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The lights went out Tuesday night all over the 14 southernmost provinces including tourist centres like Hat Yai (above) and Phuket, in a technical outage described by Egat as the biggest blackout in the country's history.
Sunday's Skype call from Thaksin means the Chalerm call for blanket amnesty is probably dead - and brings back the surgical solution of the Worachai bill.
At a Bung Kum district condo, agents busted the biggest drugs cache ever in Bangkok - 4.5 million ya ba tablets, and 60kg of ya ice worth 1.5 billion baht.
The cabinet rather reluctantly approved the immediate dismissal of the GPO chief, an issue that has caused widespread comment and support for Dr Witit.