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Fugitive red-shirt leader Wutthipong Kachathamkhun, alias Ko Tee, whose house was raided for weapons on Saturday, has defended himself through a YouTube-based radio programme suggesting that the raid was a government set-up.
However, government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd denied this.
And national police chief Pol General Chaktip Chaijinda insisted yesterday that the seizure of military-grade firearms was linked to moves at Dhammakaya Temple and red-shirt networks.
Chaktip said more weapons are expected to be found hidden in unidentified shipping containers near Bangkok, even though further raids yesterday at several container yards found no firearms.
The police chief said Wutthipong is believed to be behind groups that have instigated mobs of supporters to oppose the government crackdown on Dhammakaya Temple.
He said they also had plans to assassinate national leaders, including Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and deputy premier Prawit Wongsuwan. They had also violated the lese majeste law through content on their radio programme.
Chaktip and other senior police put the firearms seized in the raid on Saturday on display yesterday. He was joined by several senior officers, including Pol Maj-General Sombat Milintajinda, the deputy chief of First Region Provincial Police.
Sombat said one of nine people now in custody was at Dhammakaya Temple when Wutthipong and others were moving to mobilise temple followers to oppose the government crackdown.
Police said there were also plans to assassinate national leaders based on a YouTube radio programme hosted by a person using the alias Sahai Ma Noi.
Container yards searched
In the raid on Saturday, police seized four M-16 rifles, one M79 grenade launcher, and 13 guns, plus 5,000 rounds of ammunition, three red-shirt banners and other material deemed to violate the lese majeste law.
However, Wutthipong denied the government’s allegations, saying in his YouTube radio programme titled “Fight for the Federation” that the raid was arranged by authorities.
The house in Pathum Thani that was raided was once occupied by Wutthipong. Authorities arrested Thirachai Udonwichian, 55, from Samut Prakan, at the premises.
The police operation continued yesterday with searches at container yards in Samut Prakan province.
Soldiers and police sifted through around 3,000 shipping containers as they attempted to find a specific container identified by shipping documents as stored in one of the yards since 2014. However, authorities found no more weapons yesterday.
Maj-General Piyapong Klinphan, spokesman of National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said the raid on a house formerly occupied by the red-shirt leader should not affect ongoing reconciliation efforts, as it was part of the government’s policy to maintain law and order.
Police said the latest raids stem from intelligence suggesting that Wutthipong and accomplices have amassed weapons to prepare for violence and planned to fight authorities if the Dhammakaya Temple complex was seized.
Meanwhile, Wutthipong has been using social media to criticise the government’s performance and the NCPO’s work while urging Dhammakaya followers to oppose authorities.
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Dr Nantarisak Chansue, the chief surgeon, wrote on Facebook that she had decided to operate on Ormsin, or |“Piggy Bank”, due to complications from intestinal strangulation.
The condition might be because the turtle had more empty space in its torso from the first operation and its |body was adjusting itself, she said.
As of yesterday, the turtle was still in intensive care at the University’s Veterinary Faculty and no visits were allowed. “She is still in ICU.
Very serious. Let’s pray for her,” Nantarisak wrote, adding that she was very worried about the situation.
The 25-year-old turtle was rescued from an abandoned pool in Chon Buri province. It had swallowed coins thrown into the pond by passers-by who are believed to have done so in the hope of longevity and good luck.
The vet team earlier this month removed 915 coins from her stomach.
The hapless turtle underwent a seven-hour operation in Bangkok early this month to remove five kilograms of coins from its digestive tract.
Hazards of throwing coins
The story of her plight and successful operation went viral, making headlines around the world.
Her story also raised awareness about the hazards of throwing coins into ponds that might affect animals.
The turtle’s plight is also connected to its age, as people were reportedly inclined to toss coins into the pond in hopes of similar longevity.
The previous operation was deemed a success after Nantarisak reported a week ago that the turtle’s health condition had improved and it was swimming normally.
Chulalongkorn vets said they hoped Ormsin would eventually be able to return to the sea because it could easily live for another 60 years.
ศาสตร์เกษตรดินปุ๋ย : ขอบคุณแหล่งข้อมูล : หนังสือพิมพ์ The Nation
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To many, the mission of tending to the youthful whims and needs of this international cream of the academic crop may seem far too daunting a prospect.
But that’s not the case with Kunwara Lapanan, a student at the Chiang Mai University’s (CMU) Associated Medical Sciences.
“I recognised it as an opportunity and a good life experience,” Kunwara said.
She was one of the liaison staff for the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad, which took place in Chiang Mai two years ago.
Kunwara said that after seeing an advertisement for the posts and hearing a lecturer promote the role, she submitted her application. “After passing the interview, I was assigned to take care of six contestants from Belgium,” she said.
She had fun with her duties, she said, because the children under her care were friendly, flexible and well-organised.
Although the International Mathematical Olympiad was definitely an important contest and a dream for many children, the children under Kunwara’s care showed no signs of being stressed out.
“They were well relaxed. On their first day here, they even played table tennis,” she recounted.
Kunwara said during her time with the children, she had learned many things from them.
“For one, it’s clear you may compete but not for the sake of victory. Participation in a competition may be done for various other things such as friendship, teamwork, sharing, and exchanges of knowledge,” she pointed out.
Kunwara said that when the Olympiads appeared in news reports, many of the audience may have assumed it was all about boring academic stuff.
But behind the scenes, Kunwara said there were fun activities going on along the way. Newsletters for participants, for example, featured interesting stories related to the whiz kids. “There were birthday announcements, maths games and reward handouts,” she said.
Suttimanas Shin-akarapong, another liaison staff member at Thailand-hosted Olympiad, said he snatched an opportunity to join the international contest because he wanted to improve his language skills.
“Our main duty was to take care of children. If they had any question or needed any help, we had to be there for them,” he said.
Suttimanas, who studied at the Chiang Mai University’s Mass Communication Faculty, said he in return got valuable life experiences.
“I’d witnessed with my own eyes how children from various countries in the world socialise, live, work as a team and solve problems at hand,” he said.
Both Suttimanas and Kunwara have applied for the posts of liaison staff at the upcoming International Mathematical Olympiadin Rio in July.
“It’s a great experience and I wish to encourage other students to do the same,” Kunwara said.
Every year, the International Mathematical Olympiad attracts contestants from across the world including Thai students . Many have returned home with medals.
Between 1989 and 2016, Thai children won 18 gold medals, 50 silver medals, and 22 bronzes from the International Mathematical Olym-piad. Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology director Pornpun Waitayangkoon said there were now about 11 gifted students per 10,000 children.
“But Thailand needs 25 gifted students per 10,000 children to ensure its competitiveness at the international level,” she added.
ศาสตร์เกษตรดินปุ๋ย : ขอบคุณแหล่งข้อมูล : หนังสือพิมพ์ The Nation
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Staff at the Friends of the Asian Elephant hospital treat Motala, a female who suffered a serious leg injury caused by a landmine.
Soraida
THE FUTURE of six sick elephants being treated as inpatients at the Friends of the Asian Elephant’s hospital looks much brighter after more than Bt20 million flooded into the foundation’s coffers over the past week.
The foundation’s founder and secretary-general Soraida Salwala said the donations were enough to finance her foundation’s operations for about 20 more months.
The foundation has been in operation for about 25 years already. But on Thai Elephant Day, last Monday, Soraida said the foundation may have shut down due to lack of funds for operations, raising concern over the fate of the six elephants, currently under intensive care.
Soraida said last week that the group’s hospital in Lampang was operating as normal and working hard to treat the six tuskers, which require full-time intensive care.
“Right now we have five elephants that are too weak to be taken care of outside hospital and thus are full-time residents of our hospital, while there is another younger long-term inpatient, Dante, who can leave the hospital when he is old and healthy enough,” Soraida said.
The elephants would receive the best treatment, no matter how the group’s financial problems are, she said. However, she admitted that if they were forced to close, she wouldn’t know what to do with elephants with such special needs.
Adisorn Nuchdamrong, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department deputy director-general, said the National Elephant Institute, which also has an elephant hospital in Lampang, could treat the ill elephants now at the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation.
“I am not sure about the transfer procedures and there will have to be a discussion between the two bodies, but we agree on the standpoint that the elephants will have to get the best care,” Adisorn said.
Soraida said her foundation was not in debt, as earlier reports had said, but the current budget could only sustain operations for a matter of months, and if more elephants need care, the hospital would be unable to look after them.
“In the worst-case scenario, we can only operate the foundation for around 12 months, because the entire [annual] budget is only Bt11 million, and we have expenses of around Bt800,000 to Bt1 million per month,” she said.
Although this was the worst financial problem the foundation had ever faced, she said she didn’t want to ask for donations from the public because she did not want to bother people.
However, donations can still be made for care of the sick elephants at the Kasikorn Bank account “Friends of the Asian Elephant”, account number 088-2-20983-0, or via Paypal at friendsoftheasianelephant.org/en/donate. Soraida also said she was considering legal action against people who reportedly made defamatory statements.
ศาสตร์เกษตรดินปุ๋ย : ขอบคุณแหล่งข้อมูล : หนังสือพิมพ์ The Nation
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The dengue vaccine registration last October made Thailand one of 14 countries using a vaccine for dengue.
President of the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Society of Asia, Dr Usa Thisyakorn, noted on Friday that it was crucial to produce the vaccine to effectively prevent all four serotypes of the dengue virus, as it could not yet be determined which serotypes would become endemic and when.
“From clinical trials in 15 countries involving more than 40,000 participants, the vaccine helped prevent symptomatic cases caused by any of the four types by 65.6 per cent, reducing hospitalisations by 80.8 per cent and severe dengue cases by 93.2 per cent. Although not yet 100 per cent effective, it is definitely better than having no prevention at all,” Usa said.
The vaccination schedule is 3 doses, given 6 months apart (at 0, 6 and 12 months), with each dose yielding increasingly preventive results.
Besides children, adults should also get vaccinated as the adult population increases and fewer children are born, Usa said.
“We need to change the misconception that dengue fever is a child’s disease. It afflicts people of all ages,” she said.
“The age indication of dengue vaccine registered in Thailand is 9-45 years old with clinical data highlighting that the vaccine yields the same or even better results in people aged 16-45 than in younger people 9-16 years old,” she said.
President of the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Society of Thailand, Dr Tawee Chotpitayasun-ondh, cited data that the vaccine had nearly 82 per cent efficacy in those who exposed to dengue and 52.5 per cent efficacy in those who have never been exposed to dengue virus before.
“The dengue vaccine is a mix of attenuated dengue virus and flavivirus, which is non-virulent. On the other hand, any of the four serotypes of dengue virus naturally contracted from mosquitoes is 100 per cent virulent. The data implies that the vaccine does not cause dengue infection… It is thus safe and is approved by the World Health Organisation [WHO],” he said.
“Nevertheless, despite the availability of the vaccine, it is necessary that we adopt other preventive measures such as destroying mosquito-breeding grounds and following the WHO’s guidelines to control the disease. The guidelines include: early diagnosis and treatment; establishing adequate disease monitoring; ensuring vector control in the home and community; quickly deciding on vaccine implementation in endemic countries; and continuing research and study to achieve the best results,” Usa and Tawee concluded.
ศาสตร์เกษตรดินปุ๋ย : ขอบคุณแหล่งข้อมูล : หนังสือพิมพ์ The Nation
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National police chief Chakthip Chaijinda displays a cache of weapons seized from nine locations in the Central and Northeast regions at a press conference at the Royal Thai Police headquarters yesterday.
Chaktip said more weapons are expected to be found hidden in unidentified shipping containers near Bangkok, even though further raids yesterday at several container yards found no firearms.
The police chief said Wutthipong is believed to be behind groups that have instigated mobs of supporters to oppose the government crackdown on Dhammakaya Temple.
He said they also had plans to assassinate national leaders, including Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and deputy premier Prawit Wongsuwan. They had also violated the lese majeste law through content on their radio programme.
Chaktip and other senior police put the firearms seized in the raid on Saturday on display. He was joined by several senior officers, including Pol Maj-General Sombat Milintajinda, the deputy chief of First Region Provincial Police.
Sombat said one of nine people now in custody was at Dhammakaya Temple when Wutthipong and others were moving to mobilise temple followers to oppose the government crackdown.
Police said there were also plans to assassinate national leaders based on a YouTube radio programme hosted by a person using the alias Sahai Ma Noi.
ศาสตร์เกษตรดินปุ๋ย : ขอบคุณแหล่งข้อมูล : หนังสือพิมพ์ The Nation
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Officers had manned the checkpoint following a tip-off that a large haul of drugs would be transported along the route.
The X-ray machine revealed the drugs hidden inside a bucket concealed under blue canvas spread over the bed of the truck.
Truck driver Sakda Srisod, 30, was arrested and charged with having illicit drugs in possession with intention to sell. He allegedly said it was his second delivery of drugs, with Tak as his destination.
ศาสตร์เกษตรดินปุ๋ย : ขอบคุณแหล่งข้อมูล : หนังสือพิมพ์ The Nation
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Dr Nantarika Chansue, operation chief, said in her Facebook that she decided to operate on Ormsin (Piggy Bank) due to the complication from intestinal volvulus and strangulation.
It might be because the turtle has more empty space from the post operation and tried to adjust itself.
As of Sunday, the turtle is still in ICU room at the University’s Veterinary Faculty and no visit is allowed. “She is still in ICU. Very serious. Let’s pray for her,” she wrote.
Nantarisa said she was very worried about it.
The 25-year-old turtle was rescued from an abandoned pool in Chon Buri province. She swallowed coins thrown into her pond by passers-by who believed doing so would bring them longevity and luck.
The vet team earlier this month removed a total of 915 coins from her stomach.
ศาสตร์เกษตรดินปุ๋ย : ขอบคุณแหล่งข้อมูล : หนังสือพิมพ์ The Nation
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The committee reiterated that it did not interfere with the work of the station’s procurement panel, but only gave it guidelines for when considering projects.
The committee rejected the notion that some companies subcontracted by the station were close to some committee members, saying the station’s budget and spending was closely scrutinised by the Auditor-General’s Office. The station is also obliged to report its annual performance in Parliament.
Committee members themselves have to report their assets to the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the statement said.
The statement followed news reports on Friday about the DSI probe and the subcontracted work, allegedly worth Bt700 million.
The station faced pressure earlier this week after news broke that it had bought debentures worth Bt200 million from Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF), raising an ethical question among the public, because it is a public broadcaster.
Its director, Krisda Rueangareerat, resigned to show responsibility, but earlier defended his decision by saying the annual Bt2-billion budget from “sin taxes” was not enough to run the station.
The station also issued a statement saying it would review its investment framework in the capital market and cease investments in some companies, without mentioning any specific companies, including CPF.
ThaiPBS executives said in the statement they regretted the decision and wished to apologise to the public if their decision to purchase the debentures caused concerns. The purchase, they said, was aimed at maximising financial management of the organisation and adhered to the policy framework.
The issue led the government to step in. Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said on Wednesday that he would send a letter to Thai PBS to ask for more information regarding its investment in debentures from CPF, after concerns were raised about the integrity and good governance of the public broadcaster.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha also responded to the issue, saying concerned officials were now taking care of the issue.
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