Ousted Thai PM Thaksin Slapped With $500 Mn Tax Bill

March 28, 2017 by

Thai tax officials slapped ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra with a $500 million bill on Tuesday, resurrecting a dispute at the centre of the kingdom’s decade-long political rift. The controversy centres around whether Thaksin, who currently lives in self-exile, should have paid taxes on the sale of his telecoms company Shin Corp to Singapore’s Temasek … Read more

Cops Surround Scandal-Hit Buddhist Temple After PM Order

February 15, 2017 by

Soldiers and police surrounded a scandal-hit Buddhist temple on Bangkok’s outskirts early Thursday in apparent preparation for a raid to arrest the sect’s spiritual leader after Thailand’s junta leader invoked special powers to put the site under military control. A cat-and-mouse game between investigators and the powerful Wat Dhammakaya temple in Bangkok has played out … Read more