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Thai court issues warrant for arrest of Cambodian senator
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 10/11/2025
» The Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Ly Yong Phat -- a Cambodian businessman with close ties to Cambodia's Senate President Hun Sen -- and four of his associates for their alleged involvement in money laundering and online fraud, which led to a sweeping operation to seize assets allegedly linked to his transnational scam network on Sunday.
Mogul Prayudh Mahagitsiri sentenced for land grab
News, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 03/05/2025
» Nine people, including state officials, have been handed prison terms for corruption involving the unlawful issuance of land title deeds in areas designated as reserved forest and the land reform area in Nakhon Ratchasima's Sikhiu district.
‘Thaksin won’t flee again,’ says PM
News, Mongkol Bangprapa & Wassana Nanuam, Published on 04/06/2024
» Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will not attempt to flee the country again in order to escape a lese-majeste case that has been brought against him, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Tuesday.
Trafficking 'Godfather' gets jail term
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 23/09/2023
» NEW YORK: Malaysian wildlife smuggler, Teo Boon Ching, also known as the "Godfather" has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in the US for conspiring to traffic hundreds of kilogrammes of rhinoceros horns worth millions of dollars.
It still remains an offer you can't refuse
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/07/2022
» Francis Ford Coppola's epic film The Godfather has been celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a frightening thought as I can recall queuing up to see it at a Bangkok cinema all those years ago. It was 1972, in the days long before multiplex cinemas emerged in Bangkok, so when a big film came out there would be massive queues at the theatre showing the blockbuster.
Sixteen 'most-wanted' suspects nabbed in raids
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 08/07/2022
» Commandos arrested a son of the late influential boxing promoter Klaew Thanikul and the father of actors Nachat and Natcha Janthaphan, among 16 suspects, in a sweep across 12 provinces yesterday.
Karma goes to work, relatives pall, undies killer strikes
News, Mae Moo, Published on 05/06/2022
» Love-hate coupling sours
Vladimir Putin, Navalny and Thomas à Becket
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/08/2020
» In 20 years of writing about Russia's President Vladimir Putin -- he was completely obscure before 1999 -- I have never before had reason to mention him and Saint Thomas à Becket in the same sentence. Finally, however, the time has come.
Cabinet appoints new chief at DSI
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 29/04/2020
» Pol Lt Col Korawat Panpraphakorn, a Justice Ministry inspector-general, was yesterday appointed by the cabinet as the new director-general of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI).
Rich law, poor law
News, Postbag, Published on 30/11/2019
» Re: "Apply law of the land to all", (Editorial, Nov 29).