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The northern province of Mae Hong Son continued to see forest fires at the weekend, with one of them almost reaching a revered Guan Yin shrine in Muang district Sunday night, officials said.

Believers and lottery players continued to pray at the site of the shrine of what they call the "Gamo" spirit on Sukhumvit Road in Rayong's Ban Chang district on Saturday, even although it has been mysteriously removed.

A makeshift shrine in Rayong that supposedly helped some people win the lottery has mysteriously disappeared, leaving bettors in a tizzy as the next draw looms.

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan on Friday presided over a ceremony to produce amulets to mark the Bangkok City Pillar Shrine’s 235th anniversary. 

Shinzo Abe did indeed make history, of sorts, by becoming the first Japanese leader to visit the memorial above the wreckage of the USS Arizona in Hawaii and offering his “sincere and everlasting condolences” to those who died 75 years ago when Japan launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hundreds of people line up at the national blood donation centre at Thai Red Cross Society headquarters on Rama IV road following the fatal bomb blast on Ratchaprasong intersection near the Erawan Shrine on Monday night.