BMA panel seeks more time
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's fact-finding committee has postponed concluding its investigation into 16 road-construction projects in the capital for a further seven days.
Way out for teachers in transfer plan
Once oversight of government schools is transferred from the Education Ministry to local administration organisations, teachers will be allowed to continue working at their old schools as civil servants, initially on a five-year term that can later be renewed on an annual basis, the government's committee on decentralisation resolved yesterday.
Ice-cream seller killed, son injured
An ice-cream seller was shot dead while two local community leaders survived attacks on their lives yesterday in the latest development of the ongoing violence in the restive south.
Sale of new HIV pills blocked
Sale of new HIV pills blocked edical watchdog Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) yesterday accused a giant drug company of selling outdated anti-retroviral medicines to Thailand.
'Casinos' to be dismantled
A court has ordered the owners of shophouses that have been remodelled into gambling dens in Bangkok's Pratunam area to dismantle them within 30 days, the police inspector-general said yesterday.
Without kidneys, without sight
I tell myself I'm on a break. I'm on a break from the job I love, as a journalist; from my pastime passions of reading books and watching movies; from playing darts at my favourite watering hole; and from having a laugh and a pint or three with my mates.
