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Oil smugglers’ vessel erupts in enormous fireball
Patcharapol Panrak
Police are searching for the owners of an illegal oil ship and clues
to why the vessel exploded, burned and sunk off a pier near Samae San last
week.
Seven fire trucks responded to the fire at the Pirom Pier in Samae San June
10. After unsuccessfully battling the blaze for an hour, the Royal Thai Navy
towed the ship out into the harbor for fear other ships would catch fire.
There the vessel burned and sunk. There were no casualties.
Prajuab Tongkasem, assistant Samae San village headman, said he saw the
workers using welding torches and that sparks dropped into the hold where
7,000 liters of oil were stored. The oil burst into flames but the work crew
escaped safely, he said. Police are continuing to investigate for the exact
cause of the blaze.
The oil ship had been idle since May 7 after being seized by police for
illegal oil distribution. Originally a fishing boat, the vessel was
retrofitted to carry 20,000 liters of diesel.
Officials threaten resignation if latest baht-bus
controls not enforced
Sawittree Namwiwatsuk
Frustrated over lax enforcement of rules governing baht bus operations in
Pattaya, the city council’s committee for administration and maintaining
peace and order has threatened to resign if their latest effort to ensure
‘songthaew’ drivers stick to their allocated routes is ignored by city hall.
 Sanit
Bunmachai, chairman of the city council’s committee for administration and
maintaining peace and order.
At a June 10 meeting, Sanit Bunmachai, chairman of the city council’s
committee for administration and maintaining peace and order, announced a
plan for Pattaya Police to crack down on the more than 700 baht buses by the
end of the month by monitoring how many ply routes outside those allocated
to them by the Chonburi Land Transport Office, and submitting that data to
Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome.
“The committee resolved to try and solve this problem by requesting the city
municipal police to check some of the major baht bus routes in town and
collect information to devise a final solution,” Sanit said. “If the mayor
continues to ignore this problem, then the matter will be submitted to the
city council. But if the council is also incapable of solving these
problems, which is causing a lot of inconvenience and hardship to the people
of Pattaya, then the whole committee for administration and maintaining of
peace and order in the city would resign their positions.”
Sanit said the latest plan stemmed from a large number of complaints about
the pickup-truck taxis turning randomly off established routes between North
and South Pattaya. This resulted in some passengers having to wait long
times to catch a songthaew while others were kicked out before their
destination.
Three drivers were fined in May for doing just that, Pattaya Transport
Co-operative President Tawat Puakbunnak said. Three repeat offenses and the
transport co-op can strip the driver of his license, which is the highest
penalty set by the co-operative.
Chonburi governor lauds quick Pattaya response to H1N1 outbreak
Ariyawat Nuamsawat
Quick response and thorough inspections have, so far, prevented
further outbreaks of influenza A (H1N1) in Pattaya, even as the virus spread
rapidly throughout the rest of the country, Chonburi Gov. Senee Jittakasem
told reporters and local residents last week.
After 21 cases of the 2009 flu were reported, officials swept through the
city, inspecting schools, hotels and entertainment venues and testing
hundreds of people. “Treatment is in progress and extreme measures have been
taken to prevent the virus’ further spread,” Senee said.
(L to R) Deputy Governor
Pornchai Kwansakul, Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome, Governor Senee Jittakasem, and
Dr. Marut Jirasetsiri of the Chonburi Public Health Office tell people not
to worry about the Swine Flu.
The governor noted that Pattaya City and Education
District 3 officials have visited 32 schools to both check for infections
and provide preventative information to teachers and students. He said no
flu cases were found, although 13 children were sick with chicken pox.
Senee reminded the business owners attending that Pattaya is a major tourist
city and, thus, it is important for those dealing with the public to have
physical checkups and keep their venues sanitary. Tourism, he said, has been
affected, but the damage should be mild and short-term at it is currently
low season.
Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome concurred that since the initial outbreak
there have been no further infections reported and that the situation is
“under control.”
“We have now written a second letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
explaining our effective preventative measures and, most importantly,
Pattaya is hosting a seminar with thousands of people from Taiwan (where
three were reported to have the flu after visiting Pattaya). Therefore it is
very important to keep our image positive internationally.”
Nationwide, the number of cases increased nine-fold last week to more than
200 with new infections reported in Bangkok, Phuket and Chang Mai. By early
last week, the Public Health Ministry reportedly slapped a gag order on all
hospitals and local officials, preventing them from discussing the number of
flu cases for fear of causing panic or damaging tourism.
“The 2009 flu is not as scary as it sounds. If we live our daily lives
cautiously,” Itthiphol said. “Banglamung Hospital is distributing free masks
for the public to prevent spread of the disease and all entertainment venues
in the city are open as usual.”
Some of the business owners attending seemed to share the mayor’s sentiment.
Ekanan Hassawai, a car rental entrepreneur in Pattaya, said the flu problem
is not as worrisome as the economic crisis or even as severe as the bird flu
problem several years ago. He feared, however, that the city’s many women
working in beer and go-go bars posed the most risk for spreading the virus
among tourists.
Anucha Wongseborisoot, 32, said he thinks there will always be new diseases
and that H1N1 posed no special threat as long as medication and treatment is
available. He agreed that the biggest problem facing business owners is the
economy.
Chonburi governor promotes organic rice farming
Vimolrat Singnikorn
Gov. Senee Jittakasem wants to make Chonburi a center for
organically grown rice by dispatching agricultural experts in four districts
to teach farmers how to produce and use non-chemical fertilizer.
 Chonburi
Gov. Senee Jittakasem is spearheading the province’s new organic rice
project.
Senee said he hopes that within two years, all rice farms in Panas Nokom, Bo
Thong, Nong Yai and Pan Thong districts will be organic.
“Most farmers are currently using non-organic fertilizers, which increases
chemical accumulation in the soil and causes it to deteriorate after each
harvest,” Senee said. “As a result, farmers must use more than 15% more
chemicals the next year. To solve that problem, we are asking farmers to use
only natural fertilizer they can produce themselves.”
Starting this month Chonburi will have experts visit the four agricultural
districts to show farmers how to make their own fertilizer for less than
they’re spending now on chemicals.
Pattaya comes together to
scrub city clean of H1N1 virus
Governor Senee Jittakasem
and Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome lead volunteers
as they scrub down Walking Street.
Ariyawat Nuamsawat
The governor of Chonburi, mayor of Pattaya and city council
members joined a team of volunteers to scrub down Pattaya’s main
entertainment zone in hopes of wiping out any trace of the influenza A
(H1N1) virus that sickened 21 residents this past week and put yet
another dent in the city’s tourism industry.
Gov. Senee Jittakasem, Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome, council members,
doctors, former politicians and Dew-Pongsakorn and King-Muen Prae,
winners of the 5-Star Entertainment contest converged on Walking Street
June 15 with sterilizer, caustic sodas and antiviral sprays. The
volunteers tackled the street with scrubbing brooms and poured the
cleansers in the drains while others sprayed the air. Business owners
were asked to cooperate by doing similarly inside their venues.
In a post-scrubbing interview, Senee said no further infections have
been reported since the initial outbreak among workers of a North
Pattaya nightclub. He said the afflicted have now been treated and are
recovering. He said the quick response shows Chonburi is prepared and
efficient and there is no need for panic over the virus, which continued
to spread rapidly throughout Thailand, infecting more than 200 people
last week.
Questioned about virus outbreaks in Chonburi schools, Senee said he
wasn’t aware of any infections but will investigate further. Schools, he
said, can close if they feel it’s appropriate. The Pattaya Mail has
confirmed that one school has closed for three days for disinfection as
a preventative measure.
Floating docks for tourist
boats under construction
Small boat piers are being
built onto Bali Hai pier to accommodate more boats.
Pramote Channgam
Speedboats and other small tourist craft will soon be able to moor
quickly and easily at two small floating docks on either side of Bali Hai
Pier.
Located about 100 meters from the beginning of the pier, the floats will
allow for temporary docking of small boats and the transit of up to 70-80
people at a time.
The 8.2 million baht project is being built with numerous safety features to
handle boats and passengers in both high- and low-tide situations, said
project manager Chaowalit Chariyayanyong.
The 8.5 m x 13.5 m supporting pontoons are made of high-density, multi-layer
polyethylene, have metal fences surrounding them, offer tie-off posts,
rubber bumpers and can support 1,400 kilograms without tearing.
Chaowalit estimated the pontoons would last 10 years.
Officials urge calm amid flu outbreak
Pledge virus wiped out in 4 weeks
Ariyawat Nuamsawat and Vimolrat Singnikorn
City and national officials are urging Pattaya residents not to worry after
last week’s outbreak of the A(H1N1) influenza, noting that Thailand has more
than enough anti-viral medication, the infected have been isolated and
things should be back to normal within four weeks.
Seventeen employees of a Pattaya nightclub were confirmed to have the
A(H1N1) virus after the Taiwanese government reported that two of its
citizens who visited Pattaya returned home with the A(H1N1) virus. A third
member of the 22-person tour group tested positive for swine flu June 11.
 Wittaya
Kaewparadai, Minister of Public Health, sent a rapid response team to
Pattaya to look into the outbreak here.
“An explanation will be given to the Taiwanese government and information
will be provided to travel agencies regarding this strain of influenza in
Pattaya,” Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome said at a June 11 press conference. “It
has been confirmed that this flu isn’t a serious disease and can be
protected against and cured in a short period of time.”
Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has sent 120,000 doses of Tamiflu
anti-viral medication to the city, Itthiphol said, adding that the outbreak
is “under control” and flu in the area will be eradicated within four weeks.
National trends, however, seem to contradict the mayor’s rosy predictions.
The number of reported A(H1N1) cases in Thailand leaped by 44 cases to 150
by June 13. Paichit Varachit, deputy permanent secretary for the Ministry of
Public Health, told the Thailand News Agency the virus is now spreading
among groups of people and may worsen so that people throughout the country
contract the disease. Dr. Tawee Chotpitayasunondh, chairman of Thailand’s
anti-A(H1N1) committee, likewise admitted to TNA that it is “impossible to
contain A(H1N1) from spreading because it could be transmitted through
breathing.” However, he added, symptoms are not serious.
The World Health Organization June 11 declared the first flu pandemic of the
21st century, telling governments around the world they should prepare for a
long-term battle against the A(H1N1) influenza. Worldwide, 28,774 infections
have been reported in 74 countries with 144 deaths, WHO said.
Government officials, however, insist the problem is not severe locally. Dr.
ML Somchai Chakapan, head of the Disease Control Department, said only four
other cases had been reported in Chonburi and that the disco where the 17
workers were infected has been inspected and cleaned and that the workers’
families are being monitored.
The only people still left untested are some employees at the disco and a
hotel where the Taiwanese stayed, he said, noting that a mobile laboratory
that can test 200 people daily has been put on standby in Pattaya.
After a June 10 hearing at Banglamung Hospital, Public Health Minister
Wittaya Kaewparadai said the Taiwanese tourists had visited Pattaya June 1-5
and might have contracted the disease in either of two places, both of which
hosted large crowds. Two hundred employees in the two locations were tested
and 90 were found to have cough and cold symptoms. All but 17 turned out to
be nothing, however.
Somchai said Pattaya was working closely with the Chonburi Public Health
Office and that there was no need to declare the disco or other
establishments as contagious, although the disco has been closed
temporarily.
At an emergency meeting June 12, Chonburi Gov. Senee Jittakasem echoed
officials’ earlier pronouncements, adding that all area schools will be
given information on how to prevent and detect the flu bug.
Mystery solved: Undersea container holds ladder, big fish
Patcharapol Panrak
After months of mystery and wild speculation, one of eight shipping
containers discovered submerged off the Sattahip coast was found to contain
nothing more exciting than a ladder and a big fish.
 A
diver takes samples from around the opening of the container.
In the first step of an 8 million baht project to determine what secrets the
mystery containers held, divers from the Royal Thai Navy’s Removal and
Demolition Section inspected and cut open the box, then used a camera to
inspect its contents. The result proved to be anticlimactic.
The container, one of eight known about by local fishermen since the early
90s, became front-page news last month when divers near Juang Island, 30
nautical miles off Sattahip, found a number of human skulls around the
containers. That fueled widespread speculation the cargo boxes contained
everything from bodies felled in the deadly 1992 Black May uprising in
Bangkok to toxic waste to illegal cargo dumped overboard by shipping
companies.
 Divers
inspect the outside of the sunken container.
As it turned out, divers found no chemicals or radioactivity outside the
container and then, after cutting a 50 cm hole in the side, peered in to
find a metal ladder hanging on one wall with a humpback grouper standing
guard. With the spotted fish posing no danger, media divers were allowed to
visit the container to see for themselves.
The costly plan to find and drill open the containers had been protested by
local fishermen afraid the Navy operation could release toxic chemicals into
local waters, destroying their livelihood and damaging tourism. Samaesan
village officials had been shut out of a June 6 planning meeting where
officials mapped out an inspection strategy and promised to sue the company
behind the dumping of the containers should they be found to contain toxins.
Despite the cost, officials said the other containers will still be
inspected. However, strong currents and storms are delaying further
operations. Navy officials urged curious residents to be patient.
Serial snatch-and-grab
thieves finally caught
Police rounded up Suwatchai
Siri and Anonglak Chaiyongyoun
from the jungle patch off a soi behind the Yanyon Shop in Naklua.
Boonlua Chatree
A pair of snatch-and-grab thieves who pulled one too many jobs
finally got caught red-handed after stealing a gold necklace from a woman in
South Pattaya.
Suwatchai Siri, 25, and Anonglak Chaiyongyoun, 32, of Petchabun were rounded
up by Pattaya and Banglamung police June 10 in the jungle patch off a soi
behind Naklua’s Pattaya Yanyon shop.
Pol. Col. Theerapol Jindaluang, deputy Chonburi police commander, said
police were called after 26-year-old Pitchaya Prasangtiyu reported that a
couple had snatched her 1-baht gold necklace at the Fly Bird Market on Soi
17 then fled in a Chevrolet pickup truck. Officers quickly located the pair
driving on Sukhumvit Road and pursued.
The duo tried to escape by driving onto small Naklua side streets, then left
the truck and fled into the trees. Pattaya police requested help from
Banglamung officers and the thieves were located about an hour later.
Theerapol said the couple had committed similar crimes more than 10 times.
The two told police they’d never been caught before. Police also found
several fake license plates in their truck.
Theerapol encouraged previous victims to contact police. The investigation
is continuing and some previously stolen items might be recovered.
German chokes on dentures,
dies in a Soi 6 bar
Boonlua Chatree
A German man, sleepy after rounds of beer drinking died after
swallowing his dentures in a room above a Soi 6 bar.
Klaus Peter Rudolf J. Unger, three days beyond his 69th birthday, was
discovered flailing wildly on a bed on the second floor of the Lucky beer
bar June 10 by owner Kanitha Noothong. Although realizing the man was
choking, Kanitha was unable to rescue him before he suffocated.
Police arrived to find Unger lying dead in only his underwear for about 10
minutes.
There were no signs of disarray or fighting in the room.
Kanitha said Unger had been drinking beer in her bar and asking to rest in a
room upstairs. She went up to check on him and saw him choking on his upper
dentures and called an ambulance. He died before the medical team arrived.
Unger’s body was sent to the Forensic Institute for an autopsy.
Overly excited Walking Street touts busted
Boonlua Chatree
Waving signs and shouting “welcome!” is fine, but two Walking Street
touts discovered that trying to lure customers into go-go bars with saucy
language and overly graphic literature will get you a ride to the police
station.
 Police
arrested Sampan Suthon and Sanae Chusri for using English-language and Thai
profanity and showing explicit materials to passing tourists.
Responding to a number of complaints, police arrested Sampan Suthon, 26, and
Sanae Chusri, 36, around 12:30 a.m. June 4 for allegedly using
English-language and Thai profanity and showing explicit materials to
passing tourists. While touts abound in the South Pattaya entertainment
district, the pair’s use of colorfully descriptive language and illustrated
cards was deemed over the top for even Pattaya standards.
Pol. Capt. Somchai Chaikananukul said police checked out the bar in
question, but found the sales pitch more risqué than the offerings inside
and, thus, arrested only the pair for their obscene materials.
Police arrest Iranian man who stole to fund divorce
Boonlua Chatree
An Iranian man who broke into a South Pattaya apartment to fund his
divorce settlement now has more serious problems than an angry ex-wife.
 Saeid
Khodabakhshi has been remanded to custody for stealing to fund his divorce
settlement.
Police arrested 24-year-old Saeid Khodabakhshi June 12 near the Nong
Apartment on Soi Yensabai where he admitted to burglarizing an apartment and
stealing a laptop computer, charger, two digital cameras and two MP3
players. He was apprehended carrying the stolen items.
Under questioning, Khodabakhshi said he’d broken into the room of
24-year-old Bunchan Phumpeng because he needed money to divorce his wife and
for living expenses.
Bunchan said she’d only left her second-floor room for about 20 minutes
around 1 a.m. and had passed Khodabakhshi going down the steps of her
apartment and had never guessed he’d be a burglar.
The Iranian man was charged with theft and breaking and entering.
Leap of faith fails Zimbabwean drug dealer
Boonlua Chatree
A Zimbabwean drug dealer who claimed to be a professional Irish
footballer proved he wasn’t so athletic after all, smashing his head and
breaking a leg when he leaped from a third-story deck in an unsuccessful bid
to flee police.
 Bongani
Khumalo was arrested for alleged drugs possession with intent to sell.
Bongani Khumalo, 28, was arrested with three Thai women around 1 a.m. June 9
at an unnamed laundry near Soi 17 and Third Road. Pol. Maj. Apitchanan
Wattanawarangkul and a team of officers had staked out the building, knowing
the African planned to deliver ya ice to a second-floor customer there.
When Khumalo arrived, police sprung their trap. Khumalo, however, ran to the
third floor, which had an outdoor deck, and jumped to escape. The leap of
faith fell short, however, as the suspect struck his head, broke one leg and
badly bruised the other.
Once in custody, police found on him a presumably fake Thai identification
card identifying the African as a midfielder for the Irish Football Club,
other documents and 6.8 grams of ya ice. He was sent to Banglamung Hospital
for treatment.
Police also arrested Naruemon Khan-Asi, 27, who allegedly sold drugs for
Khumalo; and customers Cholticha Hongsawat, 27, and Supanet Chumhiran, 29.
All three failed drug tests and police also confiscated a 1-gram pack of ya
ice in Naruemon’s room.
Naruemon said she often sold drugs in Pattaya for the Bangkok-based Khumalo.
The other two women, she said, were customers but were also waiting to pick
up drugs to resell as well. She and Khumalo, who confessed to selling drugs,
were charged with possession of a Class 1 narcotic with intent to distribute
and the other two were charged with using ya ice.
Public health concerns
highlighted at public forum
Vimolrat Singnikorn
Local officials need to do more to improve public health in Pattaya
and Banglamung and adhere to a province-wide health care development plan,
Chonburi officials said late last month.
In a May 29 meeting with officials from Pattaya and national officials plus
residents from 31 local communities, former Tourism and Sports Minister
Sonthaya Kunplome, who chaired a Chonburi Administrative Organization
session on how they might better serve the people, said adhering to
Chonburi’s health-development plan and the use of new medications will
bolster public health in Pattaya and Banglamung, as well as increase the
efficiency of the health-care system.
The forum, also attended by Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome, Chonburi
Administrative Organization Vice-President Rewat Pollook-in and former
Chonburi MP Chanyuth Hengtrakul, gave local residents a platform to discuss
their health care-related problems with public officials.
Sonthaya noted that the construction of Pattaya City Hospital, due to be
completed in 2012, will significantly improve local health care, adding
20,000 beds to the system.
Also, during the forum, 300 people were given welfare allowances and local
hospitals and companies provided free services and health checks, including
free eyeglasses and canes, blood pressure and kidney-function tests, dental
checkups and haircuts.
Free haircuts were just some
of the services provided at the public forum.
Police deliver
anti-drug message in song
Sawittree Namwiwatsuk
Shakespeare wrote that music can soothe an angry heart, soften rocks
and bend trees, but Thailand’s police forces hope it also can keep people
off drugs.
 Pol.
Lt. Col. Pairat Paipannarat, chief inspector at the Prongmadua Police
Station in Nakhon Pathom, shows the flute used for his song “Bun Khong Phan
Din”.
Officers from around the country gathered June 6 at Nong Nooch Tropical
Garden to celebrate the release of an anti-drug recording by Pol. Lt. Col.
Pairat Paipannarat, chief Inspector at the Prongmadua Police Station in
Nakhon Pathom, whose stage name is “Kai I-din.”
Produced with the help of Thai country-music performers Noo Mitor, Tanit
Sriklindee, Damrong Wongthong, Saeree Rungsawang, and Sunaree Ratchasima,
the song urges people to stand together and battle against drugs. Proceeds
from sales of the recording will go to help police, military and their
families.
The CD also includes songs to cheer up all Thai people, Pairat said, as well
as express love for Thailand, religion and His Majesty the King.
Funds raised will go toward the “Friends Helping Friends Club,” which has
already aided families of officers killed in Thailand’s far south.
The recording can be purchased at provincial police stations around Thailand
for 199 baht or can be ordered by calling 087-153-0449.
Good food, good
health in Sattahip
Residents of Sattahip are
urged to eat from all
the major food groups and get regular exercise.
Patcharapol Panrak
With a message that you are what you eat, Sattahip officials last week
invited community members to a free nutrition and health seminar.
Called “Good Food, Good Health, Good Community,” the workshop urged the more
than 300 attendees to stay healthy and fight disease through better eating.
Rungrot Onwong, Sattahip permanent secretary, said many Thais still face
nutritional problems, including iodine and iron deficiencies. Side effects
from these can slow brain development in children and weaken immune systems.
At the same time, many Thais are eating too much of the wrong foods, which
can lead to obesity, heart attacks and cancer.
Oy Pleecharoen, director of the Public Health and Environment Division,
urged people to eat from all the major food groups and get regular exercise.
Sattahip Mayor Narong Bunbancherdsri noted that food and nutrition are not
the same thing. It’s not enough to eat until full, it’s important to eat the
right foods, he said.
DSI officials get briefing,
tour of Laem Chabang Port
Customs hosted a seminar for
DSI officers to learn more about customs operations at Laem Chabang.
Pramote Channgam
In an effort to improve operations at Laem Chabang Port, Customs Department
officials briefed their counterparts at the Department of Special
Investigations on how cargo moves through Thailand’s busiest seaport.
DSI officers were briefed on import/export inspections, customs clearance,
bonded warehouse operations, the Amata City Industrial Estate and duty-free
zone, gate operations, x-ray freight checks and the Megaports initiative.
Presentations were also made on the port’s cargo checkpoints, and crime
suppression.
Somsak Potpatinya, Laem Chabang Port Customs Office director, said the May
30 Customs Office seminar was intended to improve DSI’s understanding of
customs operations and allow DSI, Customs and Excise Department staff to
exchange ideas and information to improve operations.
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI), an interdepartmental
government task force, has been formed “specifically for the surveillance,
deterrence, and prevention of organized criminal activities that continue to
jeopardize the country’s economy, social order, national stability, as well
as for the eradication of any illicit groups or activities that endanger
international security.” It has more authority and resources than most local
and national law enforcement agencies.
Navy personnel receive H1N1, other disease prevention tips
Navy personnel receive disease
prevention tips in Sattahip.
Patcharapol Panrak
With overseas trips and deployments in southern Thailand planned, Royal Thai
Navy personnel will find themselves in the line of fire from three rapidly
spreading diseases. To help keep them save, Navy commanders last week
briefed them on prevention of Chikungunya, influenza A (H1N1), and dengue
fever.
About 200 personnel from the 1st Naval Area Command and the Royal Ship
Pattani attended the June 10 workshop at the Sattahip Naval Base. The Navy
unit will ship out June 14 for a visit to Vietnam.
At the seminar, Vice Adm. Srivisut Ratarun briefed the officers on global
disease trends, focusing on the H1N1 virus, which infected 21 people in
Chonburi last week, dengue fever and Chikungunya. Thailand is suffering
higher than average dengue infections and Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne
virus similar to dengue, is spreading quickly in southern Thailand where
many Navy units are deployed. Personnel were also advised how to prevent
infection and contain the spread of the disease.
The workshop saw lectures from doctors from Apakorn Kiatiwong Hospital at
the Sattahip Naval Base and the Queen Sirikit Hospital Naval Medical
Department.
200 receive free legal advice
Pramote Channgam
In an effort to better educate people about the law and their
rights, Pattaya Prosecutor Wattana Sawasthong hosted a legal seminar for 200
people in Huay Yai sub-district.
The June 9 meeting aimed to advise people of their legal rights and prevent
them from engaging in illegal activities.
Wattana also noted that those who need legal consultations can contact Human
Rights Protection officers at 038-233-243-5 ext. 13 during business hours.
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