Four being quizzed for allegedly helping prisoner escape from mountains
POLICE detained four suspects after searching several houses in Phatthalung for a team of people who helped a prisoner on the run escape from Banthat mountain range where a big police team chased him for weeks but ended the operation late last week due to torrential rain, Naewna newspaper said. While serving a 20 […]
Read More409 million baht in wealth owned by suspected money-laundering senator seized
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A COMBINED 409 MILLION BAHT worth of wealth owned by Senator Upakit Pachareeyangkun was today (Nov.30) impounded by the Office of the Narcotics Control Board amidst drug trafficking and money laundering charges earlier filed against him. Acting ONCB secretary-general Panurat Lakbun led a team of officials in a raid on […]
Read MorePheu Thai-led govt alleged of pushing mutually contradictory populist campaigns
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI-LED GOVERNMENT is putting forward mutually contradictory populist campaigns which will immensely increase public debt and compromise their financial and treasury disciplines, said an opposition MP today (Nov.30). Move Forward MP Nattapong Ruangpanyawudhi said the Pheu Thai-led coalition government plans to borrow a sum of 500 billion baht […]
Read MorePrayut named privy councillor
- TNR staff
- November 30, 2023
- appointment
- Chaan-o-cha
- Prayut
- Thailand
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER ARMY CHIEF/FORMER prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has been named a privy councillor after nine years of running the country. The royal gazette yesterday declared His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn has appointed Prayut as the latest member of the Privy Council headed by one of his predecessors, namely Surayud Chulanont. […]
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