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‘60 senators’ to face vote-fixing charges
Published on 07/05/2025
» The Election Commission (EC) is expected to summon around 60 senators to acknowledge charges related to alleged vote-fixing in last year’s Senate election, a source said on Wednesday.
Lower growth in Thai ad spending predicted
Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 07/05/2025
» The digital media agency Media Intelligence Group (MI) has revised down its growth forecast for advertising and marketing spending in Thailand this year to 2.2%, representing 87.6 billion baht in total spending, from an earlier projection of 4.5% growth, citing unfavourable economic conditions.
Indonesia's 'silvermen' beg to make ends meet
AFP, Published on 07/05/2025
» JAKARTA - On a rainy day in Indonesia's capital Jakarta, three men coated in metallic paint known as the "manusia silver", or silvermen, brave the elements at an intersection near a mall to ask drivers for change.
Phase 3 of handouts in doubt
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 07/05/2025
» The next phase of the government's flagship money handout scheme requires some revisions as the impact of US President Donald Trump's tariff policies on the global economy looms large, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Tuesday.
DSI investigation sparks Senate election row
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 07/05/2025
» Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong has confirmed that DSI officers were recently in Amnat Charoen province to investigate Senate election collusion, while former candidates claim imposters have been posing as officers there and coercing them into admitting guilt.
Parliament's costly legacy
News, Editorial, Published on 07/05/2025
» Many years ago, national artist Theeraphol Niyom was one of the architects who helped design the current parliament building, Sappaya-Sapasathan, which is situated on the Chao Phraya River, On one occasion, he told the media that the parliament's blueprint was drawn to inspire elected members and senators to do good things and fear bad deeds.
Why they fear Pita
Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/05/2025
» Re: "Pita vows a comeback in 9 years to be 'best prime minister'", (BP, May 5).
LLMs are left-leaning models
Life, James Hein, Published on 07/05/2025
» A while back I wrote about the political bias in Large Language Models (LLMs). Since then the models have evolved and David Rozado has conducted more recent tests based on four of the popular political orientation tests. Using the Political Compass, Political Spectrum, Political Correctness and Eysenck tests, he worked with xAI Grok 3 beta, Google's Gemini 2.5 pro, Deepseek V3, OpenAI GPT 4.1 and Meta's Llama 4 Maverick. In all but one of the tests Grok 3 was closest to the centre, and on average was the clear leader. All the models were still located in the Left Libertarian quadrant, with Grok just sneaking into a more Conservative area with the Eysenck test. These tests are of course but one way to measure the political leanings of any LLM. Overall however, it does still indicate the left-leaning bias in all models tested so far. If you want to see more details, you can visit David Rozado's substack.
Money Expo returns to Muang Thong Thani
Life, Published on 07/05/2025
» The Money Expo returns with myriad products and services for wealth seekers at Impact Challenger Hall 2-3, Muang Thong Thani, daily from 10am to 8pm from May 15-18.