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PM nixes 9-day Songkran idea
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/02/2020
» The prime minister has poured cold water on the suggestion to extend this year's Songkran Festival into a nine-day holiday.
Debt-swap deal gets cabinet nod
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/02/2020
» Despite fierce opposition from consumer advocates, the cabinet yesterday approved Expressway Authority of Thailand's (Exat) controversial 58.8 billion baht debt-swap deal with Bangkok Expressway and Metro Plc (BEM).
Preecha loses Amlo sec-gen bid
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/02/2020
» The Senate yesterday voted not to endorse Pol Maj Gen Preecha Charoensahayanon, deputy secretary-general of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo), as its new secretary-general.
'Crisis' plan is censorship
News, Editorial, Published on 19/02/2020
» If the measure proposed by Digital Economy and Society Minister Buddhipongse Punnakanta to have state agencies dictate news coverage during "times of crisis" is adopted, it could further undermine press freedom and people's right to information.
Many English tribes
News, Postbag, Published on 19/02/2020
» Re: "Teachers won't come", (PostBag, Feb 18).
Germany, Japan and the war on fuel rationality
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/02/2020
» Germany and Japan are finally winning a war together. Unfortunately, it is the War on Rationality.
Time running out on Tokyo Olympics
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 19/02/2020
» Japan needs to rethink the Olympics. The most pressing reason to postpone or cancel the 2020 Tokyo summer games, which are due to start in late July, is a raging public health crisis of unknown dimensions.
Four held for fake news over coronavirus
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/02/2020
» Four more people were arrested for allegedly spreading fake news about the coronavirus outbreak, Digital Economy and Society Minister Buddhipongse Punnakanta said on Tuesday.
FFP defends B191m loan as court judgement looms
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/02/2020
» Future Forward Party (FFP) secretary-general Piyabutr Saengkanokkul insisted on Tuesday that the 191-million-baht loan the party obtained from its leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit was transparent and necessary.
Opposition armed with 5 graft issues
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 19/02/2020
» The opposition claims it has at least five issues on corruption to censure the government on next week, which it believes could well result in the disintegration of the coalition, chief opposition whip Sutin Klungsang said.