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PM wields S44 for crop schemes
News, Post Reporters, Published on 15/09/2016
» The regime has given officials immunity from future lawsuits over their handling of stockpiles of pledged tapioca and maize, and compensation demands for losses incurred by the programmes.
Suspected bent monks get police grilling
Post Reporters, Published on 01/03/2022
» Twelve senior monks, including one arrested on Feb 18, have been interrogated in connection with the alleged embezzlement of 110 million baht from temple funds from 2007 to 2016, with the suspect already in custody facing additional charges, police said on Tuesday.
Ex-monk accused of illicit land purchase
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/02/2022
» Activist and serial petitioner Srisuwan Janya said he will ask the Royal Forest Department to look into an allegation that ex-monk Sompong Nakhonthaisong spent 10 million baht buying 300 rai of Sor Por Kor land (agricultural land reform land) in violation of the law.
'Difficult to defrock' Phra Dhammajayo
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/03/2017
» The director of the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) will today ask the Sangha Supreme Council (SSC) to consider whether former Wat Phra Dhammakaya abbot, Phra Dhammajayo, breached the monastic disciplinary code of conduct and should be defrocked.
Three face 500K fine for tour racket
News, Post Reporters, Published on 16/11/2018
» The Appeal Court has fined three people 500,000 baht each for running illegal tour services in connection with zero-dollar tour scams.
Meditation centre to give back land
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/08/2016
» Wat Phra Dhammakaya's meditation centre in Nakhon Ratchasima's Pak Chong district has agreed to return 140 rai of almost 500 rai it occupies to the state-run Lam Takong self-help settlement project.
Alro to recheck large plot of temple land
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/07/2016
» At least 50 rai out of about 500 rai of the land at Wat Phra Dhammakaya's meditation centre in Nakhon Ratchasima's Pak Chong district was found in a new inspection to belong to the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro), it was revealed Wednesday.
Dhammakaya branch faces probe over illegal wood
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/06/2016
» Authorities have seized more than 1,000 sheets of processed wood from a branch of Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Lampang on the suspicion that they were acquired illegally.
MPB charges Pongpat, 11 more
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/11/2014
» The Metropolitan Police Bureau has charged former Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) chief Pongpat Chayapan along with 11 other individuals, including senior officers, with operating gambling dens, taking bribes from oil smuggling gangs, and lese majeste.
Monk to sue over amulet row
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/04/2017
» Activist monk Phra Buddha Isara has rejected claims he is guilty of lese majeste for allegedly producing Buddhist amulets eight years ago bearing the emblem of the late King and now plans to take legal action against his accuser, the police said yesterday.