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<div>Economists have expressed positive sentiments towards economic growth in Thailand after the military intervention. They lauded the military’s swift clamp down on corruption and recalibrated focus on the economy. The military’s actions have facilitated a better environment for growth and bolstered investors’ confidence. </div>
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<div>On Wednesday, the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS), Chulalongkorn University, organized a public forum titled “The Macroeconomic Impact of Thailand’s Military Intervention”.
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<div>As e-commerce on social networks is now growing rapidly in Thailand, the state mail carrier, Thailand Post, has been the main delivery service for small-scale Thai merchants because it offers a reliable service at a reasonable price.
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<div>Villagers from northeastern Loei Province have urged the military junta to allow villagers' participation in solving a conflict with a mine operator after the military junta intervened and tried to solve the issue without local participation.</div>
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<div>The villagers in six villages in the province have been protesting against mining firms that set up operations to extract resources from the area for the past few years.
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<div>HM the King on Tuesday granted an audience to Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, the leader of the junta’ s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), and endorsed the interim constitution, presented by the NCPO leader, according to Thailand’s Public Relations Department. </div>
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<div>The interim charter’s Article 48 grants an amnesty for the coup makers and their subordinates. </div>
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<div>Today (Tuesday) is the two-month anniversary of the military coup. </div>
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<div>After the junta last Friday issued Order No. 97, prohibiting media from criticizing the junta and that any media outlet dare to criticize the junta would be shut down, on Monday night the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) withdrew its order. </div>
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<div>The latest announcement, issued Monday night, amended the Order No.
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<div>The military on Monday evening released Nanthapong Bunpong, a student activist from Mahasarakham University in northeastern Maha Sarakham Province, after detaining him for four days. </div>
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<div>This was the second time Nanthapong was ordered to report to the military authorities.</div>
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<div>At 1 pm on Friday, the student activist reported to the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Maha Sarakham Headquarters, Maha Sarakham Governmental Complex, and was arrested. </div>
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<div>A Thai woman took a video clip of her visit to a house in the suburbs of London where anti-Thai monarchist Chatwadee Amornpat aka “Rose” reportedly used to live, and gave her a present, presumably excrement. </div>
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<div>This is the third time that Thai royalists have recorded videos of themselves harassing Rose at No.
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<div>Nanthapong Bunpong, a student activist from Mahasarakham University in northeastern Maha Sarakham Province, has been detained by the military for 24 hours. His fate is completely unknown to friends and family. </div>
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<div>According to the Thai Student Centre for Democracy, this is the second time that Nanthapong was ordered to report to the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).
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<p>Prom Jarana, a land rights activist and member of the Assembly of the Poor, who was detained by the military on Thursday mornng has been released, according to the Assembly of the Poor. </p>
<p>The Assembly reported on its Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=588260557958106&id=220615904722575">page</a> at 10.30pm that the 65-year-old activist safely arrived his house around 8pm of Thursday. </p>