Election commissioners tipped to take risk of jail over senatorial rigging conspiracy
By Thai Vista News Reporters THE ELECTION commissioners would be inclined to keep most suspects in the 2024 senatorial rigging allegations intact and unprosecuted, albeit at the risk of being finally found guilty in court on charges of duty negligence and misconduct which could possibly land themselves terms in prison, a partisan source said […]
Read MoreGiven ‘blue’ power, Newin would fear nobody: Academic
By Thai Vista News Reporters DE FACTO Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob has virtually maintained his camp so much in “blue” power and so effectively taken grips of government apparatuses plus “independent” agencies that he would ultimately have nobody in political circles to fear, according to a noted academic. Newin, largely known to direct and […]
Read MoreOver 40,000 packs of contraband cigarettes seized in Chonburi
A RAID on a distribution centre in Chonburi led to the seizure of 40,500 packs of contraband cigarettes valued at over 3.6 million with the fine reaching a whopping 38 million baht, PPTVHD36 said today (Aug. 16). Mr. Pornchai Theeravech, director-general of the Excise Department, said the raid last Thursday (Aug. 13) was led […]
Read More35 Chinese nominee companies found in Sakhon Nakhon
THE Commerce Ministry recently discovered that there have been irregularities in the registration of 35 companies in four districts of northeastern Sakon Nakhon province with unwitting Thai villagers used to set up these 100% Chinese-owned nominee firms while 14 were totally Thai owned but none were conducting any business at all at their registered […]
Read MoreThai agencies monitoring Sumatra quake as tremors were felt in southern Thailand
THE second earthquake to hit Indonesia yesterday (Aug. 15), with western Sumatra island rocked by 6.9 magnitude temblor in the evening after a powerful 7.7 magnitude quake struck eastern Flores island before dawn, was felt in southern Thailand and the Interior Minister has instructed the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) to closely […]
Read MoreSihasak optimistic as Australian diplomat is chosen to preside over Thai-Cambodian conciliation
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Foreign Affairs Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow expressed confidence in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea’s (UNCLOS’s) Conciliation Commission tasked with helping resolve a maritime dispute with Cambodia after Australian diplomat and legal expert Katrina Cooper was appointed the fifth conciliator and the chair, PPTVHD36 said this evening (Aug. 15). […]
Read MoreA single duty-negligence lawsuit needed to put election commissioners in jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A SINGLE CASE of duty-negligence charges which could probably be filed in court against the election commissioners pertaining to the 2024 senatorial rigging allegations would be simply enough to throw them in jail, former election commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn said today (Aug.15). During a seminar held at a hotel in Ayutthaya […]
Read MoreAnutin bows to Thaksin in bidding farewell after funeral service
AFTER attending the funeral service for former deputy interior minister and five-time MP Krieng Kalptinan in Ubon Ratchathani province last evening (Aug. 14) Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul walked with former prime minister Thaksin Shainawatra to his car and bade farewell by kneeling and bowing to him, Amarin TV said. Also attending the funeral service […]
Read MoreAnutin’s turboprop civilian plane given mid-air greeting by F-16 fighter jets over Korat
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT was seen as an unprecedented, aerial event, the air force today (Aug.14) commissioned a trio of F-16 fighter jets to give a mid-air greeting for Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul who literally piloted a turboprop civilian plane to visit their Wing 1 air force base in Nakhon Ratchasima. A […]
Read MoreThai-US trade talks irrelevant to Cobra Gold military exercise: PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (Aug.14) categorically denied that bilateral trade relations between the United States and Thailand would ultimately have anything to do with the Cobra Gold military exercise between the two allied countries. Anutin was apparently responding to unconfirmed speculation that the annual military exercise jointly hosted by […]
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