bangkokpost.com The 300-baht national daily minimum wage will be scrapped next year, to be replaced by the old system where wages vary by each province based on the cost of living.

smh.com.au Four Australian women are believed to be among the injured in a ferry explosion as an island-hopping boat made its way to Bali from Lombok. Among those injured were passengers from Australia, France, Italy, US, UK and New Zealand.

AP Rescuers on Saturday recovered the bodies of nine more climbers from Malaysia's highest peak a day after it was struck by a strong earthquake, bringing the total number of dead to 11.


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bangkokpost.com Views are split both in and outside Thailand's parliament on whether an election should be delayed by two years to allow national reform to be completed first.

bloomberg Thailand's government may sell most of its stockpiled rice to ethanol and animal-feed producers because it's no longer fit for human consumption, a move that could dwindle supply from the world's largest exporter of the grain.



afp Thailand's junta leader said government officials involved in the illicit trade in migrants would not be spared and vowed to ''eradicate'' the industry, days before the release of an influential US report ranking nations on their anti-trafficking efforts.

nationmultimedia.com The Thai government anticipates receiving upgrades for two key international rankings on human trafficking after its sustainable crackdown - but the public should not get its hopes up, Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-o-cha said.



news.com.au An Australian man has become the target of a love rival who went to the extreme length of allegedly ordering a hit on his life. Ted Woodward, 64, who moved from Perth to the southern Thai city of Surat Thani several years ago, was travelling home last month when all of a sudden the driver's side window shattered.
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forbes.com Thailand's agribusiness tycoon Dhanin Chearavanont is the country's richest man on Forbes' latest Thailand Rich List, with a net worth of $14.4 billion.

latimes.com American women may soon have access to a controversial libido-enhancing pill dubbed ''pink Viagra'' after a government panel gave its backing to what would be the first FDA-approved drug for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction.

bbc.com Four rollercoasters at three theme parks have been closed, following a crash at Britain's Alton Towers in which 16 people were injured, four seriously.

reuters A union for Walt Disney World Resort character performers said it filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board objecting to a push requiring them not to divulge which characters they portray in any media, including social media.

thetimes.co.uk Four Polish lorry drivers were arrested after 68 starving migrants, including 15 children and two pregnant women, were found locked in lorries during a routine port search.

nytimes.com Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi foreign minister and deputy prime minister who for decades was the most public face of Saddam Hussein's government on the world stage, died in Nasiriya, Iraq, where he had been imprisoned. He was 79.

telegraph.co.uk Alan Bond, the polarising global entrepreneur who became an Australian hero by bankrolling a historic America's Cup yacht race victory before going to prison over the nation's biggest corporate fraud, has died, his family said. He was 77.

ndtv.com Charles Kennedy, the former leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats, died aged 55 as a result of his drinking problem, his family said after his post-mortem.



bangkokpost.com Tourists were injured and scores stranded on one of Southeast Asia's highest mountains when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo island.

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afp The highest levels of South African government approved a $10-million payment that US investigators suspect was a bribe to get the 2010 World Cup, media reports said.

watoday.com.au Former All Black Jerry Collins and partner Alana Madill died instantly in the incident in the south of France while their three-month-old baby, Ayla, is in a critical condition after being airlifted to a hospital in Montpellier.

theguardian.com Australia claimed a nine-wicket win in the first Test against the West Indies, coasting to victory with more than two days to spare.



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