Sun, 11/28/2010 - 11:56 by Rakhi
Bangkok -- With housing developments going up in former rice paddies and forests in Thailand's capital, more calls are being made to report intrusive snakes.
Yutasak Romchatthong, head of the Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department, said there had been 2,935 calls by the end of October bout snakes in houses, the Bangkok Post reported. There were 1,582 in 2008 and 2,744 last year.
Because only calls where the fire department actually finds a snake are recorded, the actual number of calls is probably significantly higher, Yutasak said.
Most of the snakes are pythons or other non-venomous species. But some cobras turn up, especially in areas recently used for farming.
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Mon, 09/27/2010 - 22:07 by harsheeb
Bangkok-- Seeded players Thiemo de Bakker and Viktor Troicki were among the first-round winners Monday at the Thailand Open tennis tournament.
De Bakker, seeded sixth, fired 11 aces en route to a 7-5, 6-0 win over Marc Lopez.
De Bakker won 61 percent of the points in the match and dropped only nine points in the second set.
The seventh-seeded Troicki had four service breaks in eight receiving games in posting a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Marco Chiudinelli. Troicki lost only 12 points in his eight service games.
In other first-round matches Monday, Florent Serra needed more than 2 1/2 hours to escape Teymuraz Gabashvili 6-7 (1-7), 6-4, 6-4; and Daniel Brands topped Illya Marchenko.
Copyright 2010 United Press International
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Thu, 09/16/2010 - 09:40 by harsheeb
BankokA -- Authorities in Thailand said they burned more than 600,000 items weighing around 90 tons because they violated intellectual property rights.
Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot presided over a ceremony followed by the burning of 613,374 items by the Intellectual Property Department, Commerce Ministry, Royal Thai Police and private sector organizations, the Thai News Agency reported Wednesday.
Alongkorn said the burning was done in an environmentally friendly and chemically correct way in a "cement stove" with some materials to be recycled.
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Tue, 03/30/2010 - 08:00 by harsheeb
Bangkok -- Thailand's finance minister Monday advocated against early dissolution of the House of Representatives, warning it would impede the country's economic recovery.
Korn Chatikavanij said dissolving the House now would affect Thailand's loan program, agricultural risk insurance system and other stimulus efforts, the Bangkok Post reported.
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Mon, 02/22/2010 - 11:27 by Rakhi
Chonburi, Thailand -- Ai Miyazato shot a course-record 9-under-par 63 and came from six strokes behind Sunday to win the Honda PTT LPGA Thailand tournament.
Miyazato had an eagle and eight birdies en route to the single-round record and finished the season-opening event at 21-under 267, winning $195,000. Suzann Pettersen, who had a 5-stroke lead going into the final round, shot 2-under 70 Sunday and finished second at 20-under.
Pettersen had been near perfect through the first three rounds but had her first two bogeys of the tournament Sunday -- on Nos. 9 and 16 -- to give Miyazato an opening.
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Sun, 02/21/2010 - 09:36 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Chonburi, Thailand -- Suzann Pettersen closed with back-to-back birdies Saturday and has a 5-stroke lead after three rounds of the LPGA season-opening Honda PTT Thailand tournament.
Pettersen hasn't had a bogey over the first three days of play and is at 18-under-par 198 overall after a 4-under 68 Saturday. Kim Song-hee also shot 68 in the third round and is alone in second at 13-under. Yani Tseng (68), Ai Miyazato (70) and Momoko Ueda (69) are tied for third at 12-under 204.
Pettersen began her round, just as she did the first two, with a birdie at the par-5 first hole. After eight consecutive pars she birdied the par-5 10th.
Another string of pars got her to the 17th hole, which she birdied. She finished with a birdie at the par-5 18th.
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Sat, 02/13/2010 - 12:22 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Pattaya City, Thailand) -- Top-seeded Vera Zvonareva, the defending champion, won her quarterfinal match Friday at the Pattaya Open tennis event in Pattaya City, Thailand.
She advanced to Saturday's semifinals with a 6-0, 7-6 (7-5) win over fifth-seeded Sybille Bammer of Austria and next plays fourth-seeded Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, a 7-6 (7-4), 6-1 winner over unseeded Tatjana Malek of Germany.
Also Friday, in a battle of non-seeds, Bulgaria's Sesil Karatantcheva topped Russia's Ekaterina Bychkova, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, while fan favorite Tamarine Tanasugarn, a native of Los Angeles whose family is from Thailand, trounced Russia's Anna Chakvetadze, 6-1, 6-1.
Saturday's semifinals pit Zvonareva against Shvedova and Tanasugarn against Karatantcheva.
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Fri, 02/12/2010 - 08:04 by harsheeb
Pattaya -- Ekaterina Bychkova pulled off the biggest upset of Thursday's second-round play at the PTT Pattaya Open tennis tournament in Thailand.
Bychkova defeated fellow Russia Vera Dushevina, the tournament's No. 3 seed, 6-4, 6-1, piling up six breaks in Dushevina's nine service games. Bychkova won 55 percent of the points when Dushevina served in advancing to the quarterfinals.
Top-seeded Vera Zvonareva, another Russian, won Thursday, taking out Alberta Brianti 6-3, 6-2 and moving to a quarterfinal pairing against No. 5-seeded Austrian Sybille Bammer.
Bammer claimed a 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 triumph over Kai-Chen Chang in her second-round match. There were 14 service breaks in the match, eight by Bammer.
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Tue, 02/09/2010 - 09:33 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Pattaya City, Thailand -- Germany's Sabine Lisicki, the No. 2 seed, and Russian Anna Chakvetadze were first-round winners Monday in the Pattaya Open in Thailand.
Lisicki advanced when her opponent, Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan, quit after one set because of an abdominal injury. The German player had won the set 6-0.
Chakvetadze eliminated American Jill Craybas 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
In another first-round match Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa dropped the first set but rallied to beat Thai wild card Noppawan Lertcheewakarn 6-7 (9-11), 6-4, 6-4.
The defending champion, Russia's Vera Zvonareva, plays her first match Tuesday.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Mon, 10/05/2009 - 00:44 by Salinder Kumar
Bangkok -- Frenchman Gilles Simon won his sixth ATP tournament Sunday, outplaying Serbia's Viktor Troicki in Bangkok's Thailand Open.
Simon posted a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Troicki, who has not won a tour event.
The 10th-ranked Simon, seeded No. 2 in Bangkok, had not claimed a title in more than a year.
Troicki was seeded fourth.
Simon has played Troicki three times, and won each match.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Sun, 10/04/2009 - 23:53 by Salinder Kumar
Bangkok -- A 32-year-old banker drowned while participating in a Pakistani reality TV competition being filmed in Thailand, investigators say.
An unidentified police investigator said Pakistani banker Saad Khan drowned while swimming across a pond in Bangkok's idyllic Rot Fai Park as part of the filming for a reality series with the working title of "Clear Man," the Bangkok Post reported Sunday.
The investigator said while more than 30 cast and crew members were on hand during the Aug. 19 accident, he estimates no one attempted to help the drowning man for several minutes as cameras continued to roll.
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Sun, 10/04/2009 - 01:34 by surajdogra
Bangkok -- Gilles Simon of France and Serbia's Viktor Troicki advanced to Sunday's title match at the Thailand Open tennis tournament in Bangkok.
Simon, the second seed, downed Austria's Jurgen Melzer 6-4, 7-6 (7-3). The fourth-seeded Troicki knocked off top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the defending champion, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3, spoiling a potential all-French final.
"It was a great turnaround," Troicki, a non-title winner, said on the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site. "I took my chances to eventually win the match.
It is a huge match for me, appearing in my second final. I'll definitely give it my best shot to win my first title."
The Simon-Troicki winner receives $100,100.
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