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80,000 demand Prawit's removal
Gary Boyle, Published on 16/02/2018
» Former National Reform Council member Ticha Na Nakorn on Friday submitted an online petition with more than 80,000 signatures calling on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to drop his deputy Prawit Wongsuwon from cabinet over the luxury watches affair.
80,000 online petitioners demand Prawit's removal
Wassana Nanuam, Published on 16/02/2018
» Former National Reform Council member Ticha Na Nakorn on Friday submitted an online petition with more than 80,000 signatures calling on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to drop his deputy Prawit Wongsuwon from cabinet over the luxury watches affair.
2,000 now in welfare graft crosshairs
News, Jakkrapan Nathanri, Published on 16/02/2018
» Khon Kaen: Provincial authorities launched a probe yesterday into more than 2,000 health volunteers and villagers suspected of complicity in graft at a provincial welfare centre.
Teerakiat's shares spark rule debate
News, Post Reporters, Published on 16/02/2018
» Cabinet ministers holding shares in any firm which wins government concessions can keep their ministerial posts if they were acquired before entering the cabinet, according to Constitution Drafting Committee chairman Meechai Ruchupan.
Elections, corruption and Thai democracy
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 16/02/2018
» People at home and abroad are calling for elections in Thailand on the premise of returning democracy to a country that has been under nearly four years of military government. But elections cannot bring genuine democracy if blatant corruption rears its head in open daylight with utter impunity. No doubt elections will be needed to get rid of the current set of military rulers but democracy in Thailand requires the strengthening of its democratic institutions that are so shoddy and woeful.
Purge needed so South Africa's ANC can revive economy
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/02/2018
» As a passer-by in the upscale Johannesburg suburb of Saxonwold observed, the South African police would never have raided the enormous, high-walled compound of the Gupta family if President Jacob Zuma were not on the brink of being removed. But early on Wednesday morning, the police did exactly that.