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Myanmar's military junta and opposition forces are fighting over control of a lucrative trade route into Thailand, with shells and aerial attacks regularly forcing children to flee their schools, teachers and a parent told AFP.
Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsuthin will attend the meeting of the Medical Council tomorrow, to explain to council members why he vetoed its May 8th resolution to suspend the medical licenses of the two Police General Hospital (PGH) doctors temporarily, said Treechada Srithada, the ministry’s spokesperson for political affairs, today.
The Thai Journalists Association (TJA) has expressed concern over the prime minister’s communications team recording and publishing images of members of the media while they were interviewing Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
About 200 members and supporters of the People and Student Network for the Reform of Thailand rallied in front of the Ministry of Public Health this morning, to offer moral support to the Medical Council, which is due to convene tomorrow regarding the upholding of its May 8th resolution to discipline three doctors involved in former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s 6-month stay at the Police General Hospital, instead of in prison.
The Cambodian government has formed a high-level committee to be in charge of taking the border dispute with Thailand to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, in what was seen as a major effort to internationalise the issue.
The Thai military has eased restrictions at four border checkpoints in Sa Kaeo province, to allow about 2,000 Cambodian children, living in Thailand, to return Cambodia to attend daily classes.
Five suspects and Dr. Anchulee, a doctor at the Police General Hospital, have been taken into police custody on charges of involvement in the illegal trading of psychotropic substances
The United Thai Nation party is on the brink of breaking up, as a group of 21 MPs, led by Deputy Commerce Minister Suchart Chomklin, submitted a letter to PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Monday, demanding the ouster from the Cabinet of Deputy PM and Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga.
High on the government’s agenda is a proposal, from the army’s supreme commander, to cut cross-border electricity and internet supplies to Cambodia, in an effort to suppress call-centre scam operations based there, Deputy Defence Minister Gen Nattaphon Nakpanich said today.
As many as 630,000 students are relying on the Student Loan Fund (SLF) for their studies this academic year – but this lifeline for their futures is hanging by a thread amid a deepening financial crisis.
The US Justice Department has announced that five men have pleaded guilty to charges of helping to launder over US$36.9 million, stolen from victims of a fake digital asset investment scam that operated out of centres in Cambodia.
More deformed fish were caught by fishermen in the Kok, Sai, Ruak and Mekong rivers last month, causing concern among fishermen and consumers in Chiang Rai province about the health risk of consuming them and the condition of the water in the rivers, according to the Living River Siam Association, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection of rivers’ health.
Crime Suppression Division officers have shut down an online weapons trafficking ring that delivered firearms by courier and mail, arresting twelve suspects and confiscating 23 weapons, along with more than 31,000 rounds of ammunition.
Former prime minister Suchinda Kraprayoon died today in Phra Mongkutklao Military Hospital. He was 91. Details of his funeral are yet to be announced.
14,716 new COVID-19 cases, including nine fatalities, were recorded between June 3rd and 9th, bringing the total infections this year to 420,937, including 112 deaths, according to the Department of Disease Control.
Israeli forces intercepted a Gaza-bound aid boat on Monday, preventing the activists on board -- including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg -- from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.
