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Four Thai monks arrested after testing positive for meth
Online Reporters, Published on 18/07/2025
» Four monks in Thailand's Si Sa Ket province were arrested after testing positive for methamphetamine. The group admitted to taking the drug, claiming it was to relieve body aches - and to celebrate the start of Buddhist Lent. All four were immediately defrocked and sent for rehabilitation.
Love, lust and lost funds
News, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 18/07/2025
» A growing scandal involving senior Buddhist monks and a woman dubbed "Sika Golf" has gripped Thailand in recent weeks. The case centres on Wilawan Emsawat, a 35-year-old woman accused of forging intimate relationships with high-ranking monks and allegedly using them for financial gain, sparking a wide-ranging police investigation and multiple arrests.
Police arrest woman at centre of monk sex scandal
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/07/2025
» NONTHABURI: Police have arrested the woman at the centre of a sex scandal involving numerous senior monks on charges of enabling malfeasance, laundering money and receiving stolen goods.
Sangha Act to be revised after senior monks' sex scandals
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 13/07/2025
» The Sangha Supreme Council (SSC) will form a special committee to revise monastic regulations following a high-profile sex scandal involving 11 monks and a woman known as “Miss Golf”.
Defrocked monks face criminal investigation
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/07/2025
» Thai police have called for monastic action against senior monks implicated in the “Sika Golf” sex scandal, amid a rise in misconduct cases and apparent attempts to evade investigation.
Disgraced ex-monks in sex scandal face embezzlement probe
Published on 11/07/2025
» The National Office of Buddhism (NOB) is considering criminal complaints against former senior monks embroiled in a major sex scandal if an investigation finds they embezzled money from temples.
Two senior monks defrocked over sex videos
Gary Boyle, Published on 10/07/2025
» Two senior monks have been defrocked following the seizure of sex videos and over 80,000 images featuring sex between a woman and high-ranking clergy at well-known temples in Bangkok and other provinces.
Two senior monks defrocked over sex videos
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 09/07/2025
» Two senior monks have been defrocked following the seizure of sex videos and over 80,000 images featuring sex between a woman and high-ranking clergy at well-known temples in Bangkok and other provinces.
Reform temples, or lose public faith
Editorial, Published on 08/06/2025
» Temple corruption no longer raises eyebrows. The Wat Rai Khing scandal is just bigger, louder, and harder to ignore. It demands serious reform before public faith erodes further.
Police examine multiple bank accounts in abbot's B300m embezzlement case
Post Reporters, Published on 18/05/2025
» Police are examining numerous bank accounts belonging to Wat Rai Khing in Nakhon Pathom during their ongoing probe into its former abbot's alleged 300-million-baht embezzlement from the temple’s funds.