Bangkok News

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• NBTC to air coupon plan

  16 Apr 2014 : A National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) committee is expected to finalise plans tomorrow to provide subsidy coupons to help viewers switch from analogue to digital TVs.
  

• EDUCATION
   Lottery draws for school places face axe

  16 Apr 2014 : The controversial lottery system used to decide places at government high schools could be scrapped.
  

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• Thai New Year

  Full Moon a tourism hit

  16 Apr 2014 : The Full Moon party on Koh Pha-ngan drew nearly 20,000 local and foreign tourists earlier this week.
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  Thieves grab B10 mln watch

  16 Apr 2014 : A wristwatch worth more than 10 million baht was stolen from a shop in Gaysorn Plaza near the Ratchaprasong intersection Tuesday.
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  UDD calls rally for PM’s court case

  16 Apr 2014 : The pro-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will hold a mass rally in Bangkok one day before the Constitutional Court rules on caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's status.
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  Vicha ‘no enemy’ of PM

  16 Apr 2014 : National Anti Corruption Commission (NACC) member Vicha Mahakhun has rejected claims he is an "enemy" of caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, insisting he is fit to lead the anti-graft body's probe into the premier.
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  Aide: Prem aware of call to step in

  15 Apr 2014 : Gen Prem Tinsulanonda, Privy Council president and statesman, is aware of the call by a group of retired soldiers and state officials to step in and help defuse the political crisis, his close aide Lt Gen Pissanu Putthawong said on Tuesday.
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  Emergency line hit by prank calls

  15 Apr 2014 : The public health permanent secretary on Tuesday asked parents in Ayutthaya and Nakhon Sawan to warn their children after the 1669 medical emergency hotline in the provinces had been flooded with prank calls made by teenagers.
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  Taxman warns of VAT invoice fraud

  15 Apr 2014 : The Revenue Department has warned companies of a fraud in which companies are deceived into bribing persons who claim to be tax officials.
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  Thaksin: Government 'ready to talk'

  15 Apr 2014 : Ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra has called on all sides to end political malice and said the Yingluck Shinawatra-led government is ready for talks with every group so long as they are based on democratic principles.
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  Myanmar court jails six Thai gamblers

  15 Apr 2014 : Nineteen people, including six Thai gamblers, were convicted on Monday in an illegal gambling case by a court in Myanmar's Tachilek border town, a source said.

• 38 hurt in Saraburi bus accident

  15 Apr 2014 : Thirty-eight people were hurt when a coach skidded and landed on its side on the shoulder of a road in Kaeng Khoi, Saraburi province, on Tuesday.