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<title>BKKOK.COM - Bangkok, Thailand: Forum, News, Webcams, Dating, Real Estate, Rental Listings And More.</title>
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<title>Toll from cyclone could pass 100,000 - Humanitarian crisis unfolds in Myanmar</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK -- The death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar could top 100,000 people, a U.S. diplomat said yesterday, as a million hungry and homeless survivors wait for help in the closed-off country.
Foreign diplomats here were told the international community has no option but to stand by and watch as &#34;a major humanitarian crisis&#34; unfolds.
Pressure mounted on Myanmar's military rulers to allow humanitarian access as witness reports told of entire villages destroyed.
&#34;The]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-08T20:31:50+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Police warned not to pocket money from motorists</title>
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<description><![CDATA[(BangkokPost.com) &#8211; It&#8217;s the first day that police will be keeping a close eye on motorists who talk on the phone while driving. 
 
Spokesman of the National Police force, Pol Lt Gen Watcharapol Prasarnratchakij said motorists who violate the new law from now until June 19 will be given a warning. However, starting from June 20 onwards, violators will be fined between 400-1,000 baht. They will also have points taken off their driver&#8217;s license. 
 
As for concerns that the ne]]></description>
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<title>Mobile phone ban for motorists now in force</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From today it is illegal to use a mobile phone while driving a vehicle on a road, unless using a hands-free device. Police want to publicise the ban before getting tough and will probably issue cautions at first.
                                                  
                                                 ''First, we'll warn violators to alert them to the danger.  
                                                  
               
''We will fine the stubborn ones from May 20 onwards,']]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-08T13:08:17+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Seminar discusses Thammasat sexual harassment victims</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At least three cases of sexual harassment against students by lecturers at Thammasat University have been reported over the past decade, according to a seminar on sexual harassment at universities yesterday. Malee Pruekpongsawalee, chairwoman of Thammasat University's Women and Youth Studies Programme, said there had been serious cases of sexual harassment prior to last month's scandal involving an engineering lecturer at the Rangsit campus.
                                                  
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<dc:date>2008-05-08T12:54:10+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Uzbekistani man arrested on money laundering, child pornography charges</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Police have arrested a Uzbekistani man wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation on money laundering and child pornography charges.

Mikhail Komov, 39, was arrested at a condominium on Jomthien Beach in Chon Buri on Saturday. Central Investigation Bureau commissioner Pol Maj Gen Panya Mamen held a press conference at the CIB Tuesday to announce the arrest.]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-07T20:12:51+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Thaksin asks Manchester City players to bow to him before games</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MANCHESTER (UK): -- Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra has hit the club with another shock by asking for the players to bow to him Thai-style before each game, Sunday Mirror reported.

Officials at the Eastlands club have been worried for some time by requests from Thaksin - and his latest is for the team to bow towards him after performing their pre-kick-off sporting handshake with the opposition.

Bowing is a traditional mark of respect in Thaksin's native Thailand. But some at City ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-06T18:46:15+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Death toll from Burma cyclone at least 15,000</title>
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<description><![CDATA[RANGOON: -- At least 15,000 people were killed in the Burma cyclone and the toll is likely to rise as officials make contact with the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta areas, the military government's foreign minister said today.

Nyan Win said on state television that 10,000 people had died in just one town, Bogalay, as he gave the first detailed account of what is emerging as the worst cyclone to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people died in Bangladesh.

The total left homeless by the 190kph wi]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-06T13:25:52+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Robinson Silom closing after 24 years</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- The Robinson Silom department store will close on May 23 to make way for True Fitness as the new major tenant at the prime central Bangkok site.

Robinson Department Store Plc decided to return the space to the landlord, Silom Asset, before the lease expiry in 2014 because the space was limited at only 5,000 square metres excluding other Central Retail Corporation business units such as Power Buy, said Usara Yongpiyakul, Robinson's assistant vice-president for marketing.

The lim]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-04T20:06:51+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Farmers to get cheap land for rice</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- The Treasury Department will lease 200,000 rai of land to farmers for rice and biofuel-crop production in a bid to increase supply and ease price pressures, Deputy Finance Minister Ranongrak Suwan-chawee said this week.

She said by 2011, the department would lease 1 million rai to farmers, who will only have to pay Bt20 per rai annually for a three-year contract.

The department will consult with the Agriculture Ministry on the list of farmers eligible for the leases and the amo]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-03T05:46:23+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Thailand records over 700 dead in work-related accidents</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NAKHON PATHOM, May 1 (TNA) - Over 700 workers died across Thailand in work-related accidents last year, according to official statistics.

Nationwide 198,652 persons were injured or became seriously ill at work during 2007. Thailand&#8217;s work-related accidents last year included not only the 741 persons who died unnecessarily, 16 became permanently handicapped, and 3,259 workers losing body parts, such as hands, arms or legs, 

Speaking at a &#34;Safety and Healthcare for Workers&#34; c]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-03T05:42:28+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Drug suspect: Many actors are cocaine buyers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- A drug suspect has revealed that her cocaine customers are mostly leading actors and upperclass nightlife seekers.

Sunisa Srikantarak, 19, told police that she earned between Bt2,000 and Bt3,000 per cocaine delivery.

&#34;I had delivered drugs to my customers at RCA area every Friday,&#34; Sunisa was quoted as saying at a press conference.

The Crime Suppression Division announced the arrest of Sunisa yesterday afternoon. So far, police have not identified the actors whom S]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-01T06:13:02+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mobile telephones to be banned in cinemas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Mobile phones will soon be banned from cinemas as the government strives to combat the high level of intellectual-property-rights (IPR) violations in the Kingdom.

The move follows a meeting yesterday between Deputy Commerce Minister Banyin Tangpaporn and officers of the International Intellectual Property Association (IIPA).

The association urged the creation of a law forbidding mobiles in cinemas, because it found that easy access for high-technology late-model phones had incr]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-01T06:10:04+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Minimum wage to rise marginally</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Minimum wages are set to rise marginally later this month, but so will public bus fares and other necessities as Thais brace for a higher cost of living driven mainly by the increase in oil and other commodity prices.

Labour Minister Uraiwan Thienthong said yesterday she expected a &#34;surprise&#34; on the minimum-wage rise. A decision will be made tomorrow by the Tripartite Wage Committee, representing employees, employers and the government.]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-01T06:05:41+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Yongyuth resigns as House Speaker</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Yongyuth Tiyapairat of People Power party (PPP) announced his resignation as House Speaker as he faces trial for electoral fraud charges in the Dec 23 general election.

Mr Yongyuth held a press conference announcing his decision at 5pm on Wednesday.

He said he does not want to his cases to damage the image of the parliament.

He insisted that there is no hidden agenda behind his decision, and that it is not done to clear the way for the appointment of a new House Speaker who ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-01T06:01:17+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Only 20 per cent of public toilets meet hygiene standard</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: --A national survey by Public Health Ministry reveals that only 20 percent of public toilets across country pass the hygiene standard.

The survey had been conducted in 2007 to ask member of public about their pleasure to use public toilet. The survey found 40 percent of people are pleasure to use public toilet

-- The Nation 2008-04-30]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-01T06:00:09+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>70% of Thai women cannot achieve orgasm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- A recent global sex survey found that 70 per cent of Thai women cannot achieve orgasm.

Others reach orgasm through masturbation or having sex with another woman, while 79 per cent of Thai men climax during sex, according to research by condom manufacturer Durex.

The survey was conducted in 26 countries and questioned 26,000 respondents about their sexual behaviour and attitudes.

It revealed that 54 per cent of Thai couples cannot reach orgasm, while Italians, Spanish, Mexica]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T09:03:50+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Children enjoy sexual assault scenes on TVs: survey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- A recent survey has revealed shocking findings: many children enjoy watching scenes of rapes on TV and they come to see sexual assaults as something common.

&#34;Some children even say they want to be like leading male characters in TV series so that they can rape a woman,&#34; Dr Noppadon Kannika said Tuesday as the head of the Assumption University's research centre, &#34;This is worrying&#34;.

Conducted from April 24 to April 27, the survey covered 2,159 respondents in B]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T09:02:22+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Abuse-of-power trial against former Thai premier begins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Supreme court on Tuesday officially kicked off an abuse-of-power trial against former premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Pojaman for the purchase of a plot of land at a government auction five years ago.

Thaksin did not appear in court but was represented by his wife.

Potjaman told the Supreme Court for Political Cases that she and her husband were innocent.    

Thaksin, who is currently in London, stands accused of abusing his position as prime minister in 2003 by allo]]></description>
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<title>Thai inflation in 2008 unlilkely to exceed 4.5%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Despite soaring oil prices coupled with a rising cost of living, Thailand's Ministry of Finance is optimistic that the average rate of inflation this year will not exceed the 4.5 per cent level projected earlier, a senior ministry official said on Monday.

Fiscal Police Office director-general Pannee Sathavarodom said her office was confident that Thailand's average inflation in 2008 would not rise above 4.5 per cent if average Dubai crude oil price stands at US$95 per barrel.

B]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T09:00:22+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Woman robbed of Bt200,000 in bank's toilet room</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- An armed robber Monday forced a businesswoman to hand him Bt200,000 cash at gunpoint inside the toilet of a Bangkok Bank branch.

Aimorn Jindasombatjaroen, 50, said she was going down to the bank's parking area when the robber grabbed her by the neck.

&#34;He showed me his gun and forced me into the toilet. He then took away my cash,&#34; the businesswoman said.

She said she just withdrew the cash from the bank on Lat Phrao Road.

-- The Nation 2008-04-28]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T08:58:31+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>12 killed by dengue fever this year</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- The dengue fever has already killed 12 patients in the country this year.

&#34;When compared with the same period a year earlier, the number of denguefever patients has increased by 80 per cent,&#34; Public Health Minister Chaiya Sasomsap said Monday.

From January 1 to April 19 this year, up to 10,901 people caught the dengue fever.]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T08:57:20+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Fake passport racket busted</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Police have arrested a man from Bangladesh who made hundreds of fake Western and Asian passports _ their largest counterfeit documents bust in five years.

A team from the Special Operations Police (SOP) raided the house of Mohammed Karim, 56, in Bang Kae district on Saturday.

They found a sophisticated passport-making operation and more than 1,000 finished and unfinished documents, fake visa seals and two computers in one of the largest operations of its kind ever, SOP chief Ch]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T08:56:09+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>50 Swedish Homebuyers Cheated For Millions In Thailand</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Up to 50 Swedish families and disabled have been cheated in a property scandal in Thailand. The investors were dreaming about owning a peace of paradise in Bang Phra, but according to the Swedish tabloid Expressen they lost millions of Swedish Kronor in deals with Thai Care, a company dominated by the Swedish citizen Mr. Curt Timhede.

The sale of three rooms apartments and villas started in 2006. Costumers liked what they saw on exhibitions and the Thai Care website. Swimming pool]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T08:49:55+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Two Thais arrested for stealing and using foreign tourists' credit cards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Two young men have been arrested for stealing and using credit cards of foreign tourists, a senior tourist police officer said Saturday.

Pol Col Samran Yindee-arom told a press conference that Wansawang Puawongpaet, 19, and a 15-year-old boy were arrested Friday afternoon in a Lotus Superstore in Bangkok's Bang Plad district while using stolen credit cards to buy phones.

Police found Bayerscne LandesBank Visa card and Nippon Shinpan Visa card with them as well a Deutsche Bank d]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T08:48:52+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Licenses on Thai vehicles entering Mekong countries to be in English</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Private sedans, tour buses and foreign diplomatic cars from Thailand traveling to five Mekong-basin nations must have registration plates written in English beginning June 11, a senior Transport Ministry official said.

Acting Land Transport Department director-general Chairat Sa-nguansue said the new requirements -- that automobile registration plates bear the name of the country, the registration number and appropriate provincial codes in English -- follows agreements on border t]]></description>
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<title>Supreme commander denies coup rumours</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Supreme Commander Gen. Boonsang Niempradit on Friday dismissed news reports relating to rumours of a possible new coup d'etat, saying he had never instructed a military forces check-up in preparation for a putsch as some media members had reported.

He said he was not concerned about the planned rally by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) on Friday evening because it is a normal phenomenon in a democratic system.

&#34;I don't think the rally will lead to national divisio]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T08:46:56+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Bidding telegrams a final goodbye</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Introduced by Samuel Morse in 1835, this traditional means of communication is finally being put to rest. Visit the Bang Rak post office today to pay your respects

It's 2008 but hundreds of people are turning up at the central post office - with their mobile phones and laptops in tow - to send telegrams.

It's the last week you can send a Thailand Post telegram. The 133-year-old service will end on Wednesday at the Bang Rak office.

Many people want a memento of the historic s]]></description>
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<title>Poll: Adultery main cause of family break-ups in Thai society</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Adultery is the major cause for family break-ups and divorce in Thai society, according to a new survey conducted by Assumption University's ABAC Poll.

Noppadol Kannikar, director of the respected poll, said the survey, conducted among 3,088 people in 18 provinces nationwide between March 25 and April 12, found that over three out of four families -- almost 77 per cent -- and 69 per cent divorced persons agreed that adultery was the number one cause which led to broken families.
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<dc:date>2008-04-15T08:34:29+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Thailand ensures fairness for the Merchant of Death</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Thailand ensured Friday fairness of suspected Russian arm dealer Viktor Bout under the Thai laws.

Bout, who has been dubbed &#34;The Merchant of Death,&#34; pleaded to Moscow in a televised statement from a Thai prison to help secure his release.

Foreign Ministry's spokesman Tharit Charungvat said in a statement that the Thai authorities have treated him with respect and have acted to ensure his physical health and safety while in custody.

He has been permitted to communic]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-04-12T08:56:15+07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Songkran Chaos - Transportation systems and roads jammed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: -- Forget buses and trains: they're all booked up. And get to the airport three hours early if you want to get anywhere

Heavy traffic built up yesterday afternoon as people headed back to their family homes for the long Songkran holiday.

Route No 9 to the Northeast was the most congested, said Pol Colonel Roy Inkapairoj, Highways Police deputy commander. He said many roads to the North and Northeast would be slow going after 6pm yesterday but expected the traffic would ease today.]]></description>
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