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Post Today Editorial
News, Published on 04/04/2012
» It is said that prevention is better than cure, and that is particularly true for the Public Ministry's ongoing investigation into the embezzlement of massive quantities of cold pills from 22 hospitals around the country.
DSI must push drugs probe
News, Published on 02/04/2012
» The director of the Department of Special Investigations (DSI) has opened the first chance in years to bring a major drug dealer to justice. Tarit Pengdith told the public that it's likely a former minister of public health directed or participated in an operation to supply methamphetamine drug gangs in Myanmar.
A bitter pill to swallow
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/04/2012
» Cold pills are about to be banned? What a sad day in my life. What a sad day for Thailand.
Plerng Morakot (Emerald Fire)
News, Published on 26/03/2012
» The Royal Thai Police Office must clean up its own house in order to win the war on drugs. My own investigations reveal corrupt policemen are behind the illegal drug trade. Without their involvement, it is impossible for drug traffickers to continue their illegal business.
B400m drug haul
Online Reporters, Published on 22/03/2012
» Police have seized illegal drugs with a street value of about 400 million baht and arrested a drug suspect in Bangkok, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said on Thursday.
War on drugs full of holes
News, Published on 20/03/2012
» The Pheu Thai government came to power as a populist movement, and seems determined to prove it at every opportunity. The slowly developing plans to manage water and prevent floods include the provision to pay farmers for irrigation and fish ponds. The rising price of food has resulted in orders for the Blue Flag lorries to begin selling lower-priced items. And there is that one reliable issue certain to please the population, yet another campaign in the war against illegal drugs. It's too bad, then, that the government is lapping up public support instead of attending to the business of a true and effective campaign against drugs.
Chalerm can seize drugs and the moment
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 19/03/2012
» It takes three for Chalerm Yubamrung to tango when it comes to talk about his highly publicised drug campaign.
Animals caught in the middle
News, Published on 26/02/2012
» I am writing about the article in Friday's Bangkok Post on the raid on the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) in Phetchaburi's Tha Yang district. This is such a tragic situation and I feel great pity toward the animals. They know nothing about the conflict between the WFFT and the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, but they are the ones who suffer. Both sides should negotiate.
Police seize B500m drugs haul
News, Published on 15/02/2012
» Chiang Rai police have arrested a suspected drug trafficker with 1.8 million speed pills worth 500 million baht.
Dealers in high places
News, Published on 12/02/2012
» With the staggering amounts of money to be made it should not surprise anyone if some people who are supposed to on the side of drug suppression are in fact involved in feeding the drug trade, both in Myanmar and Thailand