Thailand and Cambodia will hold an urgent meeting of the General Border Committee (GBC) on Monday to defuse the growing tension over the listing of the old Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage site.
POLITICS
The government's attempt to rewrite the constitution will widen social divisions, say the army and air force chiefs who were behind the Sept 19, 2006 coup.
CABINET RESHUFFLE
Chaiya Sasomsab would like to return as health minister in the cabinet reshuffle.
SAHAVIRIYA SMELTER
Sahaviriya Steel Group has been told to provide more details on how it plans to reduce the impact of the giant new plant it plans to build in Bang Saphan district in Prachuap Khiri Khan.
City Hall's inquiry found no irregularities in the awarding of the flood-tunnel contract which a Japanese firm claims it won by bribing officials during the tenure of then governor Samak Sundaravej.
ECONOMIC AID PACKAGE
Labour unions are demanding that the government explain how it plans to financially cushion the state enterprises providing free water and electricity under the latest economic aid package.
UNIVERSITY HAZING
A university freshman died from brain injuries after receiving a blow to his head from a hard object, an autopsy has found.
POLITICS
The Election Commission (EC) yesterday resolved to ask the Constitution Court to decide whether Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej hosting TV programmes had breached the charter.
People's Alliance for Democracy leader and Democrat MP Somkiat Pongpaiboon yesterday surrendered to police to hear a lese majeste charge levelled against him by a People Power party member.
PREAH VIHEAR TEMPLE
Academics and experts called on the government to oppose the resolution of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) on Preah Vihear temple since the temple perimeter still overlaps the disputed area between Thailand and Cambodia.
Supreme Commander Boonsrang Niempradit has warned soldiers to remain neutral despite the ongoing conflicts between different political parties.
"Cars have disappeared from Bangkok streets for months," a taxi driver told me. At the moment, unless something special is going on, the condition known as the notorious Bangkok traffic gridlock no longer happens, he said.
COMMENTARY
As a political showdown between the pro- and anti-Thaksin camps approaches, one thing is clear. Whoever wins, it will not make much difference to people on the ground.
POWER GAMES
Having been pushed into a corner for two weeks, the People Power party has now turned the tables on the Democrats.
Just when it appeared as if the government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was down and out, it has retaken the offensive and thereby upped the ante in Thailand's winner-takes-all political drama.
EDITORIAL
The "six months, six measures" economic package announced Tuesday by the government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej will without doubt be welcomed by the poor and those in the middle-income bracket.
PostBag
I dislike Mr Samak for many reasons, but I think these economic relief measures for the poor are a brilliant political move, even if the intention is to buy their votes. What I don't understand is why other groups (e.g. the last military government) don't seem to want to buy their votes.
InMedia
Why can't politicians settle their problems inside parliament?
INBrief
SA KAEO :Cambodian authorities will wait for the Supreme Court's verdict on the charge of corruption against veteran politician Vatana Asavahame before considering whether to take action and send him back to Thailand.
REAL ESTATE
PHUKET : Title deeds to more than 10,000 rai of land on the island may have been illegally issued six years ago and could be revoked.
FAR SOUTH
Eight people, including two policemen, were injured in a series of bomb attacks in Pattani and Yala on Tuesday and yesterday, local police said.
ABOUTPolitics
The People Power party is reeling from the embarrassment of betting that its former deputy leader Yongyuth Tiyapairat, accused of buying votes in the last election, would be exonerated by the Supreme Court.
