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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
 Dissatisfied with the Thai government's failure to help them receive severance pay after the Inter Moda garment factory closed without advance notice, 10 laid-off women workers on Tuesday stripped naked in front of Government House while Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont was meeting with his cabinet inside. About 300 factory workers have been protesting at the Government House since Monday, demanding that the government intervene and help them get severance pay following the closure of their company on Aug. 26. They are asking the government to pay some 24 million baht in severance pay that the company failed to give to them. After the 10 women workers stripped, they quickly covered themselves with banners and began shouting protest slogans.
TNA
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
 The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has launched a three-day celebration of the new Giant Swing located in front of the Bangkok City Hall. The king and queen presided over the inaugural ceremony of Bangkok’s rejuvenated Giant Swing on Wednesday. The Giant Swing has undergone several renovations since it was built in 1782, with the latest restoration beginning four years ago. The celebrations will feature a wide range of cultural performances, although the ceremony for which the Giant Swing was most known in the past will not take place. Until it was discontinued in 1935, a dangerous ceremony involved teams of men who would ride the swing on arcs as high as 25 meters above the ground, without any safety measures, using their teeth to grab a bag of silver coins hung in the air.
TNA
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 |
Authorities in Japan, Spain and Thailand have helped smash an Iranian crime ring that produced fake Spanish passports and other identity papers. Police in Thailand and Japan detained 26 people who were part of the ring and seized 44 fake passports, four driving licenses, two identity cards as well as material used to produce the documents. Authorities said the stolen passports were sent to Thailand where they were altered and falsified with the aim of facilitating people trafficking, mainly into Japan. Police detained 25 members of the ring in Thailand and one in Japan.
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007 |
A Thai court convicted Indian national Reyaz Ahmad Mir on Monday of violating Thailand's wildlife protection law by selling shawls made of endangered Tibetan antelopes. Mir admitted to being part of a ring that sold hundreds of shahtoosh shawls smuggled from China, through India, and into Thailand. One shawl is normally made from the wool of three to five Tibetan Antelopes and can be sold for US$1,200 to US$12,000. Mir was ordered to pay 10,000 baht, but his store was not forced closed. Some bemoaned the penalty as little more than a slap on the wrist.
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
 A Thai doctor said recently that unscrupulous vendors have been selling meat from the highly poisonous puffer fish disguised as salmon, resulting in the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years. Some 115 people have been hospitalized. Although it was banned in Thailand five years ago, puffer fish continues to be sold in large quantities at local markets and restaurants. In Japan, the fish is called fugu and is prepared by highly trained chefs and consumed by thrill-seeking Japanese gourmets.
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