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• Education
  Teachers accused of exam fraud

  22 Apr 2014 : The Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) has set up a panel to investigate a school director and two qualified teachers from Buri Ram province who "dishonestly" sat screening exams for assistant teachers.
  

• AVIATION
  THAI blames huge losses on unrest

  22 Apr 2014 : Thai Airways International (THAI) has confirmed it is experiencing a substantial decrease in passengers from East Asia due to the political stand-off.
  

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• Cops target illegal nightspots

  22 Apr 2014 : Police in Bangkok will impose harsher penalties on entertainment venues that stay open beyond 1am under a proposed law change aimed at dealing with a ballooning number of illegal establishments.
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  Unpaid plant workers strike

  21 Apr 2014 : PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — Employees of an aloe vera canning factory in Pran Buri district went on strike Monday in a protest over unpaid salaries.
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  'Hottest day' in Bangkok Sunday

  21 Apr 2014 : Bangkok residents are on their way to the theoretical hottest day of the year on Sunday, when the sun will be closest to the city and directly above it.
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  Army fears Krue Se retaliation

  21 Apr 2014 : Army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha has instructed security forces in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat to be on full alert ahead of next Monday's 10th anniversary of the 2004 Krue Se mosque shooting in Pattani.
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  Ukrit hits at Constitutional Court

  21 Apr 2014 : When the Constitutional Court has violated the rule of law, it should cease its duty, wrote Ukrit Mongkolnavin, chairman of the Independent National Rule of Law Commission (NRLC), in an open letter.
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  Rights activist 'disappears' in Kaeng Krachan

  21 Apr 2014 : An international human rights group urged authorities on Monday to investigate the disappearance of a prominent environmental activist arrested in Kaeng Krachan, in Phetchaburi.
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  BMA reports on public parks projects

  21 Apr 2014 : City Hall on Monday reported progress in the building of new public parks in Bangkok as part of plans to create more green space for people living the congested capital city.
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  Pheu Thai repeats call for elections

  21 Apr 2014 : The Pheu Thai Party on Monday issued a statement saying that a fresh general election is the best way out of the conflict wracking the country.

• Haunted man admits murdering 'wife'

  21 Apr 2014 : KHON KAEN - An elderly man who said he had been haunted in his dreams by his wife since he killed her in a fit of anger and dumped her body in a pond has been arrested by police and charged with murder.

• Elderly man slain in Yala

  21 Apr 2014 : A 65-year-old man was murdered while travelling on a motorcycle in Bannang Sata district in Yala province on Monday morning, police said.