Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej will press ahead with plans to rewrite the coup-sponsored constitution, setting the scene for further political confrontation.
FUEL CRISIS
Low-quality diesel from Russia will be on sale to members of cooperative organisations within 60 days and will be eight baht a litre cheaper than the present pump price.
Interior Minister Chalerm Yubamrung abruptly cut short his tour of northeastern provinces within hours of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej announcing plans to reshuffle the cabinet.
POLITICS
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has denied any irregularities in the awarding of the flood-tunnel contract when he was Bangkok governor five years ago.
The National Counter Corruption Commission is a legitimate body and its members are not required to swear allegiance when they take office, NCCC commissioner Klanarong Chanthik said yesterday.
HELP FOR THE ELDERLY
Community healthcare centres will be opened around Bangkok to help elderly people suffering from illnesses which require regular treatment.
MURDER CASE SOLVED
Missing persons cases involving "ordinary" people often go unsolved because police tend to focus on high-profile cases, two senior crime-busters say.
DRUG SUPPRESSION
Authorities are having a tough time suppressing narcotics in the North, with illegal opium poppy fields increasing but being better hidden and a new breed of high-yield poppy being grown.
The Foreign Ministry's Department of East Asian Affairs has suggested the government join the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) to manage the Preah Vihear temple to help protect the country's sovereignty.
SHARE MANIPULATION CASE
The Criminal Court has asked prosecutors to force TPI Polene Plc (TPIPL) to pay an overdue fine of 6.9 billion baht after it manipulated shares ahead of its public offering in 2004.
ONE-TWO-GO INVESTIGATION
The official result of the investigation into the One-Two-Go plane crash will be finished by the end of the month, Department of Civil Aviation deputy director-general Wuthichai Singhamanee said yesterday.
'The Bank of Thailand needs to raise interest rates in a timely manner otherwise expectations about future price increases would become self-fulfilling, causing inflation to be entrenched at a high level."
SPOTLIGHT
For more than seven years, the Administrative Court has been helping to balance society by buoying up the right and bringing down the wrong.
FAR SOUTH
NARATHIWAT: Security officers shot dead a suspected insurgent in a raid on a militant hideout in Cho Airong district yesterday.
EDITORIAL
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej asked the country to wait for several days to hear his decisions, and then he let the whole nation down yet again.
PostBag
Congratulations to the attorney-general and his office for formally filing a serious criminal lawsuit against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra ("Thaksin's troubles worsening", Bangkok Post, July 12).
InMedia
It's high time that food-producing countries joined hands to produce alternative fuel to counter the high price of crude oil.
