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Thailand Assets Examination Committee pushes for Thaksin prosecution over Burma/Myanmar loan
BANGKOK, March 31 - TNA
The Thai government’s Assets Examination Committee (AEC) plans to submit evidence to substantiate malfeasance charges against former prime minister Taksin Shinawatra involving a Bt4 billion bank loan earlier provided to fund a satellite project in Myanmar.
A Thaksin-related company received the [...]

Bad News for Chiang Mai Smog Sufferers
Bad Air Days in Chiang Mai Not Good News for Brain
The journal of Particle and Fibre Toxicology has revealed in a recent study that the human brain is adversely affected by even short exposure to diesel exhaust. A thirty minute exposure to fumes from diesel engines can induce [...]

Thailand War on Drugs | Support for drug war shows alarming ignorance
by Richard Sproat
Reply by DAVID BARKDULL
Re: “Drug policy ignores causes of addiction”, News, March 12.
by Richard Sproat
Your leader on the “war on drugs” (2003-4) made depressing reading and raised difficult questions about the responsibility of ordinary Thais. It is sobering to remember how popular [...]

Casino Gambling in Thailand
So now we may have casino gambling set loose in Kingdom. Not since the vision of nuclear power plants has corporate Thailand had the chance to embrace the prospect of free money in construction, corruption and operations on a biblical scale. Of course a gambling industry here could be a [...]