
Shinawatra siblings sent tax bill for 'billions'

The Revenue Department has demanded that Panthongtae and Pinthongta Shinawatra pay several billion baht in personal-income tax assessed on their sale of Shin Corp shares.
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Mock funeral staged for brand-new car

PATHUM THANI - A civil servant was so frustrated by problems with a brand-new Toyota car she had bought that as a protest she staged a mock funeral with some 200 guests in black in front of a showroom in Pathum Thani's Thanyaburi district Saturday.
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7 killed, villagers stage road blocking

YALA - A father and his two young children were among the seven latest victims of violence in the deep South, where Malay Muslim villagers blocked a road for a third day to demand the release of suspected insurgents, police said.
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Govt plays down anti-coup protest in London

The junta-backed government is playing down an anti-coup protest on Friday by some 100 expatriates in London.
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US detains Thai student

The Foreign Ministry is trying to obtain the release of a Thai PhD student detained by the US Department of Homeland Security for "suspicious behaviour" in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, ministry spokesman Tharit Charungvat said yesterday.
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