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Construction peril demands action
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 17/10/2025
» Accidents at large-scale construction sites in Thailand occur often -- only to quietly fade from public attention, leaving no trace of lasting accountability.
Council needs experts
News, Editorial, Published on 09/08/2025
» For another year, the Metropolitan Administration Council -- known locally as the City Council -- has thrown cold water on a bid to have outsiders join its committees scrutinising the city budget to ensure efficiency, transparency and good governance, as proposed by the People's Party (PP).
Six nabbed in Saraburi forest land scam
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 09/08/2025
» Five Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) officials and a tambon chief have been arrested for their alleged roles in illegally issuing land ownership documents to benefit private investors who encroached on protected forest land in Saraburi.
Thaksin heads to South for security talks
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/02/2025
» Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will visit Narathiwat on Sunday in his capacity as an informal adviser to the Asean chair to discuss security issues with officials in the deep South, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on Wednesday.
Kamnan implicated in large-scale village fraud case
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/02/2025
» Officers from Nakhon Thai Police Station in Phitsanulok province have apprehended individuals involved in defrauding 140 villagers out of 41 million baht, including an award-winning sub-district chief.
More than 400 resorts face chop
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 15/08/2024
» The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry has kicked off inspections which could lead to the demolition of more than 400 resorts for encroaching on public land in Nakhon Ratchasima's Wang Nam Khieo district.
Kingdom's top cops set poor example
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/06/2024
» The handling of the bitter feud between two heavyweights of the Royal Thai Police, Torsak Sukivimol and Surachate Hakparn, aka Big Joke, by a prime minister-appointed committee led by Chatchai Promlert is typical of a Thai style of conflict resolution that reflects the "mai pen rai" and "forget about it" attitude, despite the core issue being the integrity and honesty of the two officers.
Exploding hearts, tattoo sex mystery, water bottle wars
News, Mae Moo, Published on 05/05/2024
» No apprenticeship needed
'Big Joke' awaits another miracle
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/04/2024
» Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, widely known as Big Joke, is among a handful of officers whose meteoric rise in the force should lead them to being tapped as the next police commissioner-general. Pol Gen Surachate became a police general at about 40 years old but his career journey could be abruptly cut short.
Govt to arrange police security for schools
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 25/01/2024
» The Education Ministry will work with the Interior Ministry and Royal Thai Police (RTP) in assigning local law enforcement officers to patrol schools after hours following an assault of a school caretaker in Chiang Rai last week.