Prem in perfectly good health: close aide
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Privy Council President Prem Tinsulanonda is in good health, his close aide said yesterday, in a bid to deny recent rumours.
Lt-General Pissanu Putthawong, chief of the office of the Statesman’s Foundation, pointed out that Prem had attended a social function on Thursday, adding that rumours like this are spread from time to time by people with ill intentions.
“It is a distortion of fact. I ask you [media] to inform the public that this is not true,” he said.
BMA repairs metre-deep sinkhole on Phetkasem Road
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has finished repairing a sinkhole on Phetkasem Road, which is now open to traffic.
The 3.5-metre-wide and 1m-deep sinkhole rendered the road inaccessible to vehicles as it took up both lanes on the street.
Officials were dispatched on Friday morning to carry out the repairs and the road was reopened before rush hour.
The BMA explained that the soil and rocks below the surface that soils and rocks below the surface may have been dissolved by groundwater circulating through them, creating a void that causes the road to collapse .
