Karen warlord vows to end all call centers in Myawaddy this month
Leader of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), Saw Chit Thu, vowed today to stamp out all Chinese-run scam call centres in Myanmar’s Myawaddy border township within this month.
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Leader of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), Saw Chit Thu, vowed today to stamp out all Chinese-run scam call centres in Myanmar’s Myawaddy border township within this month.
Chinese Assistant Minister for Public Safety Liu Zhongyi is scheduled to meet the leader of the Karen Border Force (BGF), Saw Chit Thu, in Myawaddy township today, to discuss cooperation on the suppression of scam call centres in Myanmar border towns and the rescue of victims of human trafficking.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is visiting the southern provinces of Phatthalung and Songkhla today and tomorrow and is scheduled to hold a mobile cabinet meeting tomorrow at Prince of Songkhla University in Hat Yai district.
The opposition People’s party will submit a motion to opposition whips today, seeking a no-confidence debate against individual ministers, with the expectation that the motion will be forwarded to the House Speaker by February 27th.
The Criminal Court has granted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra permission to leave Thailand to attend an ASEAN meeting in Brunei on February 18th and 19th, at the invitation of ASEAN chair, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has sent notifications to 44 former MPs of the now defunct Move Forward party, asking them to report to the commission to acknowledge charges of ethical misconduct for advocating amendments to the lèse majesté law, or Section 112 of the Criminal Code.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra called an urgent meeting this afternoon with heads of security agencies, including commanders of the three armed forces and the police chief, to assess the situation in Myawaddy township, which is facing a critical shortage of fuel.
Nearly all who cross the Thai border into Myanmar do so knowingly and intentionally to work in scam call centres, claimed Pol Gen Thatchai Pitaneelaboot, chief of the police’s Anti-Human Trafficking Centre, today.
Today’s joint sitting of the House and Senate, to debate two proposed constitutional amendment bills, collapsed due to the lack of a quorum again.
Prof Pirongrong Ramasoota is not the first member of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to be sued by big business in her role as a regulator.
The bid, by the ruling Pheu Thai and opposition People’s parties, to amend the current Constitution failed today, when the joint sitting of the Senate and House to debate two draft amendment bills collapsed due to the lack of a quorum.
The Bhumjaithai party has decided not to take part in the attempt by the Pheu Thai and People’s parties to amend Section 256 of the Constitution and to insert a new chapter 15/1, to pave the way for a charter drafting assembly to write a new constitution.