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• Parks Dept targets illegal logging

  21 Apr 2014 : The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) has stepped up efforts to crack down on illegal logging of rare Siamese rosewood in Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex.
  

• terrorismThreat spurs Khao San security boost

  21 Apr 2014 : Security has been tightened along Rambutri and Khao San Roads in Phra Nakhon district where the Jewish community is located, after a terror threat over the Songkran festival.
  

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  Scrap shop blast locals ‘abandoned’

  21 Apr 2014 : The home of 80-year-old Pen Yingthong was severely damaged when a World War II bomb exploded at a junk shop next door almost three weeks ago.
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  Couple, infant niece slain in Yala attack

  20 Apr 2014 : A couple and their infant niece were killed in a drive-by shooting in Yala on Sunday afternoon.
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  Earliest election date is July 20

  20 Apr 2014 : The next general election can be held on July 20 at the earliest, Election Commission (EC) member Somchai Srisuthiyakorn said on Sunday.
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  New red group builds ‘volunteer force’

  20 Apr 2014 : A red-shirt volunteer-based group set up to "protect democracy" launched its second workshop and training programme involving self-defence and hand-to-hand combat in Nakhon Ratchasima on Sunday, with 15,000 people claimed to be taking part.
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  Suriyasai slams Pheu Thai, govt

  20 Apr 2014 : It is apparent that the caretaker government under Yingluck Shinawatra and the Pheu Thai Party are behind threats being mounted against the National Anti-Corruption Commission and the Constitutional Court, Suriyasai Katasila, coordinator of the Green Group and member of the People's Democratic Reform Committee, said Sunday.
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  UDD to rally on eve of "judgement day"

  20 Apr 2014 : The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will hold a mass rally of the red shirts one day before the Constitutional Court delivers its verdict on whether Yingluck Shinawatra has lost her status as prime minister over the transfer of Thawil Pliensri, the former National Security Council (NSC) chief, Tida Thawornseth said on Sunday.
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  PT: What about Democrat cases?

  20 Apr 2014 : The Pheu Thai Party will send a letter to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) seeking information about the progress of investigations into seven cases against the Democrat Party, Pheu Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparit said on Sunday.
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  PT wants June election, Dems have conditions

  20 Apr 2014 : The Pheu Thai Party wants the election to be held on June 15 as proposed by 53 smaller parties, not July 20 or 27 as earlier suggested by Election Commission (EC) member Somchai Srisuthiyakorn, party spokesman Prompong Nopparit said on Sunday.
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  PT wants election on June 15

  20 Apr 2014 : The Pheu Thai Party wants the election be held on June 15 as proposed by 53 smaller parties, not July 20 or 27 as earlier suggested by Election Commission member Somchai Srisuthiyakorn, party spokesman Prompong Nopparit said on Sunday.
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  Pheu Thai hits back at charter court

  20 Apr 2014 : The Constitutional Court is not working for the people because it was installed by the Council for National Security (CNS), Pheu Thai Party leader and caretaker Interior Minister Charupong Ruangsuwan said on Sunday.