ANALYSIS Assembly will not play a major role
Members of the National Legislative Assembly selected to form parliament yesterday have only one clear mandate: to become a rubber stamp for establishing legal instruments for the junta-installed government to run the kingdom for the next 12 months.
Floods continue unitl late November : RID
Flooding in the Chao Phraya River Basin will continue until late November, as the northern floodwaters moving south are still rising, said Royal Irrigation Department (RID) director general Samart Chokanapitak Friday.
PM'll go to Malaysia next week to discuss insurgency
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said he would make a one-day official trip to Malaysia newxt week to discuss ending an insurgency in the southern provinces.
Former govts break promise with ex-communist rebels : PM
Many former communist insurgents granted amnesty in the 1980s have not yet received the assistance promised by previous governments, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said Friday.
Violence continues in Yala
A police sergeant was injured as a bomb went off when he was inspecting a suspicious object at a food shop in Yala's Thantoe district early Friday morning.
PM to visit TRT stronghold
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont will visit two provinces in the Northeast today amid growing fears the new administration will scrap some of the social programmes introduced by the previous government.