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NACC pressured over 2010 crackdown
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 12/01/2018
» Red-shirt core leader Nattawut Saikua turned up at the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) on Friday to demand justice for victims of the deadly 2010 crackdown on protesters.
Ombudsman will not seek court ruling on Section 70
News, Published on 13/01/2018
» The Ombudsman's Office of Thailand has decided not to seek a Constitutional Court ruling on the controversial part of Section 70 of an organic law on the Election Commission (EC) on the grounds it is unnecessary.
Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
PM playing astute game
News, Published on 13/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is now taking flak for selling politicians short.
AoT denies inflated rents for food and drinks concessions
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/01/2018
» Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) has denied extra charges are levied on food and beverage subtenants at international terminals in Thailand.
Outsider PM bid puts democracy at risk
News, Editorial, Published on 14/01/2018
» Several developments in recent weeks have reignited speculation over the prospect of junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha becoming a non-elected premier after the general election.
Pheu Thai claims NACC probe a move to wipe out foes
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 14/01/2018
» The Pheu Thai Party has criticised the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) for interfering with the legislative branch over the anti-graft agency's move to probe 40 of its former MPs for abuse of authority in proposing a 2013 amnesty bill.
Graft a 'human trait'
News, Postbag, Published on 15/01/2018
» Re: "Defeating democracy," (PostBag, Jan 13). Felix Qui seems to believe that democracy is the solution to all problems of inequality and that once a democratically elected government is put in place corruption automatically vanishes.
Regime's best-laid plans still subject to folly
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/01/2018
» Was Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon really serious when he issued a stern warning to officials of the Foreign Ministry, the Office of the Attorney-General and police that they could face malfeasance in office charges under the Criminal Code if they do not try hard enough to have fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra sent back home to face the music?