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Monday, November 30, 2015
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bangkokpost.com Two passengers were killed and 49 others, including foreigners, injured when a Bangkok-bound tour bus from Chiang Mai overturned on the Asia Highway in Chaiyo district, police said.

tns Frustrated by a ban on demonstrations during international climate talks, hundreds of protesters clashed with police on Sunday in the Place de la Republique in Paris.

bangkokpost.com A foreign man was beaten and abducted by five men, also believed to be foreigners, at a housing estate in Pattaya, police said.

fourfourtwo.com Trent McClenahan played a full match as Phuket FC lost 3-0 away to Ang Thong.

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nationmulktimedia.com Tourism Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul said she would embrace an eco-tourism plan and she expects tourism revenue to reach Bt2.3 trillion next year. She will join 20 others meeting with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha on Thursday on how to drive the economic policy into a concrete agenda.

bbc.com Hundreds of thousands of people have marched worldwide to demand action to stop climate change, the day before a UN summit starts in Paris. One campaign group says more than 570,000 protesters took part in marches on all the main continents.

nationmultimedia.com Police have arrested a taxi driver and two friends, also cabbies, over the robbery of a Myanmar man and the kidnapping of his pregnant wife who was eventually left at a Don Muang building.

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reuters Mexican authorities will run DNA tests on two charred bodies found earlier this week in a camper van, in a state infamous for narcotics gangs and about 100 miles from where missing Australian surfers Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman were last spotted.

nationmultimedia.com Strong winds and three-metre-high waves eroded a 100-metre section of the Pak Phanang-Hua Sai Road in Nakhon Si Thammarat's Pak Phanang district, and affected local residents. Two families that live near the road were evacuated as a precaution after their homes were severely damaged.

AFP Germany is planning to deploy 1200 troops to help France in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, its army chief said, in what would be the military's biggest deployment abroad.

reuters Chances are high that the tomb of Ancient Egypt's boy-king Tutankhamun has passages to a hidden chamber, which may be the last resting place of the lost Queen Nefertiti, experts said.

AP Airstrikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed at least 18 civilians and wounded dozens more in a northern Syrian town held by insurgents, Syrian opposition media reported.

reuters The body of the pilot killed when Turkey shot down a Russian jet was taken to Turkey to be handed over to Russia, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

nationmultimedia.com Accessing government information has been made much easier with the launch of the website www.GovChannel.go.th. GovChannel was introduced as a channel for people to access information from all governmental sectors, in the hope of achieving an advanced national digital strategy and keeping pace with the fast-changing world.

smh.com.au After years of being ignored and pilloried, reporters are back on the big screen in a big way. We can walk tall and feel good, basking in the recognition of our great calling. Or maybe not. I suspect that most of these movies are a kind of vigil - Hollywood's too-soon requiem for a dying profession.

telegraph.co.uk The most frequently quoted statistic is that around 1 percent of the British population is asexual, although I suspect the actual number is higher than that. The only difference between my life and a "normal" person's life is that I just don't think about sex all the time. In the grand scheme of things, it really isn't that hard to grasp. Is it?

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aa.com.tr Survivors of rape in Cambodia are being failed by a judicial system mired in corruption, where perpetrators can pay to have charges dropped and some victims have to marry their attackers, according to a report.

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afp Winston Reid's unfortunate own goal prevented West Ham United from claiming a first win in four Premier League games as they drew 1-1 with West Bromwich Albion.

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November 29 Phuket King's Cup Regatta

December 5 HM The King's Birthday

December 26 Tsunami memorial ceremonies

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Concrete is hardly the substance eco-tourism is made of.

Posted by Herbert on November 30, 2015 14:27

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You might want to check into the "colorful" background of the quality tourist kidnapped in Pattaya. I'm sure there is much more to that story.

Posted by Martin on December 1, 2015 05:45


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