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Fraud rap hurts hospital
News, Published on 20/03/2025
» A state hospital official in Khon Kaen has been arrested for being part of a company that issued 138 fake tax invoices, causing losses to the state of more than 100 million baht.
Elephants to get birth control shots to limit population
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 31/12/2024
» The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry is looking to use birth control shots on wild elephants to limit their population and lessen attacks on humans.
National policy committee meets to discuss dead dugong
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 11/11/2024
» The National Policy and Planning Committee on Marine and Coastal Resources Management met on Monday to discuss the dugong crisis after an alarming increase in the dugong death rate over the past month.
Tak Bai massacre defendant back at work after case expired
Online Reporters, Published on 29/10/2024
» A local official accused over the mass deaths at the Tak Bai rally has returned to work now the statute of limitations in the case has expired, and not one of the defendants stood trial.
Talk, but no action, on Tak Bai massacre
Saritdet Marukatat and Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 25/10/2024
» Lawmakers, human rights activists and families hoping to see justice for the victims of the 2004 Tak Bai tragedy were offered nothing more than a debate in parliament on Friday as the clock ticked towards the expiry of the statute of limitations.
Thai PM apologises for Tak Bai massacre
Reuters and Post Reporters, Published on 24/10/2024
» Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Thursday apologised for the deaths two decades ago of 78 protesters who were piled up in army trucks, hours from the expiry of the statute of limitations on a case in which no state official has ever been convicted.
Govt warned over allowing Tak Bai massacre case to lapse
Online Reporters, Published on 14/10/2024
» The popularity of the government and Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra would be eroded if all those accused in the Tak Bai massacre case were allowed to walk free, a prominent law lecturer has warned.
Eight more charged in 2004 Tak Bai massacre
Reuters and Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 18/09/2024
» Thai authorities will prosecute eight more former security personnel over their roles in the Tak Bai crackdown two decades ago, when 78 protesters suffocated or were crushed to death when crammed into army trucks, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said on Wednesday.
Warrants issued for Tak Bai trial no-shows
Reuters and Post Reporters, Published on 12/09/2024
» The Narathiwat Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for six defendants in the 2004 Tak Bai massacre case after they failed to appear for questioning on Thursday.
'Ice Metal Casket' gets life for murder
Published on 29/01/2021
» Apichai Ongwisit, aka “Ice Metal Casket”, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a young woman whose body was found stuffed inside a metal casket at his Bangkok house.