Musician Prachathip Musikapong, son of red-shirt leader Veerakan Musikapong, fell to death from the ninth floor of a condominium in Bangkok late Wednesday. His body was found on a fourth-floor balcony at about 11.30pm July 29 and a failed love life was believed to be behind the apparent suicide. Read more: Bangkok Post
RELATIVES of people killed in the 2010 crackdown gathered at the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) Monday to demand justice. Many held up signs with messages such as “The dead still await justice”. The group also handed in a letter listing their demands. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
The Criminal Court Thursday sentenced a man to two years in jail for allegedly renting his flat to a red-shirt activist to install equipment used to allegedly scramble radio frequencies of the Office of the Maritime Promotion Commission. The owner of the room, Theerapat Bunpa and red-shirt activist Chinnawat Habunpad were charged with colluding to […]
BANGKOK – Bangkok’s central administrative court has permitted a Redshirt-run television station to return to the air while the court deliberates on whether a stage agency’s order to shut down the channel was lawful. Peace TV’s license was revoked in April by Thailand’s media regulatory board, the National Broadcasting Telecommunication Commission (NBTC). Read more: khaosodenglish.com […]
BANGKOK — A martial court has reversed its ruling to allow a single mother to be released on bail while she awaits trial for allegedly spreading a rumor about junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha. Police say Rinda Paruechabutr, 45, started a spurious rumor on social media that Gen. Prayuth had transferred 10 billion baht to an […]
A 45-year-old suspect who is a member of the redshirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship was apprehended by soldiers in Pathumthani province last night. She was accused of being the first person who spread rumours that the prime minister and wife had wired tens of billions of baht to Singapore. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
BANGKOK — Junta chairman Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha has asserted that a fugitive Redshirt activist wanted by Thai authorities for insulting the monarchy is no longer Thai. “Since he fled this country to another, it shows that he is no longer a Thai person and he cannot stay in Thailand,” Gen. Prayuth said. Read more: khaosodenglish.com
BANGKOK — Politicians from Thailand’s two rival political camps have been asked by the military junta to attend a forum on its national reform efforts this Friday. Officials say the politicians were invited by the junta’s reform-promoting agency, the Center for Reconciliation and Reform (CRR), which has organized several forums in the past for prominent […]
