Bangkok Post

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TREATED: For Meniere’s disease at a European hospital he refused to name in a country he refused to identify, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon. It’s an inner ear problem, which of course causes dizziness and dopiness. While it can’t be cured, it can be treated and Gen Prawit is determined not to miss any duties over it.

EXTRADITED: By Myanmar, murderer-doctor Supat Laohawatta­na. Supat faces the death sentence for killing a Myanmar worker on his Phetchabur­i province farm in 2004. The ex-Police General

Hospital sawbones was convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 and was out on bail, supposedly to appeal.

VOTED: By TripAdviso­r.com readers as the world’s top “must-see” landmark, Angkor Wat of Cambodia. It was a repeat of the same award given to the spectacula­r 12th century ruins by Lonely Planet. Each year since the end of the war after the ouster of the Khmer Rouge, Angkor Wat has grown in popularity among tourists from all continents.

DIED: At 89 after a short battle against cancer, Sir Roger Moore. Already a suave Englishman, he was hired as the replacemen­t for rough Scot Sean Connery as Bond, James Bond. He starred in the first Bond film featuring Thailand (Phangnga), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). Voted by many as the best James Bond, the self-deprecatin­g Moore reckoned he was fourth best.

ARRESTED: And charged in a drink-driving incident for the second time in two years, Thai-British actress Anna Hamblaouri­s, 30. Two years ago, she smashed into a police car at speed and killed an officer. She managed not to take a breathalys­er that time. Last week, caught in her BMW just after she made a screeching soap opera-type of scene at a Huai Khwang bar, she was given a test, found way over the limit and faces drink-driving charges.

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