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Life in Bangkok has undoubtedly changed under Governor Chadchart Sittipunt’s guidance, driven by innovations like the highly responsive complaints platform, Traffy Fondue. However, as his term nears its end on May 21, a critical question looms: Has Chadchart lived up to the high expectations of voters who handed him a landslide victory in 2022?
Millions of Thai workers are facing both short-term and longer-term threats to their jobs that require greater efforts from the government, businesses and labor representatives themselves.
The resignation of a top civil servant within the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has sparked allegations of ministerial abuse of power barely a month into the new Cabinet’s tenure.
The opposition-leading People’s Party has launched a full-frontal assault on Anutin Charnvirakul’s government, taking the rare step of forming a shadow cabinet to scrutinise government actions and present alternative policies.
Faced with weak domestic demand, the Anutin Charnvirakul administration is considering numerous measures to deal with the fallout of the oil crisis caused by the Iran war.
The Senate has overwhelmingly confirmed former Nonthaburi governor Sujin Chaichumsak as ombudsman, installing a watchdog empowered to investigate allegations of electoral fraud in the Upper House. But if senators accused of election rigging expect an easy ride from their latest appointee, they may be disappointed.
Deputy Prime Minister Yodchanan Wongsawat believes he has found the key to unlocking Thailand’s decades-long middle-income trap: Human capital development.
The core opposition People’s Party will stare into the same judicial jaws that claimed its two predecessors on Friday (April 24). The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether to accept a petition against dozens of its key “orange movement” politicians – a decision that could decapitate the party.
The long Songkran holiday is Thailand's annual window for family get-togethers. However, as social structures break down, the traditional New Year holiday joy is being eroded by a deep anxiety: the fear of dying alone.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is set to announce his government’s foreign policy focused strongly on multilateralism and global outreach, but substantively the policy appears to be bogged down by domestic security priorities, especially border issues with neighboring countries.
Many retail investors in Thailand have been caught unawares by the sudden phenomenon of fast-rising oil prices and the sharp drop in gold bar prices.
The selection of Adul Boonthamcharoen as Thailand’s new defense minister underscores the endurance of the so-called “Buri Ram nexus” of politicians and military to ensure the status quo, rather than a military reform suited to cope with dynamic security threats, according to analysts.
