General Udomchai Thammasaroraj said on Friday the committee he chairs on the peace dialogue in the southern border provinces would take into consideration the Malaysian prime minister’s suggestion that the area be designated a “special administrative region”.

The joint vetting committee on the new political party draft bill on Friday conceded that it focused too much on political reform while overlooking fraud-related problems that may arise out of its introduction of a primary voting system at a party branch level nationwide.