trapped in glue
After several birds there were reportedly trapped with glue, Gardens by the Bay declared on Tuesday ( October 22 ) that it does not tolerate or tolerate poaching.  , This comes after the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES ) posted a Facebook post on October 18 that raisedContinue Reading
Book expo attracts record number of visitors
The good featured the majority of the books that were sold as comics.
PUBLISHED: 22 Oct 2024 at 18: 14
Book Expo Thailand 2024 attracted a record-breaking turnout, marking a resurgence in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand ( Pubat ).
More than 1.4 million people visited the fair, held from Oct 10-20 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre ( QSNCC ) in Bangkok, generating 438 million baht, Pubat president Suvich Rungwatthanapaiboon said on Tuesday.
He attributed the event’s success to its interesting design,” Study Until the Afterlife”, and a powerful appeal to young readers, boosted by social media policy.
The celebration, co-sponsored by the Department of Cultural Promotion and the Thailand Creative Culture Agency, saw its highest single-day presence of 236, 686 persons on Oct 19, and 69 % of visitors were aged between 12 and 35 years.
Visitors were 63 % female, 26 % male while the remainder classified themselves as being part of the LGBTQQIP2SA community, the Pubat president said.
The good featured the majority of the books that were sold as comics. (40%), followed by novels (30%) and psychology and emotional healing books (20%). The rest were textbooks, children’s books and books on investment and health.
Mr. Suvich added that different promotional sales campaigns boosted the turnout. Each client spent an average of 600 ringgit on ebooks, and many guests returned to create more purchases.
” The festival’s success ran contrary to the business being in its healing phase”, he said.
He noted that the show’s success was promising for the future of Thailand’s text industry, valued at 16 billion ringgit, and it was also seen as stimulating the habit of reading attitude among Thais. According to studies, Thai people currently average 113 hours a day studying.
Malicious foreign actors playing ‘long game’ using credible-looking websites and gen AI: Analysts
These websites may not appear to have deliberately ramped up operations in a way that might instantly undermine social cohesion or resilience in Singapore, said Dr. Shashi Jayakumar, senior director of protection consultancy SJK Geostrategic Advisory.
” But, the websites in question had been pre-emptive nodes that could be triggered as and when required.”
In light of the rising political conflict, he added that those behind information activities will always want an outlet and a chance to control Singaporeans.
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According to Assoc Prof. Tan, they are “probably state actors or state-affiliated actors” who frequently use intermediaries like real public relations firms, given the resources required and the effort put into such a long-term technique.
Mr. Ang pointed out that the sites in this instance appear to be owned by public relations firms, which is in line with a design found both nationally and in the East Asian area.
In its Adversarial Threat Report from November next year, Meta highlighted the increase of coordinated inauthentic behavior online, which involves coordinated efforts to control public discourse to achieve a desired outcome.
” When we check and replace these businesses, we focus on behavior more than willing – no matter who’s behind them, what they publish or whether they’re foreign or domestic, “it said.
These systems generally use a newswire services, which facilitates the distribution of media releases to various internet retailers, according to a report from the Joint Analysis Team for the National Cyber Security Center in South Korea.
Public relations firms that run their own websites frequently run these newswire services, directly distributing users ‘ content to affiliated stores after editing it, while keeping track of the outcomes and delivering the benefits to the client.
Function OF Rules
The government on Tuesday said it will review the Foreign Interference ( Countermeasures ) Act ( FICA ), to see how it could be used to take pre-emptive action against websites.
” Regulation is a necessary part of the solution, but it’s not enough,” said Assoc Prof Tan, adding that online education among the people is also most important.
” The government is set the laws in place, but if people believe the falsehoods, next there’s little the laws can do about that.”
Mr. Ang claimed that regulation will always be required to provide platforms and internet service providers with a legal foundation to “assist and act in such circumstances.”
However, regardless of how many websites appear to be displaying it,” we all have a role to play in being careful about what we read and share,” he said.
Australia woman rescued after getting stuck upside down between boulders
NSW AmbulanceA young girl attempted to get her mobile phone while hiking in Australia, but she was trapped inside down for hours after sliding between two boulders.
The woman – named in reports as Matilda Campbell – was walking in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley region earlier this month when she fell into the three-metre crevice.
It was the launch of a seven-hour suffering which may see emergency services conduct a” difficult” rescue- including moving some boulders.
And even after being able to winch a 500 kg ( 1, 100lb ) rock out of the way, they still had to figure out how to free the woman from the” S” bend she had found herself in.
” In my 10 years as a rescue nurse I had never encountered a career quite like this, it was difficult but very rewarding”, Peter Watts, a nurse with New South Wales Ambulance support, said, according to a release on the service’s social media pages.
Before rescuers arrived, she had been back down for more than an hour, and her companions ‘ first attempt to open her had failed.
She is seen hung between the stones by her feet in photos shared by the emergency services, as well as the challenging efforts to stabilize the region as emergency services attempted to create a gap large enough to free her.
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NSW AmbulanceMr Watts later described the young woman as a “trooper” in an interview with Australia’s ABC.
” We were all like, how did you find over it, and how are we going to get her out,” the group said.
Utterly, the rescued woman was left with only minor scratches and bruises, NSW Ambulance said.
She did not, however, manage to get her phone.
She wrote in a text digitally,” Bless you to the group who saved me. You guys are practically living savers.”
” Very bad about the telephone tho”.
Court asks prosecution to explain delay with petition against Thaksin
Attorney-general given 15 days to review up to contract judge
PUBLISHED: 22 Oct 2024 at 17: 25
The attorney-general was given a deadline of 15 days to report on the progress made in handling a judge’s petition challenging Thaksin Shinawatra and his alleged control over the Pheu Thai Party by the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.
The contract court met on Tuesday to explore Therayut Suwankesorn’s complaint.
Mr. Therayut accused the former prime minister of being a risk to the legal king by his ties to the government’s coalition-core Pheu Thai Party and demanded that he be given a warrant to prevent it in a 5, 080-page complaint filed at the courtroom on October 10.
The Pheu Thai Party, led by his daughter, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinwawatra, was named the second accused and Thaksin the next accused according to the complaint. The two accused received six complaints against them.
After being found guilty last year of abuse of power while in office before being ousted by a military coup in 2006, Thaksin is accused of using the Ministry of Justice under the Pheu Thai-led government to secure his prolonged remain at Police General Hospital.
In accordance with a memorandum of understanding signed in 2001 while he was prime minister, Mr. Therayut even accused Thaksin of pushing the authorities to promote aquatic tools in Thai lakes with Cambodia. In reality, the plea says, the sea boundary between the two countries remains in debate, although Pheu Thai is seeking to revive conversations.
He alleges that Thaksin had instructed Pheu Thai to work with the Women’s Party to press for constitutional changes. The disbanded Move Forward Party, which the Constitutional Court had earlier found guilty of putting in jeopardizing the constitutional king, is now known as the Women’s Party.  ,  ,
Additionally, Thaksin is accused of holding discussions with coalition parties at his house on August 14 regarding a replacement for former prime minister Srettha Thavisin. On the same day, the Constitutional Court dismissed Mr. Srettha for an morality infraction.
The complaint accuses Thaksin of ordering Pheu Thai to oust the Palang Pracharath Party from the coalition state.
Mr. Therayut added that Ms. Paetongtarn’s speech to parliament on September 12 echoed the much-hyped “vision” that Thaksin outlined in a breakfast talk on August 22.
Mr. Therayut had previously requested a decision from the Constitutional Court on September 24 in which case he had requested that the ruling party’s leader ask the attorney-general for permission to stop threatening the constitutional monarchy by influencing the judgement Pheu Thai party.
When the attorney-general had never taken any action 15 days after receiving the plea, under Section 49 of the Constitution, Mr Therayut immediately petitioned the Constitutional Court.
Before deciding whether or not to take the petition, the court agreed to send a letter to the attorney-general explaining how the case’s leading counsel handled the complaint and how they went about gathering evidence.  ,
The judge gave the attorney-general 15 days to send a document on the management of the plea.
Lawyer Therayut Suwankesorn addresses investigators after filing a complaint with the Constitutional Court on October 10. ( Screenshot )
Clementi HDB death: 50-year-old man to be charged with murder
SCREAMS HEARD An observer reported to CNA that she heard yells at around 5pm.  , She observed a male chasing a woman wearing dark as she looked out of her window, and they both fled into the adjacent parking lot.  , She also witnessed a person lying bleeding on hisContinue Reading
Chinese couple arrested for ransoming ex-husband for B12m
PUBLISHED: 22 Oct 2024 at 17: 03
UPDATED: 22 Oct 2024 at 19: 13
A Chinese pair was detained after forming a group that assaulted and ransomed two colleagues, including an ex-husband, for about 12 million ringgit.
Liu Bomr and Du Yangzhen were named as two of the arrested suspects by Pol Maj Gen Nopasilp Poolsawat, assistant director of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, on Tuesday. They were also said to be among six suspects in the violence case.
According to the assistant director, the Chinese girl, Du, was a former spouse of one abductee. She claimed to having informed her new partner that her ex-boyfriend had abused her. Her new father was angry and planned to exact punishment by robbing the man.
The new father got in touch with another Chinese man by the name of Tong, who next recruited three Myanmar people to form the robbery group.
The group gathered at a occupied apartment in the Lat Phrao-Wang Hin neighborhood to plot the offense.
The lady then called her ex-husband next Saturday and demanded that he deposit 3.2 million ringgit in cash, alleging that a customer wanted to transfer digital money for the sum.
Five armed men, all dressed up, made an arrest at Anget Property ( Thailand ), which is located in a rented home on Ratchadaphisek 24 Road in Bangkok’s Huai Khwang district, fifteen minutes later. They also took both victims to Nakhon Nayok state and robbed the man and another Chinese gentleman of the 3.2 million-baht of money.
There the gang threatened to kill both unless they transferred them USDT270, 000 ( about 9 million baht ).
After the other proportion was transferred, the crew returned to Bangkok and relieve the patients on Nawamin 100 Road on Sunday.
The group shared the money at their rented home in the Lat Phrao-Wang Hin neighborhood. After that, Mr. Liu and his family traveled to Pattaya before returning to the Suvarnabhumi aircraft in Samut Prakan state.
On Monday evening, the gentleman was apprehended at the Suvarnabhumi aircraft for Sky Angkor Airlines flight ZA679 to Phnom Penh.
The woman was detained at the rented home in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao-Wang Hin neighborhood, where police also discovered criminals ‘ clothing and plastic cuffs. Both confessed to the crime.
Four additional suspects allegedly escaped to Cambodia through Chanthaburi Province, according to Pol Maj Gen Nopasilp.
Police were also looking into the victims ‘ property company to learn why it offered cryptocurrency exchange services and how it had raised money for the company.
Prior to this, Immigration Police Division 2 claimed that Mr. Liu had an Ecowas card, a typical card issued by people of the Economic Community of West African States.
Xie Chuanqi and Xie Chuanfa were the subjects, according to immigration authorities.
Regulator warns against taking Grakcu herbal capsules
Another health item that was discovered to be contaminated with sexual dysfunction medications
PUBLISHED: 22 Oct 2024 at 17: 04
Buyers should avoid purchasing Grakcu herbal pills because they could be contaminated by erectile dysfunction medications, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
FDA assistant secretary-general Withid Sariddeechaikool said on Tuesday the leakage was found in the Grakcu solution with the registration number G 481/53, the production time May 2, 2024, and end date , May 2, 2026.
According to Dr. Withid, FDA authorities found two drugs in the samples of the merchandise when they obtained them from drug stores. The FDA directed the company to instantly recalled the item and was looking into the contamination.
The two medicines, according to Dr. Withid, are controlled substances intended to treat high blood pressure in the pulmonary vessels and erectile dysfunction.
Because they grow blood vessels and can cause harm to people with liver, kidney, or heart conditions, high blood pressure, and injury victims, their use may be prescribed.
Herbal products containing erectile dysfunction medication may cause side effects including cramps, vision damage, low blood pressure, heart attack, great eye forces and hearing loss.
Side effects may be dangerous for those taking some medications to treat a , severe disease, Dr Withid said.
He said the FDA would continue to look for health-related organic products. He claimed that it had previously discovered seven organic materials containing viagra and tadalafil. Both medications treat erectile dysfunction.
Grakcu herbal product ( photo: FDA )
Almost 7,000 fraud complaints filed against the iCon Group
Strong seller’s officials review losses exceeding B2 billion
PUBLISHED: 22 Oct 2024 at 16: 37
The iCon Group has received nearly 7, 000 fraud complaints, with losses totaling more than$ 2 billion.
A total of 6, 979 people filed charges with the Central Investigation Bureau’s ( CIB ) complaints center and police stations across the nation on October 10 through October 21, according to national police chief Pol Gen Kitrat Phanphet on Tuesday. Plaintiffs reported full problems of 2, 046 million ringgit.
Investigators were presently looking into the financial records and income flows of the online company, he claimed.
On Tuesday, authorities searched 11 more sites linked to the 18 company officials accused of common scams, looking for additional information, Pol Gen Kitrat said.
Warathaphon” Boss Paul” Waratyaworrakul, 41, the founder and CEO of The image Group, and 17 other defendants, including artists, were arrested last Wednesday on costs of common scams and putting false information into a computer program. All were held in custody.
The iCon Group, a well-known online retailer that uses its dealers and their agents to promote direct selling, is accused of operating a pyramid scheme.
According to Pol Gen Kitrat, investigators were gathering and compiling evidence to support requests for court arrest warrants for a second group of suspects.  ,
He promised to the media that anyone found guilty of an offense would face legal action, regardless of their identity.
When Pol Gen Kitrat inquired about the wife of Kantathavorn, a well-known TV host and actor, who was listed among the second group facing arrest warrants, he replied that he had not seen her name on the list of suspects. Additionally, no reports of her leaving the country were made.
Mr Kan is one of the 18 suspects already arrested.  ,
If the ongoing investigation revealed any other crimes, additional charges would be brought against the 18 suspects, according to the police chief.
When questioned about the allegedly trying to extort money from” Boss Paul,” he claimed that Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat Pankaew, the deputy commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau, was looking into the matter.  ,
The police chief declined to reveal any details about the suspects. Mr. Warathaphon has confirmed that the audio recordings were his voice.
Authorities have to date seized assets, including luxury cars and other valuables, worth about 400 million baht from the 18 prime suspects.
Police are looking into reports of assets being transferred to those involved in the iCon fraud case, according to CIB deputy commissioner Pol Maj Gen Sophon Saraphat. The officers were examining evidence, particularly security camera footage, for clues and evidence of transfers of assets.  ,
Pol Lt. Gen. Jirabhop Bhuridej, the head of the CIB, claimed an examination of Mr. Warathaphon’s ID card and details established that he was Thai and not a citizen of another country. According to Pol Lt Gen Jirabhop, after conducting an investigation into the registration database, authorities discovered that his ID card had a beginning with the number 5, which was added after his name was lost during an initial survey and added later.