CRIME
SAMUT PRAKAN : Two armed robbers held up a bank in Suvarnabhumi airport yesterday, making off with 3.3 million baht in cash following a 40-minute heist.
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has brushed aside the political threat posed by the Democrat party as he and opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva prepare to take centre stage for the no-confidence debate tomorrow.
The National Museum is taking culture to the masses by sending its mobile unit to schools, department stores and communities.
INSURGENCY
All train services to the three trouble-plagued southernmost provinces have been cancelled after insurgents boarded a train and killed four people on Saturday.
FORCED REPATRIATION
Despite recent legislation in the US aimed at stopping the forced repatriation of Hmong people from Thailand to Laos, local authorities forced a large group of the minority hilltribe people to return yesterday.
PREAH VIHEAR
The joint statement by Thailand and Cambodia backing Phnom Penh's bid to put Preah Vihear temple on the World Heritage list did not need approval from parliament, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said yesterday.
The Assets Scrutiny Committee (ASC) has admitted that it is highly likely all the corruption investigation cases against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his cabinet will collapse due to the questionable constitutionality of the 2007 charter.
AGRICULTURE
The Thai Rice Farmers Association has asked the government to look into rumours that foreign investors are secretly growing GM rice in the Central Plains.
NO-CONFIDENCE DEBATE
The Democrat party has lined up 35 speakers to grill Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and seven other ministers in the censure debate tomorrow. The People Power party-led coalition has set aside tomorrow afternoon and Wednesday for the debate. The Democrats have demanded more time.
SPACE
Thailand's Theos satellite has another chance to get into orbit now Russia has negotiated a deal with Kazakhstan to take rocket waste discharged during the launch process.
Perhaps Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej thinks it is still the 1960s. As new prime minister, he autocratically announced water diversion projects for the Mekong and Salween rivers, callously calling these international rivers ''public waters'' in the faulty belief that anyone can utilise them without repercussions.
COMMENTARY
The questions I was most often asked by friends outside media circles over the last couple of days were: When will the People's Alliance for Democracy end its anti-government protest? How will the protest end? Will there be bloodshed?
The anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) is going for the jugular. Now in its fourth week of street protests, PAD laid siege to Government House over the weekend, declaring victory but refusing to go home.
SPOTLIGHT
The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) may have many supporters, but the group also realises that their month-long street protest has irritated others. That's politics.
EDITORIAL
North Korea might say that it's better to be six months late than never. That is how long it has taken for Pyongyang to agree that it missed the deadline for declaring all its nuclear programmes. But to the annoyance of its five negotiating partners, North Korea still has not actually presented such details.
POSTBAG
I do not know where Cha-am Jamal gets his information (''Bangkok is sinking'', Postbag, June 21) but various datum around the world shows that rising sea levels is a fact.
InMedia
Contrary to public perception, Thai farmers are honest and do not want to get into debt.
