Dried fish
Local people on February 28 check their fish traps in a section of a dried-up canal in Nakhon Nayok.
Steep roads
Authorities delay construction
Construction of a road linking the Dawei deep-sea port in Myanmar with Kanchanaburi will be delayed after Japan determined that 15-degree inclines along seven stretches of the road would be unsafe for trucks.
Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said on February 27 that construction of the 138 kilometre road must be postponed.
The project was due to start in March. The delay comes following an inspection by the Japan International Cooperation Agency which found that inclines along the road were too steep for trucks.
Korean criminals
Police arrest robbers
Two South Korean tourists were arrested and charged with robbing and injuring a fellow countryman, also visiting Thailand on holiday.
Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) officers and Thong Lor police apprehended Nam Kyoung-ku, 28, and Kim Chae-young, 27, at a condominium on Soi Sukhumvit 64 on February 25 on charges of assault and robbery.
Police began hunting down the two men, using closed-circuit camera footage, after receiving complaints from tourist police that visitors from South Korea had been robbed with violence on four occasions.
EASY NEWS FOR M1-3
E-justice is served
Courts accept video evidence
The Courts of Justice opened the country’s first E-Justice Conference Centre in Bangkok. Authorities reported the news on February 24. Witnesses can give evidence via video links.
Vocabulary
- steep (adj): rising or falling quickly
assault (n): the crime of attacking somebody physically
evidence (n): the information that is used in court to try to prove something
