MILESTONES

Ordered: By the Supreme Administrative Court, payment of millions of baht to 254 victims, families and survivors of the brutal 2008 clash at parliament between police and angry yellow shirts. Police killed one and wounded many with faulty antiriot tactics that employed tear gas grenades purchased from a Chinese government remainders bin.

Sold: By the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the 25-rai remaining grounds and buildings of the once-grand British embassy at the corner of Ploenchit and Witthayu Roads. Central Group bought it for £420 million or 18.6 billion baht in real money, the biggest Thailand land deal since the Sip Song Panna migration.

Sacked: By Lumpini police, a senior non-commissioned officer accused of planting evidence and extorting a Canadian tourist. Pol Snr Sgt Maj Cherdchai Phuchuaytuam stopped the foreign language teacher on the street, planted drugs and then took him to an apartment where they demanded he pay for his freedom. The Canadian escaped, and after Tourist Police confirmed his story, the policeman was fired and then charged with abduction and other offences.

Banned: By Malaysia, the Indian movie Padmaavat, which also had censorship trouble in India. The fictional Sanjay Leela Bhansali film depicts the story of an Islamic sultan starting a war with India’s Rajput people to win a beautiful Hindu princess. It “touches on the sensitivities of Islam,” explained Mohd Zamberi Abdul Aziz of the Malaysian National Film Censorship Board.

Rejected: By the court, a second attempt by the sister of Lord Voldemort na Dubai to stop the government’s order to seize her assets. The world’s only female fugitive former prime minister pleaded to the Central Administrative Court to revoke the “illegal” order of 2016 ordering her to pay up billons or give up cash, property and belongings. The judges were terse: “Not possible.” Next case.