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Control tightens for contact lenses

Food and Drug Administration official Pongpan Wongmanee said on December 7 that FDA officials plan to restrict sales of “big eye” contact lenses.

Public health permanent secretary Prat Boonyawongvirote said that teenagers are using “big eye” contact lenses to make their pupils appear larger, in an effort to look like Korean pop stars.

Prat said that the eye is a delicate organ and that contact lenses should only be used with doctors’ advice and instructions.

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Pluem learns the perfect wai

First-time election candidate Nattakorn Devakula decided to learn how to perform a perfect wai in his effort to win next month’s Bangkok governor elections.

Nattakorn underwent wai training at the Thailand Cultural Center on December 5. Nattakorn said that he wants to make the right wai to voters during his election campaign.

“I thought that I had been doing the correct wai, but it wasn’t perfect,” he said. “Experts helped me to fix it.”

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Disabled people out of work

Government officials said that disabled people are losing their jobs. They announced the news on December 7.

They said that there are less jobs because of economic problems.

The government plans to promote jobs for disabled workers.

Escaping the crowds

Tourists crowd the summit of Phu Chi Fah in Chiang Rai province on December 7. More than 10,000 tourists visited the mountain during the King’s birthday weekend.

	summit (n): the highest point of something, especially the top of a mountain control (n): the act of restricting, limiting or managing something restrict (v): to control something with rules or laws pupil (n): the small round black area at the centre of the eye organ (n): a part of the body that has a particular purpose economic (adj): connected with the trade, industry and wealth of a country, an area or a society promote (v): to help something to happen or develop