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Chada says crackdown gathers pace
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 10/10/2023
» Deputy Interior Minister Chada Thaiset said the government will continue to follow the money trail of influential figures who are believed to have engaged in questionable dealings, before suggesting taxes could be an effective way to root them out.
DPM Somsak wants more gambling legalised, especially football
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 26/09/2023
» More forms of gambling should be legalised, for example on football, to raise tax revenue for use in helping people in need, according to Deputy Prime Minister Somsak Thepsutin.
Thamanat denies Chinese triad links
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 11/11/2022
» Thamanat Prompow, the expelled former secretary-general of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), has denied having connections to any illicit businesses, as a police crackdown continues on Chinese criminal triads operating in Thailand.
NLA 'likely' to pass pot and kratom bill
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 29/09/2018
» A bill that would allow two narcotic plants, marijuana and kratom (Mitragyna speciose), to be grown for medical research purposes has been submitted to the Secretariat of the Senate, Somchai Sawaengkan, a member of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), said yesterday.
Pheu Thai rudderless as poll looms
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 13/08/2018
» News of Thaksin Shinawatra predicting the Pheu Thai Party will win at the next election might shore up the sagging spirit of supporters.
NLA passes amended Sangha bill
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 05/07/2018
» An amendment bill aimed at extensively curbing the powerful Sangha Council has cruised through the National Legislative Assembly without a single vote against it.
Nitirat chief warns of new 'Black May'
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 20/03/2018
» Thammasat law lecturer and Nitirat group leader Worachet Pakeerut has warned against appointing an outsider prime minister after the election, saying the country should have learnt its lesson after the bloodshed of Black May in 1992.
Yellow shirt protest revival on cards
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 04/09/2017
» Former co-leader and spokesman of the now-defunct People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), Parnthep Pourpongpan, is warning of the possible return of yellow shirts if justice is not served in a case concerning the 2008 deadly dispersal of the group's demonstrators.
NLA begins crackdown on fisheries
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 08/07/2017
» The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) has voted unanimously in favour of a new executive decree on fisheries which has been drafted to improve the efficiency of measures against illegal fishing practices.
Police to grill racer Akarakit again
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 15/02/2017
» Speed racer Akarakit Worarojchroendet will be summoned for questioning again tomorrow to clarify how he obtained a 20-million-baht Lamborghini, suspected of being the property of of a drug network run by suspected Lao drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpha, police say.