IN BRIEF
CRIMINAL COURT / The Criminal Court yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of Chucheep Cheewasuth, chairman of the Constitution Protection Club and close aide to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, on a lese majeste charge.
The warrant was approved one day after a team of Special Branch police presented photographic evidence and a tape recording of his speeches given through community radio and a website allegedly offending the royal institution.
Mr Chucheep may have fled to China, which has no joint extradition treaty with Thailand, according to a source.
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Visa fees lowered
BURMESE / Labour Minister Uraiwan Thienthong and her Burmese counterpart U Maung Myint yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to reduce visa fees levied on legal Burmese labourers from 2,000 baht to 500 baht per head.
The agreement applies only to the first batch of 10,000 workers who have provided proof of their Burmese nationality, conducted at the Burmese border towns of Kawthaung, Tachilek and Myawaddy.
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Minister's wife sues
DEFAMATION / The wife of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Surapong Suebwonglee yesterday filed a defamation suit against Manager newspaper and its website. Pranee Suebwonglee, 53, filed a complaint with police, alleging a report by the newspaper which also appeared on its website made false claims that she received ill-gotten gains from the Confidence in Thailand: Good and Cheap Products for Thais fair.
She said the report alleged that the company which organised the cheap goods fair held from Aug 13-15 at Muang Thong Thani had close links with her.
The newspaper misled its readers into believing she lacks ethics, is greedy and seeks benefits from her husband's positions, Mrs Pranee claimed.
She presented the August 20 newspaper carrying the report to police as evidence.
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Japanese wanted
NAKHON RATCHASIMA / The provincial court yesterday issued warrants for the arrest of two Japanese men for the murder of Tanahashi Takahide, 33, whose body was found dumped in Khao Yai National Park in this northeastern province.
The warrants are for Hirotoshi Mori and Uramaki Takechi.
Takahide's girlfriend told police that he disappeared from his apartment in the Ratchadaphisek area of Bangkok on Aug 5.
Eyewitnesses confirmed the two men were last seen with the victim. They left for Japan on August 8, the day the body was found.
The three men were partners in an online stock trading business. Business conflicts may be the motive for the murder, police said.
Police will send the warrants to Japanese authorities and ask them to return the men to Thailand.
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Lottery ruling
PETITION / The Central Administrative Court has started examining individuals named in a petition which calls for an injunction to be issued to stop the online lottery from being launched on Sept 17.
The petition was filed by Manas Pruengcheewa, a lawyer working for the Chanan Rattanasen law firm.
He claimed Finance Minister Surapong Suebwonglee, the Finance Ministry and the Government Lottery Office (GLO) had illegally authorised the online lottery to go ahead.
The GLO sent a representative to testify to the court yesterday. The court will hear from both parties and will notify them of any injunction by fax.
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