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Thaksin ready to fight ‘baseless’ case
Published on 08/06/2024
» Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday that he was ready to face charges of insulting the monarchy.
Political jitters hamstring SET index
Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 05/06/2024
» Political uncertainty is expected to be a major drag on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) for the entirety of June, with three legal cases involving Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra and opposition Move Forward Party (MFP) causing the index to sag deeper than originally forecast, say analysts.
India's exit polls may be more noise than signal
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 04/06/2024
» Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a landslide victory in India's general election. Or so claims nearly every exit poll released since the end of voting on Saturday evening. Yet, these surveys have proved spectacularly wrong in the past, and they must be read even more cautiously this time around because of the Modi government's outsize sway on the television stations that commission them.
Monks caught in poaching scandal
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/06/2024
» Sex and money scandals among rogue monks are old news, barely raising an eyebrow any more. What's grabbing headlines now? Monks involved in wildlife poaching.
Stimuli aren't enough
Postbag, Published on 02/06/2024
» Re: "Economic stimuli in the works," (BP, May 27).
Officer guilty of embezzling bail money
News, Published on 31/05/2024
» A police captain was sentenced to 50 years in prison yesterday for embezzling money placed with a police station as bail surety on several occasions, according to the Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases.
Policewoman who embezzled bail funds gets 125 years
Post Reporters, Published on 30/05/2024
» A policewoman from a Bangkok station was sentenced on Thursday to 125 years in jail for embezzling suspects’ bail worth a total of 720,000 baht.
Briton files complaint against Pattaya pub guards
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 30/05/2024
» PATTAYA - One of two British men recently assaulted by security guards at a bar in this beach town filed a complaint with police, while his compatriot did not report the attack due to safety concerns.
2014 election disrupter avoids jail
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 28/05/2024
» The Supreme Court has handed an eight-month jail term, suspended for two years, to a protest leader involved in obstructing the general election in 2014.
Hong Kong arrests six for sedition
Published on 28/05/2024
» HONG KONG - National security police in Hong Kong arrested six people across the city on Tuesday under a new national security law known as Article 23 for alleged seditious intent, according to a statement.