Internet shop owners arrested

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Published: 4 Nov 2012 at 10.49
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BANGKOK- Police on Saturday night arrested the owners of three internet shops in Bangkok's Din Daeng district on charges of allowing children under 15 to use their services after 8pm.

Pol Maj Gen Manit Wongsomboon, the Metropolitan Police deputy chief, led a team of 50 officers to inspect over 30 internet and online game shops on Ratchaprasong road.

During the raid, three gaming cafes were found to have let children under 15 years old to use their internet services after 8pm. The owners were charged.

If guilty, the owners will face a maximum three-month prison sentence and a fine of 30,000 baht.

Pol Gen Kamronwit Thoopkrachang, the Metropolitan Police chief, has launched a campaign to suppress internet shops that offer their services to children less than 15 years of age.

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ricoaj22
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Discussion 10 : 05 Nov 2012 at 19.1810
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how does this merit a prison sentence again? 15, 16, what's the difference.. at least these kids weren't driving cars illegally and killing people in minivans... or out on the streets as gangs intimidating people and commiting crime.
To an outside obsever some of the laws and sentencing guidelines could be deemed totally disgraceful.
But what do we regular class people know about anything :/
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Discussion 9 : 04 Nov 2012 at 22.269
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We are living in Norway, our country has a plenty of laws and regulations that limit our freedom for utilization of life, examples we are not allowed to smoke at the entrance to a public office, it is not allowed to put cigarette boxes at the sale counters, There is not allowed to serve food in the restaurants after 11 PM and no sales of servering of alcohol at 01 AM in the bars.ect, we escaped from the country to Thailand for more freedom that we had from the 1990's. Last year I was at Bangkok and found out that Thailand is shutting tight likely as Norway and Singapore. We'll find out a new discovery holidayplace to spend our tourist money t
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gabs

Discussion 8 : 04 Nov 2012 at 17.588
My son 6 year old and have ID card !
from iPhone application.
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Discussion 7 : 04 Nov 2012 at 16.127
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It is really hard to see the point of such a regulation.
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Discussion 6 : 04 Nov 2012 at 15.016
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How ridiculous is that ! Thais under 15 don't have ID card so how is a shop owner to know. And they can be thrown in jail for this so called offence ?
Thailand is turning into a police state and given the general dishonesty and corruption amongst many police officers this is bad news. My step son got stitched up by the cops recently for supposedly using drugs - he asked for a pee test to clear his name but this was refused by the Ratchaprosong police and he was shunted off to court the next morning.
He had the choice of paying 25 thousand baht ( 3 months wage for him) or be incarcerated for 6 months. No wonder Thais don't trust cops - this
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Discussion 5 : 04 Nov 2012 at 14.055
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Why not arrest the parents for not supervising their children?
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Discussion 4 : 04 Nov 2012 at 13.524
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they know the kids , they are from the neihgborhood
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Discussion 3 : 04 Nov 2012 at 12.473
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I guess it's good news that the BIB have battled crime to the extent that they now have nothing better to do than enforcing one of the weirdest laws of all...
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Discussion 2 : 04 Nov 2012 at 12.202
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Excellent news if not just a one off event.
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Discussion 1 : 04 Nov 2012 at 10.581
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So internet shops are now required to check young people's ID?
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