Thakisin’s Billions on the Chopping Block Two of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s adult children are maintaining that they held corporation shares in their own right, and their assets should be secure if the court rules that their father’s fortune should be impounded by the state. The court has finished its hearing into a grievance [...]
Feb
12
Thakisin’s Billions on the Chopping Block
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Feb
12
Weapons Transporters to Be Released
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Weapons Transporters to Be Released Thailand’s government announced on Thursday its attorney general had come to a decision to drop the case against the five member crew of an aircraft carrying sanctions-violating weapons from North Korea. “The trial here will not benefit Thailand so we have decided to drop the charges,” said Thanapich Mulapruk, a [...]
Feb
12
Funny Money Probe of Red Shirts
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Funny Money Probe of Red Shirts The Thai government is looking into stories of unexplained streams of cash from abroad amid misgivings that it could be used to inflame violence ahead of the Feb 26 judgment in the Thaksin assets case. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday said the government “has been given reports and [...]
