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  Exceptional student scores spark Ovec investigation

  18 Apr 2014 : The Office of the Vocational Education Commission (Ovec) has launched an investigation after finding that an unusually high number of students in almost 40 vocational colleges had excelled in many subjects.
  

• justicePhuket journalists indicted on libel rap

  18 Apr 2014 : PHUKET: Two journalists charged with defaming the Royal Thai Navy in an online news report about the trafficking of refugees from Myanmar were indicted yesterday, amid concerns over press freedom.
  

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  Terror suspect admits Israeli attack plan

  18 Apr 2014 : Investigations into two suspected foreign terrorists are progressing swiftly as one of the men admitted to a planned attack on Israeli tourists in Khao San Road during Songkran, according to an investigator.
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  ROAD SAFETY

  Bus crashes kill 7, injure scores

  18 Apr 2014 : At least seven people were killed and scores of others injured in two road accidents in Kanchanaburi and Chiang Mai Thursday.
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  1 killed, 4 hurt on Tiam Ruammit Rd

  17 Apr 2014 : A man died and four others were injured when a taxi slammed into a motorcycle waiting at an intersection before careening into a police booth on Tiam Ruammit Road on Thursday, police said.
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  Journalists charged with defaming Thai navy

  17 Apr 2014 : PHUKET - Authorities on Thursday charged two journalists with defaming the Royal Thai Navy in an online news report about the trafficking of refugees from Myanmar, amidst concerns about press freedom.
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  Double-decker bus overturns, 3 killed

  17 Apr 2014 : KANCHANABURI – A double-decker bus carrying elderly people to a temple in Tha Muang district overturned, crashing on to its side, on a main road on Thursday morning, killing three passengers and leaving another 39 injured, police said.
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  Four killed, 50 injured in bus accident

  17 Apr 2014 : CHIANG MAI - A bus accident in Hot district on Thursday killed four people and injured about 50, police said.

• Newsmen charged with defaming navy

  17 Apr 2014 : PHUKET - Thai authorities have charged two journalists with defaming the Royal Thai Navy in an online news report about the trafficking of refugees from Myanmar.
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  Two terrorist suspects arrested

  17 Apr 2014 : Two foreign terrorist suspects were arrested by Thai police on Monday, PM's adviser on security matters Paradorn Pattanatabut confirmed on Thursday.

• Songkran toll: 277 killed, 2,926 injured

  17 Apr 2014 : Twenty-nine people were killed and 283 injured in 273 accidents on Wednesday, the sixth of the "seven dangerous days" (April 11-17) of the Songkran festival, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Thursday.
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  obituary

  Thai language scholar Ratchanee dies

  17 Apr 2014 : Ratchanee Sripraiwan, author of the Mana Manee Piti Choojai Thai language learning books, died on Tuesday at age 82.