About 100 addicts voluntarily enter the Office of the Narcotics Control Board’s drug rehabilitation programme in Bangkok on October 14. The programme is part of the agency’s narcotics fight in drug-plagued communities across the country.
The rite path
Worshipers make merit
More than 500 Cambodians are expected to visit Surin province next month, taking part in a krathin merit-making ceremony at Phra Putthabat Panomdin Temple in Tha Tum district.
The rite, which involves the offering of robes to monks to mark the end of Buddhist lent, will be held on November 2-3. Surin Governor Niran Kallayanamitr said the religious event would strengthen relations between Thailand and Cambodia.
Phra Putthabat Panomdin Tembple was established in 1983 by a monk from Cambodia's Battambang province.
Bleak forecast
Jobless numbers to rise
Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) projects a 10 percent rise in jobless figures among students expected to graduate with a bachelor's degree next year.
The number of unemployed graduates is likely to jump from 145,000 to about 170,000 next year, Yongyuth Chalamwong, director of TDRI's labour development research project, said on October 11.
"The government's policies to raise the minimum daily wage and the starting salaries of graduates to 15,000 baht a month were the main cause," said Yongyuth. "The wage increase had prompted many employers to freeze employment and even reduce staff."
EASY NEWS FOR M1-3
Up in the air
Cut causes problems
Many flights were delayed at Don Mueang Airport. A power outage occurred on the night of October 14. The outage caused 15 flights to be delayed. The flights were delayed for 30 minutes.
Vocabulary
- delay (v): to make somebody late
outage (n): a period of time when the supply of electricity, etc. is not working
project (v): to estimate what the size, cost or amount of something will be in the future based on what is happening now
kobless (adj): without a job
freeze (v): to hold wages, prices, etc. at a fixed level for a period of time
plague (v): to cause pain or trouble to somebody or something over a period of time
