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Judges contend that the ex-PM provided inadequate justification for leaving Thailand.

The Criminal Court has turned down former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra‘s ask to travel to Indonesia.

The judge ruled on Thursday that his journey plans were inadequate to give him permission.

He apparently intended to enter a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Friday in Indonesia.

Due to allegations he faces lese-majeste and computer violence in a North Korean meeting in 2015, the former prime minister needs judge assent to leave the country. In the case, witnesses are expected to begin in July.

On Thursday night, Thaksin was present at the courthouse along with his attorney, Winyat Chatmontree, to file a travel demand.

One of his journey programs has been rejected before, not for the first time. The judge denied his travel to Vietnam and Cambodia last month, but the court granted him permission to travel there next month.

Thaksin is an advisor to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Asean. This time, Malaysia serves as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ rotating head.

Artificial exam results were used to get free drugs that were later sold for money, according to authorities.

Difficulty people who reside in Lop Buri are being interrogated by officers about their admitted role in a bribery scandal at the Veterans General Hospital (VGH) in Bangkok.

According to Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat Pankaew, deputy commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau ( CIB ), the abuse of free medication and medical supplies for veterans and their welfare program is thought to be occurring since 2017.

On Thursday, Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat led the doubting at Lop Buri, where his group was joined by hospital managers from the PACC, the National Anti-Corruption Commission, and the War Veterans Organization of Thailand.

He claimed that around 30 patients were treated in the morning and that 20 or 30 additional questions may be answered in two to three days.

Most of the people interrogated on Thursday were soldiers or their immediate families, who were disproportionately impoverished and misinformed, according to Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat.

Some people claimed they were instructed to drink more fatty foods to maintain high blood cholesterol, while others, he said, were advised to consume a lot of sweetened beverages before having their blood sugar levels checked.

In order for the medication to be resold for profit, the people were encouraged to buy more than they needed.

According to him, for behaviors may constitute human trafficking violations because they were instructed to use fabricated test results to justify unnecessary treatments, adding that this could even put their health at risk.

More individuals from VGH are suspected of being involved in the fraud investigation.

He said that the scope of the investigation will include people at other state- and military-run facilities suspected of being connected to the network. &nbsp,

More than 100 civil workers and state officials, according to the NACC, may be involved in at least 1, 000 cases.

One of the six teams in the government ‘ sights was now only one of the six groups, according to a woman identified as Phatchari, who was among those gathering information about the VGH incident to the House committee on martial matters.

Before beginning to investigate the misconduct, Ms. Phatchari claimed to have received a tip-off from the organization’s head, adding that it took her six months to gather enough information, including videos, to provide to the council.

According to authorities, misuse had been occurring at Prachuap Khiri Khan School for a number of years.

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN- A man who had been awarded an excellent instructor award has been detained for sexually abusing at least eight students at his college between the ages of 8 and 10 years old.

Additionally, authorities discovered nearly 20 000 files of vulgar media, including that of boys and girls, as well as baby pornography created by the teachers.

According to Pol Lt. Gen Trairong Phiewphan, head of the Cybercrime Investigation Bureau (CCIB ), police began looking into the case after receiving information from Thailand Internet Crimes Against Children ( TICAC ).

The group had been informed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC ) in the United States that they had found images of a boy who had been sexually abused and had uploaded them to the cloud of a well-known platform using a Thai IP address.

The suspect was a professor at a university in the southwestern province, according to police investigators who worked with Ticac. Armed with a search warrant, authorities raided a home on March 5 with members of Ticac, Destiny Rescue International, Our Rescue Foundation, and Prachuap Khiri Khan Children’s Shelter.

Officers seize Kritsana, an English professor, and his mobile phone, as well as a 2TB external hard drive, at the age of 32. Nearly 20, 000 vulgar media files of kids of both sexes were included in the phone’s data, along with some child pornography created by Mr. Kritsana.

The officers immediately managed to identify eight of the child victims. Additionally, they discovered information that Mr. Kritsana had formerly received a prize honoring teachers who delivered visible results at the district level.

” This is a big problem because the perpetrator has a position and status that require him to ensure the health of children, but he has biologically abused adolescents,” said Pol Lt Gen Trairong.

Initial, the policeman accused him of possessing child pornography for physical gain for either he or others.

Now they are questioning people in connection with the case in order to bring charges of murder, infidelity, and behavior that seeks to advantage children, especially when the perpetrator has strength over the baby.

Authorities are also searching for possible victims and perpetrators.

The suspect reportedly admitted to the allegations and claimed that he had been committing the acts for more than seven years since becoming an English professor.

He claimed that he once abused children in the classroom and the library, where he would get pictures and videos of his crimes.

He also instructed kids to meet him personally after class, forbid them from telling anyone, and gave them large sums of money ranging from 40 to 100 baht. He claimed that nowhere did he ever release the photos he took.

The eight patients, according to Sudatip Duangtip of Destiny Rescue International, were intermediate students between 8 and 10 years old. She claimed that most of the kids were terrified to talk and trembling when they were interviewed.

They fear because the instructor has been abusing them for a long time. She claimed that the incidents occurred at school, and that all of the kids concur.

Ms. Sudatip advised kids to speak with their children if they notice them acting strangely or being unusually silent.

State Railway claims that an eviction stymied the contractor’s ability to transfer area.

The timeframe for finishing the long-awaited initial phase of the Thai-Chinese high-speed rail range from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima has been increased by another time.

After reviewing progress on the Khok Kruat–Nakhon Ratchasima section, the board of the State Railway of Thailand ( SRT ) on Wednesday approved the 350-day extension. By March 25 of this year, the job was anticipated to become finished, according to the existing contract. According to SRT government Weeris Amrapal, the fresh deadline is March 10, 2026.

Due to an eviction dispute with the tenants of a tower on the site, he claimed, construction was put off as the SRT was unable to hand over the property.

He claimed that getting the debate settled in court took time, adding that a settlement was finally reached. According to Mr. Weeris, the SRT should now be able to turn the property over to the company by May 13.

By 2030, the Bangkok-Nong Khai high-speed rail line, which connects China’s high-speed road network via Laos, will be operating, according to the government’s announcement in January.

The project’s pioneering ceremony took place in December 2017. However, the first-phase section’s development as of January this year was just 36 % finished, some years behind schedule. The second phase, which will travel from Nong Khai to Nakhon Ratchasima, has not yet begun.

Due to disagreements over funding, contractors having cash issues, the pandemic, and a controversy surrounding the Ayutthaya station’s construction, which conservationists claimed could have an impact on a Unesco World Heritage site, there have been delays.