Bangkok governor candidate Chuwit Kamolvisit yesterday insisted he is still fit for the top job at City Hall despite brutally assaulting Channel 3 news anchorman Visarn Dilokwanich.
MELAMINE CONTAMINATION
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday blocked Dutch Mill Co's attempt to return milk powder to its suppliers in China until it gets the results of lab tests for melamine contamination.
Four Por Teck Tung Foundation workers were wounded in the latest scuffle between private rescue agencies over territorial rights in Bang Bon district on Wednesday night.
BURI RAM WOMEN
BURI RAM : Foreigners married to local women in Buri Ram generate a capital inflow to the country of 230 million baht a year, according to a recent survey.
REPORTER'S MURDER
Police are expected to make an arrest soon over the murder of a Matichon newspaper reporter in Suphan Buri last weekend, according to provincial governor Somsak Phusrisak.
HEAVY DOWNPOURS
Compensation payments to flood victims will be made swiftly, says Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, though satellite photos will be used to make sure claims are legitimate.
JONGSUTHANAMANEE FAMILY
CHIANG RAI : The waning political clout of the influential Jongsuthanamanee clan was further eroded yesterday with the posting of an order from the bankruptcy court for the seizure of their assets.
The following excerpt is from yesterday's heated exchange between TV host Visarn Dilokwanich and city governor candidate Chuwit Kamolvisit on Channel 3's Thiangwan Tan Hetkarn (Updates at Noon). Mr Chuwit assaulted Mr Visarn after the show.
Four leaders of parliament will meet for extraordinary talks today to discuss political reform and the need for public input in the process if the turmoil is to end.
NEWS Think
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's meeting with Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda is part of the new premier's attempts to give his government a fresh lease on life.
A petition to replace the 2007 constitution with the 1997 version, nullified by the coup, was accepted yesterday by House Speaker Chai Chidchob, who has put it on the agenda for the next meeting of parliament.
EDITORIAL
It was indeed a historic court ruling. But much still needs to be done to save ethnic migrant workers from slave-like working conditions in Thailand.
The European Union has over the last few months frequently made known its concern over the political situation in Thailand.
COMMENTARY
Paul Newman taught me how to peel a cucumber. My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.
LET IT BE
Money is illusion, rice and fish are real (nguen thong pen khong maya, khao pla pen khong jing) - these are the famous wise words of a former Thai minister of agriculture, Prince Sithiporn Kridakorn.
The US Food and Drug Administration has just banned 30 drugs from India's giant Ranbaxy Laboratories because of quality fears but the move is long overdue and Ranbaxy continues to supply the developing world with other drugs that are not checked for quality.
In Brief
AIRLINE Twenty-one passengers and 11 crew members on a China Airlines flight were injured when the aircraft hit turbulence on a journey to Thailand yesterday.
Post Bag
After reading the front-page article, ''FDA says milk powder tainted'' (Bangkok Post, Sept 30), my first question to Mr Thirayuth (managing director of Dutch Mill, with 35 years' experience in food technology), or any food supplier, would not be, ''Is the amount of melamine in your food products safe to consume?'' It would be: ''What is melamine doing in your food products in the first place?''
In Media
By voting down the proposed $700 billion financial bailout package, a majority of members in the US House of Representatives sent a clear statement that they didn't want to let American taxpayers pay for the failures of financial institutions.
