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Suphoth to lose Bt17.5m cash, gold - The Nation
The NACC yesterday also scheduled another session on May 29 to decide whether the asset seizure should cover other items such as bank deposits, according to an agency member who requested anonymity. The case came to light after a break-in at Suphoth's ...
IBERIA AIRLINES DRAMA Sniffer dogs chase Eagles out - The Nation
By now, a suspect whom they refused to give his name has been arrested and another suspect who left his international passport in the aircraft seat 4A, was on the run. Effort to apprehend him proved abortive. The airline then announced that the pilot ...
Coming next: Another fight against graft - The Nation
The agencies mentioned include the Customs Department, which has long been one of the agencies most cited for this issue," a source close to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who asked not to be named, said. A survey reported at the National ...
Fed Govt stops building of tank farms in Apapa - The Nation
The source said as a result of insecurity in some parts of the country, the Federal Government has directed that no developer should be allowed to construct tank farms in the area. The situation, the source said, is causing both marine and land ...
Battle for Enugu Chime holds his breath - The Nation
In fact, a top PDP official in the state, who refused to be named, said Chime-led faction of the party got it wrong as it has failed to reconcile with the Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo political bloc, a powerful PDP faction in the state, which enjoys unalloyed ...
'Banks'll benefit from cash-less banking' - The Nation
A staff member of Access Bank who refused to be named, said there are just few cases where customers withdrew or deposited more that the benchmark amount. The CBN had granted waivers to embassies, diplomatic missions, multilateral and aid donor ...
Mapping ways for market recovery - The Nation
Also the source said it appears that a number of commentators are operating under a number of faulty assumptions. The source said for the listing of MTN South Africa on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), no MTN affiliate in any of the operating ...
Bonded Terminals: Jobs, investments under threat - The Nation
Stakeholders around these ports, who refused to be named, said this is because of greed on the part of the concessionaires and corruption on the part of some government officials. The officials, who are supposed to take actions, may have been ...
Govt plans joint bill on charter - The Nation
The coalition parties have assured their full support for the joint draft," the source said. According to the source, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is considered Pheu Thai's "big boss", initially wanted the charter change moves to be ...
POS: Merchants worry over 1.25% transaction fee - The Nation
A stock broker, who asked not to be named, told The Nation that he takes 2.8 per cent commission from his customers and after paying 1.25 per cent for PoS usage, he will be left with nothing. He said the cashless banking initiative is laudable but that ...
Intrigues as culture Ministry faces cuts - The Nation
An actor who refused to be named, equally picked holes with the modality of the exercise. “What government ought to have done was to open a debate involving eggheads in the sector. Let me tell you, no one is happy with the way some of the managers ...
US embassy maintains terror threat warning on its website - The Nation
"The reports are based on information that a police senior sergeant major had rented the same shophouse," the source said. "But local police said a policeman had rented another shophouse nearby to sell rice and had only used the place for two months. ...
Red-shirt Natthawut tipped to join Cabinet - The Nation
Red-shirt leader Natthawut Saikua might become a minister in the first Cabinet reshuffle, a source said yesterday. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra called a meeting with certain ministers and potential candidates to sign a form verifying their ...
PM denies reports Chart Thai Pattana to be axed from Cabinet in reshuffle - The Nation
Meanwhile, Pheu Thai sources, who asked not to be named, said Chart Thai Pattana had been threatened with removal from the coalition unless it swapped the Agriculture portfolio for another. Amid reports that fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, ...
Who will be the lucky ones? - The Nation
It was agreed that many ministers' performance is not satisfying," a source, who asked not to be named, said. However, after the debate, the reshuffle news was muffled amid speculation that it would wait until the suspended 111 former Thai Rak Thai ...
Prime minister heads to Singapore to cement ties - The Nation
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will today make a one-day visit to Singapore to cement bilateral ties after the new government under her leadership took office, a government official said yesterday. Singapore will be the seventh of 10 Asean ...
Kerosene scarcity worsens as marketers threaten supply scheme - The Nation
A source from the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, who spoke in Lagos on a condition of anonymity, disclosed that some cabals among the marketers are frustrating the initiative. The source said the scheme, which takes kerosene to the nook and cranny of ...
'No plan' to ease public transport woes - The Nation
"There are no plans for public transport, logistics or any remedial measures to help people," a high-level official at the Transport Ministry, who asked not to be named, said yesterday. Transport Minister Sukampol Suwannathat has not issued any ...
Graft charge not substantiated: FROC - The Nation
The source, who asked not to be named, said Democrat Party deputy spokesman Sakoltee Phattiyakul, who first raised suspicion that the items in flood-relief bags were cheaper than the FROC's reported prices, and the editor of the ASTV Manager newspaper ...
Mega waves still to come - The Nation
"The first mass of water has left Rangsit canal briming, and spilling over the parallel Rangsit-Nakhon Nayok road [running in an east-west direction] north of Bangkok, which doubles as a flood barrier," said the official, who asked not to be named due ...
Military in favour of declaring state of emergency in capital - The Nation
Military leaders were forming a consensus yesterday to ask the prime minister to declare a state of emergency in order to increase the efficiency of efforts to protect the capital from flooding, a source said. The move came after angry residents, ...
PM has 'no plan' to meet Suu Kyi on Burma trip - The Nation
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has no schedule to meet Nobel laureate and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi when she pays a courtesy call on Burma next Wednesday, a government official said yesterday. Yingluck will meet only with President Thein Sein ...
Ayutthaya to fight black menace of coal dust - The Nation
A resident and potential leader of a possible future protest - who asked not to be named out of concern for his life - said he feared more and worse hazards to come from planned fertiliser plants. He showed the five projected pier sites to accommodate ...
Downgrade: Further inconvenience for exporters - The Nation
Another economist, who asked not to be named, referred to a recent discussion with investors in Europe. Citing a lack of alternatives, eighty per cent of the funds said they would do nothing even if Standard & Poor's were actually to downgrade the US ...
House speaker asks Cabinet members to show respect to Parliament - The Nation
Pheu Thai sources who asked not to be named said there was concern as to how Yingluck would handle the opposition Democrats' scrutiny during House sessions. Her brother Thaksin Shinawatra was criticised for not attending House sessions while he was the ...