BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta has removed the head of the national Buddhism office, the prime minister said on Tuesday, after religious groups called on the government to sack him over his plans to clean up scandal-hit monasteries.
But Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said it wasn't a punishment.
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