BORDER TENSION

Villagers prepare to bunker down

As rumours abound,families check evacuation readiness

King to attend ceremony
His Majesty the King will preside over a ceremony to put a seven-tiered umbrella atop his late sister's royal crematorium next Monday.

Thai army vows to maintain troops in disputed area
The Thai army on Tuesday vowed to maintain its troops in the disputed area near Preah Vihear Temple despite Cambodia's ultimatum for Thailand to withdraw the troops.

Chinese-made tear-gas may have caused severe injuries
Teargas canisters imported from China may have caused the severe wounds to victims injured during the police dispersal of antigovernment protesters on Tuesday, a veteran forensic expert said yesterday.

S&P cookies to be FDA tested
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is studying samples of raw materials and cookies collected from S&P's factory for melamine contamination after Swiss authorities found a high concentration of melamine in S&P milk cookies from....
Snippets from a day of chaos
Bangkok Senator Rosana Tositrakul's husband Santisuk Sophonsiri sneaked into the House yesterday when he saw People Power MPs walking towards his wife and abusing her after she protested about the injured demonstrators and called on the....
UN chief to call Thai PM over Sudan
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to telephone Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat yesterday evening about dispatching troops to Sudan, said Foreign Minister Sompong Amornwiwat.
Floods have killed 18 so far
The death toll from heavy flooding throughout the country has risen to 18, health authorities said yesterday, while nearly 190,000 people have fallen sick.

Environment

Parks to be environmentally friendly
The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry is planning to turn Khao Yai and Phang Nga national parks into environmentally friendly compounds within one month.

Health&Science

Alcohol advertising laws flouted, say industry critics
The Alcohol Watch Network and its allies rallied in Samsen Road yesterday to draw attention to

Education

Parents revise for college
More than 600 adults in their 40s were among 132,209 applicants for the GAT (General Aptitude Test) and PAT (Professional and Academic Aptitude Test) exams, a senior official said yesterday.

Metro/Crimes

Porn mags hardly educational, study finds
More often than not, porn magazines promote the fantasy that men with a bigger appendage can have any woman, while the topic of safe sex is rarely even mentioned, a recent survey revealed yesterday.