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US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate former ambassador to Thailand Michael DeSombre, as the next assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific.
The Cabinet agreed today to extend the electricity price reduction retroactively, from January until April, for 21.3 million households which consume fewer than 300 units per month.
People’s Party deputy leader Sirikanya Tansakul today insisted on maintaining the Opposition’s position of not removing former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s name from its censure debate motion.
After three-hour meeting on Tuesday, the social security board has agreed unanimously to adopt the CARE (Career Average Revalued Earnings) formula in the calculation of pensions for people insured under Sections 33 and 39 of the Social Security Act.
Migrant workers from Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia can return home for the Songkran festival without needing to apply for re-entry permits and are, thus, exempt from re-entry fees from April 1 until May 15.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, arrested in Manila on an Interpol warrant stemming from his deadly crackdown on drugs, touched down in Dubai Wednesday bound for the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
The Football Association of Thailand (FAT) will seek approval from its board to sue the former management of the association, led by Pol Gen Somyot Poompanmuang, for alleged mismanagement which caused substantial financial damage.
The curtain came down on the colourful life of Thitisan “Joe Ferrari” Utthanaphon on Friday night when the disgraced ex-policeman was found dead inside Bangkok’s Klong Prem prison.
Ramathibodi Hospital's Building 1 has been closed for 48 hours following a fire last night. All medical services for out-patients and surgery are suspended, to allow inspectors to check the safety of the building, according to an announcement by the Faculty of Medicine at Mahidol University.
The 10,000 baht benefits paid under the Digital Wallet scheme are just a short-term measure to help ease the cost of living for most recipients and their families and will have a minimal impact on the economy, according to Professor Praipol Koomsup, former dean of the Faculty of Economics at Thammasat University.
The entertainment complex bill is not yet ready for discussion by the Cabinet, because the government must listen to the opinions of all stakeholders first, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra told the media today.
The Transport Ministry has ordered six domestic airlines to reduce their air fares by 30% and to increase the number of flights by 124 during the Songkran festival, between April 11 and 17.
Disgraced former deputy police chief, Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, has been fired from the police service without pension, after the national police chief, Pol Gen Kitrat Phanphet, signed the order today.
Many Thai netizens have called for an investigation into a viral photo apparently depicting a People’s Party MP vaping inside a Parliament building, which is, by law, a no-smoking zone.
Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has dismissed an observation by some critics that the surge in violence in the Deep South this week may be attributable to the recent visit to the region by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
