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Published on August 10, 2007

OAG officials will next week inspect computers, furniture and other equipment at the party's IFCT Building headquarters on Phetchaburi Road before removing everything for auction. The money raised from the auction will go to the state, since the party did not specify which organisation it would donate its assets to after dissolution.

The IFCT Building does not belong to Thai Rak Thai but to Pojaman Shinawatra.

Auditor-General Khunying Jaruvan Maintaka has looked into the party's income and expenditure accounts and found several dubious transactions, as it did not provide receipts for many expenditure items.

Mothers take blame for unruly kids

More than 60 per cent of Bangkok mothers blame themselves if their children misbehave, according to a survey.

Out of 1,395 mothers responding to a Dhurakij Pundit University poll conducted on Sunday and Monday, 22 per cent held their children's friends responsible and 13 per cent cited the general environment for their naughty offspring. Those pointing their finger at their own children or their husbands were less than 2 per cent for each group.

The mothers, whose children ranged from primary to university students, said they worried most about their kids becoming gamblers or drug addicts, associating with bad friends and engaging in premarital sex. They were evenly split on whether they looked to their children to take care of them.

Sacked varsity head seeks redress

Wiwatchai Atthakor, former president of Silpakorn University, has lodged a complaint with the Administrative Court alleging unfair removal from his post.

"I have sought a court injunction against the order to remove me," Wiwatchai said yesterday.

He submitted the complaint to the Administrative Court on Wednesday and is now preparing to bring his case to the Criminal Court. "I am also thinking about civil lawsuits," he said.

Thongbai Thongpao, a Magsaysay Award winner and an adviser to the National Human Rights Commission, has helped Wiwatchai with legal matters.

Wiwatchai said the university council removed him from his post effective May 24, citing unsatisfactory results from surveys among university staff. "As a matter of fact, the report on the results has yet to be completed," he said.

He said the university council had pressured him to resign since early this year, citing ungrounded accusations such as inefficiency and flawed leadership.

Wiwatchai said the removal should be enforced only where grave offences were involved, and with proper investigation procedures. "There's none of this in my case," he said.

He also questioned why all the executives who signed the motion to impeach him now held posts of acting vice presidents of the university.