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'Naive' monk admits he gave 'Golf' B13m
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/07/2025
» The former abbot of Wat Chujit Dhammaram in Ayutthaya has admitted to transferring nearly 13 million baht to a woman known as "Sika Golf", a central figure in an expanding scandal involving senior monks across Thailand.
DSI to assist probe into sex scandal rocking the country's monastic order
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 15/07/2025
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has been asked to assist the Central Investigation Bureau's (CIB) probe into the latest sex scandal rocking the country's monastic order.
Crunch time for Phumtham
Oped, Editorial, Published on 15/07/2025
» New interior minister, and current acting prime minister, Phumtham Wechayachai, is a man who can make tough decisions. His recent record includes the decision to return Uyghurs to China early this year, as demanded by Beijing. Last month, he approved a long-delayed, controversial submarine procurement from China -- a call that even junta leader-cum-prime minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha shied away from.
Two more senior monks quit as 'Ms Golf' sex scandal widens
Published on 14/07/2025
» Two more senior monks abruptly left the monkhood on Monday after being linked to the temple sex and money scandal surrounding the woman known as "Golf".
Excavations begin at child mass grave site in Ireland
AFP, Published on 14/07/2025
» DUBLIN - Excavations begin Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of containing the remains of hundreds of infants and young children.
Corrupt monks have lost their way
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/07/2025
» Just as Thailand was about to celebrate Asalha Bucha Day and the start of Buddhist Lent, the nation was gripped by the biggest sex scandal ever to rock its clergy. How irony.
Pageant for progress
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 14/07/2025
» There is more to a gay pageant than crowning the good-looking, charismatic winner. Beneath the glamorous veneer lies an expectation that the candidate have goodwill and sacrifice himself for the community. And this is what the champion of Mr. Gay Universe Thailand 2025 should embody.
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.
Ex-monk caught up in sex scandal says he left temple nearly ‘empty-handed’
Published on 12/07/2025
» A former abbot implicated in the “Sika Golf” sex scandal has handed over key financial documents to the acting abbot of his former temple in Saraburi, saying he left the monastery with “almost nothing” to dispel suspicions that he might have fled with temple funds.