Hot dogs
Stray dogs on April 21 enjoy lapping blocks of ice splashed with red syrup at the stray dog shelter in Prawet district run by City Hall.
Body snatchers
Police hunt for gang
Police were hunting a gang of corpse snatchers following the discovery of 19 bags of human body parts at a crematorium in Chiang Mai.
Police on April 23 searched Pratu Haiya crematorium in tambon Haiya in Muang district and found 19 black plastic bags containing human body parts. The bags bore the stickers of hospitals in Nan, Phayao and Chiang Mai.
The raid followed the recent arrest of Chalerm Duangpeng, former abbot of Wat Huay Dinjee in Chiang Mai for stealing of four corpses for black magic rituals.
Civil protest
Group rallies at Government House
A civic group rallied at Government House on April 23, demanding that the government provide farmers with communal land deeds as promised.
A government committee set up in January to deal with the issue has not solved the problem as promised, according to a representative from The People’s Movement for a Just Society, an NGO seeking justice for marginalised groups.
The committee, chaired by Prime Minister’s Office Minister Panadda Diskul, was created on January 23 to start the process of documenting communal land titles for farmers and to speed up cabinet approval for a 167.9 million-baht land bank project.
EASY NEWS FOR M1-3
Killer weather
Man dies in flooded field
A man was killed during a big storm. Suwit Soikong, 57, was killed early on April 23. He was found dead in a flooded rice field in Kamphang Phet's Muang district.
Vocabulary
- corpse (n): a dead body, especially of a human being
crematorium (n): a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned
deed (n): a legal document that you sign, especially one that proves that you own a house, land or a building
NGO (abbr): non-governmental organisation
marginalise (v): to make somebody feel as if they are nor important and cannot influence decisions or events
