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Sorrayuth let off fraud rap
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/09/2019
» The Supreme Court has upheld lower court decisions to dismiss a document forgery case against former TV news anchor Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda, saying it duplicated a previous case of advertising revenue embezzlement.
Stark Corp suspects face huge asset seizures
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/04/2024
» Public prosecutors will petition the Civil Court for the confiscation of additional assets worth almost 3 billion baht from individuals tied to scandal-hit Stark Corporation, according to a senior official of the Office of the Attorney General.
Suspected bent monks get police grilling
Post Reporters, Published on 01/03/2022
» Twelve senior monks, including one arrested on Feb 18, have been interrogated in connection with the alleged embezzlement of 110 million baht from temple funds from 2007 to 2016, with the suspect already in custody facing additional charges, police said on Tuesday.
Dhamma bums
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/03/2022
» Re: "Senior monk arrested for B110m embezzlement", (Online, March 8).
Irrational sentence
News, Postbag, Published on 21/02/2020
» "A former abbot of Wat Sa Ket (Golden Mount) was sentenced to a suspended jail term of 36 months and fined 27,000 baht for embezzlement of 69.7 million baht in temple funds", read your online report concerning the politely termed "malfeasance" of a senior monk and a bunch of criminals from the National Office of Buddhism.
All should compete
Postbag, Published on 22/09/2023
» Re: "Agency jittery over visa loophole", (BP, Sept 20).
Free drug convicts
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/05/2021
» Re: "Mass parole no solution", (Editorial, May 20).
Come and see (no need to pray)
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/04/2021
» In an ordinary democracy, a film like Ehipassiko (in English, Come And See) shouldn't have had the least bit of worry about the possibility of being banned. The subject itself initially provoked the censors' impulse: this is a finely-tuned, patiently observed documentary about the controversial Wat Dhammakaya and the dramatic 2017 siege of the temple.
Absurdity made wonderful
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 22/05/2020
» During these uncertain and unprecedented times when we are fed up with mundane streaming movies as we're stuck at home, it's amazing that once in a while, we come across some solid movies on television. And the latest HBO original drama-comedy Bad Education, starring Oscar-nominated actor Hugh Jackman, is definitely one of those rare occasions.