BANGKOK, Dec 9 – Thailand’s former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday testified to police on the last year’s crackdown on Red Shirt protesters, saying he was unperturbed over police questioning. Mr Abhisit, now opposition leader, appeared at Metropolitan Police headquarters after the investigator summoned him to give information as a witness on his government’s […]
BANGKOK, Dec 8 – Thailand’s former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Thursday testified to police on the alleged crackdown on Red Shirt protesters last year, saying he was unperturbed over the case. Mr Suthep, who supervised national security in the Abhisit Vejjajiva administration, directed the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES), […]
Indian authorities today declared an intent to force web companies to screen content for “offensive” and “blasphemous material”. The move follows failed talks yesterday with Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. Communications Minister Kapil Sibal says “My aim is that insulting material never gets uploaded”, and that web firms “will have to give us the data, […]
BANGKOK, Dec 2 – Opposition Democrat party leader and former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday postponed his testimony to police on his government’s crackdown against Red Shirt protesters during April-May last year, saying he needed more time to prepare documents. Speaking to reporters before leaving for Sukhothai province, 400 km north of the […]
The Metropolitan Police Bureau will question former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban over the deaths of red shirt protesters last year. Bangkok police chief Winai Thongsong said yesterday both would be interrogated because they were involved in the crackdowns on the protesters. Read more: Bangkok Post
The Office of the Narcotics Control Board of Thailand aims to arrest 10,000 blacklisted drug dealers in one year and get 400,000 drug addicts into rehabilitation programmes. Presenting the policy to the board’s executives yesterday, secretary-general Pol General Adul Sangsingkaew said the urgent mission was to propel forward the National Command Centre for Drugs strategy. […]
CHIANG RAI, Sept 25 – Thai Police arrested a suspected member of a major drug network in the North, two suspected drug traffickers in the capital and a suspected drug smuggler in Phuket. Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung and Acting national police chief Pol Gen Priewpan Damapong informed a news conference on Sunday of the […]
BANGKOK: Thailand’s new Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is mobilising a crackdown on illegal drugs as a United Nations agency reveals a massive increase in the production and use of amphetamines across Asia. The crackdown comes eight years after a “war on drugs” overseen by Ms Yingluck’s older brother Thaksin Shinawatra during which almost 3000 Thais […]
