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One dead in truck driver’s wild ride through city centre

  A DELIRIOUS knife-wielding truck driver’s wild ride up and down Rama IV road then to Bang Phli, Samut Prakan, led to a couple riding a motorcycle being seriously injured and the man having now died, Amarin TV said this evening (Sept. 4). From 2 p.m. onwards four policemen riding two motorcycles chased the six-wheel

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Thaksin looks to take personal revenge on military top brass: Ex-NSC Chief

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has been accused of seeking to take personal revenge on military commanders by beginning with the naming his right-hand man Phumtham Wechayachai for defence minister, according to a retired army general. Paradorn Pattanathabutr, former secretary-general of the National Security Council who was previously

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‘Like father, like daughter and son’ features in Pheu Thai-led Cabinet

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE NEW PHEU THAI-LED coalition government under Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra remarkably features certain members of cabinet literally named in pure relation to hereditary factors. The most conspicuous among the hereditarily related ministers is Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss/billionaire power player Thaksin Shinawatra. The 38-year-old woman prime

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Ex-communist insurgent-turned-defence minister Phumtham unwelcomed by military

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE NAMING OF PHUMTHAM Wechayachai for defence minister by de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra was exponentially raising waves of unwelcoming sentiment and undesirable anguish among the military, either currently serving or retired, said former senator Somchet Boonthanom yesterday (Sept. 3). Somchet, a retired army general, accused the billionaire

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