Around Thailand: Trademark Check, Oil Slick and Other Regional Stories
The Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) plans to call in an applicant who filed to register “Nene Royal” as a trademark. Officials want to confirm that the applicant actually has permission to use the name.
Many Bangkok residents first got a taste of the sea at Suan Siam (Siam Amazing Park), an expansive amusement park far from any coastline. The 46-year-old attraction will shut for good after severe flood damage, and the news has disappointed many visitors.
Environmental officials are working quickly to contain an oil slick in Prachin Buri. They want to stop it before receding floodwaters carry toxic runoff into local waterways.
The police chief of Pluak Daeng, Pol. Col. Nawin Sinthurat, was moved to an inactive post on Saturday. The reassignment followed joint raids on four unlicensed karaoke bars linked to prostitution and kickbacks.
Bangkok police rescued a university student who had been extorted of 36,000 baht by a call-center gang. The gang had also pressured him into demanding up to 300,000 baht from his parents under a fake scholarship scheme.
More stories
- Wildlife officials have opened a legal investigation after an autopsy confirmed that a wild elephant was electrocuted in a rice field in Loei.
- Environmental inspectors have increased checks at an abandoned factory in Samut Sakhon, where nearly 200 tonnes of hazardous aluminium dross were found stored improperly.
- The Pollution Control Department has warned people not to eat fish caught in the Song and Rangsit canals in Pathum Thani, and advised them to avoid contact with the canal water.
- A search and rescue operation resumed on Saturday for a 60-year-old man and a 12-year-old boy who disappeared while fishing at Lam Phra Phloeng Dam in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Thong Chai district on Friday.
- Officials in Nong Krung Si district and local volunteers in Kalasin will hold a fishing drive on Friday to catch black-chin tilapia, an invasive species, in the reservoir behind Lam Pao Dam.
- An elderly woman who was following GPS directions missed the warning signs and drove her sedan onto a motorcycle-only U-turn bridge in Samut Sakhon on Thursday, leaving the car stuck.
- The Customs Department has proposed banning iron scrap imports unless shipments come with a certificate from the country of origin confirming there is no electronic waste mixed in.