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'Drugs' clip causes a stir
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Wassayos Ngamkham & Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 13/12/2020
» A TikTok clip of a Thai worker living in South Korea playing with what appears to be a yaba pill has sparked controversy and concern over possible damage to the reputation of Thai workers in this East Asian country.
Court jails ex-politician for drug plot
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/09/2020
» The Criminal Court yesterday jailed Suban Mahachanont, a 58-year-old former parliamentary candidate for the Thai Liberal Party, for 50 years for colluding last year in the trafficking of 985 kilogrammes of crystal meth to the Philippines.
No end in sight for carnage in deep South, despite peace talks
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 12/01/2020
» Despite some positive signs observed in the fight to contain the southern unrest over the past 16 years, there has been little progress in the peace talks between the government and groups linked with violence in the deep South which are seen as a key mechanism in bringing the unrest to an end.
Poll rivals 'stir up' South strife
News, Post Reporters, Published on 31/12/2018
» The recent spate of violence in the far South may have been perpetrated by a third party with the military currently in talks with political rivals in the region to reconcile their differences ahead of the Feb 24 election, according to Fourth Army commander Pornsak Poonsawat.
Border chief visits troubled Yala after authorities kill motorcycle gunman
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 02/12/2018
» The Border Patrol Police (BPP) commissioner travelled to Yala on Saturday to examine the case in which a gunman, who had earlier shot dead a village chief, was killed by the authorities in an exchange of gunfire at tambon Tanoh Puteh in Bannang Sata district of Yala.
Turning the tide on crime in Asean
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 05/03/2018
» Ahead of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Thailand Institute of Justice's (TIJ) first High Level Conference on Sustainable Development, Crime Prevention and Safe Societies for Southeast Asia in Bangkok on Monday, UNODC executive director Yury Fedotov gave an exclusive interview to the Bangkok Post about the challenges facing Thailand and the wider region as a whole.