BIKE FOR MOM
HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn on August 16 leads the mass biking event in Bangkok, followed by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha. More than 294,800 people joined the Bike for Mom campaign nationwide.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH
Student dies in Pattaya
Pattaya police said on August 16 that a 20-year-old female Chinese student was found dead on the balcony of a condominium in Pattaya.
Zhang Chunrong was found on the balcony on August 4, police said. The woman came to Thailand to meet her friend, Lin Kun, in Pattaya. After she arrived on August 3, Zhang was reportedly suffering from a stomach ache and went to see a doctor.
Lin told police that she saw Zhang on the balcony in the afternoon before she found her dead hours later. Police were waiting for the autopsy result.
EXPENSIVE EXPANSION
Authorities expand Rangsit road
A small road used by motorists to avoid the Rangsit area of Pathum Thani is being widened at a cost of 434.6 million baht, authorities said on August 15.
The 7.4km road helps to ease traffic on Highway 305, said Darun Saengchai, director general of the Department of Rural Roads.
The two-lane road will be widened to four lanes. When the expansion is finished, traffic congestion should improve dramatically and the travel time for motorists will be shorter, Darun said.
EASY NEWS FOR M1-3
DEALERS DEALT WITH
Police take drugs
Two men were arrested. It happened in Bangkok on August 13. They were arrested for drug trafficking. Police seized 578,000 speed pills and 10kg of crystal methamphetamine.
Vocabulary
- autopsy (n): an official examination of a dead body by a doctor in order to discover the cause of death
congestion (n): the state of being crowded and full of traffic
