Singapore News About Thais/Thailand

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Thai teen seeks $4m compensation from SMRT
Extracted from Yahoo News
By Alicia Wong | Yahoo! Newsroom

The Thai teenager who lost both legs after falling onto the MRT tracks in Singapore in April will ask train operator SMRT for at least $4 million in compensation, her lawyers were reported as saying on Thursday.

Nitcharee Peneakchanasak, 15, arrived in Singapore on Wednesday for medical treatment and visited her lawyers on Thursday. She came to Singapore with her father and sister.

The court will give further instruction at the end of this month, her lawyers told Channel NewsAsia. But a decision could be reached anytime within three weeks to three months, if both sides decide to settle out of court.

A SMRT spokesperson said the operator is still in the discovery process with Nitcharee's lawyers.

The teenager also visited the Singapore Red Cross, which donated $250,000 to Nitcharee in June via the Thai Red Cross, and Tan Tock Seng Hospital on Thursday.

When Nitcharee arrived on Wednesday, she was walking normally on her prosthetic legs.

Earlier media reports said Nitcharee's family was suing SMRT for $3.4 million, which would cover the cost of her medical bills and prosthetic limbs she would need for the rest of her life. The family rejected SMRT's offer of $5,000.

One point of contention is that the teen's father believes she was pushed onto the tracks while SMRT disputes this.

Nitcharee and her family, who are currently staying with Singapore's Rotary E Club's head Christopher Bek, will return to Thailand on Sunday.

Source
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/thai-teen-s...from-smrt.html

[PJ_Quek]

S'porean murders wife's lover in Thailand

A Singaporean man is suspected to have murdered his wife's lover in Thailand.

Local businessman Xu Wei Hua, 38, was reportedly filmed by a closed circuit camera (CCTV) stabbing a man to death at his wife's apartment in Bangkok.

Xu had gone to Bangkok to look for his Thai wife but instead, caught her naked in bed with another man.

Xu was at his wife's sixth floor apartment in the north part of Bangkok at about 1pm on 24 November.

A CCTV outside the house caught him loitering in the corridor for about half an hour.

It is believed that Xu was listening for noises inside the house.After a while, he was seen kicking down the door to enter the apartment.

There, he had purportedly found his Thai wife, 25, fully nude in bed with another man, 26.

The man turned out to be Xu's Thai chauffeur, a well-built man covered in tattoos.

Both men began fighting from inside the apartment to outside in the corridors.Xu was then seen going back into the house and returning with a knife.

With it, he stabbed the naked Thai man a total of nine times, including in his heart, chest, back and right arm.

The badly injured Thai man left a long trail of blood to the lift as he tried to escape from Xu.

Somehow, the man turned and staggered back into the apartment's bedroom before he finally collapsed and died.

After the gruesome deed, Xu escaped in his black BMW car but left his passport in the apartment.He is currently on the run in Thailand and is being pursued by the Thai police.

Xu, by all appearances a successful businessman, has four companies in Singapore dealing in the plastics business.

He was known to have doted on his Thai wife, giving her an allowance of about S$3,000 every month, as well as her own BMW car.

His family in Singapore appears to be unaware that Xu is wanted by the Thai police, but told reporters that they will attempt to contact him.

The deceased Thai man, while working as Xu's chauffeur, is also a Drift Racing Driver. Xu, in comparison, appears to be a softspoken man.

~News courtesy of Omy~

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Yeah PJ, I read about it too ytday in YahooSG... Quite sad that people can ruin their whole life in a moment of passion+folly...