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Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia said there was so much rot in the previous Najib government that everyone under him “became a thief”, The New Straits Times Malaysia reported on Sunday. “When Najib became a thief, everyone under him became thief. Government officers made RM200,000 a month. Where did the money come from? It
The call, accompanying the first report by UN investigators, amounts to some of the strongest language yet from UN officials who have denounced alleged human rights violations in Myanmar since a bloody crackdown began last August. Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief and
The appointment of a former senior police officer as Malaysia’s new facilitator for peace talks in southern Thailand has been strongly opposed by Nurul Izzah Anwar, a prominent politician and daughter of former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim. Taking to Twitter, she described him as a “brutal assaulter of an innocent man”. Abdul Rahim Mohd
The Airports of Thailand has accepted Mrs Waleeporn Kunan, widow of the late former SEAL member Lt-Cmdr Samarn Kunan, as an inspector attached to Suvarnabhumi international airport, in recognition of his sacrifice in the recent Tham Luang rescue operation. AOT managing director Nitinai Sirisamatthakarn said during a ceremony held at the company’s head office to
A proposal to ease political restrictions in six activities is now in the hand of Army Commander-in-Chief General Chalermchai Sitthisart who is concurrently the secretary-general of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said today. However, he admitted that he didn’t know whether the proposal would be raised for
A senior police officer has been ordered to Koh Tao island in the southern province of Surat Thani to investigate charges by a British backpacker that local police refused to accept her complaint that she had been raped and robbed of her cellphone and 3,000 baht in cash. Pol Maj-Gen Surachet Hakparn, deputy commissioner of
The National Council for Peace and Order and the Election Commission must sit down together to resolve two crucial political issues – unlocking of political restrictions and primary election, Mr Suriyasai Katasila, director of the College of Social Innovations, Rangsit University, suggested today. He pointed out that the two issues are co-related and should be
Four districts of the northeastern border province of Nakhon Phanom have been hit with floods from overflows from inland streams while water in the Mekong river continues to rise. Water in the Mekong river in front of the Nakhon Phanom Municipality office in Muang district was 12.55 metres high, only about 45 centimetres below the
Industry Minister Uttama Savanayana and Commerce Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong, who have been linked to a new political party being formed to support Prime Minister Gen Prayuth Chan-o-cha’s return to power, today dismissed a press report that they were resigning from their cabinet posts to go into politics. “I have never thought about resigning, neither at
A team of anti-corruption officials are in Phu Rua district of the northeastern province of Loei today to investigate an allegation of massive land grab in which land certificates issued in another place were used in the issuance of land certificates in the district. Altogether 63 plots, covering 2,777 rai of mostly mountainous land in
The Appeals Court has rejected the request of Itallian-Thai Development Pcl chief executive officer Premchai Karnasuta to have the panther hunting case transferred from Thong Phaphum provincial court to the Region 7 Corruption Court. The ruling of the president of the Appeals Court was read by a sitting judge of Thong Phaphum provincial court in
Deputy Prime Minister Chatchai Sarikulya is optimistic that Thailand will be removed from the IUU (illegal, unreported, unregulated) fishery watchlist after the scheduled arrival in Thailand in late September or early October of a delegation from the European Union to assess Thailand’s performance in addressing IUU problem. General Chatchai said that Thailand has made progress
Over 53 percent of the respondents in an opinion survey conducted by Suan Dusit Poll do not believe that the police proposal to steeply increase fines and imprisonment on drivers without driving licenses will not solve traffic problem. They say the police proposal doesn’t address the root cause of the problem and blame the chronic
Carrying little green flags or tying green ribbons on the handles of their bicycles or crash helmets, hundreds of opponents against the Doi Suthep housing project of judges and judicial officials rallied at Tha Pae city gate of the northern province of Chiang Mai today to demand a clear commitment from the government as to
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha this morning presided over a ceremony to launch the construction of Thailand’s first two monorail electric train routes which are scheduled to be open for services in 2021. The two electric train routes are the Pink Line (Khae Rai-Min Buri) and the Yellow Line (Lat Phrao-Samrong). Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, Bangkok
Chiang Mai residents who are against judges’ housing project at Doi Suthep foothill plan to demonstrate at the Tha Pae town’s gate in the northern city on Sunday as a show of force to demand the return of the land back to Mother Nature. One group of about 20 opponents against the housing project, the
