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Election report: Venezuela vote 'probably rigged'
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» CARACAS - The number of Venezuelans who participated in the election for an all-powerful constituent assembly was tampered with - off by at least 1 million votes - in an official count, the head of a voting technology company asserted Wednesday, a finding certain to sow further discord over the super-body that has generated months of nationwide protests.
Trump backs major US immigration changes
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday embraced legislation from two Republican senators that would place new limits on legal immigration and seek to create an system based more on merit and skills than family ties.
Tillerson to press Thailand on North Korea
Published on 03/08/2017
» WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will press Thailand and other Asian countries to take tougher action against North Korea when he visits Bangkok and attends regional meetings in Manila starting this week, a senior US official said on Wednesday.
2008 crackdown victim says karma will heal political woes
News, Om Jotikasthira, Published on 03/08/2017
» A man who lost a leg in the Oct 7, 2008 protest crackdown says he respects the Supreme Court's ruling of not guilty for former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat and three other defendants over the forceful dispersal of yellow-shirt protesters.
Somchai 'not guilty' of protest deaths
News, Published on 03/08/2017
» The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat and three other defendants of abuse of authority in the fatal dispersal of PAD protesters in 2008.
Six-year-old dies after driver forgets him in bus
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/08/2017
» A six-year-old boy has died in hospital after he was abandoned in a school bus in Nakhon Si Ayutthaya for five hours by a driver who later admitted to carelessness as he surrendered to police.
Prayut gives Sakon Nakhon drain deadline
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/08/2017
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha instructed authorities Wednesday to focus on the flood-plagued province of Sakon Nakhon and ensure most of the excess water is released into the Mekong River within a week.
Cops nab 3 Indians for abduction, extortion
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/08/2017
» Three Indian nationals have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping three of their compatriots at Suvarnabhumi airport early last month to shake down the victims' families for ransom money, police said.
Tillerson, Bishop heading to Manila, Bangkok
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 03/08/2017
» Regional security, tensions on the Korean Peninsula and territorial disputes in the South China Sea will be discussed when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop visit Thailand and the Philippines over the next week.
New graft bill resolves 'grey area'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/08/2017
» The anti-corruption agency will set up a unit clarifying issues relating to conflicts of interest to ensure state officials are up to scratch when a bill on this matter takes effect, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said yesterday.