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Twelve engineering and architecture organizations have joined forces to ask Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to exercise his executive power to scrap the Airports of Thailand’s plan to build the second passenger terminal at Suvarnabhumi international airport. The decision to ask for the prime minister’s is intervention to suspend the construction of the controversial project was
Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong today did not rule out the possibility of another military coup if the country is plunged into chaos again. “My hope is that politics will not bring the country into conflicts again. If politics doesn’t cause chaos, then nothing will happen,” he said when asked by reporters whether another coup
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump plans to nominate former Air Force General David Stilwell to be the State Department’s top diplomat for East Asia, a post that has remained unfilled for more than a year despite major challenges in the region. A White House statement on Wednesday said Trump had announced his intention
The electronic trash and plastic scraps management committee of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has decided to set the import quota of plastic scraps for recycling industry at 70,000 tonnes next year, to be reduced to 40,000 tonnes in 2020 and with a total ban in 2021. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Surasak
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered a review of the controversial bill on cybersecurity following a public outcry over what is seen as excessive power given to authorities to pry into personal information of private citizens and to penalize people accused of posing threats to cybersecurity. Critics are particularly worried by the bill’s broad definition
The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation will not bow to pressure from tour operators in the southern province of Phang-nga for it to ease restrictions on the number of visitors to the scenic Similan island in the Andaman sea. Songtham Suksawang, director of the National Parks Division of the department, insisted
Wednesday, October 17, 2018: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is planning a Facebook live after “good” public responses to his newly-announced online presence, the government said. In what could lead to an important development in the near future, public prosecutors have received a police case against Pheu Thai executives in connection with a press conference deemed
GENEVA (Reuters) – Switzerland’s nine-year streak as the world’s most competitive economy came to an end on Wednesday, dethroned by the United States in an annual league table published by the World Economic Forum (WEF). A root-and-branch revamp of the WEF’s rankings, reoriented towards future technology-driven growth, pushed Switzerland into fourth place, with Singapore second
A army rescue team dropped from a helicopter into a ravine near a waterfall in Khao Laem Dam National Park in Sangkhla Buri district of the western province of Kanchanaburi this morning is trying to find a way to bring a seriously injured out to safety. A Thai PBS reporter at the scene reported that
Exclusive talk with Paopoom Rojanasakul, the new faces in Thai Politics of Pheu Thai Party and Narit Paranulaksa, the new generation in Thai Politics of Phalang Pracharat Party.
Tuesday, October 16, 2018: The first showdown between Prayut Chan-o-cha and Sudarat Keyuraphan as unofficial front-running candidates for the premiership has focused on how to dignify Thailand’s poor population. In her Facebook post, Sudarat said the Prayut government’s “welfare card”, which is informally called “poor people’s card”, highlighted rich-poor division in society. In
The sighting on Tuesday of a school of about a dozen of black tip reef sharks swimming near the Maya beach has caused excitements among officials of the Hat Nopparatthara-Phi-Phi Islands National Park in the southern province of Krabi. One of the officials who was on the beach at the time used a smart phone
An overwhelming number of people have voiced support for decriminalizing the use of kanja (marijuana) for research and development for medical purpose, said Somchai Sawaengkarn, a member of the National Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday, citing result of an opinion survey conducted during October 1-15. Of the 16,431 people who voiced their opinions on the issue,
Sudarat Keyuraphan had always been tipped to become Thailand’s first female prime minister, until Yingluck Shinawatra came along. Now, the veteran politician would have to contend with being “second”, if she could manage to beat influential male political players and seemingly insurmountable constitutional rules. But first, she must officially become the Pheu Thai Party’s
Members of the Wild Boars soccer team capped their week-long journey that took them to Argentina and the United States with a meeting this morning with Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha at the Government House. Accompanied by Phayao governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn, who headed the dramatic rescue operation at Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai that
