Pra Kru Kosol Sitthikarn, the abbot of Wat Bang Poon Temple, alerted the police after
he noticed that the statue was nowhere to be found.

CCTV cameras revealed the incident on 20
August, as 2 men entered the Praying Hall and stole the bronze-gold statue from a shelf.

According to the abbot, the statue represented His Majesty the King′s greatness. The locals
helped construct the statue in 1993 to show their loyalty, he said, and it has been used in annual
celebration of the King′s birthday for 16 years.

Mr. Jaruek Kanjaruek, Managing Director of Kantana Group,
said that the Community Cinema project plans to create small local cinemas, which would contain 50
seats and charge the audience 30 baht per movie.

It departs greatly from the mainstream
cinema business, owned by the likes of SF Cinema and Major Cineplex, which can charge moviegoers up
to 170-200 baht per movie.

The project has been welcomed by many investors. So far, 500
investors have signed up to jointly build the cinema with Kantana.

The company, a big player
in Thailand′s entertainment industry, plans to build up to 1,000 such cinemas all over
Thailand.

According to Mr. Jaruek, the Community Cinema model is targeting people who wish to
pay less for the leisure. Moreover, the project is hoping to reduce the problem of intellectual
property piracy and strengthen Thai entertainment business.

Mr. Jaruek believes that 30 baht
would be the right ticket price, as it takes up to 10% of the national minimum wage. With this
ticket price, the cinema is capable of reaching out to a wider audience.

The allegation was spread widely
on the social network, fanned mostly by anti-government groups. These critics charged that Ms.
Yingluck and other Ministers are treated to numerous luxurious meals each day at work.

Some
versions of the rumour also comes with a photo showing a wide array of food allegedly served at the
Government House.

Mr. Teerat Ratanasevi, Ms. Yingluck′s spokesman, responded by posting a
photo of a humble noodle dish on Twitter, saying that it is the kind of cuisine he and other
officials, Ms. Yingluck included, eat everyday at work.

I tell the housekeeper at my office
to buy food for me every lunch, Mr. Teerat said.

He further explained that the Government
House does have a special budget for the meals served in events that the government welcomed its
dignitaries. However, he stressed that the special set of menu is not as extravagant as the
ant-government critics have alleged.

For example, he said, the government provided rice with
fried chicken and black pepper, and some fruits, to representatives of the industrial sector who met
with the Cabinet last month.

Moreover, the Government House only pays for the Cabinet
members? food on days of Cabinet meetings, according to Mr. Teerat.

Mr. Atthanat
Thin-apai, Director of the Expressway Authority of Thailand, announced that the Ministry of
Transport decided to raise expressway fee from the beginning of next month.

The decision,
which was concluded on 21 August, will force Bangkokian to pay 5-10 baht more for Chalerm Mahanakorn
Expressway, Srirat Expressway and Bhuraphavidhi Expressway.

Mr. Blair is scheduled to speak at a government-sponsored event
in a 5 star hotel in Bangkok next week, which was billed as a panel discussion to find solutions for
Thailand′s deeply polarised society.

However, the protesters, who identified themselves as
part of the ?White Masks? movement, argued that the government is wasting millions of baht on the
invitation of such a high-profile speaker, and viewed the talk as a political trick to lend
credibility to the government.

2 British nationals, a husband and a wife, also joined the
rally. 40 police officers guarded the Embassy′s entrance.

In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Dharmma Research for
Environment Foundation urged an effort to hold the PTT Global Chemical responsible for its role in the incident,
which was caused by a leak in the company′s oil pipeline.

Ms. Supaphon Malailoy, the group′s
representative, and other activists submitted the letter at the Government House today. Reportedly,
32,000 people have signed the letter.

Some activists also painted their faces with black
ink, and brought with them a jar of marinated shrimps and a jar of black squid to be given to the
Prime Minister as an ironic gift.

Ms. Supaphon said that the group believed that the
PTT-appointed commission, led by Ms. Thongthip Rattanarat, is unreliable due to its close
relationship with the company.

She cited the procedures made by Australian government, when
it appointed an independent commission to investigate the oil spill caused by PTT Australian-owned
rigs in 2009. The case, conducted by the impartial commission, resulted in 8,946 million baht
compensation fee paid by the company, she said, urging the Thai government to do the
same.

The appropriate committee should include
epresentatives from various sectors, such as the
public sector, private sectors, academia, legal experts, and local residents, and it should define
clearly what compensation PTT Global Chemical should pay, Ms. Supaphon added.

The Prime Minister
herself is ranked as the wealthiest of the bunch, with declared personal possession of 601,660,181
baht.

Although she possesses the combination of property assets and wealth worth 628,660,181
baht, she also owns a debt of 27,000,000 Baht.

Minister of Labour, Mr. Chalerm Yoobamrung,
possesses property and wealth worth 171,283,646 baht, while Mr. Jaturon Chaisaeng, Minister of
Education, holds 118,838,359 baht in property and wealth.

Mr. Peerapan Palusuk, Minister of
Science and Technology, owns 74,471,376 baht, and has 5,068,757 baht worth debt, making his total
wealth at 69,402,618 baht.

Mr. Santi Prompattana, Minister of the Prime Minister Office,
possesses 19,647,405 baht, and 1,290,676 baht in debt.

Ms. Buppha Sirikaew, 68, who was among 4 other people who were injured by the students,
said that her group was travelling from Victory Monument after the protest with the People’s Radio
for Democracy ended.

While waiting at the traffic light near Lumpini Park, a group of
50-70 vocational students emerged from the park and pelted rocks, bottles, and other objects at the
Redshirts convoy.

According to the police, a CCTV investigation is being conducted and
those who engaged in the incident will be charged for injuring and harming the lives and the properties of
other people.

The students who launched the attack were among several thousand polytechnic students who
swelled the ranks of the the People’s Army against Thaksin’s Regime protest at Lumpini Park. The
group used yellow scarves and yellow headbands to identify themselves.

The students, whose
institution is not yet known, also called for support from other vocational education institutions
to join the protest.

Regarding the incident, Mr. Anusorn Eiamsa-ard, deputy spokesmen of Phue
Thai party, urged the vocational education institution to carefully advise their student about the
protest, and take responsibility in guiding their students to express political preferences in the
appropriate way.

He raised concern that the behaviour of the students who joined the
protest are worrying, and suggests the protest leaders to
ot only think of numbers, but also the
quality of the protestors, too.

Meanwhile, Mr. Pradit Rasitanont, deputy secretary of
Committee of Vocational Education, stated that his organisation accepts the students′ right to join
the protest, as long as the protest remains peaceful and not violating the
Constitution.

The deputy secretary added that the students must join the protests on their volition and do not claim to represent their colleges. However, he also urged each institution’s director to
communicate with their students, and make sure that the students do not spend their class times to
join the protest.

Vocational students regularly make headlines in Bangkok, due to the rivalry
among different colleges which sometimes turn violent. The rival students have engaged in
fistfights, gunfights, and even bomb attacks in broad daylight. Bystanders have been injured and
killed by such incidents.

Mr. Songsak Charoenchai, 46, was still heavily intoxicated
when the rescue workers arrived at the telephone booth in Bangkok Yai District where he had been
screaming for help. The workers used screwdrivers to free him from the 15-centimetre high gap
between the ground and the booth′s wall.

After he had been freed, Mr. Songsak told our
correspondent he was from upcountry and had been looking for work in Bangkok for 7 days. Last night,
he said, he was drinking to the point of intoxication when he noticed that it was going to
rain.

Mr. Songsak was afraid his head would be wet from the rain and he would catch a cold,
he explained, so he lay down and tried to insert his head into the telephone booth. He fell asleep
soon afterwards and woke up to find that he could not get his head out.