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TomGovt acts on Ramadan violence
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 31, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
The government has approved additional funds and assigned Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung to help devise ways to solve the southern unrest in the wake of increasing attacks during the Muslim holy month of more...
Killer cops face execution
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 31, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
Three police officers were sentenced to death yesterday for the 2004 murder of a 17-year-old during the Thaksin Shinawatra government's war on drugs. execution more...
Thai weightlifter wins silver medal
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 30, 2012 | 11:28 pm | 0 Comment
LONDON : An heroic effort by 58kg weightlifter Pimsiri Sirikaew earned a 2012 Olympic silver medal on Monday night, with a second Thai barely missing out on more...
Army chief slams Pattani police for leaked pictures
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 30, 2012 | 4:47 pm | 0 Comment
Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha has slammed Pattani police for leaking the dramatic CCTV footage of Saturday's lethal attack on an army patrol to the media, saying it will only encourage insurgent more...
BJT looking for new leader
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 30, 2012 | 4:31 pm | 0 Comment
Key figures of the Bhumjaithai Party will have to look for a new leader now that Chavarat Charnvirakul has shown his intention of relinquishing the position, party spokesman Supachai Jaisamut said on Monday. Chavarat more...
Death sentence for three killer cops
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 30, 2012 | 2:07 pm | 0 Comment
Three sacked police officers were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court on Monday for the premeditated murder of a teenage boy in Kalasin in 2004 during the Thaksin Shinwatra government's ruthless war on drugs. Death more...
Power cut hits 300 million in India
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 30, 2012 | 1:48 pm | 0 Comment
A massive power cut blacked out a vast swathe of northern India Monday, leaving an estimated 300 million people without power in the worst outage in more than a decade, officials more...
Forces scour South for attackers
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 30, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
A combined force of hundreds of police, soldiers and civilian officials has been deployed to go after 13 armed militants who remain at large after unleashing a barrage of bullets at six soldiers patrolling on motorcycles in Pattani's Mayo district on Saturday more...
Forces scour South for attackers
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 30, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
A combined force of hundreds of police, soldiers and civilian officials has been deployed to go after 13 armed militants who remain at large after unleashing a barrage of bullets at six soldiers patrolling on motorcycles in Pattani's Mayo district on Saturday morning. Thailand more...
Northeast to get fiscal boost
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 30, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
SURIN : Northeastern provinces are expected to embrace a new economic stimulus and welcome a wide range of projects to be proposed at a cabinet meeting in Surin more...
Rice numbers do not add up
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 30, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
A think tank has asked the government to clarify the origins of 3.3 million tonnes of rice sold in the market now on suspicions they were more...
Saylom drops controversial decision
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 29, 2012 | 8:39 pm | 0 Comment
LONDON : Gani Zhailauov of Kazakhstan won a controversial first-round fight over Saylom Ardee in Olympics lightweight (60kg) boxing on Sunday night. Saylom more...
Al-Qaeda leader held
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 29, 2012 | 7:54 pm | 0 Comment
MANILA : Philippine authorities have arrested a founding member of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group blamed for carrying out or helping some of the worst terror attacks in the region, security officials said on Sunday. al more...
Chuvit: Duang move
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 29, 2012 | 6:00 pm | 0 Comment
Outspoken MP Chuvit Kamolvisit on Sunday branded the transfer of Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung's youngest son Duang, who was once discharged but reinstated as an army lieutenant, to a new position in the Metropolitan Police Bureau as a “conflict of interest” and an insult to more...
Thailand:Ambush in South kills four soldiers
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 29, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
PATTANI : About 16 armed militants on board three pickup trucks unleashed a barrage of bullets at six soldiers patrolling on motorcycles in Mayo district Saturday morning, killing four of them instantly. Thailand more...
Thaksin makes a fortune on Hong Kong mansion
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 29, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
The Shinawatra family has been enjoying more than birthday cake in Hong Kong with revelations that a property deal there netted the clan a 75 million baht more...
Demolition men in night forest raid
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 29, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
NAKHON RATCHASIMA : A 3,300-strong army of demolition men stormed a national park under the cover of darkness yesterday and destroyed nine resorts that authorities claim encroached on the forest reserve. Forest more...
Khamsri Panida falls at first hurdle
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 28, 2012 | 11:38 pm | 0 Comment
LONDON : Thailand's first medal chance slipped through the fingers of Panida Khamsri Saturday night when she had to drop out of the weightlifting more...
Govt backs down over rice prices
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 28, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
The government is set to retreat from its vow to unconditionally guarantee rice prices amid allegations of corruption and soaring more...
Sukumpol produces ‘evidence’
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 28, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
Defence Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat reaffirmed his allegation that Abhisit Vejjajiva's exemption from military service could have been unlawfully more...
Royal support for Thai Olympic athletes
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 28, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
LONDON: A giant bell rang out Friday to start an unusual opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics as sheep, geese and cows frolicked on the Stadium floor. Thai more...
‘The greatest show on Earth’
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 28, 2012 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II opened the London Olympics early Saturday as Britain celebrated its rich culture and heritage in a spectacular more...
Taliban target Myanmar
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 27, 2012 | 10:40 pm | 0 Comment
ISLAMABAD : The Pakistani Taliban Thursday threatened to attack Myanmar to avenge crimes against the Muslim Rohingya, unless Pakistan halts all relations with the Naypyidaw government and shuts the Myanmar embassy in more...
Bank of Thailand – Interest rate could ease further
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 27, 2012 | 4:48 pm | 0 Comment
Interest rates could ease further, despite the Bank of Thailand's decision to keep its benchmark interbank rate unchanged at 3.0 per cent, BoT governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul said on Friday. Bank of more...
Sudarat: Time not right for ‘unity’ bills
By Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories at July 27, 2012 | 4:36 pm | 0 Comment
Now is not the right time for the parliament to deliberate the reconciliation bills because it could lead to political turmoil, former MP Sudarat Keyuraphan, a member House No11, said on Friday. Sudarat more...
