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Charges mount against woman at centre of temple sex scandal
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 16/07/2025
» Police charges are mounting against the 35-year-old woman known as “Sika Golf” who allegedly had sex with many senior monks at well-known temples in many provinces and also blackmailed them.
OAG chases B600m from China gang
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 21/02/2024
» The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) looks set to confiscate assets worth around 596.58 million baht, which were seized on Dec 7 from a major Chinese gang, Wirun Chanthananan, director-general of the OAG's Department of Special Litigation (DoSL), said on Tuesday.
Congrats to the SEC
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/09/2023
» Re: "SEC files charges versus KTBS executives", (Business, Sept 13).
Finding a remedy for reckless driving
News, Published on 19/07/2023
» Every year, nearly 20,000 people are killed in road accidents in Thailand. That is 50 people every day or two every two hours. Such a horrific toll makes Thailand's roads among the most dangerous in the world.
Small firms eye booze lift
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 02/06/2023
» Small breweries and local distilleries are hopeful of a bright future if the Move Forward Party forms a coalition government and pushes changes to liberalise the alcohol industry as promised.
Ministry of Labour announces results of purge of migrant workers snatching Thai jobs in fiscal year 2023
Published on 29/03/2023
» More than 200,000 cases were examined and 1,550 offenders were found, 883 of which were offenders who snatched 883 positions in Thai professions.
Protester gets 2-year royal insult sentence
Published on 04/03/2022
» A man was sentenced to two years in jail on Friday under the royal defamation law for putting a sticker on a portrait of His Majesty the King during a pro-democracy rally in 2020.
Rotten to the core
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 13/09/2021
» I salute the brave whistleblower who recently brought to light the rampant police abuse of a suspect. This time, it was at the hands of Colonel Thitisant "Jo Ferrari" Utthanaphon, a former police chief of Nakhon Sawan police station who was caught on video torturing 24-year-old drug suspect Jirapong Tanapat to death. He placed six plastic bags over his head.
'Compensation' a joke
News, Postbag, Published on 08/08/2021
» Re: "Govt 'sorry' for Phuket murder", (BP, Aug 7).
Thailand's emergency decree needs an overhaul
Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 21/07/2021
» The country's State of Emergency Decree became law in 2005 and since then, it has been one of the most contested laws. Yet, it has been one of the instruments most frequently used by the executive branch of government and is currently the main law for tackling Covid-19. Does the decree comply with international standards?