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Scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple helps stage Myanmar event
Reuters, Published on 21/01/2018
» MANDALAY: Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Myanmar's second largest city on Sunday for an event partly organised by the scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple whose abbot is wanted for questioning on money-laundering allegations.
Court indicts runaway monk's top aide
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/12/2017
» A former spokesman for Wat Phra Dhammakaya disciples yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges of instigating public disorder in connection with failed attempts to arrest former abbot Phra Dhammajayo last year.
Prosecutors arraign former Dhammakaya spokesman
Published on 28/12/2017
» Prosecutors on Thursday arraigned Ong-art Thamnitha, the former spokesman for Wat Phra Dhammakaya’s disciples, on charges of instigating public disorder in connection with the Department of Special Investigation’s failed raid on the temple last year to arrest former abbot Phra Dhammajayo.
Investigators meet to iron out jurisdictions
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 27/12/2017
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will meet Royal Thai Police (RTP) today to improve cooperation and better define what cases fall under their jurisdiction.
Buddhist monks order reforms ahead of royal transition
Reuters, Published on 19/10/2017
» Under growing pressure from Thailand's military government, and their own religious bodies, Buddhist monks have launched a fresh round of reforms in recent weeks to clean up temples and overhaul a religion stalked by scandal.
In police theatre, the joke is on us
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 27/09/2017
» Those who have lived in Thailand long enough have probably heard of a form of folk theatre known in Thai as likay.
Life, love, liberation
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/09/2017
» In the sole Thai film showing at Toronto International Film Festival this week, a soap opera star stuck in a loveless marriage tangles with an eccentric hitman and a powerful cult. Samui Song is the latest feature film by Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, who's fashioned a crime thriller that also plays as a critique of many things: patriarchal oppression, faux-Buddhism, public healthcare and the act of cinema-making itself.
NOB transfer harms govt anti-graft drive
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/09/2017
» Pol Lt Col Pongporn Pramsaneh has been widely recognised as an honest and straightforward officer in the Department of Special Investigation – a rare breed in the police force. It explains why he was ordered shifted from the DSI's head of the Tax Litigation Office to lead the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) on Feb 25 by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to do an unenviable mission. His task was to clean up the mess concerning the misappropriation of government funds for the renovation of temples and for schools on temple grounds.
Regime angers critics over NOB transfer
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/09/2017
» The government is feeling the heat over the transfer of Pol Lt Col Pongporn Pramsaneh from the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) as he is now defying the order shunting him to the PM's Office, which has assigned him to the deep South.
Shunted director of Buddhism defies cabinet order
Online Reporters, Published on 07/09/2017
» The former director of the National Office of Buddhism (NOB), Pol Lt Col Pongporn Pramsaneh, is defying the order shunting him to the post of inspector-general at the Prime Minister's Office, which plans to send him to the deep South.