Morchit 2 bus terminal to relocate

BANGKOK: -- The Morchit 2 provincial bus terminal at Chatuchak and city bus terminal at Morchit 1 will move to pave the way for  construction of the Red Line electric project.

It was agreed at the meeting hosted by the Ministry of  Transport.

The meeting were executives of the State Railway of Thailand, the Transport Company, operator of the provincial bus terminal at Morchit 2, and the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) which uses the Morchit 1 as a city bus terminal.

Permanent secretary Soithip Traisut revealed after the meeting that the Transport company and the BMTA would be moving their provincial bus terminal at Morchit 2 bus and city bus terminal at Morchit 1 to other area.

Wuthichart Kalayanamit  Managing director of the Transport company,  said the new location of the bus terminals would be decided by the end of the year, while the new site must have at least 100 rais of land, where the state company has planned to invest around three billion baht for the construction of the new bus terminals within 2017.

Thailand Immigration confirms new overstay rules

BANGKOK: --The  Immigration Bureau in Bangkok today (22nd July 2014) posted a new announcement regarding its rules for overstay.

                          Details is as follows

 Aliens who violate The Immigration Act, B.E.2522 by overstaying more than 90 days in the Kingdom of Thailand will be forbidden from re-entering the kingdom for a certain period of time.


Overstay more than 90 days forbidden 1 year

Overstay more than 1 year forbidden 3 years

Overstay more than 3 years forbidden 5 years

Overstay more than 5 years forbidden 10 years

In the case that alien is being apprehended

Overstay less than 1 year forbidden 5 years

Overstay more than 1 years forbidden 10 years.
 

Bhutan princess in Thailand

THAILAND : -  Sister to the King of Bhutan, Princess Sonam Dechan Wangchuck of Bhutan,  is now in Thailand on a five-day official visit from July 20 to 24, 2014. 

 Her visits to the Kingdom as  guest of the Court of Law of Thailand, according to National News Bureau of Thailand (NNT).

Princess Sonam Dechan Wangchuck  Monday (July 21) visited the Supreme Court of Thailand located in the Government Center in Chaeng Watthana area, to observe the system of searching for court decisions and rulings and other legal services, source said.

She observed the activities of the Legal Training Institute of the Thai Bar Association in Taling Chan area, which currently has over 24,000 registered students. In the 2013 academic year, 1,227 students successfully passed the bar examination.

Thai Bar Association humbly bestowed on the Princess honorary membership in recognition for her talents and knowledge in political science and law and her contributions in the fields to the people of Bhutan.

 The Princess is the fifth person to receive the honor from  Thai Bar.

Luang Poo Buddha-issara hospitalized

NAKHON PATHOM : -- Buddhist abbot, Luang Poo Buddha-issara was hospitalized and he is in the intensive care unit of the Nakhon Pathom hospital center under closed monitoring.

Wat Ornoi  temple said the abbot was admitted to the hospital Monday morning after suffering breathing difficulties. 

Dr Somruek Chungsamarn said his condition  improved Tuesday but still needed to be under close watch by doctors.

He was admitted in the hospital’s ICU for close check

He is suffering chest pain and doctors are still diagnosing his sickness symptom to find the exact cause of the pain and  difficulties while breathing.

The People’s Democratic Reform Committee came to visit the abbot at the hospital but were not allowed by doctors to meet him as doctors wanted him to take full rest.

MH17 Malaysia Airline receives black boxes from rebels

MALAYSIA : -- On Tuesday Malaysian officials have received the two MH17 black boxes from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)  in Ukraine, according to source. 

DPR representatives showed up at their government headquarters with the Malaysian government representatives.

The DPR leader Alexander Borodai thanked Malaysia and the Netherlands for sending teams here on Monday to resolve the MH17 issues.

 DPR  brought a white sack containing the black boxes and showed them to the Malaysian officials.

The boxes were  inspected and later accepted by the Malaysian officials.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Monday reached an agreement with Ukrainian rebels for custody of the black boxes and access to the Malaysia airlines flight MH17 crash site.

NCPO approves bills

BANGKOK : -- The National Council for Peace and Order on Tuesday endorsed 12 bills and gave a greenlight for Thailand to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

Most of the bills endorsed by the NCPO include feedstock quality control bill, land reform for agriculture bill, bill regarding the use of animals for scientific purposes and insurance bill.

The bills will  be submitted to the National Legislative Assembly  to be established for deliberation before they will come into effect.

A kindergarten kid dies in a locked school van

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT :  -- A four-year old boy  died of suffocation in a locked school van parked under the sun in the compound of Cha-uad district police station in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Monday.

Police said that the kindergarten school boy whose name was mentioned fell asleep at the back seat of the van which also carried 6-7 other kindergarten school children from their homes to the school in the morning.

Anusorn Joengrungruang the van driver, later admitted to the police that he did not notice that the victim had fallen asleep in the back seat.

After he let the other children get off at the school, he drove the van to the police station where he usual park and then left in a motorcycle.

At  noon, Anusorn said he started wondering if he had  let the 4-year old kid out of his van.

Then he rushed back to the van, opened the door only to find the kid lying dead.  Police said the kid died 3-4 hours ago and will be charged with manslaughter..