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Political groups take aim at conditional 'reprieve' bill
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/05/2016
» Several political groups have slammed a proposed law seeking to give a reprieve to political offenders while the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) has distanced itself from the legislation proposed by its political reform panel.
Thieves swipe B10m from bank's safe
News, Published on 10/05/2016
» PHETCHABURI: More than 10 million baht in cash was stolen from a safe early yesterday morning in an audacious robbery at a Bangkok Bank sub-branch in Cha-am district of Petchaburi.
MRT station put under graffiti watch
News, Published on 10/05/2016
» The site of a subway train depot in Bangkok that was spray-painted by foreign graffiti artists three years ago is now being heavily guarded to ensure no such recurrence of vandalism, says Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) governor Peerayudh Singpatanakul.
Department mulls hiking taxes
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 10/05/2016
» The Excise Department is studying a plan to impose higher taxes on fuel, alcohol, beer, tobacco and telecommunications services with the aim of doubling revenue to almost 1 trillion baht by 2027.
1,000 jobs face threat at Akara gold mine
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 10/05/2016
» SET-listed Akara Resources Plc has warned that it will have to lay off 1,000 workers if its mining licences in Phichit are not renewed.
Botanists warn on threats to world's plant kingdom
AFP, Published on 10/05/2016
» LONDON - Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world's plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind aimed at drawing attention to often-overlooked species.
Two killed, one wounded in Trang gangland shooting
Methee Muangkaew, Published on 10/05/2016
» TRANG -- A man and a woman were killed, and a second woman seriously wounded, by two men using shotguns during a confrontation between the occupants of two cars outside a store in Nayong district early on Tuesday morning.
3 caught in Tak with 30kg of crystal meth
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 10/05/2016
» TAK - A Thai man and two Myanmar women have been arrested and 30kg of crystal methamphetamine seized from them in Mae Sot district.
Wissanu: Seree's proposal too ambiguous
Patsara Jikkham, Published on 10/05/2016
» The proposal by a political reform panel of the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) to suspend court proceedings and convictions against all political offenders during the unrest of the past decade is too ambiguous, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said on Tuesday.
Narathiwat forest fires under control
Waedao Harai, Published on 10/05/2016
» Fire fighters contained areas of wildfire in four districts of Narathiwat province on Tuesday, but they had to continuously hose down the boundaries as strong winds posed threats of fresh outbreaks.