The unofficial results of the Bangkok governor election are expected to be announced by midnight today, City Clerk Pongsak Semsant said.
The arrest of People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) key figure Chaiwat Sinsuwong is widely seen an attempt to undermine Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh.
Licensed taxi drivers are demanding a revised fare structure and are defending their strike at Suvarnabhumi airport last Thursday.
The Criminal Court yesterday approved a police request to detain Chaiwat Sinsuwong, a leading member of the People's Alliance for Democracy, for another 12 days for questioning.
The Fourth Army will reach out more to local communities in an attempt to reduce violence in the Muslim-dominated South, commander Pichet Wisaijorn said.
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A rule is a rule and should be applied no matter where you are and what you are doing. Law students at Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University may have forgotten this, but their teacher, Pattacharin Witthaya-aneknant, hadn't.
KHON KAEN : The owner of the hotel at the centre of the Four-Mod video clip scandal has announced he is putting his property up for sale. He has also threatened to sue a senior policeman for defamation.
>>Metropolitan police arrested two suspected major drug traffickers and seized 6,000 methamphetamine pills and 11 million baht worth of assets in a sting operation in Bangkok's Yannawa district yesterday.
>>An actor was injured in a pub brawl with members of the Clash band in Prawet district in the early hours of yesterday.
>>TAK : Dozens of heavily-armed fighters from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) stormed a border village in Umphang district yesterday and attacked a local leader's house, border authorities said. The soldiers, from the 907th battalion of the DKBA, raided Mae Klong Khee village in tambon Mokro yesterday, sealing off the house of Mokro kamnan Boonlert Duanmaeklong.
The farmers look at their flooded ricefields in despair and frustration, cringing at the possibility of fresh rainstorms. They look across to the western side of the Chao Phya River, toward Suphan Buri province, with puzzlement, wondering why the farmlands on the other side of the river are suffering minimal damage from flooding and theirs are inundated.
Someone once told me, "Love means you never have to say you're sorry." My immediate reply was, "Oh, really ..."
The French. They love a good martial arts movie. The Thais, we love to go inter. Last year's hit Chaiya, about fighters in the South of Thailand beating up foreign baddies, has proved a hit in France. With the title changed to "Boxers", the action-packed film starring Akra "Golf" Amarttayakul climbed to the top of the DVD charts in August.
LOS ANGELES: A former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) _ who has already been accused of bribery connected with the Bangkok International Film Festival _ is now accused in a new scandal relating to the Thailand Elite Card project.
The Foreign Ministry yesterday protested to the Cambodian government for what it sees as aggression and a violation of Thailand's sovereignty and territorial integrity committed by Cambodian soldiers.
I was invited last weekend to join a ceremony held in honour of the teachers at the public schools in Chaiyaphum who are to retire this month. Some 300 teachers in the northeastern province have completed their civil service this year, including those who sought early retirement.
Football-mad visitors have only one place in mind when they visit Spain's capital _ the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. While some are lucky enough to be able to watch a home Primera Liga game featuring the likes of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Wesley Sneijder or Sergio Ramos in the club's famous white shirts, everyone can enjoy a trip around the stadium and museum when the team aren't playing.
When Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat announced his cabinet, critics said it was the same old case of political brokering to put hacks in key posts _ witness the return of controversial Chalerm Yubamrung as minister of public health. Critics said, only look at the square pegs in the round cabinet holes like, well, the human lightning rod Mr Chalerm as minister of public health.
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat
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