enlarge Meatless merit-making :Locals and visitors adorn the sacred pillar of nine Chinese saints to mark the start of the vegetarian festival in Phuket yesterday. The non-meat diet is said to bring merit to observers wearing white or yellow.
Thaksin aide tests the water
Deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has dispatched his personal secretary to Thailand to discover how many former Thai Rak Thai MPs are still loyal to him.
Teashop death toll now four as police raid 11 locations
Scores of policemen swept through 11 locations in Songkhla's Thepa district yesterday, searching for clues in Friday's bombing of a local teashop, in which the death toll rose from two to four.
Divided NGOs at crossroads over 'tank liberals' in ranks
An ideological battle exposing the deepest divide faced by activists "since the defeat of communism in the 1970s" took centre stage at the Thai Social Forum yesterday.