By Thai Newsroom Reporters CERTAIN, HIGH-PROFILED figures among the Bhumjaithai rank and file have been suspected of involvement in money-laundering activities pertaining to alleged irregularities over last year’s senatorial elections, Department of Special Investigation Director-General Yutthana Praedam said today (July 18). Given an in-depth investigation by the DSI into the scandalous, electoral fraud featuring
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Police hunting for woman in death of Swedish man in Pattaya
PATTAYA police are urgently searching for an unidentified woman seen in a surveillance camera footage leaving the condominium unit where a Swedish man was found dead yesterday (July 17) with another foreigner, an Australian, also found dead in the same building a couple of hours earlier, Naewna newspaper an Amarin TV said. At 2
Read more2 foreigners found dead in the same Pattaya condo within 2 hours
A SHOCKING incident occurred in Pattaya City today (July 17) as two foreign men were found dead in the same condominium building, but on different floors, only two hours apart with this puzzling the policemen who have launched a thorough investigation, Amarin TV said. This seaside city’s police were first alerted at 2 p.m.
Read moreSenatorial vote-rigging cases against 229 suspects forwarded
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE of the Election Commission today (July 17) put forward historic cases of vote-buying, bloc-voting allegations over last year’s senatorial elections involving as many as 229 law-breaking suspects and the Bhumjaithai under de facto party boss Newin Chidchob as a whole. The ad hoc committee has concluded its
Read moreSupreme Patriarch calls for unity in preserving Buddhism amid scandal
By Naewna & Thai Newsroom plus AP – published by CNA HIS HOLINESS the Supreme Patriarch told Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai today (July 17) that all sides must cooperate to preserve Buddhism amid the current scandal with there already being punishment for erring monks who are defrocked. Phumtham also told Somdet Phra Mahawirawong,
Read moreThailand offers to slash tariff to 0% on large number of US goods
AMID ONGOING negotiation with the US on reducing the punitive 36% tariff on Thais exports looming on August 1 the Thai team last night (July 16) offered to slash the levy on tens of thousands of US goods to 0%, Thai Rath newspaper said. Commerce Minister Jatuporn Buruspat said the Thai team, led by
Read moreMaternity leave draft bill sails through House
THE House of Representatives today (July 16) overwhelmingly passed the second and third readings of the draft Labour Protection Act wherein female employees are given 120-day paid maternity leave and their husbands allowed 15 days of paid leave to help take care of the new-born babies with the legislation now going to the Senate
Read moreCertain govt figure assigned by Thaksin to find renegade MPs
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A CERTAIN, PROMINENT figure in government has been covertly assigned by de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to stealthily recruit renegades from among MPs on the opposition bloc, especially those of the Bhumjaithai, to practically side with the Pheu Thai-led government at parliament, according to partisan sources. On behalf
Read moreFocus on self-development if 0% tariff not accepted: Korn
FORMER finance minister Korn Chatikavanij said in a Facebook post today (July 16) that a strategy for self-development is most important for Thailand should the country not accept 0% tariff on US goods, Naewna newspaper said. As announced by US President Donald Trump today the deal with Indonesia is similar to the one struck
Read moreYoung teacher nabbed while robbing a gold shop
A YOUNG contract teacher who said he was not earning enough to make ends meet snatched almost a million baht worth of gold ornaments from a shop in Ubon Ratchathani province but the brave saleswoman grabbed his legs as he was attempting to flee and called for help leading to his arrest, Amarin TV
Read moreCabinet nod for draft Financial Hub Act – to be immediately sent to the House
THE CABINET today (July 15) approved the draft Financial Hub Act B.E…. after the Council of State completed reviewing the legislation with this to be immediately forwarded to the House of Representatives for the first reading, Amarin TV said. Deputy Finance Minister Paopoom Rojanasakul said this new legislation, consisting of nine sections and 94
Read more2nd Army Region ready to build fence at border temple despite risk
THE 2nd Army Region is willing to build a fence at Prasat Ta Muen Thom border temple if so ordered by the government and the Fine Arts Department but warned doing so could lead to tensions escalating as Cambodia does not accept the 1:50,000 map, Naewna newspaper said today (July 15). Lt. Gen. Boonsin
Read moreSisaket by-election tug of war between Thaksin and Newin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NEXT MONTH’S BY-ELECTION for an MP of Sisaket will likely be a relentless tug of war between a couple of major parties with an essential difference of one being in government and the other in the opposition bloc. The Pheu Thai surreptitiously directed by de facto party boss Thaksin Shinawatra
Read moreSon and daughter of scam boss close to Hun Sen wanted
ARREST warrants have been issued for the son and daughter of a Cambodian national who is close to the neighbouring country’s leader Hun Sen and is the boss of a transnational call centre network, Naewna newspaper said today (July 15). Technology Crime Suppression Police, or Cyber Police, are also searching seven more targeted locations
Read moreUS has no plan to build naval base in southern Thailand
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE UNITED STATES has not planned to build a naval base in Thai territory on shore of the Andaman Sea as otherwise widely feared by the Thai public, a navy source said today (July 14). The US navy’s Indo-Pacific-based Seventh Fleet has had no alleged plan to build a naval
Read moreCambodia to implement military conscription in 2026
By AFP and published by CNA Phnom Penh – Cambodia’s military will begin conscripting civilians next year, Prime Minister Hun Manet said Monday (July 14), adding that rising tensions with Thailand was the reason for activating a long-dormant mandatory enlistment law. Cambodia’s parliament in 2006 approved a law that would require all Cambodians aged
Read moreBerserk foreigner rescued after crawling in a condo’s drainpipe
A BERSERK foreign man believed to be high on drugs was rescued after crawling naked in a large drainpipe behind a condo in Bangkok and sent to a hospital, Amarin TV said today (July 14). A police team from Bang Khun Thian station went to investigate after the juristic person of this condominium on
Read moreDon’t allow US to set up a base here in exchange for tariff cut: Ex-official
THE government was urged to not try to get the US to reduce the 36 percent tariff on Thai goods which President Donald Trump is imposing on August 1 by allowing the superpower to set up a base in the country, Naewna newspaper said this morning (July 14). Mr. Nantiwat Samart, former secretary to
Read moreAcademic urges Thais to watch Trump tariff negotiation
THAIS should watch three key issues surrounding the negotiation on 36 percent tariff US President Donald Trump is imposing on exports from the country and should demand transparent disclosure of any agreement reached, Naewna quoted an academic as saying today (July 13). Dr. Suriyasai Katasila, dean of Rangsit University’s College of Social Innovation, said
Read moreThai army resolves problem after two men punch Cambodian soldier
THE Thai army clarified and reached an understanding with Cambodian soldiers after a former volunteer ranger and another man punched a Cambodian soldier at Prasat Ta Muen Thom border temple, Surin province, this morning (July 13), TV Channel 7 and Naewna newspaper said. A video clip released by Ankhor Fresh Facebook page shows two
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