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Time for drug policy rethink
News, Editorial, Published on 17/01/2021
» The deaths of nine people last week from the overdose of a deadly "new" drug -- a combination of heroin, ketamine, methamphetamine and sleep medication -- is a shock.
Prayut troubled by fake news
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 27/12/2019
» Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered the military to be more proactive in tackling fake news online.
Paiboon lays the blame for corruption ills
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/09/2019
» Privy Council member Paiboon Koomchaya has accused three groups of corrupt people of being to blame for Thailand struggling to develop.
Prayut wields ever more power
News, Published on 08/07/2019
» The Justice Ministry might not be in the spotlight right now, but the transfer of key investigative agencies to come under the direct supervision of the prime minister should not go unnoticed.
War on drugs
News, Postbag, Published on 10/04/2018
» Re: "11 drug plants 'churn out 20m pills a day,"' (BP, April 9).
Former judge Wirach dismissed from privy council
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/03/2018
» Former Supreme Court vice-president Wirach Chinvinitkul has been dismissed from the Privy Council, reducing the number of the councillors to 13.
Former judge relieved of duty as privy councillor
Online Reporters, Published on 03/03/2018
» His Majesty the King has relieved Virat Chinvinijkul of his duty as privy councillor, effectively on Friday.
Drug fight off the rails
News, Editorial, Published on 18/10/2017
» The government continues to press on with its failed war on drugs, when the country would be better served by a serious effort to reform this old programme. Last week, secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board Sirinya Sitdhichai announced the agency was to assume yet another new power. He says he and ONCB enforcement agents can now hold parcel delivery firms responsible if they carry drugs.
SMOP is a flop
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/10/2017
» Last Sunday night, an anti-drug squad caught two men carrying 400kg of crystal methamphetamine from Myanmar, ya ice worth 400 million baht on the street. On Monday and on Tuesday, police in Udon Thani and Mukdahan busted two cross-Mekong shipments of compressed marijuana from Laos, now Japan's major weed supplier. Combined, they weighed a tonne.
Corrections chief eyes reform
News, Published on 03/10/2017
» Newly appointed Department of Corrections director-general Naras Savestanan has pledged to prioritise improving correctional facilities and decreasing the overflow of inmates in prisons across the country.