Kittiratt selected central bank board chair
By Naewna and Reuters – published by Yahoo!News A SEVEN-MEMBER committee independent of the Bank of Thailand today (Nov. 11) selected former deputy premier and finance minister Kittiratt Na Ranong, 66, chairman of the central bank board amid objections by hundreds of academics, members of Economics for Society group and followers of highly-revered late […]
Read MorePhumtham denies rumours of Thaksin-Hun Sen hush-hush deal on undersea scheme
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai today (Nov. 11) downplayed criticism that de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen had mutually made a secret deal over a contentious, profit-sharing undersea resources development scheme in an upper part of the Gulf of Thailand. Phumtham, […]
Read MoreFour nabbed in theft of cryptocurrency in Phuket
FOUR FOREIGNERS were rounded up by Phuket police after a Ukrainian tourist complained that they robbed him out of US$250,000 in cryptocurrency (around 8.5 million baht) after tying him up and threatening to harm him but the suspects denied doing so, TV Channel 7 said today (Nov. 11). Pol. Maj. Gen. Sinlert Sukhum, commander […]
Read MoreBlast at Pattani police station, no injuries
MOTORCYCLE-RIDING insurgents flung a pipe bomb at a Pattani police station last evening (Nov. 10) but fortunately the explosive device fell outside the building so no one got injured, Naewna newspaper said this morning. At 6.45 p.m. Thung Yang Daeng police station was alerted that two insurgents rode up on a motorcycle and parked […]
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