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Chiang Mai provincial administration and a network of civic groups opposing the Doi Suthep housing project for judges and officials of Region 5 Appeals Court agreed at a meeting today that the 45 housing units for judges must be immediately vacated. As for those who are still staying at a nine-unit condominium building, the meeting
Action Coalition for Thailand (Ruam Palang Prachachart Thai) party co-founder Suthep Thuagsuban on Thursday urged the National Anti-Corruption Commission to have the corruption against him sent to the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Offices. The former leader of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee was accused of malfeasance while in office in connection
YANGON (Reuters) – Facebook has been “too slow” to address hate speech in Myanmar and is acting to remedy the problem by hiring more Burmese speakers and investing in technology to identify problematic content, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The acknowledgement came a day after a Reuters investigation showed why the company
Interior Minister gen Anupong Paochinda on Thursday came to the defence of his son after the latter’s name appeared on a list of appointments with the Phuket governor to discuss garbage management deals. He said he had asked his son, Yutthapong, about the reported appointment with the Phuket governor and was told that his son
It has been a rough year for the lira and the Turkish economy in general, despite logging a 7.4 percent growth rate in 2017. Omer Kablan looks at how the lira got to its current position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=142&v=j_n-Lychxhc Cr : TRTWORLD
Panya Yingdung, better known as “Sia Uan Bang La”, a suspect in the murder of his girlfriend and her companion on July 29 at the Khao Chee Chan mountain cliff with a Buddha carving in Chon Buri’s Sattahip district, has been arrested in Cambodia, deputy police chief Chalermkiat Srivorakhan confirmed this morning. Mr Panya, 39,
As tropical storm “Bebinca” is approaching Vietnam, 36 provinces in the North, Northeast, East and South have been warned to brace for intensive rain and isolated terrential downpours during Aug 16-1, according to the Meteorological Department’s latest weather forecast this morning. At 4 am this morning, tropical storm “Bebinca” was 400 kilometres northeast of Hanoi,
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Two women charged with murdering the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un must answer for their role in a well-planned conspiracy, a Malaysian judge said on Thursday, but added that the evidence did not prove a political assassination. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong, a Vietnamese, face
The Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases has accepted for further trials two cases filed by the prosecutors against seven monks and three lay persons in connection with an alleged embezzlement of temple development funds. The two senior monks indicted by the prosecutors in the first case are the former Phra Phrom Dilok, the
GENOA, Italy (Reuters) – Italian rescuers searched for survivors among towering slabs of concrete wreckage in Genoa on Wednesday after a bridge collapse killed 39 people and sparked a furious government reaction against the viaduct’s operator. The 50-year-old bridge, part of a toll motorway linking the port city of Genoa with southern France, collapsed during
All large- and medium-sized dams in the country are discharging water as planned in preparing to take more rainwater expected to be brought about by tropical storm “Bebinca”, Office of National Water Resources (ONWR) director-general Somkiat Prajamwong said on Wednesday. He said special attention is now on Kaeng Krachan dam in Phetchaburi, Srinagarind and Vajiralongkorn
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A Malaysian court will decide on Thursday whether to continue hearing a case against two women charged with the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, or acquit. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong, a Vietnamese, could face the death penalty on charges of murdering
The Cambodia’s National Election Commission on Wednesday announced the official results of the July 29 general elections that shows the ruling Cambodian People’s Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen sweeping all the 125 seats in the National Assembly, The Phnom Penh Post Online reported. The CPP won a total of 4,889,113 votes or 76 percent
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has announced the formation of a 17-member National Anti-Corruption Committee to fight the scourge of corruption in government bureaucracy. The new anti-graft body is dominated by active and former senior military officers who make up NCPO and include members of the private sector who have been involved
Former activist monk, Phra Buddha Issara, was released on bail from Bangkok special prison on late Wednesday night. A white van with the former abbot of Wat Or Noi on board was seen leaving the prison at about 9.20 pm. It was not known where the van was headed. About 50 followers of the former
The appointment of the five new members of the Election Commission, whose main task is to prepare for the first post-coup general elections expected next year, has been given a royal approval. HM the King has issued a Royal Command approving the appointment of Itthiporn Boonprakong as the EC chairman and four others as EC
