• THAILAND

  Thai PBS probe extended

  Published on 18/03/2013

  » A sub-committee of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has been given another two weeks to probe whether Thai PBS's station director had the authority to pull political talk programme <i>Tob Jote</i> off the air - as the station broadcast the fifth part on Monday night without notice.

• THAILAND

  Journalist puts troops in clear

  Published on 18/03/2013

  » A French journalist insisted Monday that a military unit which he followed during the army's crackdown on red-shirt protesters in 2010 was not responsible for the deaths of six people at Wat Pathumwanaram.

• THAILAND

  Public-private JV bill under attack

  Published on 18/03/2013

  » A group of senators will ask the Constitution Court to derail the new public-private partnership (PPP) bill that could enable the government to work with private operators on infrastructure projects without parliament scrutiny.

• THAILAND

  Student arrested on Furby scam

  Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 18/03/2013

  » SAMUT PRAKAN – Police have arrested a 27-year-old university student on charges connected to online fraud involving Furby dolls sold under stolen identities.

• THAILAND

  Buddha-themed toilet withdrawn

  Published on 18/03/2013

  » A French sanitaryware manufacturer has apologised and decided to withdraw its Buddha-themed toilet covers after Buddhists complained about the products which appeared in the bathroom of a hotel in France.

• THAILAND

  Senators outraged by PBS talk show

  Online Reporters, Published on 18/03/2013

  » Senators from the Group of 40 on Monday lashed out at the "Tob Jote Thailand" television talk show featuring a debate on the role of the monarchy under the constitution and the necessity to amend Section 112 of the Criminal Code, saying it could be deemed lese majeste.

• THAILAND

  Minister defends first-time car policy

  Online Reporters, Published on 18/03/2013

  » The highly publicised first-car scheme has not run into trouble even though 2,000 cars had been recalled from the buyers, Deputy Finance Minister Tanusak Lek-uthai said on Monday.

• THAILAND

  New charter amendments proposed

  Online Reporters, Published on 18/03/2013

  » About 60 senators have proposed amendments to some sections of the 2007 constitution, Pheu Thai MP Udomdej Rattanasathien said on Monday.

• THAILAND

  Kwanchai doffs his red shirt

  Online Reporters, Published on 18/03/2013

  » Kwanchai Praipana, head of the Khon Rak Udon (People Who Love Udon) faction of the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), announced on Monday that he will no longer wear a red shirt at any political activities.

• THAILAND

  Man killed by bomb in car park

  Published on 18/03/2013

  » A man was killed by the explosion of a handgrenade in a plastic bag found against the wheel of a pickup truck in the car park of an apartment complex on Monday morning.

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