POLITUCS / Fatal bombing at D.Mueang The People’s Alliance for Democracy has asked highway police to block one lane of the Don Muang tollway near the airport after a fatal grenade attack from the tollway on protesters occupying Don Mueang airport early yesterday. ReportersaccompanyPrime Minist... Read more.
Sukhothai bird flu outbreak under control 1,500 people still under medical surveillance POST REPORTERS Livestock Department officials inspect chickens at a farm in Nan’s Pua district following a fresh outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Sukhothai province. Nan was hit by a bird flu outbreak in ... Read more.
DEEP SOUTH / Army given B8bn to fight insurgency POST REPORTERS The army has been given a budget of almost eight billion baht to fight the insurgency in the deep South in the 2009 fiscal year, a source said yesterday. A total of 7.535 billion baht has been set aside for the army’s southern ope... Read more.
EDITORIAL Watching the war on drugs Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat has ordered a new crackdown on drug peddlers, and Justice Minister Somsak Kiatsuranond kicked it off officially at a Chiang Mai ceremony. This has raised concerns, particularly on the civil rights front. Such concern is understanda... Read more.
B80m assets seized in drug gang raids Multi-national network run from behind bars KING-OUA LAOHONG Bangkok Post Thursday October 23, 2008 About 80 million baht worth of assets were seized yesterday from a large-scale Malaysian-Singaporean drug gang operating in Bangkok and the North. A locksmith bre... Read more.
Cabinet reduces timeframe for CDA to complete rewriting charter BANGKOK, Oct 21 (TNA) – Thailand’s Cabinet on Tuesday resolved that the country’s new constitution drafting committee (CDA) should be given a revised timeframe of 120 days to rewrite the 2007 Constitution, cutting the time... Read more.
PAD disrupts central business district BANGKOK, Oct 17 (TNA) – Protesters of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) marched to the Silom central business district, causing traffic disruption with hundreds of police on hand to maintain order. Led by PAD core leader Somsak Kosaisuk, the pro... Read more.
NCCC rules Somchai guilty of dereliction of duty while civil servant BANGKOK, Oct 16 (TNA) — Thailand’s National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) on Thursday ruled that Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was guilty of dereliction of duty when he was Permanent Secretary of Justice, acco... Read more.
Cabinet Minister’s speak on current events The minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives has expressed confidence that an established committee to investigate the facts of the October 7th incident will not turn up a scapegoat. Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Somsak Prissanananthakul (à... Read more.
Peoples’ Alliance charges PM ordered protest crackdown BANGKOK, Oct 15 (TNA) - Core leaders of the anti-government People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) on Wednesday charged that Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat ordered police to fire tear gas at demonstrators on October 7, an action whi... Read more.
