PRESS DIGEST - Thai newspapers - March 20

BANGKOK, March 20 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Thai newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

TOP STORIES

- The Election Commission has no option but to recommend that two parties in the government coalition be disbanded for poll fraud because the law is very specific, Election Commissioner Sumeth Upanisakorn said (BANGKOK POST)

- Three suspected militants and one security volunteer were killed while three rangers were injured in separate attacks in the deep South (THE NATION)

- Vietnam has become a regional hub for precessing large quantities of unlawfully logged timber for export due to the huge supply from Laos, which is threatening some of the last intact forests in the Mekong basin, conservationists said (THE NATION)

- The fugitive in the murder of Swedish tourist Hannah Charlotte Bankluns surrendered to police and confessed to the slaying (BANGKOK POST)

- The military will stop branding transexual conscripts as mentally disturbed and list them in a new "third category" as neither male nor female, a senior officer said (THE NATION)

- The Transport Ministry plans to put an end to its disputes with more than 39,000 families of illegal slum dwellers living on its land across the country (BANGKOK POST)

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