Supreme Commander Gen Boonsrang Niempradit has urged people protesting in Si Sa Ket over the Preah Vihear temple controversy not to escalate the tensions with Cambodia after three Thais crossed into the disputed border area.
CRIME
A woman factory worker lodged a complaint with police yesterday over suspicions her right kidney had been stolen during surgery to remove an ovarian cyst two years ago.
POVERTY
The government has introduced a new 47-billion-baht economic assistance programme, which critics labelled a ploy to lift its popularity ahead of fresh polls.
DAMS' ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
KANCHANABURI : The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) has agreed to pay an energy tax in Kanchanaburi province to compensate for the negative impact of its three dams.
The government's six-point package to offset the financial suffering of the poor has drawn mixed reactions from people around the country.
PREAH VIHEAR JOINT COMMUNIQUE
The National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) yesterday resolved to consider criminal actions against the Samak Sundaravej cabinet that failed to seek parliamentary approval for its joint communique related to the Preah Vihear temple listing.
The government should suspend its charter amendment bid until a special parliamentary committee completes its study of the 2007 constitution, said committee chairman Kramol Thongthammachart yesterday.
NEWSThink
It comes as no surprise that the name of Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, a former army chief, has been floated as a candidate for defence minister in the coming cabinet shake-up.
POLITICS
The Democrat party's general assembly voted in a major change in its executive line-up yesterday with the number of board members being slashed from 49 to just 19.
Claims by the People Power party (PPP) that opposition MPs could be impeached for holding shares in media firms was a desperate bid to survive, Democrat party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday.
The emergency decree and new security law will achoeve nothing if law enforcement authorities continue to trample on human rights and use an underhand approach in dealing with southern strife, says a political scientist at Pattani-based Prince of Songkla University.
BEHIND THE News
The aftershocks of the Preah Vihear controversy dominated the cabinet meeting yesterday when Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej named the Thai delegates to the meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).
Deputy Prime Minister Sahas Banditkul has been picked to lead the Thai delegation to the forthcoming Asean ministerial meeting in Singapore, deputy government spokeswoman Suparat Nakboonnam said yesterday.
KLONG DAN CASE
It is the responsibility of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) to see to it that veteran politician Vatana Asavahame, who is reportedly on the run in Cambodia, is brought back for trial, permanent secretary for justice Kittipong Kittiyarak said yesterday.
GRADES FOR SEX
Thammasat University yesterday fired the engineering lecturer who was accused in April of asking a female student to perform oral sex on him in exchange for a better grade.
EDITORIAL
For the second time, the Transport Ministry's controversial proposal to rent for 10 years 6,000 buses - NGV-fuelled and equipped with air-conditioning, GPS navigation and e-ticketing systems - has been put on hold by the cabinet.
COMMENTARY
The recent disarray arising from the removal and reinstatement of Apinan Sumanaseni as president of Thai Airways International (THAI), all in a matter of hours, is only the tip of the iceberg.
The scenic Pha Mo E-Daeng, a cliff opposite the Dongrek mountains where the Preah Vihear ruins sit, was noisy on Sunday.
COMMENTARY
The vast majority of drivers in Bangkok are absolutely unaware that pedestrians have the right of way on a zebra crossing.
PostBag
It is interesting to see the nationalist hysteria being evoked over the listing of the Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site, an action which has no effect on the existing border demarcation between Cambodia and Thailand, and which so far has not caused any injuries or deaths.
InMedia
The problem I raise today is very serious because it affects the safety and security of law-abiding citizens.
INBrief
LEASING PROPOSAL :The controversial plan to lease 6,000 NGV-fuelled bus was yesterday withdrawn from the cabinet agenda for the second time in a month.
