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In its latest move over the case of 27 Palang Pracharat MPs accused of holding media shares, the party’s legal team has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss the case on the grounds that the case was not properly submitted to the court. Earlier, the party’s legal team had asked the court not to suspend
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that amid “serious and complicated” international affairs strengthening bilateral ties was good for both countries and regional peace, North Korean state media KCNA said on Friday. Xi arrived in Pyongyang on Thursday for a two-day visit aimed at bolstering an
Starting in July this year, the Thai military is introducing a modified territorial defence course, which will place less emphasis on military knowledge and more on general knowledge, for high school and university students who want to avoid conscription. An informed military source said that the modified course, or Ror Dor, is the result of
Thailand ranks 40th out of 162 countries surveyed on development progress relating to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), moving up 19 places from last year, according to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Bertelsmann Stiftung. Thailand is top among ASEAN countries: Thailand 40th Vietnam 54th Singapore 66th Malaysia 68th The Philippines 97th Indonesia
Senate speaker Pornpetch Wikchitcholchai has rejected the seven-party opposition bloc’s demand for the House of Representatives to examine the selection process of 250 senators, on the grounds that the House has no right to do so. Instead, he suggested that the Pheu Thai-led Opposition raise the issue with the Constitutional Court which, he said, is
Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang has ordered the immediate transfer of the civil works chief of Bangrak district for alleged negligence after a construction crane collapsed onto the roof of a basketball court in the Assumption Convent girl’s school, injuring about 10 students. The crane collapse reportedly caused the steel frame of the roof to cave
Officials from the Coastal and Marine Resources Department are investigating the cause of death of a Bryde’s or Bruda whale, whose decomposed carcass was found in a mangrove forest in Phra Samut Chedi district of Samut Prakan province on Wednesday. The whale was estimated to weigh between 8 and 9 tonnes and was about eight
The abbot of a temple in Thailand’s northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom has admitted that the temple committee, with the consent of people in the community, decided to sell a 200-year old Payoong (Siamese rosewood) tree to a timber merchant for 1.2 million baht because the temple could not protect the tree from loggers, who
A lot of things are going on this week. Watch a recap of some of the more interesting events to catch up with the last developments, starting with the on-going attempts by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to cobble together a coalition. If he has his way, he should have a new government assuming office by
Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam assures that the government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is not a caretaker government, but a government with full power to take decisions of national importance until a new government comes into the office. His defence of the legitimacy of General Prayut’s government, citing a provisional clause in the existing
Future Forward party spokeswoman, Ms. Pannika “Chor” Wanich, today expressed regret and offered an apology for what she admitted was an inappropriate act in a pictorial social media post of her and a classmate during a graduation ceremony at Chulalongkorn University almost a decade ago. The post, which shows Ms. Pannika holding a book with
Ayutthaya Historical Park has sent a written notice to Ayutthaya Elephant Palace, located on Pa Ton road in the historical park in Ayutthaya Province, to vacate the area within 30 days to allow for preparations for improvement of the park’s landscape. Today, the elephants, keepers and mahouts are still providing services to tourists visiting the
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping departed for Pyongyang on Thursday on a state visit to North Korea, state media said, accompanied by a clutch of senior officials, including the head of the state economic planner. Xi will be in North Korea for two days becoming the first Chinese leader to visit the reclusive
GENEVA (Reuters) – Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million displaced people who have fled war and persecution, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Half of the world’s forcibly displaced are children and the 2018 total is the
The board of Airports of Thailand (AOT) today endorsed the bid committee’s decision to award the contracts to operate duty free shops at Suvarnabhumi International, Phuket, Chiang Mai and Hat Yai airports, and to manage commercial areas at Suvarnabhumi International airport, to King Power Duty Free Company. AOT managing director Mr. Nitinai Sirismatthakarn said today
In an exclusive interview with Thai PBS World, Premrudee Daoroung, founder and coordinator of the Project SEVANA South-East Asia, a platform that brings together local and regional activists from various backgrounds in Southeast Asia, said that the attention of ASEAN governments on environmental issues facing the region is worsening. She said that ASEAN civil society
