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Sea of red returns

19/05/2012 : Bangkok's Ratchaprasong intersection was once more a sea of red on Saturday as activists marked the second anniversary of the violent end to their weeks-long occupation of Bangkok's commercial heart.
Sukhumbhand: I'll run again

19/05/2012 : Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra says he will seek a second term because he has unfinished work to accomplish.

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Plodprasop: No flood in Bangkok
19/05/2012 : Bangkok and key economic zones, particularly industrial estates, will not be flooded this year, vows Plodprasop Suraswadi, chairman of the Water Resources Management and Flood Control Committee.
Narathiwat rubber trader slain
19/05/2012 : The owner of a rubber sheet business was killed in a shooting in front of his shop in Narathiwat’s Rueso district on Saturday morning, police said.
Gold prices for Saturday
19/05/2012 : The Gold Traders Association this morning set the buying price at 23,209.96 baht per baht-weight for gold ornaments and 23,550 baht per baht-weight for gold bar.
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Red shirts at each other's throats over 'Uncle SMS' saga
19/05/2012 : The death in prison of Ampol Tangnoppakul or "Uncle SMS" from cancer ignited a fierce debate between red shirt academics and red shirt politicians who work for the Pheu Thai Party, noted Post Today.
Warning: Heavy rain, flash floods
19/05/2012 : The Meteorological Department on Saturday morning issued a warning for people in the North and the Central Plains to prepare for widespread scattered rain with heavy falls in some areas and the danger of floods today and tomorrow.
SANTIKA PUB
BMA to pay B800,000 for five deaths in blaze tragedy
19/05/2012 : The Central Administrative Court yesterday ordered City Hall to pay nearly 800,000 baht in compensation to the parents of five of the 66 victims of the 2009 Santika pub inferno.
Sanctity 'must not be abused'
19/05/2012 : 'We do not want places of temptation located close to a temple."
CITY LIFE
Chinatown temple fight far from over
19/05/2012 : Bangkok's Chinatown residents are taking at face value the promises of a modern developer not to debase the sanctity of an ancient and revered temple which shares an adjoining wall with an old building now under renovation.
PRISONS
Inmates bury phones, drugs to avoid inspections
19/05/2012 : Inmates at Nakhon Si Thammarat Central Prison have been found burying mobile phones and a large amount of drugs to beat inspections.
INVESTMENT
East Asia forum will 'build confidence in Thailand'
19/05/2012 : At least four leaders from Asia and the Middle East will attend the 21st World Economic Forum on East Asia to be held in Bangkok later this month.