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PM shocked at deputy minister’s cousin being held for drugs

  PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin said this morning (June 11) he was shocked to hear that a cousin of Deputy Interior Minister Chada Thaiset had been arrested on drug charges, Amarin TV and Thai Rath newspaper said. Speaking to reporters at Government House, the prime minister said he had not met Chada today as he

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World news

War crimes prosecutor seeks arrest of Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu

  By AP and published by Yahoo!News Jerusalem –The chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court sought arrest warrants on Monday (May 20) for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war. While Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, do not face

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Arrest warrants sought for anti-graft commissioners on duty negligence charges

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT IS APPEARING to be an unprecedented case, political activist Vera Somkwamkid is seeking arrest warrants for all commissioners attached to the National Anti-Corruption Commission for failure to unveil information to the public. Vera will shortly call on the Administrative Court to issue the sought-after arrest warrants for those

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Police rushing to expand probe after 14-year-old boy was caught smuggling drugs

  THE Narcotics Suppression Bureau is quickly further investigating the use of juveniles as drug couriers after a 14-year-old boy was caught smuggling 5.6 million methamphetamine pills in Chiang Mai, Sanook.com said today (May 5). At 3 p.m. yesterday, Pol. Lt. Gen. Kirisak Tantinwachai, commander of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, along with Pol. Maj. Gen.

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Analysis

Analysis: ‘House arrest’ for privileged convict Thaksin imminent

  By Out-Crowd THE PRIVILEGED DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra is currently speculated to be returned home from Police Hospital shortly and be held in sort of a “house arrest” there. The privileged patient who has been staying for the secrecy-shrouded “illnesses” in a tight-security, private ward at Police Hospital since

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Real estate

New, open arrest warrant issued for ex-minister who skipped town

  THE Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases in Rayong this afternoon (Sep. 7) issued a new, open arrest warrant for former culture minister and Pattaya mayor Itthipol Khunpluem under malfeasance charges stemming from approval of a condominium project in Pattaya over a decade ago, Naewna newspaper said. This non-expiry arrest warrant also applies

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Local news

Policeman’s wife held over cyanide killing, link to 6 more deaths probed

  NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Damrongsak Kittipraphat said the wife of a deputy superintendent at a Ratchaburi police station has been arrested in the cyanide poisoning death of a young woman during Songkran festival, Matichon newspaper said today (Apr. 25). Deputy National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, nicknamed Big Joke, who is leading

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Local news

Foreigners rounded up in Buriram crackdown

  A CRACKDOWN by Immigration police in northeastern Buriram province during March 27-April 10 led to six foreigners being rounded up for overstaying their visa, Naewna newspaper said today (Apr. 11). Acting on the orders of Pol.Maj.Gen. Phanthana Nuchanart, deputy chief of the Immigration Bureau, to prevent and suppress crime during Songkran festival, Pol. Maj.

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Local news

Drug trafficking duo flee leaving their wives behind to take the rap

  TWO MAJOR drug traffickers managed to escape a police raid on their house in Nakhon Pathom leaving their respective wives behind to be apprehended after 93 kg crystal methamphetamine (Ice) and 1,014,000 tablets of methamphetamine were found stashed there, Matichon newspaper said this afternoon (Apr. 7). Pol. Maj. Gen. Samroeng Suanthong, deputy chief of

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