
Top auditor sentenced to three years in jail

The Criminal Court found on Tuesday a top auditor guilty of malfeasance and sentenced him to serve three years in jail for his involvement in the botched nomination process for the position of auditor general in 2001.
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Songkhla: Police probe four major projects they claim are 'suspicious'

Four major projects under the control of the Songkhla Provincial Administration Organisation are currently the subject of an investigation by the Department of Special Investigation, DSI spokesman Colonel Piyawat Kingkate said yesterday.
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Police chief transferred over Kobkul's murder

The chief of Ratchaburi's Muang Police Station and a senior officer have been transferred to another province following the assassination of former Thai Rak Thai MP Kobkul Nopamornbordee late on Saturday.
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Woman's body found

A woman was found dead yesterday with a bullet hole in her forehead near a motorway section in the Sai Mai district in Bangkok.
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Vain search for child

A grief-stricken mother yesterday pleaded with every rescue worker she met to help locate her three-month-old daughter who went missing when flash floods tore down several houses in Laplae district early Tuesday.
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Health tab soars to over Bt200 million

Funding request includes cost of treating over 40,000 flood victims
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Plan to save 'fishing cat' conceived

The Zoological Park Organisation is developing Asia's first artificial insemination and embryo transfer programme for the rare fishing cat.
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HM's exhibition ends June 4; nearly 1 million people visit

The government will produce VCDs of the Mahajanaka grand musical and the royal exhibition to raise funds for His Majesty the King's chosen charities, Government Spokesman Surapong Suebwonglee said yesterday.
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Total ban on alcohol promotion on the way

A new bill to ban alcohol advertising completely and all forms of sales-promotion activities, including attractive uniformed waitresses, will go to a nationwide public hearing next month.
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Thai catalyst to speed up UN reforms

Thailand proposed a "multi-speed approach" to expedite UN reform at a special ministerial meeting of the Group of 77 and China, convened in Malaysia's administrative capital of Putrajaya yesterday.
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