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Booze ban fails to stop youths quaffing
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan and Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 14/02/2018
» The government says it is looking at stepping up efforts against underage drinking, while a recent survey revealed that 88% of youths aged under 20 could buy alcoholic drinks despite that being illegal.
Prayut slams talk of cracks in cabinet
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 14/02/2018
» There are no "cracks" in the government despite Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin's criticism of Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon over a scandal involving luxury watches, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said Tuesday.
Six locals a day get HIV, says City Hall
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 14/02/2018
» More than 2,000 people in Bangkok are new HIV infected person each year, or around six people a day, according to City Hall's Health Department.
Embattled Premchai in dock over land deals
News, Apinya Wipatayotin & Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 14/02/2018
» The Royal Forestry Department will press charges against a company belonging to relatives of Premchai Karnasuta, the embattled president of Italian-Thai Development Plc (ITD), for encroaching on over 6,000 rai of public forest land in Loei's Phu Ruea district.
Welfare boss eyed over fraud
News, Chakkrapan Natanri, Published on 13/02/2018
» Khon Kaen: Authorities are preparing to summon the chief of the provincial welfare centre over her alleged involvement in the falsification of receipts for welfare and state financial payments that were never made
33 plant protesters launch hunger strike
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/02/2018
» Over 30 activists have gone on a hunger strike to press the government into cancelling plans to build two coal-fired power plants in Krabi and Songkhla.
PACC supports inquiry into false receipts
Chakkrapan Natanri, Published on 12/02/2018
» KHON KAEN: The Public Sector AntiCorruption Commission (PACC) has found grounds to launch a full investigation into alleged falsification of receipts for reimbursement at a Khon Kaen welfare centre for low-income earners in the province.
Murder probe hits the wall
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/02/2018
» Two years after the murder of her son, one sign of progress in the investigation which Latda Siworanan has seen is an arrest warrant for the suspected killer pinned on a wall of a police station in Nonthaburi.
PM won’t call poll without a fight
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 12/02/2018
» There seems to be no doubt among political observers about the regime’s political ambitions, especially given Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s recent penchant for taking his cabinet on the road. His trips to the countryside can only mean one thing: He wants to return to power after the polls.
Sanctuary with a proud past
Apinya Wipatyotin and Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 12/02/2018
» All eyes have turned to the Thungyai Nareasuan Wildlife Sanctuary and Unesco World Heritage site in Kanchanaburi province where construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta and his entourage were caught allegedly hunting wildlife in one of the world’s most renowned forest ecological systems.