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Former Wat Sa Ket abbot guilty of embezzlement
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/02/2020
» A former Wat Sa Ket (the Golden Mount) abbot was yesterday sentenced to a 36 month jail term, suspended for two years, and fined 27,000 baht for embezzling temple funds to the tune of 69.7 million baht.
Cops deny meddling in anti-regime run
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 20/02/2020
» National police chief Chakthip Chaijinda has denied allegations the police applied a different standard in securing the anti-regime Wing Lai Lung ("Run to Oust the Uncle") event in Bangkok last month due to intervention from the military.
China's bank lending gets a digital revolution
News, Huang Yiping, Published on 20/02/2020
» China's economy is growing at its lowest rate in over 30 years, but if the country's nearly 40 million small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) could overcome a lack of access to funding, they could become a powerful engine of economic dynamism. Can digital innovators close the SME financing gap?
Drug smugglers killed in armed clash in North
News, Chinpat Chaimon, Published on 20/02/2020
» CHIANG RAI: Security forces shot dead three drug smugglers and seized more than 400,000 methamphetamine pills near the border on Tuesday night, police said.
Man arrested after B5m weed seizure
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/02/2020
» Nakhon Phanom: A man was arrested in Tha Uthen district yesterday for having more than 300kg of compressed marijuana worth at least five million baht in his possession.
Spend budget wisely
News, Editorial, Published on 20/02/2020
» The Finance Ministry has finalised arrangements for 20 billion baht of loans from local banks to cover the national budget which will be made available immediately.
Never give up
News, Postbag, Published on 20/02/2020
» I beg to differ with S Tsow's Feb 19 comment that he "taught English for a number of years at a major university here, and found that, regardless of the teacher's accent, Thai students have pronunciation problems that no number of drills could correct".
Protecting wildlife protects people
News, Gilbert Sape, Published on 20/02/2020
» From my base in Bangkok, to Beijing and London -- seeing people wearing face masks is becoming common sight. People are living under a shadow of fear with coronavirus sweeping the globe.
In Laos, price of free speech a heavy one
News, Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal & Adam Bemma, Published on 20/02/2020
» The imprisonment of Houayheuang "Muay" Xayabouly, a young, female Lao environmentalist turned internet activist who simply asked for help for flood victims, should be a matter of deep concern to the international community.
Outbreak 'reviving stereotypes'
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 20/02/2020
» The discrimination faced by Thais abroad during the novel coronavirus outbreak shows how growing public anxiety can revive long-standing tensions and negative stereotypes about Chinese, an expert said.