Lunar prayers
A woman and young girl in Chinatown on September 27 pray in a ceremony to celebrate Zhong Qiu, or the Moon Festival.
Knife horror
Man kills children
A man with a history of mental illness went on a rampage and hacked to death five boys and injured a heavily pregnant woman next door to his home in Chiang Mai on September 27, police said.
Residents overpowered Asapa Seewuawa, 34, and handed him to police after he allegedly went berserk, grabbed a large chopping knife and hacked to death five boys and attacked the woman next door.
The woman is being treated at a local hospital.
Dodgy officials
Agencies misuse land
The Treasury Department will rejig management of 12.5 million rai of state land after a survey showed the state agencies occupying it are mostly misusing the land for their own interests, officials said on September 27.
Developers have been quick to cash in on the knock-on economic effects from electric train routes in the capital.
Chakkrit Parapuntakul, director-general of the department, said that most of the 12.5 million rai of state land was being misused for commercial purposes.
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Phoney goods
Police find fake items
Police seized more than 20,000 counterfeit smartphone accessories. The raids took place in Bangkok. Officials reported the news on September 25. The accessories were worth over 10 million baht.
Vocabulary
- rampage (n): a sudden period of wild and violent behaviour
berserk (n): very angry, often in a violent or uncontrolled way
rejig (v): to make changes to something
