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Pension rule change draws fire
News, Post Reporters, Published on 15/08/2023
» Critics have slammed the outgoing government for issuing a new regulation imposing income limits on the elderly receiving monthly allowances.
RDS urges subsidy for jab trips
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/04/2022
» The Rural Doctor Society (RDS) has put its weight behind a proposal made by a senior doctor at Ramathibodi Hospital that urged the government to spend around 1 billion baht to subsidise senior citizens' trips to a Covid vaccination centre.
Songkran rules in works
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/03/2022
» The government will meet on Friday to deliberate ways to curb the spread of Covid-19 during the Songkran holiday period, which includes a proposed ban on water-splashing.
Cash app crashes on first day
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/02/2021
» Many people were unable to use the "Pao Tang" app and receive their first 2,000-baht "Rao Chana" cash handout due to a system crash yesterday. The Pao Tang e-wallet app went down on the very first day the scheme was supposed to transfer cash to 10.2 million people.
FBI fails to meet jailed sex coaches
News, Post Reporters, Published on 15/03/2018
» FBI agents unsuccessfully tried to see a pair of self-styled "sex coaches" detained in a Bangkok jail who claim they have evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, a senior Thai official told CNN.
Court names second EC member
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/12/2017
» The Supreme Court has named Pakorn Mahannop as the second and last election commissioner in its quota at a meeting of judges yesterday. Mr Pakorn, a judge in the Supreme Court, won a majority vote in the Supreme Court's plenary meeting of 176 judges.
Regime under fire over Yingluck hunt
News, Post Reporters, Published on 30/09/2017
» The government faced a barrage of criticism yesterday after foreign media reported that former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was in London, not in Dubai as suggested by senior regime figures.
Wong saga backfires on regime
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/10/2016
» The 12-hour detention of well-known Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong at Suvarnabhumi airport has backfired on the military regime as criticism has poured in from local and international human rights activists over Thailand's excessive accommodation of Beijing's demands.
Institute, not politics, now Somkid's focus
News, Post Reporters, Published on 30/07/2012
» Unlike many members of the so-called 111 group, whose five-year ban from politics expired about two months ago, Thaksin Shinawatra's former economic tsar Somkid Jatusripitak has decided not to return to government.