POLICE investigation of recent fires at chemical factories in Rayong and Ayutthaya shows that the former was arson and arrest warrants will soon be issued for five to 10 suspects, TV Channel 7 said this evening (June 28). Pol. Lt. Gen. Thathchai Pitanilaputra, assistant national police chief, held a meeting today to follow up
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Defeated senatorial contestants call for probe into vote-rigging scams
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A GROUP OF OUTVOTED SENATORIAL contestants today (June 28) filed a complaint over vote-rigging and other electoral wrongdoing allegations, calling on the Election Commission to immediately investigate. The alleged wrongdoings on the part of “puppet” senatorial candidates in Wednesday’s national or final stage of the complicated, triple-tiered election involved the
Read moreCrackdown on transmitting Internet signals to crime zone across the border
IN A crackdown on transmitting Internet signals to Myanmar’s Myawaddy township from Mae Sot border town, a hundred officials, police and soldiers raided six targeted spots and seized a lot of communication devices, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (June 28). Mr. Trairat Viriyasirikul, acting secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of
Read moreThaksin betrayed in brother-in-law’s senatorial race: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra was quietly double-crossed in Wednesday’s final stage of a senatorial election in which he saw his brother-in-law/former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat helplessly outvoted, according to a noted academic. Thanaporn Sriyakul of Mahanakorn University of Technology remarked that Thaksin was unexpectedly betrayed by senatorial
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