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A Bangkok court on Monday postponed giving its verdict in the closely-watched trial of a Thai web editor accused over remarks about the monarchy posted by other people on her website. Chiranuch Premchaiporn, who faces up to 20 years in prison, denies allegations that she did not remove 10 online posts perceived as critical of the monarchy quickly enough in 2008.

Judge Nittaya Yamsri said the Bangkok Criminal Court was unable to finish considering the evidence in time due to the large number of documents filed by both sides.

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The Philippines and Thailand are studying the possibility of reviving the Philippines-Thailand business council (PTBC).

In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs on Monday said Linglingay Lacanlale, Philippine Ambassador to Thailand, met with Director General Charn Saralertsophon of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) last March 22 to discuss steps that would strengthen the economic ties between the two countries.

Vito Palazzolo, who spent years in SA fighting extradition to Italy where he was convicted of having links with the Mafia, was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning at Bangkok airport, after apparently trying to enter that country on a SA passport.

South Africa’s ambassador to Thailand Ruby Marks confirmed last night that the embassy in Bangkok received a call about 1am yesterday morning to assist, as Palazzolo was travelling on a SA passport.

Thai authorities plan to take legal action against a Bangkok hotel where a major fire killed two foreign tourists and injured about 20 others, a local official said on Monday. The blaze broke out in a function room at the 221-room Grand Park Avenue Hotel off the Sukhumvit Road in the Thai capital on Thursday evening.

Two Russian tourists died and about 20 people suffered smoke inhalation.

BANGKOK’S second largest airport will reopen this week after a more than four-month closure owing to the kingdom’s worst floods in decades, an official said.

“We are 100-percent ready to resume services on Tuesday,” the general manager of Don Mueang International Airport in the north of the city, Kanputt Mungklasiri, said.

A court in Thailand has issued an arrest warrant for a sixth suspect over an alleged Iranian bomb plot to attack Israeli diplomats in Bangkok.

The man was named by police as Norouzi Shaya Ali Akbar, 57, wanted on charges of possessing and making explosives. Three men are in custody in Thailand and Malaysia and two other people, a man and a woman, are also being sought after last week’s blasts in Bangkok.