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Officials are acquitted of dredge-boat accusations

The Criminal Court yesterday acquitted two former top executives and five serving officials of the Harbour Department in a case relating to a collapsed Bt1.79-billion contract to procure canal-dredging boats.




Aussie gets 34 years for killing Canadian wife

An Australian man who pleaded guilty to the murder of his Canadian wife in Bangkok has been sentenced to 34 years in jail.





Royal barge model to be made of silver

Chiang Mai province and the Silverware and Handicraft Club of the Wualai community, famous for its fine silverware creations, are planning to build a model of the Suphannahongsa royal barge made of 99.99 per cent pure silver to be presented to HM the King to mark the auspicious occasion of his 60th anniversary on the throne and his 80th birthday in 2007.



Nine new anti-alcohol measures planned

The Public Health Ministry is going to ask the Cabinet to instruct the Public Relations Department (PRD) to ban alcohol advertising on TV and radio 24 hours a day, according to the Disease Control Department's deputy director-general Dr Narong Sahamethapat.



Students can draft charter: PM

Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont yesterday urged universities to encourage their students to participate in the constitution-drafting process by letting them create their own versions while the Constitution Drafting Assembly works on the official one.



Sipa to show two in-house animated short films

The Software Industry Promotion Agency's (Sipa) local branch will screen its two in-house short animation films next month.



Don't make our universities autonomous, plead students

Standing firm on their stance against an Education Ministry policy to grant autonomy to state universities, a group of student representatives yesterday released a formal statement calling on the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) to withdraw bills seeking the change.

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