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SENATE ELECTION
Nitiphum top-vote earner in Bangkok

Nittiphum Nawarat has become the top-vote earner in the Bangkok senatorial election Wednesday after the ballot counting was done Thursday morning.



UPPER HOUSE ELECTION
Senate: New faces, same old ties

Candidates thought to have links with Thai Rak Thai out in front



Polling officials quit after Wed southern violence

Sunday's MP polls in Narathiwat and Yala could be hampered by a lack of manpower after explosions and shootings on Senate election day claimed three lives and wounded 31 people.





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Attacks on polls, ballot convoys in South kill 3
Three people were killed and 17 others injured in a series of bomb explosions and shootings in the deep South yesterday, after weeks of relative peace.






ANALYSIS
Bangkok voters keep hopes of a free and independent chamber alive
While the unofficial nationwide results of yesterday's Senate election show the Thai Rak Thai Party's "nominees" are likely to control the upper chamber, the race in the key battleground of Bangkok has kept hopes alive that at least some form of balance will be maintained over the next six years.















EXPORTS
Trade envoys meet to map new strategy
Growth targets will be met: counsellors



Foreign-domination regulations spark international outcry


The mystery of good governance


Amata keeps land-sales target at 2,000 rai






UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE DEBACLE
Finding unidentified test-takers will slow exam scores' release
Education panel believes 1,000 students failed to fill in their ID numbers properly; could take until a week from Sunday to locate them all



Software did not cause test fiasco, developer insists


'Police punched me until I confessed'





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Paradorn's feet of clay strike again
Thai star Paradorn Srichaphan's hope of victory went up in a cloud of dust after he lost his first match on clay this season to France's Florent Serra in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters Series on Tuesday.







EDITORIAL
Lessons from a testing debacle
The twofold failure of the NIETS to deliver accurate exam results must not compromise the level playing field



Sorry, but none of Thaksin's nominees pass the test




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