News from Thailand – Friday, March 20, 2015
A selection of today's most important Thai news, including:
– Yingluck hopes for a fair trial
– Government already withdraws plan for investments in forestry
– Tourism in Thailand on the rise thanks to growth in the number of Chinese tourists
– Two derailments cause inconvenience to train passengers
– Three brothers of former princess jailed for 5,5 years
News from Thailand – February 20, 2015
A selection of today's most important Thai news, including:
– Yingluck will not flee despite an unfair criminal trial
– Former Abbot Dhammachayo possibly expelled from monastic order
– Possession and distribution of child pornography tackled harshly with new law
– Government House meeting on energy auction
– Swedish tourist (54) in Rayong drinks himself to death in a hotel room
News from Thailand – January 10, 2015
A selection of today's most important Thai news, including:
– Watch seller stabs Russian tourist in Pattaya.
– Pay mobile telephone costs per second from March.
– Jet ski rental company in Pattaya mistreats Swedish tourist.
– Thai children would like a tablet computer as a gift.
– Chinese tourist falls into a coma while swimming and dies.
News from Thailand – January 8, 2015
A selection of today's most important Thai news, including:
– 'Trial against Yingluck will increase divisions in the country'.
– Redshirts waive protests today and tomorrow.
– A lot of rain in Bangkok causes traffic jams and collisions.
– 50 people in Pattaya arrested for street prostitution.
Yingluck case: Anti-corruption commission keeps its leg stiff
We have done enough, says the National Anti-Corruption Commission on the demand of the prosecution to provide more evidence against Prime Minister Yingluck, whom she accuses of dereliction of duty. After four months of negotiations, the matter is still deadlocked.
News from Thailand – November 24, 2014
Today in News from Thailand:
• Violence in the South claimed 11 victims in 18.206 years
• Former Prime Minister Yingluck expected a coup
• Egat advocates the construction of more coal-fired power plants
News from Thailand – November 8, 2014
Today in News from Thailand
• Five capitals join forces: 'Five Cities – One Destination'
• Severe weather is coming in the South of Thailand
• Army has 'good conversation' with activists and Pheu Thai members
The hunt for Prime Minister Yingluck
Bangkok Post opens today with an almost full-page article about – let me call it – the hunt for former Prime Minister Yingluck. The National Anti-Corruption Commission is taking two paths to get its act together.
Citizens are the child of the bill
The mortgage system for rice, which was debunked by the previous government, has saddled the country with a debt of at least 800 billion baht. It is right, writes the Bangkok Post, that then Prime Minister Yingluck is being held accountable.
News from Thailand – October 22, 2014
Today in News from Thailand:
• Bodies of missing Koreans found in speedboat wreck
• NRC members do not have to expose their financial buttocks
• Restaurant in Lamphun serves crocodile from the barbecue
Dereliction of duty Yingluck: Anti-corruption commission fights on
The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is not deterred by the decision of the Public Prosecution Service not (yet) to prosecute former Prime Minister Yingluck for dereliction of duty. The Public Prosecution Service considers the evidence submitted by the NACC to be insufficient. The NACC disputes that. “We are satisfied with our evidence. It's rock hard and solid.'
Rice mortgage system: Yingluck escape the dance (?)
Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is not (yet) prosecuted for dereliction of duty. The prosecutor's office finds the evidence collected by the anti-corruption commission (NACC) about corruption in the rice mortgage system too thin.
News from Thailand – August 10, 2014
Today in News from Thailand:
• 'Tortured' Krissuda suspected of illegal possession of weapons
• Man (56) stabs mother (80) to death and calls police
• Railways sidelined by expansion of the railway network
News from Thailand – August 6, 2014
Today in News from Thailand:
• Police hunt for motorists calling on the phone
• Lawyer: Yingluck comes back from vacation
• Marineman develops bulletproof life jacket
Yingluck: Does she or doesn't she?
Will former Prime Minister Yingluck return next month to answer for her role as chair of the National Rice Policy Committee? There is a lot of speculation about that now that she has left for a three-week vacation.
News from Thailand – July 21, 2014
Today in News from Thailand:
• Governor: Chiang Mai is no longer red or yellow, but green
• Poll: Yingluck not returning from vacation, say 41 pc
• Asean urges independent investigation into plane crash
Yingluck: I'm not running
Former Prime Minister Yingluck has vowed not to flee the country now that the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has advised the Public Prosecution Service to summon her for dereliction of duty.
News from Thailand – July 9, 2014
Today in News from Thailand:
• Pattaya: Frenchman (29) kills son and commits suicide
• Devastation in rice warehouse Nakhon Si Thammarat
• Railway boss does not want to resign after murder
Junta: Thaksin, don't interfere
Former Prime Minister Thaksin has been urgently advised by the junta to stop being actively involved in politics. His supporters are also no longer allowed to visit him. And his sister Yingluck is advised to shop less.
More misery for Yingluck
The National Anti-Corruption Commission today unanimously decided to nominate Prime Minister Yingluck to the Senate for impeachment. She is also being considered for criminal prosecution for failing to act as chair of the National Rice Policy Committee.
Yingluck clears the field, but deadlock remains
The Constitutional Court, which ousted Yingluck as prime minister, may have prevented violent clashes between pro- and anti-government groups, but it has not ended the political deadlock, the Bangkok Post writes today.
The die is cast. After a thousand days, Yingluck Shinawatra's premiership has come to an end. It is also over and out for nine ministers.