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Police in Thailand’s southern border province of Pattani are looking for a thief on a motorcycle, who snatched the shoulder bag of a woman riding pillion on another motorcycle, causing her to fall onto the road, fracturing her skull and killing her. Video footage from CCTV on the road, in Muang district of Pattani, shows […]
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty, by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Posts, for illegally owning shares in phone companies with Government concessions and for conflict of interest by changing concession fees and excise taxes to benefit his family-owned […]
A key defence witness, whose testimony was instrumental in the decisions by the police and public prosecutors to review and not litigate the Red Bull heir’s hit-and-run case, died in a road accident early Thursday morning in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai. The victim has been identified as Mr. Charuchart Madthong, 40, a resident […]
Thailand’s Appeals Court today upheld the one-year prison sentence imposed, by the Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases, on construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta for attempted bribery. Mr. Premchai, president of Italian-Thai Development Corp, was later released by the court on 500,000 baht bail. The tycoon was convicted of trying to bribe park rangers at […]
Thousands of ethnic Karens rallied in southeastern Myanmar’s Kayin state on Tuesday, adding a demand that the government withdraw troops from their district to previous calls for justice for a woman shot dead by two soldiers in her home this month. More than 4,600 villagers demonstrated outside the army outposts in the second protest this […]
Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin is questioning the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) over its recent decision to summon his wife, Mrs. Anongwan, to acknowledge corruption charges related to the Fai Maew weir project, worth 770-million baht, implemented about 12 years ago. The Minister told the media that he thought that the case had concluded a […]