Kasit Piromya’s ‘Larger Picture’

The Nation
Kasit: Think of the “larger picture” when dealing with Thaksin
Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya has asked Malaysia and Montenegro on the side of the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Egypt to verify recent reports about former premier Thaksin Shinawatra presence in their countries and urged them to take into account their relations with Thailand in [...]

Thaksin in Malaysia

The Bangkok Post
Thaworn: Thaksin nearly arrested
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra narrowly escaped arrest in Kuala Lumpur, slipping out of his hotel ahead of police and flying to the Pacific Island country of Fiji, Deputy Interior Minister Thaworn Sennian said in Pattani province on Monday.
Mr Thaworn said the Malaysian government had cooperated with Thailand in planning [...]

War on Drugs

Bangkok Post

The Department of Special Investigation’s decision to prosecute six police officers allegedly responsible for the death of a teenager in Roi Et looks set to trigger a wave of complaints against the Thaksin Shinawatra administration’s war on drugs five years ago.
The DSI is also stepping into a fresh investigation of the killing of 21 [...]

Somchai Neelaphaijit

Court declares Muslim lawyer legally missing
Mr Somchai’s wife petitioned the court asking that her husband be declared missing so she could legally take control of his assets.
Mrs Angkhana, a human rights campaigner in Pattani, is convinced her husband was killed after being abducted by police on Ramkhamhaeng Road in Bangkok on March 12, 2004.
The law [...]