Immigration Bureau to move to new location

By Mayuree Sukyingcharoenwong
The Nation

Fri,September 11,2009

The Immigration Bureau will move from its Soi Suan Phlu office to new offices in the new Government Office Centre on Chaeng Wattana Road this month, a senior immigration officer said Friday. (Map inside)

The new office is situated on the second floor of Building B of New Government Centre, which is in the same complex as the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It will be fully open for service on September 28, Pol Lt Col Uraiwan Harnpradit said, adding the Bureau will continue to provide services at the Suan Phlu Office until September 25.

The move was due to the limited area for services and parking, which is insufficient to meet the needs of an everincreasing number of visitors. The new office will be more convenient, she said.

(nationmultimedia.com)

emergency decree

No plan for use of emergency decree

Writer: BangkokPost.com

Published: 11/09/2009 at 02:53 PM

There will be no need for an executive decree for administration in an emergency situation if there is a violent political incident while Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva attending the United Nations General Assembly, acting government spokesman Panithan Wattanayakorn said on Friday.

He said the Internal Security Act (ISA) alone was effective enough to maintain law and order.

Mr Abhisit will attend the UN meeting, in New York, from Sept 20-27.

"That [the emergency law] is not necessary. The ISA is already enough. However, we have to keep the situation under watch," Mr Pathithan said.

The spokesman said the prime minister will next week pay a visit to the Internal Security Operations Command headquarters to brief them on policy and listen to an assessment of the planned Sept 19 rally by the red-shirts before leaving for New York.

Mr Panithan said the government will keep the public informed of the prime minister's activities during his trip abroad. via TV channel 11.

(bangkokpost.com)