AV Eye front Volume 14 Issue 26 News Desk - Tel: 076-236555June 30 - July 6, 2007 Daily news at www.phuketgazette.net 25 Baht The Gazette is published in association with Charearn told Toddler killed in to vacate SorPorKor IN THIS ISSUE botched robbery land plots CCTV catches office NEWS: By Natcha Yuttaworawit BANGKOK (The Nation): The thief; Ya bah bust. Supreme Court on June 21 up- Pages 2 & 3 RASSADA: A two-year-old girl and her nanny have died after held an Appeals Court verdict INSIDE STORY: Competing fac- they had their throats slit in a and ordered Phuket businessman tions of villagers force stale- botched burglary by two local Charearn Thavornwongwongse mate at Yamu Bay. youths on the evening of June 22. to vacate four plots of Pages 4 & 5 Phuket Provincial Police SorPorKor land for landless farmers covering roughly 16 rai ANDAMAN COASTING: The end Deputy Commander Col Chalit of ‘Voluntourism’. Page 7 Tinthanee last night announced in Kamala and Kathu Districts. that the attackers, a 15-year-old According to the court, K. AROUND THE SOUTH: Bomb- Charearn could no longer be con- ing kills district chief; School student at Phuket Technical Col- lege (PTC) and his 17-year-old sidered a farmer because he strife; Murderous monk. owned various businesses. Page 8 friend, entered the house of PTC teacher Narisorn Phueng-rang in He is the managing direc- tor of Tilok Company, which op- AROUND THE NATION: Rape Baan Kabout about 5 pm. loopholes closed; Dangling Once inside they were con- erates three hotels in Phuket un- dolls, Crackdown looms. fronted by the nanny, Dang der the Thavorn Group name, Page 9 Panthip, 40. She said she did not including the flagship 150-room Thavorn Grand Plaza Hotel in the PEOPLE: Denmark diva brings have anything of value for them to take and began to shout for heart of Phuket City. jazz to Phuket. Phuket’s trash incinerator apparently poisoned 3,564 square Tilok’s other assets in Pages 14 & 15 help, and K. Narisorn’s two- year-old daughter, Nitchanart, meters of submarine fish baskets near Saphan Hin June 23, Phuket City include a crocodile ANDAMAN R ANT: The devolu- began to cry. when all of the fish in the 396 baskets were found dead. Officials farm on Chana Jaroen Rd, origi- tion of man. Page 20 The robbers, afraid some- said the water in Klong Koh Kui and Koh Phee had low oxygen nally set up as a tourist attrac- one would hear the commotion, levels and high concentrations of ammonia and phosphate. tion but now only raises croco- PERSPECTIVES: Patong’s top It is estimated that 6.6 million baht worth of fish were hit Nitchanart on the head with a diles commercially. cop moves on. Page 27 spoiled. Authorities are discussing how to compensate the fish K. Charearn, who was not knife holder, which only made her owners. BUSINESS & MONEY: On The scream louder. present at the court ruling, has Move; Money Talks; Mectron To quiet the child and the number. the journey, but later died from 36 other plots of land covering moves in. Pages 32 & 33 nanny, the youths then slit both She called the police, and the injury. more than 60 rai, the court noted. K. Charearn’s lawyer, SPORTS: TriBallistic wraps up; their throats, Col Chalit said. around 7:30 pm a police officer Col Chalit said the teenag- Badminton, Tasar World K. Dang’s daughter then arrested the youths near Saphan ers had confessed to charges of Benjama Abhaiwongse, said his Championships; Darts walked in on the robbers, but Hin. murder with intent. client would respect the court’s Pages 34 & 35 managed to escape the burglars Nitchanart died on the way The police have not re- decision, but would ask the Agri- and remember their license plate to the hospital. K. Dang survived leased the suspects’ names. cultural Land Reform Office PROPERTY: Gardening; Home (ALRO), the plaintiff in the case, of the Week; Construction; to let him lease the four plots. Property Watch: Reinventing Beachcomber’s nightmare found in Nai Thon K. Benjama said K. Patong. Pages 36-39 Charearn had acquired and used NAI THON: Police are hoping legs were missing, we can iden- down to the knees. these plots since 1957. PLUS to establish the identity of a head- tify it as that of a man. It was “There were no cut marks They remained rubber plan- less and badly decomposed hu- badly decayed and appears to or other signs that would indicate tations and fruit orchards, he QUEER NEWS 6; AROUND THE I S- man corpse discovered washed have been partially eaten by ma- foul play,” Lt Thianchai said. said. LAND 10; AMBROSIA’S SECRETS up on Nai Thon Beach June 19. rine animals,” Lt Thianchai said. From the man’s size it is The ALRO has filed sev- 13; HAPPENINGS 16; TSOWND- Sub Lt Thianchai Duang- Photos of the corpse, prom- more likely he is Asian and not eral lawsuits to evict wealthy INGS 17; LIFESTYLE 18 & 19; suwan of the Tah Chat Chai Po- inently displayed on the front Caucasian, police said. Lt people from SorPorKor land that MOTORING 21; TAKE A BREAK lice Station told the Gazette the page of a daily Thai language Thianchai estimated the man died had been earmarked for agricul- 23 & 24; BOOKS, DIARY 25; gruesome discovery was made newspaper, showed that the about two weeks ago. tural use by landless farmers. EDITORIAL, LETTERS 26; THE at about 10:30 am on the stretch corpse was clad only in a pair of “We suspect he may have There are five cases before GRAY AREA 28; HOROSCOPES of beach in front of the light blue underpants. been a crew member on a fish- the Supreme Court and three oth- 29; COMPUTERS 30; CLASSIFIEDS Naithonburi Beach Resort. The only flesh remaining ing boat,” Lt Thianchai said. ers pending at the Court of Ap- 40-51. “Although the head and was from the lower abdomen – Natcha Yuttaworawit peals. 2 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS June 30 - July 6, 2007 Hotel worker killed in crash Beauty applied KARON: Nakamura Masakazu, 41, a circus en- friend and a real gentleman. The entire manage- tertainer at Club Med, died after he was run over ment team will always keep the memory of his PATONG: Twenty-four by a tuk-tuk on a hill near Le Meridien Phuket smile and humor, his energy and commitment,” said beauties from throughout Beach Resort early on June 19. Club Med Phuket General Manager Alessandro Southern Thailand signed up Mr Masakazu was riding a rented Honda Cordogli. at Jungceylon on June 24 to Dream motorbike in heavy rain around 6 am when Further south in Kata, Lamphun Kotpanna, enter the Miss Thailand he lost control on a downhill section of the road 27, from Sakhon Nakhon, died after her motorbike World 2007 beauty pageant from Patong to Karon, Lt Col Sanguan Muang- was hit by a pickup truck on the steep hill near the organized by Thai TV Channel 3 and BEC Tero tham, duty inspector of Chalong Police Station, said. Marina Phuket Resort on June 25. Entertainment. “His helmet came off when he hit the pave- Sayan Thammapan, of the Phuket Ruamjai The applications were ment and his body slid across the center line, into Rescue Foundation, told the Gazette, “She was collected by Miss Thailand the path of an oncoming tuk-tuk driven by Suree riding her blue Honda Sonic motorbike on the hill, 2005 finalist and Miss Phankhor. He died at the scene,” Col Sanguan said. which has a very steep slope, about 9:30 pm.” Chinese International 2006 Suree, charged with careless driving causing He added that witnesses said that a pickup runner-up Thanida “Ginny” death, was released on 50,000-baht bail, he added. truck being driven at high speed hit the motorbike Karnchanawat. A statement released by Club Med said that from behind then sped off. The final round of the Mr Masakazu joined Club Med six years ago and “She suffered head injuries and her neck was contest will be held at the was organizing the resort’s circus entertainment at broken. She died at the scene,” K. Sayan said. Bangkok Convention Center the time of his death. “No witnesses can remember the license plate on August 4. In addition to the seven million baht in cash and “It is very hard to find words to express such number, color or make of the pickup that hit her,” prizes, the winner will also be Thailand’s representative for the a big feeling – the loss of a great organizer, good he added. – Supanun Supawong Miss World 2007 pageant in Sanya, China, on December 1. 2 tonnes of kratom Office thief caught on CCTV By Janyaporn Morel foundation at Phun Pol Night seized in raid Plaza, in Phuket City. PHUKET CITY: Provincial bu- “Burglars broke into the THALANG: Police seized about reaucrats will sleep better at New Life Foundation at 74/123 2,000 kilograms of kratom leaves night, following the June 21 ar- Phun Pol Night Plaza. They at a house in Thalang June 21. rest by Phuket City Police of a scaled a wall at the rear of the Lt Col Kritthana Poothi- man wanted for stealing valuables building, then removed louvers to luecha of Thalang Police Station from government offices on the enter a work room on the second told the Gazette that police acted island. floor. on a tip-off to raid the home of At a press conference yes- “The burglars pried open motorcycle taxi driver Jin Mee- terday, Phuket City Police Station work desks, making off with chai in Sri Soonthorn.