Services including tooth removal, dental plaque removal and dental fillings were provided at the faculty building on Henry Dunant Road.

Officials yesterday inspected the Parliament club’s canteen and found lots of garbage lying around. Now they are preparing to implement stricter cleaning measures, starting with the special event.

The Dusit District Office will lead the cleaning event and will be responsible for increasing the frequency of garbage collection and regularly cleaning drainpipes around the Parliament, which is located in its district.

The district office will also send experts to lecture food sellers in the canteen about hygiene.

Yesterday, officials conducted contamination testing on food and containers at the food hall and collected some specimens to take away for examination. The results will be submitted to the Parliament later.

Sorasak Pienwej, secretarygeneral of the Office of the House of Representatives, admitted that the district had found rats in the area, which came through the drainpipes.

The hygieneboosting measures would start next week, he said, adding that the Parliament might also hire private companies to collect garbage in addition to the services from the district office.

He said his office had not ignored the food hygiene problem and would discuss the matter next week to find solutions. Immediate issues would be taken care of as soon as possible, but any major renovation might be subject to budgetary considerations, Sorasak added.

The 20-match contest, joined by male and female amateur Muay Thai boxers aged from five to 50 years old, was part of the 23rd “Ram Cup” annual seven-sport competition.

The competition, held from March 22 to 31, was part of the campaign against drugs, to promote constructive spending of free time, promote exercise, teamwork and residents’ unity.

Fourteen villages sent their athletes to contest in a football match for male youths, a football match for women, a football match for the elderly, volleyball matches for women, Sepak Takraw matches for men, Petanque sessions for mixed teams, and Muay Thai.

The highlight of the Muay Thai contest was a match between two six-year-old boys with no stage fighting experience. Blue corner boxer, Ban Boromsuk School kindergartener Thanadech Sangkoranee, who went by the stage name “Yok Morakot”, was defeated by Ban Prasitthanu School pupil Pakorn “Big Beam Sid-JL” Passada.

Lawyer Tanakorn Waekwaree said Juthamas and her daughter Jittisopha insisted they would fight on to seek another bail request.

The court allows a new appeal but defendants need to submit new evidence and arguments for the court to consider, the lawyer said. However, he did not specify when the new request would be submitted.

The Appeal Court on Friday rejected bail requests by Juthamas and her daughter, citing the possibility the defendants might flee the country due to the severity of their sentences for corruption.

On Wednesday, the Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases sentenced Juthamas to 50 years in prison for demanding and receiving a bribe of more than US$1.8 million (Bt60 million) to enable an American business couple to obtain the rights to run the Bangkok International Film Festival.

Jittisopha was sentenced to 44 years in jail on the same charge.

The pair have been behind bars since Wednesday following a delay in the court’s ruling on their bail applications.

The monks are Phra Maha Nopporn Punyachayo, assistant director of communications for Dhammakaya; Phra Khru Thawalsak Yatisako; Phra Pasura Dantamano; Phra Khru Suwit Suwichako and Phra Khru Sangkharak Sotathiko.

The information was revealed to reporters by temple lawyer Panya Thawornakaranin after he brought Phra Maha Nopporn and other seven monks to sign an acknowledgment document about the charge of resisting the junta order with Thanyaburi Provincial Court prosecutors on Friday.

The monks immediately returned to the temple without comment.

Narathiwat police deputy chief Colonel Rathboworn Bamrungros said the 20 sympathisers were divided into three teams.

He said the members of one team were disguised as soldiers at a phony checkpoint in Sukhirin, where they stole a Toyota pickup for use in the attack.

He said members of another team were dressed like construction workers and they sat in the back of the pickup and opened fire at the police station, while the final team drove the shooters.

DNA samples and fingerprints were collected from the pickup, found abandoned at a rubber plantation in tambon Tanyong Limo, Rangae, on Thursday night, the colonel said, adding that the investigation would focus on persons wanted for the fatal shooting of Tambon Romthai Administrative Organisation secretary Boonlert Jindathananant on December 29, 2015, as police believed the same group was involved in both attacks.

Fourth Army Region deputy chief Maj-General Kuakul Innajak inspected Rangae Police Station on Friday and received a report on the investigation’s progress.

Kuakula praised the bravery of Pol Corporal Pulsawat Sathien-udon, who returned fire at the assailants, and said the officer should be promoted.

Kuakul also visited three of the wounded – Staff Sergeant Ekkawit Thongbutr at Rangae Hospital and Sgt-Major Theerapong Kaewchamnan and Corporal Pongsathorn Kaewprasert at Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital.

On Thursday morning, six attackers riding in the back of the pickup opened fire at the police station when police were standing in line in front of the station to hear a policy address from Rangae police superintendent Colonel Surapong Chatsut.

Corporal Supaksorn Sayukhongthon, 30, was pronounced dead at hospital.

Surapong received a superficial ear wound, while Corporal Pichit Thongros was treated at Southern Border Provinces Police Operation Centre’s hospital.

The move followed Thursday’s deadly attack on Narathiwat’s Rangae Police Station in which one officer was killed and five wounded.

Pattani police chief Colonel Piayawat Chalermsri said on Friday that he had instructed all precincts to set up checkpoints at all districts in the province and to closely monitor roads in areas linked to Yala and Narathiwat as well as look for stolen vehicles as insurgents could change their licence plates and use them in bomb attacks.

He also urged all security personnel manning checkpoint, precincts and military outposts to be extra careful to prevent attacks.

In response social media users in the deep South claiming the two men killed by authorities in Narathiwat’s Rusoh district on Wednesday were innocent, Piyawat said such talk was misinformation designed to create a diversion and cause chaos.

Authorities suspect the attack on the police station was in retaliation to the two extrajudicial killings.