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Torrential rain triggers heavy flooding, washes out key road

HEAVY downpour that lasted all night triggered forest runoffs that badly flooded a part of Nakhon Phanom province while cutting off a section of the key Chiang Rai-Chiang Mai road for the large part of today, Naewna reported late afternoon (August 2). Around a hundred houses and hundreds of rai of farmland in Nakhon Phanom’s

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Prayut orders withholding of star witness’s dead body

AS FUROR continues to escalate over the withdrawal of charges against Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya in the hit-and-run case that led to a policeman’s death in September 2012, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today (August 2) ordered that the body of the star witness be withheld for autopsy, Naewna newspaper reported. Ms. Traisulee Traisoranakul, deputy spokesman of

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