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The Democrat party has joined two other political parties in voicing their objection to the Election Commission’s formula used in the calculation of party-list seat allocation to parties contesting the March 24th election and vowed to take legal action to seek justice and fairness. Earlier, Pheu Thai and Future Forward parties opposed the EC’s calculation and threatened
Thailand’s Appeals Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases has upheld the 50-year prison term imposed on former Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) governor Mrs. Juthamas Siriwan, who was found guilty of receiving bribes from an American business couple in exchange for a US$1.8 million contract to manage the Bangkok International Film Festival from 2002-2007. The
YANGON (Reuters) – Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from prison on Tuesday after more than 500 days behind bars. Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been convicted in September and sentenced to seven years in jail in a case
The Constitutional Court has ruled unanimously that Article 128 of the MP Election Act, regarding the calculation of the 150 party-list seat allocation, is constitutional as it does not conflict with Article 91 of the Constitution. The Charter Court’s ruling was released today in a press statement which was timed before the Election Commission was set to announce the official results of
About 60 members of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) are expected to tender their resignations in the next two days to be ready to join the military-appointed Senate. NLA vice president Phirasak Porchit said today that about 60 assemblymen, himself included, as well as NLA president Pornpetch Wichitcholachai, NLA vice president Surachai Liangboonlertchai, Somchai Sawaengkarn and Klanarong
Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha confirmed today that at least 15 members of his Cabinet are resigning to prepare to take up seats in the military-appointed Senate and insisted that his government will continue to function despite the mass resignations. The resignations will take effect either tomorrow and Thursday. Their resignations are in anticipation of
The Palang Pracharat party is confident it will be able to muster more than 250 MPs to form a majority coalition government after the Election Commission today announced the official election results in 349 constituencies, the one exception being Chiang Mai’s Constituency Eight. Deputy party spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said today that the party is also
One of the world’s leading events for public broadcasters and documentary film producers, “INPUT 2019”, opened this morning in Bangkok under the theme “storytelling in the public interest”. The forum brings together close to 500 documentary and film producers from 34 countries all over world to share their ideas and experience on documentary and film production with
INPUT 2019, one of the world’s leading events for public broadcasters and documentary film producers, starts today in Bangkok with a documentary on the dramatic cave rescue at Tham Luang in Chiang Rai last year produced by Thai PBS as one of its highlights. http://input-tv.org/home The documentary, entitled “Tham Luang Documentary: Lost-Find-Found-Survive-Strive”, chronicles not only the
More than six weeks after Thailand held one of its most important general elections, the Election Commission today finally announced its official results for 349 constituencies and nationwide and endorsed the 349 newly-elected MPs. The remaining constituency whose result is yet to be announced is Constituency 8 in Chiang Mai where the EC had earlier
His Majesty the King said he was impressed with the spontaneous show of friendliness and expression of good wishes the Thai people expressed toward him on the occasion of his coronation and hoped that this spirit of unity would bring prosperity to the country. The King made this statement in response to a message from
The Constitutional Court is expected to decide tomorrow whether to accept the ombudsman’s petition challenging the constitutionality of the committee tasked withselecting senators. The petition, which was submitted to the Office of the Constitutional Court on May 3rd, was in response to a complaint filed with the Ombudsmen’s Office by a political group calledthe “National Thai Citizen Group”, and challenges the constitutionality of the senator selection committee headed by Deputy Prime...
