Army chief sceptical ofceasefire
Army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda has refused to give credence to the surprise ceasefire announcement by three Muslim men claiming to control 11 insurgent groups operating in the restive southern border provinces.
PREAH VIHEAR TEMPLE
Members of the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) yesterday clashed with a group of local people in Si Sa Ket who set up tents to block them from heading to the Preah Vihear temple.
Academics and peace advocates yesterday expressed serious doubts over the ceasefire announcement made by a group of men claiming to be southern insurgent leaders.
MORNING MARKET
Surao Klong Nung road in Bangkok's Klong Sam Wa district has become a haven for casual workers, mainly from the northeastern provinces.
Fate has played cruel tricks on her throughout the past six years, but a 10-year-old Burmese girl finally had some luck when she was rescued from a Burmese couple who treated her as slave labour.
MEDICAL COUNCIL
The right kidney of a 43-year-old woman, which she suspected had been stolen, was not missing but shrinking, the Medical Council said yesterday.
A young boy was found dead while playing an online computer game at a shop in Bang Kapi district yesterday.
NEWSThink
The recent changing of the guard in the Democrat party has taken its toll on party unity and the cracks may not heal in time for the next election.
NONTHABURI : People who packed the government-organised cheap goods fair in Bangkok yesterday say it failed to deliver on its promise of a bargain.
CABINET RESHUFFLE
NAKHON RATCHASIMA : Three of the cabinet ministers who are expected to lose their portfolios in the coming reshuffle say they are resigned to their fate.
VESTED INTERESTS
The Election Commission has set up two sub-committees to investigate the shareholdings of MPs and senators in media firms and state concessionaires that might be unconstitutional.
BUDDHIST HOLIDAYS
The rising cost of living did not prevent Buddhists from making merit and attending religious ceremonies in their home provinces on the Asarnha Bucha and Buddhist Lent holidays, which started yesterday.
COMMENTARY
Because its name is the sum of all things foul, fetid and disgusting, it was only natural that the monitor lizards, Tua Hia in Thai, were the first to portend the signs. Usually shy, the monitor lizards were spotted mating in public in broad daylight by the moat near the parliament building not too long ago. This highly unusual display of intimacy was captured and splashed across newspapers the following day.
LET IT BE
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Surapong Suebwonglee, MD, a medical doctor by training and economist by chance, finally emerged with a clear, simple and right-to-the-point, short-term economic relief package which was announced on Tuesday.
METRO
Measures to turn people away from selling and drinking alcohol are expected to yield tangible results over Buddhist Lent period, which begins today and will end on Oct 14.
EDITORIAL
Chaiya Sasomsab, the former health minister, may wish and hope all he wants. But Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej should know better and realise that the return of Mr Chaiya - disqualified by the Constitution Court for breaching assets declaration rules - to the cabinet would be a slap in the face of the rule of law and a blemish on his impending Samak II cabinet.
PostBag
The current hoohah over the border temple of Khao Phra Viharn is an unnecessary disaster and by far the biggest loser is Thailand.
InMedia
The government should be applauded for introducing a new economic assistance programme for the poor. Bread-and-butter issues are now more important than other problems besetting the government.
WTO RULING
Thailand has welcomed a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling upholding a decision which found against United States anti-dumping duties imposed on shrimp exports to the US.
