Police petition
On September 8, members of the Vocational Students Protecting the Monarchy group gather in front of Central World department store before marching to the Royal Thai Police headquarters to call on police to take legal action against those who insult the royal institution.
Drug drivers
Police arrest two suspects
Two drug suspects were arrested and about 18,000 methamphetamine pills seized at a police checkpoint in Sop Prap district in Lampang on September 7. Police stopped a pickup truck travelling from Chiang Mai and a search turned up about 18,000 speed pills hidden in the console in front of the driver’s seat.
Manoon Chanta, 33, from Chiang Mai, and Manit Sopalang, 46, from Krabi, were arrested. Manit allegedly told police that he was paid 150,000 baht to deliver the drugs to Nakhon Si Thammarat. Manoon, the driver, denied any links with the drugs.
Medicine mix-up
Patients given the wrong drugs
Almost 1,000 patients have received the wrong medicine due to packaging errors, the director of Makarak Hospital in Kanchanaburi said on September 7.
The revelation came after the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation admitted at the beginning of September that staff had mistakenly put heart medicine into packaging for hypertension drugs.
The packaging mix-up occurred in July. The GPO said it had recalled the wrongly packed drugs from five hospitals in Kanchanaburi, Si Sa Ket, Chaiyaphum, Suphan Buri and Lop Buri provinces.
Makarak Hospital director Thirachai Khongiamtrakun said the hospital received the wrongly packaged medicine and that 939 mostly elderly patients had been given the wrong drugs.
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Mining dispute
Villagers want investigation
Villagers staged a protest on September 7. It happened in Wang Saphung district of Loei. They were protesting against a gold mining company. The company wants to mine in the area. The villagers want the government to investigate the environmental impact of the mining.
Vocabulary
- mistakenly (adv): by mistake
hypertension (n): blood pressure that is higher than is normal
mine (v): to dig holes in the ground in order to find and obtain coal, diamonds, gold, etc.
environmental (adj): connected with the natural conditions in which people, plants and animals live
impact (n): the powerful effect that something has on something
