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Government denies monitoring or pressuring news outlets

  By PPTVHD36 and Thai Newsroom THE government confirmed today (June 20) that it has no policy to interfere with or pressure the media in denying reports that there is now special surveillance of certain news outlets. Ms. Rachada Thanadirek, spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office, said reports concerning media freedom and claims that the

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Health

Surveillance ramped up at checkpoint as Cambodia’s bird flu death toll rises to 2

  AUTHORITIES in Sa Kaeo province boosted surveillance to the highest level at Aranyaprathep checkpoint today (Feb. 28) after Cambodia’s death toll from avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, rose to two, Naewna newspaper said. At 8.30 a.m. Mr. Wiboon Srimankongtham, head of the Sa Kaeo animal quarantine station, ordered Mr. Yuttana Sophi, a

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