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Serving up to the saffron robes
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 13/07/2020
» Monks and laypeople are part and parcel of any Thai community and the preachers in saffron robes often come to local people for their meals.
Drug precursor fight gears up
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 16/12/2016
» Thailand, Cambodia and Laos will jointly set up 27 checkpoints in villages along the Mekong River in a bid to prevent drug precursor trafficking.
PACC set to examine corruption in groundwater well projects
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 04/05/2016
» The Office of the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) will set up a subcommittee to probe alleged corruption in the Department of Groundwater Resources (DGR) artesian well drilling projects.
Country prepares for new poppy war
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 05/03/2016
» Far from the bustle of booming Chiang Mai, pockets of poppies are still being cultivated in the remote hills of this northern province, defying years of intensive efforts to eradicate them. Periodically, drug enforcement officials backed by foreign powers sweep through the area, but never seem to win the battle.
Village wins in fight against drug trade
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 28/11/2015
» Not long ago, people in the remote hills bordering Thailand and Myanmar believed that growing plants to produce illicit drugs was the only way they could make a living.
Ministry to probe solar buys
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 03/07/2015
» The Interior Ministry is being asked to scrutinise local administration organisations' purchases of solar-powered street lights nationwide after ones bought in Samut Prakan turned out to be unusually expensive.
Corruption fight takes centre stage
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 06/01/2015
» Apush to eradicate corruption will take centre stage this year now the 250-member National Reform Council (NRC) has completed its task of making charter recommendations and is moving to work on the National Council for Peace and Order's (NCPO) reform agenda.
Barbed-wire fence latest drug weapon
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 06/10/2012
» In the fight to deter drug smuggling along Thai borders, authorities are convinced that one way is to lay a barbed-wire fence along the most porous stretch of the dividing line.
Graft worse than terror, says NACC
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 07/08/2012
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has warned that corruption and the so-called "patronage system" is a combination far more destructive to Thai society than even terrorism could be.
Graft 'plagues' water schemes
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 30/07/2012
» Corruption has been uncovered in several irrigation projects in Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son provinces, the Office of the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) said.