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Opinion The Constitutional Court’s verdict to dissolve the Future Forward Party (FFP) and ban 16 party executives from politics for 10 years on February 21, 2020 sends a shock wave to the democratic development in Thailand. Legal and political experts scramble to explain, argue against, or defend the decisions. Activists and political supporters step up
For the first time since taking office last year, the Prayut government will on Monday face a no-confidence debate, with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and five other members of his Cabinet being the prime targets. However, though the opposition is armed with a long list of allegations, the debate is not going to be as
Thailand’s Government and Opposition are combat ready for a showdown in the first censure debate in six years, which kicks off tomorrow, with opposition chief whip Suthin Klangsaeng saying Saturday that, after the 3 day debate, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will be renamed “the ruling sinner” because “he is standing on the sufferings of the
The defiant message was pretty much expected. You think you have killed us while in fact you have just made us more out of control, Future Forward told its supposed political enemies. The word “party” was marked out of its Facebook page immediately after the Constitutional Court’s ruling ending its existence as a parliamentary unit,
Environmental academics have voiced opposition to a project, by a tambon administration organization in Phuket province, to build a beach erosion barrier on the famous Surin Beach, claiming that the project will increase, not decrease sand erosion. The mayor of Choeng Thaley Tambon Administration Organization has invited tambon and village heads, community leaders and business
An employee of a rock crushing plant, in Mae Tha district of Thailand’s northern province of Lampang, has been taken into police custody on suspicion of starting fires in the Mae Jang forest reserve. The suspect, Mr. Udomsilp Thithamma, a resident of Tambon Mae Tha in Mae Tha district, was arrested at his shelter in
Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health is considering listing Italy as one of the high-risk countries for COVID-19 infection, travellers arriving from which will be screened at their port of entry into Thailand, Dr. Thanarak Plipat, deputy director-general of the Disease Control Department, told a media conference today. He said that the additional measure, now under
With limited access to news and information from media in the Arab world, Thai people’s understanding and perception of the situation in the Middle East is often shaped by what they hear from western media. ThaiPBS World talks to Prof. Dr. Jaran Maluleem, a Middle East specialist at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University,
The Student Union of Thailand held a brief rally, at the Tha Phrachan campus of Thammasat University Saturday evening, to protest against the Constitutional Court’s decision to dissolve the Future Forward party and ban its executive committee members from politics for ten years. Students and members of the public who support the now defunct party
The World Health Organization warned Saturday that African health systems would be ill-equipped to respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak should cases start to proliferate on the continent. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on African Union member states “to come together to be more aggressive in attacking” the virus, known as COVID-19. “Our biggest concern
Iran on Saturday reported one more death among 10 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the Islamic republic to five — the highest of any country outside the Far East. Since it emerged in December, the virus has killed 2,345 people in China, the epicentre of the epidemic, and 16 elsewhere
Political activist Srisuwan Janya said today that he will lodge a complaint on Monday asking the Election Commission (EC) to take legal action against former Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and former executive committee members, after the Constitutional Court dissolved the party and banned its executives from politics for ten years over a loan
South Korea reported 142 more coronavirus cases Saturday, the sharpest spike in infections yet, with more than half of the new cases linked to a hospital in a southern city. The national toll of 346 is now the second-highest outside of China, with the jump in cases at a hospital in Cheongdo following a similar spike
Former Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has vowed to carry on reaching for the party’s unfinished objectives, to stop the junta from prolonging its stay in power, to reform the military and to amend the current Constitution among others, through the setting up of the Khana Anakhot Mai (Future Forward group). As defiant as
The US embassy in Bangkok has expressed concern that the Constitutional Court’s decision on Friday, to dissolve the Future Forward party, risks disenfranchising more than six million Thai voters who voted for the party in the March 24th 2019 general election. In a statement issued on Saturday, the embassy said “The United States strongly supports
