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Drought Disaster Strikes Thailand Thailand’s Interior Ministry’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department on Friday declared that 53 provinces – 382 districts, 2,499 tambons and 1,9,704 villages – throughout the country have been proclaimed disaster areas because of water scarcity. Of the 53 regions, 16 are in the North, 15 in the Northeast, eight in the [...]

Boys in Blue Beat the Bushes for Bank Bombers Thai Police have discovered evidence leading to the persons behind a string of explosions in Narathiwat on Tuesday. Narathiwat police chief Chaithat Intanujit said the bombers were young members of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) rebel group lead by Wae-ali Copter. Security camera footage from two [...]

GT200 Fails Again, Soldiers Pay Dearly Two soldiers have been wounded in a bomb explosion in the lower South after a GT200 scanner botched detecting the explosives. The bomb exploded on a road leading to a market in Khok Pho district of Pattani Monday, wounding Cpl Sommai Homhuan, 27, and Sgt Chuchawat Matsi, 28, who [...]

Muslims Murder Mother and 14 Year Old Daughter A Thai mother and her teenage daughter have been murdered in Pattani in what police consider was an act of reprisal for the latest killings of several insurgent leaders by Thai security forces. Rattana Daengprathet, 44, and her daughter, Chiraphan, 14, were shot by two gunmen yesterday [...]

Teachers Fed Up With Killings Thailand’s Confederation of Teachers in the southern border provinces on Tuesday demanded that the government to increase security for teachers. The request was made after Samrit Panthadet, 52, an instructor of Bango Yimeng School in Kapho area of Pattani, was shot dead and his body set aflame. The homicide happened [...]

Teacher shot and Burned A Thai school teacher was shot to death and his body set ablaze by an unknown number of attackers in Tambon Plong Hoi of Pattani’s Kapho district on Monday afternoon. Police said Samrit Panthadet, 51, a teacher of Bango Yuebang School in Kapho was returning to his house on his motorbike [...]

Committee May Pretend to Test Hoax Bomb Detector to Save Face for Big-Shot Suckers Thai Science and Technology Minister Khunying Kalaya Sophonpanich, a name which may soon live in scientific infamy, and who has the power to actually scientifically test the GT200 dowsing rod and expose the deadly fraud, has chosen instead to set up [...]

Divining Rod’s Deadly Farce Continues The Thai military yesterday continued its support for the so-called GT200 bomb detectors by performing a demonstration for reporters instead of putting it through scientific tests as demanded by academics. The GT200 is merely a handle with a rotating antenna-like device attached, and a card inserted into the handle containing [...]

Divining Rod Device Still in Use in Southern Thailand The GT200 bomb detector which is nothing but a divining rod device that includes a handle, no power supply, a moving antenna like rod, and functionless cards similar to credit cards containing useless tiny electronic parts is currently still in use in southern Thailand after the [...]