A horse swept away from The Verona Hotel at Tub Lan in Prachinburi province was rescued in Nakhon Ratchasima province.
On Monday, strong water currents swept away livestock, such as sheep, goats and horses raised at the hotel, into the river and claimed the life of a highway official.
Rescuers struggled to pull the horse out as the current was too strong. However, they eventually succeeded and the horse was saved.
The flood situation at The Verona Hotel improved on Tuesday. The hotel will begin a big cleaning-up operation before it is reopened.
Supporters of the pro-democracy movement showed up outside the Bangkok Remand Prison on Monday night to greet protest leaders Arnon Nampa, Ekkachai Hongkangwan, Somyot Pruksakasemsuk and Suranat Paenprasert as they walked out.
The four got to taste their freedom again after Criminal Court rejected police request to keep them in custody.
Arnon walked out just after midnight on Tuesday and was greeted with a rose from Tosaporn Sereerak, a former lawmaker and doctor who is usually seen taking care of protesters at rallies.
The human-rights lawyer thanked the supporters, saying he was glad they believed in his fight and that he will use the time spent in prison as training to continue fighting for democracy.
He added that putting leaders in prison did little to dampen the fight for democracy because it only proved that everyone is a leader.
Arnon went on to say he will continue demanding that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha resign, the Constitution be made more democratic and the monarchy reformed.
“If our opposite side demands violence, we will say no. We will fight peacefully to let them know that this fight does not need to end with violence. The reconciliation panel may solve the problems with a frank discussion, but our demands are clear and our release does not mean we can be banned from protesting,” he said.
A Buriram man was arrested for using a nine-year-old boy to deliver him drugs, while he insisted that the boy was willing to help him since he wanted to be rewarded with money and drugs.
A sting operation by police got the boy to reveal on Monday that he was hired by Weerasak Khongsuk to deliver drugs near Mun River.
He reportedly paid the boy up to Bt300 depending on the quantity of drugs and also gave him two pills as a bonus.
Weerasak was later arrested while fishing on the bank of the river with his friend. He has reportedly confessed that he received the drugs from Laotians to sell them to local adolescents.
Police are concerned that more children might be used in the drug operation. They charged him with drug possession and inciting youth to commit crimes.
He had previously been arrested on drug charges and was released four years ago.
The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration reported 10 new cases in quarantine facilities over a 24-hour period on Tuesday.
All the cases were asymptomatic.
A 27-year-old Thai woman returned from Bahrain on October 18 and tested positive on October 30 in state quarantine in Chonburi province.
A Thai couple — a 38-year-old man and his 49-year-old wife — returned from Germany on October 21 and were confirmed positive on November 1 in a state quarantine hotel in Chonburi province.
A 20-year-old Thai woman travelled back on October 24 from Saudi Arabia and was found positive on October 29 in state quarantine in Bangkok.
A 46-year-old woman returned from the Czech Republic on October 27 and tested positive in a state quarantine hotel in Chonburi province on October 31.
A 12-year-old Azerbaijani boy, who arrived in Thailand on October 24, tested positive in an alternative state quarantine hotel in Bangkok on October 31.
A 34-year-old Russian woman arrived on October 26 and tested positive in an alternative state quarantine hotel in Samut Prakarn on October 31
A 36-year-old Bangladeshi man was found positive in an alternative state quarantine hotel in Samut Prakarn
A 33-year-old French male hotel manager arrived on November 1 and tested positive in Bangkok at an alternative quarantine hotel on the same day.
A 61-year-old Israeli arrived and tested positive in a Bangkok alternative state quarantine facility on October 31.
Meanwhile, 10 patients have recovered and been discharged.
The total number of confirmed cases in Thailand increased to 3,797 (849 in state quarantine), 133 are in hospital and 3,605 have recovered and been discharged and 59 have died.
According to Worldometer, as of 10 am on Tuesday, the total number of confirmed cases increased to 47.31 million (up 472,997), 34 million have recovered, 12 million are active cases (86,553 in severe condition) and 1.2 million have died (up by 5,706).
Thailand ranks 147th for most cases in the world, while the US has the most number with 9.56 million, followed by India 8.26 million, Brazil 5.55 million, Russia 1.65 million and France 1.46 million.
The Mun River has burst its bank in several parts of Nakhon Ratchasima’s Phimai district, leaving some areas under 30 centimetres of water on Tuesday.
The flooding has also prompted the demand for more water pumps, with Samrit Water Transmission and Maintenance Project saying it will put another 20 in place to drain the water.
Meanwhile, the water level in Phimai Dam has reached 5 million cubic metres, exceeding its limit of 3.6 million cubic metres by more than 140 per cent.
The authorities said water will have to be released from the dam or it will soon overflow and affect the district’s business area.
An American man shot himself in the head after trying to fire at police officers early on Tuesday in Pattaya City.
Just after midnight, police were told that a 25-year-old American tourist called Giavasis Michael had stolen a gun from a shooting range in Bang Lamung district and fled toward his condo.
He was then seen arguing with an 18-year-old local, who happened to be near the condo, hitting him on the head and firing a gun in the air to threaten him.
Residents ran out of the building before police showed up to deal with the situation.
Police found the man standing at the building’s entrance and screaming at the ground. When they tried to approach him, the man started firing at the police and ended up injuring a local reporter in the foot.
The American then retreated to his room and police called on the man’s friend to help calm him down.
However, when the friend was unable to contact Michael, police broke into the man’s room to find him dead on the bed with a bullet wound in his head.
Judging from the dried blood, police reckoned he had killed himself about two hours earlier.
Police said the man had a history of mental illness and addiction to illegal substances, which may have led to his loss of control.
The body will be sent to the Central Institute of Forensic Science Thailand and officers will call on the US embassy to inform the dead mans’ family.
A Nonthaburi court has given jail sentences to four teachers after parents filed a police complaint against them for assault of their children, laywer Ronnarong Kaewphet said.
In a Facebook post on Monday, the lawyer who leads a justice-seeking advocacy network, said the parents of students who attended Sarasas Witaed Ratchaphruek School in Nonthaburi province had filed a complaint against four teachers for physical assault of 13 young students.
The private school said on September 28 that it had terminated the employment of the four teachers after a CCTV footage of a female teacher assaulting kindergarteners went viral on the internet. In anger, parents of an abused student assaulted the teacher in the footage, Onuma Ploadprong, prompting her to file an assault charge against the couple on October 5. Onuma later withdrew her charge on October 12, claiming that she was forced by the school to file the case.
“Lawyers in this case are transcribing the verdict. Here is what we know so far,” said Ronnarong. “In the seven cases No. 4091-4097, the court gave unsuspended imprisonment sentences ranging from 15 to 75 days. Onuma has so far been given two months’ unsuspended prison time.”
Ronnarong added that all the defendants confessed to their crimes, so the prison time that they received was already halved from the original verdict.
The baht opened at 31.12 to the US dollar on Tuesday, strengthening from 31.15 at close on Monday.
The Thai currency on Tuesday is likely to move between 31.05 and 31.25, said Jitipol Puksamatanan, senior director of the chief investment office at SCB Securities.
On Monday night, the global financial markets recovered. The S&P 500 index rebounded 1.2 per cent from rise in tech stocks, while the Stoxx 600 index increased by 1.6 per cent.
The price of WTI crude oil recovered by 3.3 per cent, after Opec+ signalled that oil production would not be increased in January 2021.Besides, gold price recovered to $1,895 per ounce.
The senior director mentioned that the US election was the most interesting point for investors at this time. The dollar index rose by 0.2 per cent, and the US Ten-Year Treasury decreased by three basis points to 0.84 per cent.
In Thailand, the baht tended to move in a narrow range, due to investors’ caution before the US election, which could spread financial fluctuation in the market.
The Digital Economy and Society Ministry has urged people not to believe or share news or Internet posts which claim that consuming the “bubbles” of bubble milk tea will cause cancer.
The ministry, however, advised people against excessive consumption due to the risk of diabetes.
“The ministry’s Anti-Fake News Centre contacted the Thailand Food and Drug Administration to verify this information and was told that bubble milk tea had no polychlorinated biphenyls that could cause cancer as the posts claimed,” it said.
“The bubbles are made from tapioca flour, therefore eating them is no different from eating sweets made of flour,” it added. “However, excessive consumption of bubble milk tea could increase the risk of diabetes, as it contains high volume of sugar, syrup, non-dairy creamer and condensed milk, in addition to the flour from bubbles, making it a high-calorie drink and should be consumed sparingly.
“If you have a craving for bubble milk tea but are concerned about your health, try reducing the sugar or omitting the non-dairy creamer,” it suggested.
For more information, contact the Thailand Food and Drug Administration via telephone 0-2590-7000, or visit www.fda.moph.go.th. To report fake news, do so via website www.antifakenewscenter.com.
Four charges would be slapped on Ratchaburi member of Parliament Pareena Kraikup of the Palang Pracharath Party for allegedly encroaching on the national reserve forest in Ratchaburi province, the chief of police of the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division (NRECD) said on Monday.
The land encroachment allegation against Pareena made national headlines in February when the Royal Forest Department (RFD) filed charges against her after months of investigation revealed that her Khao Son 2 chicken farm in Rangbua subdistrict of Jombeung district allegedly encroached on 711 rai, 2 ngarn and 93 square wah (approximately 115 hectares) of protected forestland.
The four charges to be filed are: trespassing on national reserved forestland; residing, constructing or making profit off national reserved forestland; defacing or destroying state-owned lands without permission from officials; extracting underground water without permission from officials, Pol Maj-General Phithak Uthaitham, the NRECD chief, said on Monday.
The maximum punishment for these charges is 4-20 years imprisonment and Bt200,000 to Bt2 million fine.
“On November 23, the NRECD would also summon Pareena’s father, Thawee, to acknowledge complaints filed against him of allegedly encroaching on more than 1,000 rai of national forestland in Ratchaburi’s Suan Pheung district,” added Phitak.
Thawee Kraikup was a seven-time Ratchaburi MP, and the deputy transport minister in the Chuan Leekpai government in 1992.
Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, Arnon Nampa Ekkachai Hongkangwan and Suranat Paenprasert 
