News from Thailand – Thursday, March 12, 2015
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News from Thailand – Thursday, March 12, 2015
The Nation opens the report that experts do not expect consumer spending to increase following the Bank of Thailand's interest rate cut. The interest on short-term loans was lowered by a quarter of a percent to 1,75 percent yesterday. This measure should stimulate Thailand's ailing economy. Companies that export are happy with the reduction, but as mentioned, experts expect little effect on consumer behavior and will not boost the economy: http://goo.gl/HpgyGo
Bangkok Post headlines that Narong Sahametapat, a tan official in the Ministry of Health has been transferred by order of Prayut. Colleagues and subordinates do not agree with this because the civil servant is immensely popular. Narong would not have been able to solve the financial problems facing his ministry. They arose after the introduction of the 30-baht health insurance for Thai: http://goo.gl/ynhgcz
– A court yesterday sentenced the parents of former Princess Thanpuying Srirasm Suwadee to 2,5 years in prison for lèse majesté: http://goo.gl/gzDh8D
– The Thai police arrested drug criminal Adisak Srisa-ard yesterday morning. The mafia boss is a notorious drug lord nicknamed 'Benz Thasai'. The man was caught trying to travel from Myanmar to Kanchanaburi by bus: http://goo.gl/FtkhUu
– In Pattaya, two tourists were seriously injured after a wild chase of a Thai driver who did not want to stop at a checkpoint. The two tourists were walking on the sidewalk at the Ambassador Hotel on Sukhumvit Road when the Thai's car being chased by police rocketed onto the sidewalk and hit the victims: http://goo.gl/6ImQoW
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You see them walking in the picture, Lèse majeste. Old people. It could have been your grandpa and grandma.
2.5 years in prison. They probably didn't even know what really happened at their age. Those around them have done that.
I feel sorry for them.
Justice is not justice. Justice is also in Thailand to keep the real culprits out of the wind.
Cor van Kampen.
They cannot and must not tell what really happened.
The fact that they are only convicted of this affair ten years later, and especially after their daughter has fallen from grace as crown princess is, er, remarkable.