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Watch this space
News, Postbag, Published on 22/12/2018
» Politicians and political parties are claiming Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is unable to solve Thailand's corruption problems by referring to his deputy, and the watch scandal. If this is set to be the new standard of intolerable corruption, Thailand is moving forward. But for that to happen, politicians and parties now heavily criticising Gen Prayut have to stick to the 25 watches norm also when in power. I am sceptical, especially with the new party that wants to move "forward" by moving backwards, returning to the old democracy that was not so much of a democracy.
The joke of law
News, Published on 01/12/2018
» The impressively slow progress on Premchai Karnasuta's case for alleged poaching in a national wildlife sanctuary can surprise no one (Editorial, Nov 30). It exemplifies perfectly why Thai people do not trust Thai justice, or rather, Thai rule of law posing as justice. Even when the law manages to be just, it is applied with seemingly blatant discrimination to protect corrupt hi-so types who are members in good standing of the old boys club while coming down mercilessly on the poor and powerless, who correctly see it as being created by traditional hi-so types to keep the masses in their place underfoot. We need not imagine where Premchai would be today had he been an aged peasant picking mushrooms illegally.
'Screwdriver slayers' get life in prison
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/10/2018
» The Criminal Court has imposed life sentences on two suspects involved in a dormitory raid in Phetchaburi last year, convicting the pair of killing a Silpakorn University student with a screwdriver even though he had nothing to do with the brawl.
13 sentenced for dormitory murder of university student
Online Reporters, Published on 24/10/2018
» The Criminal Court on Wednesday handed down prison terms ranging from 10 years to life for 13 people involved in the screwdriver-murder of an innocent student in Cha-am district of Phetchaburi early last year.
Train suicide man 'confessed to wife' he killed woman in Hua Hin
Online Reporters, Published on 15/10/2018
» PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: The man who apparently committed suicide by letting a southern train run over him on Saturday night phoned his wife beforehand and confessed he killed a 39-year-old woman whose body, with multiple stab wounds, was found in his rented townhouse in Hua Hin district, police said.
Train suicide linked to woman stabbed to death in Hua Hin
Gary Boyle, Published on 14/10/2018
» PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Police have established a link between a man who apparently committed suicide by lying down in front of a train, and a woman found dead in a townhouse in Hua Hin district.
Train suicide linked to woman stabbed to death in Hua Hin
Chaiwat Satyaem, Published on 14/10/2018
» PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Police have established a link between a man who apparently committed suicide by lying down in front of an oncoming train, and a woman found dead in a townhouse in Hua Hin district.
For whom the bell tolls
News, Postbag, Published on 08/10/2018
» Re: "Keep ringing the bells, but not too loudly", (Opinion, Oct 6).
Body parts in bag case stumps cops
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/06/2018
» >> Police are stepping up an investigation into the grisly murder of an unidentified woman believed to be an Asian who was found beheaded and dismembered in Khlong Sam Wa district in eastern Bangkok.
No police apology for monk's violent arrest
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/05/2018
» Nobody doubts why the Crime Suppression Division police had to make the arrest of Phra Buddha Isara, the abbot of Wat Or Noi in Nakhon Pathom, before dawn of May 24 at his living quarters on the temple grounds.