MONDAY

The new Corruption Court opens for business today. It will have 70 cases on the docket immediately, transferred from the overworked Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders. After only four years and one month (but who’s counting?) the National Anti-Corruption Commission opens a file today on the case of Red Bull heir and accused hit-and-run killer Vorayudh Yoovidhya. They have demanded police under Bangkok police chief Pol Lt Gen Sanit Mahathavorn be present for questioning. The NACC won’t say what led them to think there might possibly be corruption in the case. World University Boxing Championships begin today at Chiang Mai University. The finals are on Saturday. In Stockholm this afternoon, the 2016 Nobel Medicine Prize laureates will be announced. Tomorrow, physics, and so on up to Friday, when the name of the Peace Prize winner is revealed in Oslo.