By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a dilly-dally, bureaucratic red-tape tradition, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is definitely not going to decide any time soon as to whether to launch a truthful inquiry into de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s alleged fake-out at Police Hospital until next February, a senior
Month: November 2024
Indians fail to show up for questioning after punchup at Pattaya beach
SEVEN Indian men who bashed up three people but mainly targeting the Indian organiser of a Diwali celebration on Pattaya beach during Nov. 8-10 ignored summons to report to police for questioning, their lawyer said today (Nov. 13), according to TV Channel 7. Mr. Anirut Kongtraph, the lawyer, said he brought the three victims
Read moreThais in LA hold protest against Paetongtarn
A GROUP of Thais in Los Angeles staged a protest against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra during her visit with a video clip of their demonstration shared online, Amarin TV said last evening (Nov. 12). The video clip shows the Thais shouting and booing at Paetongtarn while the prime minister posted a photo and message
Read moreHouse panel summons Thaksin to testify on Police Hospital stay
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS THAKSIN Shinawatra and high-level government officials were today (Nov. 12) summoned for testimony before a House committee later this month pertaining to last year’s contentious stay of the then-convict at large at Police Hospital. House Committee on Security, Border Affairs, National Strategies & National Reform
Read moreLawyer says Kittiratt unqualified to be central bank board chairman
A THAI lawyer, Mr. Chow Meekhuad, said in a Facebook post today (Nov. 12) that newly-chosen Bank of Thailand board chairman Kittiratt Na Ranong is unqualified for this key position having been an adviser to former prime minister Srettha Thavisin and while this not a political post, that it was stated that his duty
Read moreCabinet to approve extra holidays for 2025
THE CABINET is set to approve additional public holidays for 2025 particularly Friday Jan. 2 so that New Year celebration could stretch across five days, TV Channel 7 said this morning (Nov. 12). With Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra currently in Peru to attend the 31st Apec Economic Leaders’ Meeting and related meetings during Nov.
Read moreKittiratt selected central bank board chair
By Naewna and Reuters – published by Yahoo!News A SEVEN-MEMBER committee independent of the Bank of Thailand today (Nov. 11) selected former deputy premier and finance minister Kittiratt Na Ranong, 66, chairman of the central bank board amid objections by hundreds of academics, members of Economics for Society group and followers of highly-revered late
Read morePhumtham denies rumours of Thaksin-Hun Sen hush-hush deal on undersea scheme
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai today (Nov. 11) downplayed criticism that de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen had mutually made a secret deal over a contentious, profit-sharing undersea resources development scheme in an upper part of the Gulf of Thailand. Phumtham,
Read moreFour nabbed in theft of cryptocurrency in Phuket
FOUR FOREIGNERS were rounded up by Phuket police after a Ukrainian tourist complained that they robbed him out of US$250,000 in cryptocurrency (around 8.5 million baht) after tying him up and threatening to harm him but the suspects denied doing so, TV Channel 7 said today (Nov. 11). Pol. Maj. Gen. Sinlert Sukhum, commander
Read moreBlast at Pattani police station, no injuries
MOTORCYCLE-RIDING insurgents flung a pipe bomb at a Pattani police station last evening (Nov. 10) but fortunately the explosive device fell outside the building so no one got injured, Naewna newspaper said this morning. At 6.45 p.m. Thung Yang Daeng police station was alerted that two insurgents rode up on a motorcycle and parked
Read more4 foreign criminals wanted for robbing Ukrainian man in Phuket
PHUKET police are moving to arrest four foreign criminals who detained and threatened to harm a Ukrainian man holidaying on the island and fled after getting US$250,000 in digital currency (around 8.5 million baht) from him, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Nov. 10). Pol. Col. Somsak Thongkliang, superintendent of Kamala police station, said the
Read moreKoh Samui rescuers fail to find Indian tourist who fell into waterfall
A BIG team of 30 rescuers who have been searching for an Indian tourist who slipped and fell into Namuang Waterfall 2 at Koh Samui yesterday afternoon (Nov. 9) failed to find his body, only recovering one side of his sandals, Thai Rath newspaper said today. The rescuers, including policemen, administrative, forestry and Disaster
Read moreThousands protest over handling of Spanish flood disaster
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News Valencia – Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia on Saturday (Nov.9) over regional authorities’ handling of devastating floods that killed more than 220 people in one of Europe’s worst natural disasters for decades. In the latest demonstration over the floods, protesters
Read moreMore academics join drive to protect central bank independence
THE NUMBER of academics and members of Economics for Society group, among them four former Bank of Thailand governors, who oppose political parties dominating the central bank has grown to 830 with the meeting to select the chairman and two qualified members of the central bank board taking place on Monday Nov. 11 after
Read moreDirector clarifies after social media storm over a cat
AFTER Thai netizens were outraged at the TV series “Mae Yua” (English title “The Empress of Ayodhaya”) anaesthetising a black cat with the pet seen having convulsions, stiffening and vomiting the director, Mr. Sant Srikaewlao, posted a clarification on his Facebook page and shared a video clip to show that the small animal is
Read moreUltra-conservative party drumming up support to scrap Thai-Khmer MoU
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AS MANY AS 100,000 PEOPLE are being encouraged to undersign a petition calling on the Pheu Thai-led government to unilaterally scrap a 2001 Memorandum of Understanding between Thailand and Cambodia on a profit-sharing undersea resources development scheme. Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom said today (Nov. 9) he is currently soliciting
Read moreUS charges man over alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Trump
By AFP and publiished by CNA Washington – US prosecutors announced charges on Friday (Nov. 8) in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump and a prominent dissident Iranian-American journalist. The foiled assassination plot on Trump was allegedly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to avenge the death of Iranian
Read moreAnutin heading to Koh Kood amid Thai-Khmer MoU fears
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-CUM-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is scheduled to visit Koh Kood island on the upcoming Monday to revive the confidence of local villagers as well as visitors on Thailand’s territorial integrity over the eastern tourist island amidst fake news circulated online, a partisan source said today (Nov. 8). The
Read moreBoy band star warns public to beware of photos being taken in restrooms
A MEMBER of the boy band Proxie filed a complaint with the police after he was photographed while using a public restroom and warned people to be careful when doing so, Naewna newspaper said today (Oct. 8). Onglee posted a message saying, ” Let this be a warning to everyone when using public restrooms
Read moreGovt urged to scrap Thai-Khmer MoU on developing undersea resources
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI-LED GOVERNMENT was today (Nov. 8) encouraged to entirely rescind the 2001 Memorandum of Understanding between Thailand and Cambodia in regard to a joint undersea resources development scheme which allegedly keeps the Thai side in undue disadvantage. The Palang Pracharath today gave a press conference to insist that
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