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EXAMS :The Royal Thai Police Office is investigating how 161 applicants that sat an exam for the posts of non-commissioned police officers all ended up with the same score.

According to deputy police spokesman Pol Maj-Gen Ruangsak Jarit-ek, the applicants aroused suspicion as they all had the same correct and wrong answers and received the same scores in each subject.

The applicants sat for the exam in Provincial Police Regions 8 and 9.

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1,500 ducks stolen

CRIME :A group of men assaulted and robbed a 44-year-old man of 1,500 ducks in Muang district of Ang Thong yesterday.

Ruangsak Kruekaeo told local police that six men beat him up while he was sleeping in a shelter in a field at about 5am. They tied him up and loaded the ducks into trucks.

The free-range ducks belonged to his employer, Samlee Noinongwong.

Ang Thong police chief Pol Maj-Gen Thanitsak Theerasawat has appealed for witnesses.

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Oil futures 'fraud'

INVESTING :A man has lodged a complaint with police after losing almost one million baht in allegedly fraudulent oil futures trading.

The 24-year-old, who identified himself only as Pong, went to Thong Lor police in Bangkok and said that the Fast Co had phoned him on March 12 and asked if he wanted to invest in oil futures. He visited the company at the Ocean Tower 1 building and agreed to invest money.

The company encouraged him to invest 300,000 baht at a time and he made three transfers worth about 900,000 baht. Mr Pong said he realised he had been tricked after the company kept asking him to invest more.

He said police told him that 50 people had lodged complaints saying they were victims of a similar scam.

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Suthep hits back

POLITICS :Democrat secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban is threatening to sue interior minister Chalerm Yubamrung for suggesting his firm illegally acquired land.

Mr Chalerm said the Sri Suban Farm Co was suspected of having illegally acquired more than 2,000 rai of land in Surat Thani's Khiri Ratthanikhom district.

Mr Suthep said his family owned the company, but denied the allegations of land encroachment. He said he had evidence to prove the land was bought legally for 33 million baht in an auction held by the Legal Execution Department on July 14, 2004, and was discussing taking legal action against Mr Chalerm.

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Cat deaths solved

HEALTH :Kasetsart University veterinarians have confirmed that the recent mass death of cats in Ang Thong province was caused by feline calicivirus, which cannot be transmitted from animals to humans.

Thavajchai Sakpuaram, the dean of veterinary medicine, said feline calicivirus is a unique virus found only in cats. "It can't jump to other species, including dogs and humans," he said.

The faculty's statement came after it conducted laboratory tests on blood and tissues samples collected from nine dead cats in Chaiyo district, where more than 200 cats have died in the past three months. The lab tests found that all the cats were infected with feline calicivirus.

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