Dogmatix

50 years but subject to reduction under Royal Pardons.

This was the police chief who was trading billions in private placements on the SET while he was police chief. Said it was just a sideline and that he was a natural stock picker. Others alleged threatening people showed up at companies and pressured them to do private placement and allocated free shares priced below market. They were all small cap stocks with moribund businesses and low liquidity and easy to manipulate. Some good news about the company was always announced just before the PPs to make share prices spike up on higher volume before collapsing. In the parlance known as a pump and dump.

I am sure he purchased a number of foreign passports like Thaksin and Yingluck.

Thammanart will have to make his brother a nominee minister, if he is offered anything due to the new found concern about ministers' ethical backgrounds.

It's well known that the Thai penalty for smuggling illegal drugs to Australian is to have do several years social service as a cabinet minister and make a large amount of money in the process.

Called a fat tailed risk statistically speaking. Risk of JE is probably very low but with catastrophic results, if you get your bet wrong. Get the vaccine. It is safe, effective and inexpensive.

Having lived in both rented and owned accommodation I found it very frustrating that the owner of my apartment, who was from a very wealthy family that owned a bank, would always nickel and dime over renovations and repairs. Once I claimed the aircon in the living had become very noisy and didn't cool enough, even after servicing. The manager put in my request for a replacement and he came back about a week later saying it still had plenty of useful live left in it. A few days later it blow up with a low explosion that left water and mess in the living room and couldn't be repaired. Since living in my own property, I can repair or replace anything I like but the frustrating thing is that I have to pay for it myself.

Best thing is to buy a pricy infinity pool villa and put it in the name of your girlfriend you met in a bar or in the name of someone trustworthy recommended by the real estate agent or your Thai lawyer.

This was promised in the election campaign to be digital money for everyone over 16. Then after the election is was reduced to being a means tested digital scheme. Now it is reduced further to be an even more strictly means tested cash hand out scheme only to 15 million people with welfare cards. after several million people already registered for the digital scheme and are now at risk of identity theft but won't receive any money. A lot of poor Thais borrowed from loan sharks to but smart phones to register in the digital scheme and may now receive not even the cost of the low end smart phones. This scheme is now unrecognisable as the fulfillment of the electoral pledge and doesn't sound like something that will appease most of the people who voted for PT.

Although Big Joke was allegedly elevated by Prawit to be his bagman, one has to bear in mind that his initial advancement in the police was due to the fact that his father, a sergeant, was police driver to Potjaman's father. Therefore he has a foot in both camps and Thaksin may find it useful to have him as police chief.

Hopefully allowing Thaksin's interference will be found unethical and Ung Ing will get the boot. The knives are out for her and I am sure lawyers will be looking at every angle they can use to get rid of her. Due to his arrogance Thaksin will probably jump into another trap with her like he did with Srettha. He might also have to flee the country again, if his LM case doesn't go his way next year.

Hideous looking "Louis" type furniture consistent with Thaksin's ghastly chinois nouveau rich tastes.

Thaksin failed to mention that he only appointed Prawit commander-in-chief reluctantly because he put his totally unqualified and incompetent cousin Chaiyasit Shinawatra in the job but Chaiyasit messed things up so badly in the South and other areas that he became an embarrassment to Thaksin and had to be fired.

Justice delayed is justice denied. In this case it is not an attempt to provide justice to the victims but a political swipe at Pravit who was commander-in-chief at the time and took no meaningful action after the event.

The OP doesn't specify what this withholding tax is. Is the withholding tax on interest or some other tax. Without knowing what tax is referred to makes the article meaningless.

A case of the pot calling the kettle black. Prawit did managed to get his brother's former assistant appointed as chairman of the NAAC. So he got what he wanted and avoided prosecution over the watches as a result.

Pita is removing himself from the scene to take up a postgrad fellowship at his alma mater, Harvard. Can't really blame him after a 10 year ban but what a loss from the Thai political scene.

The problem is that gun laws are not properly enforced allowing about 6 million unregistered guns to be circulating around Thailand.

Pythons have nasty bacteria in their teeth. I hope he doesn't have to have his scrotum and its contents amputated after this.

Of course it is not her decision. Perhaps a couple of token youngsters who are children or nieces or nephews of old style politicians will be included but the political factions are all control by the dinosaurs and won't stand for it, if they are excluded.

this is going to be entertaining. She is walking on a knife edge with the ludicrous digital wallet scam. It is PT's "flagship" policy and electoral pledge and millions of Thais have already registered for it, including many who borrowed from loan sharks to buy a smart phone to register. On the other hand whoever approves the project risks either going to jail or being banned from politics or both and Thaksin's enemies will be working overtime on this now his daughter is in their sights. This was a hit that Thaksin was happy for Srettha to take but now it is his last remaining card, Ung Ing, he has got cold feet. Ung Ing is going to have to pull it in its present form and water it down further and divert it to something else to try to avoid legal pitfalls. this will entail further delays and loss of credibility and might not avoid legal problems anyway. Serves Thaksin right for thinking up such an albatross of a flagship policy and makes very clear that all the decent economic and marketing advisors deserted him long ago, if the ones he has left couldn't come up with anything better than the digital wallet.

There are several ministers from the Srettha cabinet with unethical backgrounds. Thammanart was in prison in Australia for drug smuggling and was accused of murder. Chada, the deputy interior minister, has also been accused of murder and has been involved in weapons charges. There are probably many more with unethical backgrounds, if you dig deep enough, including Ung Ing herself. She owns shares in a company that took land from a temple; she was embroiled in an exam fraud scandal in the entrance exam to Chula University and she has proposed reform to Section 112. To be on the safe side she should exclude herself from the cabient.

A certificate of innocence is essential because it is otherwise not clear to most Thais that Thaksin is innocent. He should carry it with him all the time.

I am sure this will run into serious trouble. We haven't even seen the standard backlash from the radical Buddhist groups regarding this sinful pursuit. Someone will whip them up for political purposes soon. They were very forceful about the listing of Thai Beverage (Charoen the whisky tycoon's business) on the SET which would have had zero impact on society and got the listing transferred to Singapore where the stock has languished for years. Casinos are likely to cause a lot of problems and there will be huge corruption and weak law enforcement.

Seems like Thaksin's second pardon is only technical, as it just lets him off his probation two weeks early. It is not like a US presidential pardon that wipes off the criminal record completely. So he is still ineligible for public office thank God. He can be an official advisor to PT though which enables him to speak on politics in public but that is not much different from he has been doing on probation.