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Election bill delay condemned
Online Reporters, Published on 20/01/2018
» Politicians have roundly condemned the decision of a National Legislative Assembly (NLA) panel to tweak an election-related organic law that could push the polling date into next year.
Poll delay likely after panel tweaks bill
Online Reporters, Published on 19/01/2018
» The general election could be delayed to February 2019 now that the panel vetting the organic law on the election of MPs has changed its effective date.
NLA panel scraps senator cross-election method
Online Reporters, Published on 19/01/2018
» A panel considering the organic bill on the selection of senators has decided to have candidates from 15 professional groups elect finalists among themselves, eliminating the football-style cross-election method championed by constitution writers earlier.
Tarit gets small fine, suspended jail for undeclared wealth
Online Reporters, Published on 19/01/2018
» Tarit Pengdith, former director-general of the Department of Special Investigation, was on Friday given a suspended three-month jail sentence and fined 5,000 baht for concealment of assets worth tens of millions of baht while in office.
Insurance firms told to pay victims of speedboat explosion
Online Reporters, Published on 16/01/2018
» The Office of Insurance Commission has ordered two insurance firms to quickly pay the compensation due to 16 Chinese tourists injured in Sunday’s speedboat explosion off Phi Phi island.
20 officials probed for 'sponsored services'
Online Reporters, Published on 15/01/2018
» Twenty government officials might have been implicated in human trafficking following the crackdown on a massage parlour in Bangkok on Friday.
Activists launch campaign to 'disarm' NCPO
Online Reporters, Published on 15/01/2018
» Activist groups are inviting people to sign a petition calling for the annulment of 35 orders issued by the National Council for Peace and Order they say violate people's rights.
Family with crying child ordered off bus late at night
Online Reporters, Published on 09/01/2018
» The crew of an interprovincial bus have been fined and may face further action for forcing a poor family and their two young sons off the bus late at night because the 2-year-old kept crying loudly.
Russian mafia suspects rounded up, mostly in Pattaya
Online Reporters, Published on 20/03/2017
» Four Russians suspected to be mafia gang members have been arrested by police who charged them with illegally staying in the country.
Dems: Why not Pongsapat too?
Online Reporters, Published on 08/02/2013
» The Democrat Party on Friday called for the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to also summons Pol Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen, the Pheu Thai Party candidate in the Bangkok election, to testify about the awarding of contracts for hundreds of abandoned police station buildings and flats because he has also been implicated in the issue.