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• EC presses govt over fresh poll

  14 Apr 2014 : The Election Commission plans to push for a regulation to prevent a repeat of the candidate registration blockade debacle on Feb 2.
  
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  Thais must face facts of aging

  14 Apr 2014 : Many people are aware that April 13 is Songkran day while fewer recognise it is also National Aging Day.
  

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  23 hurt in tour bus mishap as festival starts

  14 Apr 2014 : Twenty-three passengers were injured when a Bangkok-Trang tour bus overturned in Huay Yod district of Trang province yesterday morning, police said.
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  Police play down Ko Tee pic

  14 Apr 2014 : Police are not convinced Pathum Thani red-shirt leader Wutthipong “Ko Tee” Kochthammakhun, who is wanted for insulting the monarchy, has already fled Thailand as indicated by a picture and an audio clip distributed on the net.

• Boy electrocuted in Songkran party

  13 Apr 2014 : A teenage boy has died and another is in a coma after being electrocuted by a foam generator used in Songkran celebrations in Pichit province on Sunday afternoon.

• CSD: Ko Tee still at large

  13 Apr 2014 : Police have combed many places in the hunt for radical red-shirt leader Wuthipong Kochathamkhun, alias Ko Tee, but so far have not been able to find him, Pol Maj Gen Noraboon Naenna, deputy chief of the Crime Suppression Division, said Sunday.
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  Incendiary bombs hit red-shirt radio

  13 Apr 2014 : Incendiary devices were hurled at a community radio station run by hardcore red-shirt leader Wuthipong "Ko Tee"Kachathamkun in Pathum Thani province early Sunday morning, but no one was injured.

• 3 nabbed with 40,000 speed pills

  13 Apr 2014 : Three drug suspects were arrested with 40,000 methamphetamine pills in Pak Kret district of Nonthaburi province on Saturday following a tip-off.
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  Democrats: Thaksin must respect law

  13 Apr 2014 : Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra should respect all laws and not just the ones that would benefit him, Democrat Party spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said on Sunday.

• Two killed in Chiang Mai drug bust

  13 Apr 2014 : Two drug couriers were killed and 100,000 methamphetamine pills seized in two clashes between soldiers of the Pha Muang Force and a band of drug traffickers near the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Mai's Mae Ai district on Sunday morning, according to force commander Maj Banjerd Changpoonthong.

• THAI flight makes emergency landing

  13 Apr 2014 : A Thai Airways International (THAI) flight heading to Koh Samui made an emergency return and landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Sunday morning with landing gear issues, Suvarnabhumi director Raweewan Netarakavesana said.

• 23 injured in Trang bus accident

  13 Apr 2014 : Twenty-three passengers were injured when a Bangkok-Trang tour bus overturned in Huay Yod district of Trang province on Sunday morning, police said.