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Thai security authorities are using a range of crowd control measures against Cambodians trying to invade a village beside the border in Thailand in the eastern province of Sa Kaeo.

The planned rollout of the highly anticipated 20-baht-flat mass-transport fare in Greater Bangkok in October is likely to be delayed, with the key enabling bills mired down in parliament.

The Meteorological Department warns that storm Kajiki will move into the northern province of Nan on Tuesday evening, bringing heavy rain with mountain runoff and flash floods in many provinces of the North and Northeast. 

Police arrested Luang Phor Alongkot, former abbot of well-known Aids hospice temple Wat Phrabatnampu at the temple in Lop Buri early Tuesday morning for multiple charges including temple fund embezzlement and money-laundering as they suspected him of planning to escape.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has publicly affirmed that the 2000 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU 2000) with Cambodia remains the cornerstone of bilateral boundary demarcation, as pressure builds in parliament and from opposition figures for its revocation.