By Thai Newsroom Reporters RURAL DOCTOR SOCIETY today (Jan.30) questioned whether 11,000-plus roadside billboards may illicitly solicit popularity for Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul during a current run-up to a general election. Rural Doctor Society posted on its Facebook page to call on the Election Commission to determine whether the 11,000-plus large
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Huai Kwang police station chief transferred over extortion claims
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Damrongsak Kittipraphat today (Jan. 30) ordered the transfer of Huai Kwang police station superintendent to assist with civil service duties after evidence emerged that policemen manning a checkpoint on Jan. 4 had extorted money from a Taiwanese actress and her friends to set them free, Thai Rath newspaper said.
Read moreDutchman petitions ministry over alleged swindle by female civil servant
A DUTCHMAN who claimed a female civil servant based in Sakon Nakon swindled him out of almost 4 million baht went to the Interior Ministry to file a petition asking for an ethical investigation of this official today (Jan. 30), TV Channel 7 said. Accompanied by Thai businessman Mr. Kanthas Phongphaiboonvej, or Gun Chom
Read moreOdds ‘very high’ of US military conflict with China, top Republican says
By Reuters and published by Swissinfo.ch Washington – A top Republican in the US Congress on Sunday (Jan. 29) said the odds of conflict with China over Taiwan “are very high,” after a US general caused consternation with a memo that warned that the United States would fight China in the next two years.
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