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Thailand holds Anti Corruption Day event, Privy Councillor says government and Prime Minister serious about ending corruption

Thailand has held an International Anti-Corruption Day event earlier last week, encouraging all people in Thailand to fight against corruption. The opening ceremony  was presided over by by Privy Councillor Gen Paiboon Khumchaya.He told event attendees that the Prime Minister is serious about the suppression ...

Is Thailand ready for a third language?

Thailand’s Ministry of Education recently revealed that it would push for the inclusion of a third language: coding (computer programming language) into its school curriculum. Deputy Education Minister Kalaya Sophonpanich was responding to the proposal of teaching coding at schools from Future Forward MP Kulthida Roongruangkiat ...

Politics, corruption are biggest problems: Poll

Thai people believe politics and corruption are the most severe problems facing the country, followed by the lack of democracy and a weak economy, according to the result of an opinion survey by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or Suan Dusit Poll.Keep reading ...

Bangkok Post Reporter

How corrupt we are

Thailand was ranked 99 out of 180 countries and territories in the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which shows that despite some progress, many countries are still failing to make serious inroads against graft.The index ranks the countries and territories by their perceived levels of ...

Pradit Phulsarikij

Corruption before and after the NCPO

When the military junta in Thailand, also known as the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), seized power on 22 May, 2014, one of the main reasons it gave for doing so was to address the high levels of corruption plaguing the country under ...

Blockchain tech seen as a tool to curb corruption

Expert and social entrepreneurs have placed high hopes on benefiting from the advanced blockchain technology that would be able to play a major role in curbing corruption and enhancing transparency in social justice.“Blockchain could be used to promote transparency of information for anti-corruption and to ...

Jintana Panyaarvudh

THEOS-2 sat procurement 'above board'

The Ministry of Science and Technology’s procurement of the 7.8-billion-baht THEOS-2, an earth-observing satellite, is all above board, according to a special committee responsible for probing an allegation of conflict of interest surrounding the project. Keep reading ...

Bangkok Post Reporter

Destitute centre fraud found in 67 provinces

Allowance misappropriation and related irregularities have been found at 67 provincial protection centres for the destitute, while only nine provincial centres were cleared in the massive scandal, according to results of an inquiry by the Public Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC).Keep reading ...

Piyanuch Tamnukasetchai

Corruption in Thailand: Running in Place

The military junta, despite promises, has made little progress in weeding out corruption. One of the claims used by Thai military leaders to justify their coup in 2014 was that the administration of then-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was corrupt.Keep reading ...

Neil Thompson

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