Appeal Court upholds university verdict on plagiarism

By Suluck Lamubol. The Bangkok South Criminal Court on Wednesday upheld the verdict of a lower court that had acquitted the president of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand of conducting an unfair investigation in the first ever case of the university revoking a PhD. 
The university stripped Supachai Lorlowhakarn of his doctorate after finding that large parts of his thesis had been plagiarised. Supachai is the director of Thailand's National Innovation Agency, or NIA, and the case is likely to have major repercussions for the NIA. More...