Reports of Buddhist monks being caught having sexual relationships or embezzling temple money have become daily staples of local news stories. The controversies are serious enough to make the relatively quiet and inert authorities revise some laws regarding the Buddhist clergy. On Tuesday, the House panel on religion amended the 1962 Sangha Act and related laws to include punishment for sexual offences. The move comes after ex-monk Pongsakorn Chankaeo — known as Phra Kato and a former acting abbot of Wat Pen Yat in Chawang district in Nakhon Si Thammarat — was exposed as having had sexual rela…