Global financial watchdog adds Thailand to its 'grey list' Published: 17/02/2012 at 06:21 PM Online news: Security Thailand has been named a "high risk" jurisdiction by the global Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for its failure to take sufficient steps to guard against money la

Published: 15/02/2012 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News BangkokPost A wildlife activist has claimed dozens of national park officials raided his home for no proper reason and harassed his family. Edwin Wiek, founder and secretary-general of the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailan

HIDDEN TRAPS: Many Australians go to Phuket behaving as if the same standards and laws apply in Thailand as they do in Australia. A large Australian flag flutters below her in a breeze coming off the Andaman Sea. Across the street, the "Aussie Bar" is crowded with young Australian drinkers, many

Published: 28/11/2011 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News Bangkokpost.com Justice Minister Pracha Promnok yesterday defended himself in his capacity of the director of the Flood Relief Operation Command (Froc) against the opposition's charges that his handling of the flood relief

Published: 25/11/2011 at 04:33 PM Online news: Local News Sohpon Zarum insisted that he had not done any wrong thing while working as the transport minister, while Deputy Chalerm Yubamrung insisted that the controversial cash was from corruption. Sohpon Zarum Former transpor

Published: 23/11/2011 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News The National Anti-corruption Commission yesterday ordered a freeze on 15 million baht allegedly stolen from transport permanent secretary Supoj Saplom's home while it forms a panel to investigate him for alleged misc

The Nation November 21, 2011 7:06 am Says corruption cases, those who have not served jail time excluded from draft decree   Justice Minister Pracha Promnok insisted yesterday that former prime minister Thaksin Shina-watra would not benefit from the draft Royal Decree seeking pardons for inm

Govt takes dangerous path Piyanart Srivalo Techawat Sukrak Tulsathit Taptim November 17, 2011 12:56 pm A secret Cabinet meeting, shockingly missed by the PM, debates amnesty decree, seen as a ruse to secure a pardon for Thaksin while the country is plunged in battling its worst floods   W