Maj. Gen. Surachet Hakpan, second from right, inspects a room during the 13th "Black Eagle" raid in Bangkok on Nov. 21, 2017.
BANGKOK — Over at Thailand’s Immigration Bureau, the word is out: Bad guys out, Big Joke in.
A police commander whose favorite pastime involves rounding up foreigners on expired visas was appointed Thursday to lead the bureau, which processes more than 35 million people through Thailand’s borders and ports of entry annually.
Maj. Gen. Surachet “Big Joke” Hakpan, will replace Sutthipong Wongpin in the annual reshuffle announced by the police force, which will also see more than 200 others moved into new posts. His predecessor, Sutthipong, will head the metro police.
The appointments are effective Monday.
Despite his relatively junior rank as deputy tourism police commander, Surachet was one of the most visible faces of the police, having taken charge of many high-profile cases such as a crackdown on transnational boiler room scams and prosecution of netizens accused of insulting junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha online.
Surachet, 45, could not be reached for comment Friday.
The police major general also stirred controversy recently when he rejected an allegation from a British tourist that she was raped on Koh Tao. Surachet suggested to the media she made up the story to file a fraudulent insurance claim.
BANGKOK — The father of two teenage girls killed in a house fire in eastern Bangkok succumbed to his injuries and died this morning.
The three, part of a four-member family living in the capital district of Nong Chok, died after the fire broke out at about 5:30am on Thursday.
It took firemen roughly 30 minutes to put out the blaze, after which the bodies of teenage sisters Tharawee Phokanit and and Nitharawee Phokanit, 16 and 13 respectively, were found on the second floor. Their father, Chatchai Phokanit, and mother, Kanyawee Sujipong, suffered burns and were taken to a hospital.
Chatchai died this morning at the hospital.
Police haven’t determined the cause of the fire; however, they suspect a short circuit on the first floor might have sparked it before flames ascended to the second floor.
Christine Blasey Ford arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday. Photo: Andrew Harnik / Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee and a riveted nation Thursday that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in a locked room at a 1980s high school party, as the panel began an extraordinary and historic hearing at which Kavanaugh hoped to salvage his Supreme Court nomination.
“I believed he was going to rape me,” the 51-year-old California psychology professor said, her voice breaking as she read her opening statement.
Kavanaugh has denied Ford’s and other women’s allegations of sexual misconduct. The conservative jurist, whose Senate confirmation had seemed an easy waltz until Ford and the other women emerged, awaited his own chance to testify later in the day.
“I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified,” Ford said as she described the alleged assault. “I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened.”
In a clash along a polarized nation’s political and cultural fault lines, Kavanaugh and Ford were the only witnesses invited to testify before the panel of 11 Republicans — all men — and 10 Democrats. But the conservative jurist is facing allegations of sexual misconduct from other women as well, forcing Republican leaders to struggle to keep support for him from eroding.
Before she began, committee chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa defended the Republicans’ handling of the confirmation proceedings so far. He also apologized for the harsh treatment — which has included death threats — that both Ford and Kavanaugh have endured.
The committee’s top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein of California, told Ford, “I am very grateful to you for your strength and your bravery for coming forward. I know it’s hard.” She criticized Republicans who have rejected Democratic demands to slow Kavanaugh’s confirmation process and let the FBI investigate all the allegations, saying, “What I don’t understand is the rush to judgment.”
Kavanaugh and Ford were the only witnesses invited to testify before the panel of 11 Republicans — all men — and 10 Democrats. But the conservative jurist is facing allegations of sexual misconduct from other women as well, forcing Republican leaders to struggle to keep support for him from eroding.
Grassley complained that lawyers for other accusers have not provided information to his panel and said, “The committee can’t do an investigation if attorneys are stonewalling.”
The committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, expressed empathy for what Ford says she’s suffered, telling her, “I know this wasn’t easy for you.” She also aimed a barb at Republicans who have ignored Democrats demands to slow Kavanaugh’s confirmation process and let the FBI investigate all the allegations, saying, “What I don’t understand is the rush to judgment.”
The committee was to hear first from Ford, a California psychology professor who accuses him of attempting to rape her when they were teens.
Republicans have derided Ford’s allegation as part of a smear campaign and a Democratic plot to sink Kavanaugh’s nomination. But after more allegations have emerged, some GOP senators have allowed that much is riding on his performance. Even President Donald Trump, who nominated Kavanaugh and fiercely defends him, said he was “open to changing my mind.”
“I want to watch, I want to see,” he said at a news conference Wednesday in New York.
Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge who has long been eyed for the Supreme Court, has repeatedly denied all the allegations, saying he’d never heard of the latest accuser and calling her accusations “ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone.”
His teetering grasp on winning confirmation was evident when Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, expressed concern, in a private meeting with senators Wednesday, about the third accuser, according to a person with knowledge of the gathering. Republicans control the Senate 51-49 and can lose only one vote for Kavanaugh to prevail if all Democrats vote “no.” Collins is among the few senators who’ve not made clear how they’ll vote.
Collins walked into that meeting carrying a copy of Julie Swetnick’s signed declaration, which included new accusations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh and his high school friend Mark Judge.
Collins said senators should hear from Judge. After being told Judge has said he doesn’t want to appear before the committee, Collins reminded her colleagues that the Senate has subpoena power, according to a person who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The hearing was the first time the country saw the 51-year-old Ford beyond the grainy photo that has been flashed on television in the 10 days since she came forward with her contention.
“It is not my responsibility to determine whether Mr. Kavanaugh deserves to sit on the Supreme Court,” she was to tell the senators. “My responsibility is to tell the truth.”
Republicans are pushing to seat Kavanaugh before the November midterms, when Senate control could fall to the Democrats and a replacement Trump nominee could have even greater difficulty. Kavanaugh’s ascendance to the high court could help lock in a conservative majority for a generation, shaping dozens of rulings on abortion, regulation, the environment and more.
Republicans also risk rejection by female voters in November if they are seen as not fully respecting women and their allegations.
In a sworn statement, Swetnick said she witnessed Kavanaugh “consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women in the early 1980s.” Her attorney, Michael Avenatti, who also represents a porn actress who is suing Trump, provided her sworn declaration to the Judiciary panel.
Meanwhile, the lawyer for Deborah Ramirez, who says Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party when they attended Yale University, raised her profile in a round of television interviews.
Moments before committee chairman Grassley gaveled his panel into session, Ramirez tweeted her support for Ford: “They want us to feel alone and isolated but I’m there wrapping my arms around you and I hope you feel the people of this nation wrapping their arms around all of us.”
Republicans largely expressed confidence in Kavanaugh, emerging from a closed-door lunch with Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday to say the nominee remained on track for confirmation.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said all week that Republicans will turn to a committee vote on Kavanaugh after the hearing. They hope for a roll call by the full Senate early next week with the aim of getting him on the court as its new term begins.
Yet Collins’ unease was not the only suggestions of creeping doubt among Republicans. Asked whether there were signs of Republicans wavering in their support of Kavanaugh in their lunch, Sen. John Thune, the third-ranking Republican, paused briefly before saying “no.”
In the hearing, Democrats planned to ask Kavanaugh if he’d be willing to undergo FBI questioning about the various claims — a request Republicans oppose — and press him about his drinking and behavior as a teenager.
Republicans have hired an outside attorney, Phoenix prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, to handle much of their questioning. Thus, they will avoid having their all-male contingent interrogating Ford about the details of what she describes as a harrowing assault.
Democratic questioners included two senators widely seen as potential presidential candidates in 2020: Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey, who aggressively challenged Kavanaugh during the judge’s earlier confirmation hearing.
Ford told the committee that, one night in the summer of 1982, a drunken Kavanaugh forced her down on a bed, “groped me and tried to take off my clothes,” then clamped his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream before she was able to escape.
“I believed he was going to rape me,” she will say, according to her prepared testimony.
Kavanaugh is being challenged on multiple fronts by his accusers, former classmates and college friends. They say the good-guy image he projects in public bears little relation to the hard-partying behavior they witnessed when he was young.
In his prepared testimony, the 53-year-old appellate judge acknowledges drinking in high school with his friends, but says he’s never done anything “remotely resembling” what Ford describes. He said he has never had a “sexual or physical encounter of any kind” with her.
He also provided the committee with detailed calendar pages listing in green-and-white squares the activities that filled his summer of 1982 when he was 17 years old — exams, movies, sports and plenty of parties. That’s the year when Ford says she believes the assault occurred.
Nothing on the calendar appears to refer to her.
Ford released sworn statements from people who said she had told them about the assault in later years.
Late Wednesday, the committee released a flurry of other documents of unclear significance.
Transcripts of private interviews with committee investigators show they asked Kavanaugh about two previously undisclosed accusations received by Senate offices. One came in an anonymous letter sent to the office of Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., describing an incident in a bar in 1998, when Kavanaugh was working for the independent counsel investigating President Bill Clinton. The other accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in college. Kavanaugh denied them both.
People dressed in Zangbeto masquerade costume prepare to parade during a regatta to mark the Badagry festival Saturday in Badagry, Nigeria. Photo: Sunday Alamba / Associated Press
AJIDO, Nigeria — Excitement grew in the crowd as the Zangbeto Voodoo festival reached a climax, with scores of colorful palm-frond figures representing the traditional guardian of the night.
As men and women in white ceremonial clothing sang and danced to the sound of heavy drums, adherents doused a cone-shaped Zangbeto with kerosene. A ball of fire rose as it went up in flames.
The performance in coastal Nigeria over the weekend helped to create “fear and reverence,” the chairman of its organizing committee, Sehude Adeyinka Amosu, told The Associated Press. Every religion has some hold on the people, he said. “The people needed to see that the Zangbeto is not just a toy.”
Some Nigerians frustrated by crime and corruption have suggested that reviving such traditions could be a deterrent. The festival of about 2,000 people in the Ajido Kingdom in Lagos State, held every three years, is one of the most important events in the local religious calendar.
The leader of the Ajido Kingdom, Aholu Saheed Adamson, described the Zangbeto as a symbol of authority of the ethnic Ogu people and a “means of security of entire communities.”
The Ogu inhabit coastal areas of Nigeria, Benin and Togo. The West African region once was known as the Slave Coast because of the large number of slaves taken from there over centuries.
Beyond the slave trade, Ogu land is also noted for the voodoo widely practiced there. The use of the Zangbeto is said to date back to the 17th century.
“As the traditional police and court of the people the Zangbeto handles such cases as theft,” Seton Idowu, who believes strongly in its spiritual powers, told the AP. “Everyone fears the Zangbeto and you can get into trouble if you go against the rules.”
The beliefs hold that Zangbeto’s punishment could range from fines to the banishment of an individual.
Outside influences have steadily eroded such traditional institutions, which Amosu said are being “bastardized or criminalized as being fetish.”
Meanwhile, he said, modern institutions like the police have failed to perform as effectively as the traditional ones they replace. Many people would rather take their case to the Zangbeto than to the police post, he said.
Nigerian authorities are increasingly tolerant of such festivals and their underlying beliefs as long as they are not criminal in nature. The Zangbeto Voodoo festival had the support of the government, with senior officials in attendance.
While turning to Zangbeto and other traditional figures reduces the burden on authorities, the resort to mob justice against suspected criminals, with some beaten to death, is widely seen in Nigeria as an indication of the loss of faith in the police and justice system.
As crime rises, some people say traditional institutions like the Zangbeto should be revived. Even though the majority of Nigerians are Christian or Muslim, traditional beliefs remain strong.
Some have even suggested that in the face of widespread corruption, authorities should take their oath of office by swearing to traditional gods rather than with the Bible or Quran.
Certain gods are seen as capable of dispensing instant justice by striking offenders with thunder and lightning.
“They will surely think twice before stealing public funds,” Idowu said.
A B-52 Stratofortress from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, touches down in April 2016 in Qatar. Photo: Tech. Sgt. Nathan Lipscomb / US Air Force
BEIJING — China has labeled a recent mission by nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 bombers over the disputed South China Sea as “provocative.”
Defense Ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang said at a monthly briefing Thursday that China would respond with all measures considered necessary to safeguard its rights and interests.
Two B-52s flew over the strategic waterway claimed by China earlier this week in what the Pentagon called a routine mission.
Asked Wednesday about the flights, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis responded that, “there’s nothing out of the ordinary about it.”
China has sought to strengthen its claim to the South China Sea by building seven islands on reefs and equipping them with military facilities such as airstrips, radar domes and missile systems. Five other governments claim territory in the area.
CHIANG MAI — Last week, it was a Chonburi cop showing compassion to a suicidal teen. Today, a police officer in the north is winning praise for pulling a young life back from the brink.
It was last night that Capt. Suriya Noiwanna of Mae Ping police talked a high school girl down from jumping off a highway bridge.
“Calm down, daughter,” Suriya said, pleading to the girl with a deep wai. “I’m a police officer. I can help you. From this moment on, I can help you.”
Suriya then offered the girl his hand. When she reached out to him, he grabbed hold of her and pulled her to safety with the help of other rescuers.
At around 8pm the girl parked her motorbike at the bridge and climbed to the edge, intending to jump to the ground. Police and rescue workers soon responded to the scene.
The girl was reportedly depressed because of her parents’ fighting and being bullied for her poor academic performance.
An image from a Health Ministry’s campaign urging teen abstinence.
BANGKOK — Though abortion remains nominally illegal, about 200,000 women end their pregnancies each year through safe and unsafe channels, killing dozens and leaving tens of thousands suffering complications.
On the eve of an international reproductive rights day, proponents of access to safe abortion in Thailand point out that while progress has been made, barriers remain in the form of restrictive laws and socially conservative attitudes.
Kritaya Archavanitkul, a Mahidol University professor who advocates for women’s reproductive rights, said Thai women are denied access to safe abortions by not only the state, but a lack of understanding from society.
“Some police still think that any case of abortion is illegal,” she said. “People in the medical field also reject them on moral grounds.”
The law allows abortions in cases of rape, sex trafficking and all girls under 15. It’s also allowed if the pregnancy poses potential physical or mental harm to the mother, a broad enough clause used to justify the many clinical procedures performed. Women can also terminate their pregnancy if the fetus is found to have serious disabilities or genetic disorders.
Women ending their pregnancies without satisfying one of these requirements face three years in jail and a 6,000-baht fine. Those performing the abortion can be jailed five years and fined up to 14,000 baht. In cases resulting in serious injury or death, the maximum penalty is 10 years in jail and a 20,000-baht fine.
Calls to legalize abortion in Thailand mainly run up against social and religious values. Thai Buddhist teaching equates abortion with murder, while patriarchal attitudes constraining women’s sexual expression also contribute to hushing up discussion of the issue.
Kritaya said the law cannot prevent people from having abortions, but social stigmas are forcing them to turn to unsafe methods that can be fatal.
In 2012, the National Health Security Office reported about 25 to 30 women die annually from unsafe abortions, while about 30,000 suffer serious complications.
The medical cost to society is over 100 million baht per year, according to the Health Department.
The latest data however indicates that the ratio of abortions performed by qualified medical personnel are increasing, from 65.8 percent in 2011 to 85.5 percent in 2015. The number of unsafe abortions, whether self-administered or by unqualified practitioners, is decreasing.
Although public discussion of abortion in Thailand has been focused mainly on teenagers and the high rate of teen pregnancy, official statistics suggest teens are becoming less likely to seek abortions than older women.
“We deal with a lot of those under 20, but anyone at any age can have an unwanted pregnancy and want to end it,” said Somwong Uraiwattana, who’s in charge of a reproductive planning hotline.
The 2015 data from the health ministry found that nearly two out of three women obtaining abortions did so due to financial reasons rather than health problems.
Somwong cited a case in which a 51-year-old woman with a stable family life got pregnant unintentionally and had an abortion because her husband was set to retire soon.
“Women should have more options to deal with this problem,” he said. “Society also should see it as nothing more than a health issue and that these women need medical assistance.”
Kritiya said all laws regarding abortion should be revoked and rewritten into health codes under provision of the Health Ministry.
“Today, there are women across the world that are injured or die from abortions,” she said. “This problem can be prevented if there’s … access to safe abortions.”
PHITSANULOK — The son of a coma patient whose apparent abuse by a nurse was watched by millions online said Thursday he won’t press charges after she was transferred to a job away from patients.
Kong Duangprom, the 63-year-old son of the nonagenarian comatose man seen shoved violently at Buddhachinaraj Hospital, said he was satisfied with the transfer of the nurse – whose identity has been kept secret – but would like her to publicly apologize.
“We’re not going to press charges against the hospital,” Kong said Thursday.”But I want this nurse to come apologize to society for her actions and explain herself.”
Buddhachinaraj Hospital directors did not fire the nurse, but instead transferred her to a post at the provincial Health Ministry office that does not involve patient care.
“This incident happened because of built-up stress in her nursing job,” said hospital director Suchart Porncharoenpong.
The most common sentiment online was frustration driven by the belief justice had not been served.
“Uncle, you might not mind, but I do! It’s inappropriate for the nursing profession. This should have been punished,” Kamsl Konnee wrote.
Comments defending the unidentified nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Council were widely panned, including its secretary-general, Angkhana Sariyapong, strained argument that the woman’s actions were misunderstood.
“From investigating the ward, we found that this nurse is generally a good, fast, nonviolent worker,” Angkhana said. “At that moment, she saw that the patient was on the edge of the bed, and was afraid that he would fall, so she had to tug him because usually it takes two nurses to do so. She was being caring because she put a pillow underneath his head.”
In the clip, the patient is clearly lying squarely in the middle of the bed. The nurse throws the pillow right at the comatose man’s head before tugging him and roughly shoving it beneath his head.
“Such shameless water-treading,” Bee Chanakant Kura wrote of the council’s rationalization. “Even if someone so black-hearted wears a white uniform, the uniform immediately becomes dirty.”
A screencap from a dashcam footage of the deadly shooting on Feb. 4, 2017.
CHONBURI — An engineer who shot dead a 17-year-old boy during a parking dispute last year was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison.
The court rejected the self-defense claim of 51-year-old Suthep Poshsomboon and found him guilty of premeditated murder in what began as a roadside altercation in Chonburi province. He was also ordered to pay 340,000 baht in restitution.
“I’d like to thank the justice system,” his mother Maneeporn Puengpai told reporters at the court. “I’ll try to live a normal life from now.”
Suthep’s lawyer said he will appeal the ruling.
The deadly shooting took place Feb. 4, 2017, after Suthep’s car was blocked by a van in front of a restaurant in Chonburi province. An argument broke out before the van was moved to let Suthep out.
The prosecutors said Suthep then shouted curses at the van and pursued it. Its driver eventually cut off Suthep and a few teenagers emerged to surround his car, which was also carrying his wife, mother and nephew.
Suthep said he was attacked by Nawapol and other teens when he stepped out, forcing him to pull out a 9mm handgun and fire the single shot which struck Nawapol.
In interviews with the media, the engineer said he was acting in self-defense to protect his family. Clips showing incomplete accounts of the incident fed divided reactions, with one side sympathizing with Suthep and the other arguing he used unnecessary force.
Police later released dashcam video from Suthep’s car in which he could be heard inside the car telling his family he was ready to use his weapon.
“I’ve prepared. I’ll just shoot them,” Suthep said to his wife after she asked him to surrender the gun to her.
In today’s verdict, the court said Suthep readied his unlicensed firearm right after the argument broke out, indicating his intent to cause harm. The court also faulted the defendant for pursuing Nawapol’s van and honking at him even after the van left the scene.
Suthep was initially given 15 years in jail, but the court cut the sentence by a third because he did not flee the scene and immediately admitted to firing the fatal shot.
It’s in the krapao, in the cakes and in the coffee. Avocado is in everything at a new, trendy Ari cafe that wants to get the Thai palate on board with the buttery superfood.
Oh! Vacoda, newly opened on Soi Ari Samphan 4, is run by an avocado-obsessed couple. Although the thoughtful fare will please avocado lovers, it’s capped by one dish that hits it out of the park – an exceptional case that highlights the fact there’s just not enough menu options ot make it a full cafe yet.
“We both love avocado, but we were bored of scooping it next to a salad. Half of Thai people eat it, the other half don’t because they say it tastes too bland and lian,” Rujiyatorn “Piang-ploy” Choksiriwan said, using a word to describe overly cheesy or greasy tastes. “So I wanted to make Bangkok-style avocado dishes.”
Piang-ploy and her boyfriend, Watcharapong “Bom” Thongyan, aren’t new to the biz: They also own the nearby Porcupine Cafe.
An Avocado Honey Lemon Cake (฿155) and fried avocado with krapao (฿190).
The star dish of the place – indeed, the only real Thai-ified avocado dish at the moment – is the krapao avocado (฿190). There’s a plate of krapao moo, a rice portion small enough to compensate for the extra avo and half a boiled egg. With it is the spiced avocado, rolled in breadcrumbs fried with holy basil. It’s perfect: buttery and yet Thai, with a thin layer of crunch that coats the slick green middle.
“I think krapao is the signature dish of Bangkok. Everyone eats it all the time, and farangs wanna eat it when they come here. Avocado is zaap in this dish,” Piang-ploy said.
Somehow, the greasy street food is made healthy. Finish the whole dish and it feels like street food, properly elevated and integrated with look noey (literally “butter ball,” or the Thai word for avocado).
There’s no guac to be found (“we’re all bored of that,” Piang-ploy says). The only other savory fare is pancakes and bacon, with avocado mixed into the batter (฿235). The rest of the menu has avo-infused coffees, teas and desserts, but without any local adaptation.
Rujiyatorn ‘Piang-ploy’ Choksiriwan, 27, and Watcharapong “Bom” Thongyan, 25.
Try the avoothie (฿150) for a small yet dense citrusy blend of avocado and lime that is surprisingly filling. The Avocado Honey Lemon Cake (฿155) is a bit less impressive than the savories: The cake is powdery but tries to compensate with an avocado layer in the middle and zesty-sweet icing.
So is Oh! Vacoda a gimmick with a shelf life as brief as the fruit it celebrates?
“It’s not just a fad cafe. I put a lot of passion into this; two years in the making,” Piang-ploy said.
Going forward, she wants to find uses for all parts of the fruit – including making dyes from its peel for clothing to be sold at the store.
She disparaged Bangkok’s other avocado themed-joint, The Hass Bistro, saying Oh! Vacoda aims to incorporate its green flesh into the heart of each dish.
The Avoothie (฿150).
Barista Bom makes the avocado drinks by boiling the pits in water used to make americanos, or the mixing the meat with chocolate for mochas. Teas are blended with avocado seeds but that doesn’t seem to add much more than novelty and a slight earthy smell, even the promising No. 3 blend of white tea, coconut, butterfly pea, elderflower rose and avocado seed (฿160).
Like the menu, the decor is off to a good start and could use more development. The orange pastel walls and neon avocado sign are inviting, yet the attempted ‘60s-era theme comes across as cutesy Korean. Playful wall doodles by local artists run up against the exposed industrial aesthetic, tribal tablecloths and the second dining room’s ultraviolet lights.
Oh! Vacoda is a good start, and Piang-ploy says more dishes and drinks are in the works. Once its service picks up steam and the menu runs a little longer, its prospects will be strong. If future dishes are as thoughtful as the krapao, then Oh! Vacoda can break the curse of cafes based on a single food gimmick. Time, and many more zesty avocado, will tell.
Photos by Chayanit Itthipongmaetee
Oh! Vacoda is reachable by a ฿15 motorbike ride from BTS Ari, or a 15-minute walk to the top of Soi Ari Samphan 4. It’s open from 10am to 10pm every day.
Deep-fried avocado sided with phad krapao (฿190).
Avocado pancakes with bacon, topped with egg souffle (฿235).Avocado Honey Lemon Cake (฿155).Avocado seed tea blends (฿140 to ฿160 for a pot).
