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Clinic shut over Botox blunder
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/02/2020
» A cosmetic surgery clinic has been shut down following the death of a woman who was allegedly injected with wrinkle-reducing Botox by a medical assistant.
2020 budget gets royal nod
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/02/2020
» His Majesty the King has issued a royal command putting the 3.2-trillion-baht budget for the 2020 fiscal year into effect, retroactively from Oct 1, 2019.
Monk nabbed for selling skins
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 27/02/2020
» An abbot at a temple in Sa Kaeo was arrested yesterday and charged with selling leopard skins and other wildlife products.
Ruling is inconsistent
News, Postbag, Published on 27/02/2020
» I agree with the spirit of the Constitutional Court's verdict on the FFP's loan saga: loans should be considered as contributions. But have the Thai Election Commission or courts previously ruled that loans are, legally speaking, contributions? The Bangkok Post's Feb 21 editorial said: "The EC never ... informed political parties that there are regulations barring them from taking out loans. That's because there are no such rules." Also, if we had such specific and clear rules and laws, our EC and CC would have explicitly based their decisions on them, quoting the section -- but that's not the case.
Can economy weather Covid-19 storm?
News, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 27/02/2020
» As of Wednesday, there were 80,991 confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus known as Covid-19, spread across 41 countries and territories. But explaining health issues is not the purpose of this article. I will leave that to medical and infection experts. The purpose here is to determine the economic impacts of the spread of Covid-19, particularly on the Thai economy.
PM takes flak over military residence
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 27/02/2020
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha faces the prospect of being taken to the Constitutional Court over his allegedly unlawful occupation of an army residence.
Soldiers sharpen cyber warfare skills
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 27/02/2020
» Thai soldiers are sharpening their cyber warfare skills for the first time as part of the ongoing Thai-US Cobra Gold military exercise to brace for cyber attacks.
Payout hastened for rice scheme 'victims'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/02/2020
» A special working group will be formed to speed up compensation to five injured parties in the bogus government-to-government deals under the infamous rice-pledging scheme, said Suppharoek Iam-la-o, acting director of the Marketing Organisation for Farmers (MOF), one of the affected parties.
Warrant for Plodprasop's arrest
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/02/2020
» An arrest warrant has been issued for former deputy prime minister Plodprasop Suraswadi, after he failed to show up at the Supreme Court to hear the court strike down his appeal against a two-year prison sentence for abuse of power.
Context is decisive in Thai high politics
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 28/02/2020
» In Thailand's high politics where governments survive or succumb, context is everything. After two decades of a political merry-go-round, marked by a series of elections, street protests, military coups, and judicial interventions only to end up with a problematic post-election rule under military domination, no deep expertise is needed to understand what has been happening in this land.