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Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said today that the third phase of the controversial digital wallet scheme has not been scrapped, just postponed indefinitely, and that the 157 billion baht allocated for the scheme will be used to fund other priority projects due to uncertainty over the tariffs to be imposed on Thai products exported to US market.
A 14-year-old boy shot himself to death with his grandfather’s pistol, reportedly after he had fallen victim to an online scam which conned him into transferring a large amount of money from his grandfather’s bank account.
The House of Representatives passed the 3.78 trillion baht budget bill for the 2026 fiscal year in its first reading today, by 322:158 votes, ending four days of lacklustre debate.
Former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen has insisted that the “Emerald Triangle” is on Cambodian soil and is calling for Thailand and Cambodia to settle this issue at the International Court of Justice, according to the Phnom Penh Post.
The Medical Sciences Department and Chiang Rai provincial administration have given an assurance that tap water and fish caught in the Kok, Sai and Ruak rivers, as well as vegetables grown in this northern province, are safe for consumption.
The commander of the Police Aviation Division and three other officers were transferred to inactive posts at the Royal Thai Police office with immediate effect, in an order signed by the police commissioner-general, Pol Gen Kitrat Phanphet on Friday.
Thailand plans to close six permanent and 10 temporary checkpoints along the border with Cambodia, as well as suspending the issuance of temporary border passes to tourist attractions at the Preah Vihear ancient temple, in Kantharalak district of Si Sa Ket province and Prasat Ta Muan Thom ancient ruins, in Phanom Dongrak district of Surin province.
Opal Suchata Chuangsri of Thailand was crowned Miss World on Saturday in India, where the international pageant was held this year.
Thailand has experienced leapfrog growth in international schools over the past five years, driven by aligned interests from both the demand and supply sides.
Bangkok has been voted the world’s best city in which to live and work remotely in 2025, said Deputy Government Spokesperson Sasikarn Watthanachan, quoting the New York Post’s website.
Amid intense speculation about the Shinawatras, two other political developments might have escaped public attention this week. And they concern the People’s Party.
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) announced yesterday the cracking of a transnational scamming gang, which has been operating in Thailand for several years and has duped victims in more than 20 countries, causing damage estimated at over two billion baht.
The Thai film industry is poised for a significant international rise.
The Thai and Cambodian armies have agreed to pull their troops back from the area in Chong Bok border pass in Ubon Ratchathani province, where they clashed briefly on Wednesday. One Cambodian soldier was killed.
All students and teachers at a school in Ban Don sub-district, in U Thong district of Suphan Buri province, were evacuated by the police as a precaution, for fear that a gunman would go to the school to look for his son, after he allegedly shot and killed three relatives in a house.
The Public Health Ministry, has defended Somsak Thepsuthin’s veto of the Medical Council’s resolution to discipline three doctors, and accused those who disagree with his decision of being biased against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
