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Railway workers gathered at ‘Gare de Lyon’ Paris train station on Thursday (April 13) as France braced for a further day of street protests over President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to make people work longer for their pension. Hundreds of them then marched into the station’s hallway and took the subway, while chanting anti-pension reform slogans.
Registration of candidates contesting in the election was held from April 3 to 7, marking the official start of the countdown to the May 14 national poll. In total, 6,679 applied to contend for the 500 MP seats up for grabs – 4,781 for the 400 constituency elections and 1,898 in the 100-seat party-list vote.
The Office of the Election Commission has defended the overseas trip by six of its commissioners against criticism that such a visit at this time, when election is just around the corner, may affect the EC’s election preparations. In a written statement, issued today (Thursday), the EC’s Office said that the visit is in line
Over 2.3 million people have registered to vote in advance on May 7th, one week ahead of the general election on May 14th, according to the Election Commission’s updated report issued at 8.30pm on April 10th. The exact number of registered advance voters is 2,216,950, including 2,156,578 who will vote outside their constituencies and 18,880
North Korea fired a ballistic missile of intermediate range or longer on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, prompting an alert for residents in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido to take cover. Japanese authorities later retracted the warning, saying the country’s J-Alert emergency warning system had made an erroneous prediction the missile would fall near
The countdown to the May 14 general election is well underway with a little over a month left before the big day. The election was called after Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha dissolved the House of Representatives on March 20 – just three days before the Lower House completed its four-year term. Here are 10 things
Thailand’s Election Commission has officially asked the Pheu Thai Party to clarify the source or sources of the funding required to implement its manifesto policy to distribute 10,000 baht to the e-wallets of each Thai citizen who is 16 or older if it is in government after the May 14th general election. According to Pol
Former foreign minister and a core member of the Pheu Thai Party, Noppadon Patama, defended their party’s manifesto promise today (Tuesday) to distribute 10,000 baht to the e-wallets of every Thai national aged 16 and over, insisting that this policy will stimulate the Thai economy substantially. “Now, we are engaged in a tug of war
About 2.1 million eligible voters, including 111,069 living abroad, have registered to cast their ballots in advance on May 7th, one week ahead of the general election on May 14th. According to Election Commission (EC) Secretary-General Sawaeng Boonmee, 2,153,450 Thais registered between March 25th and April 9th to vote in advance adding, however, that the
Political parties campaigning for the May 2023 general election should spell out their policies on migrants and refugees because of its significance for Thailand’s stature on the international stage, according to many experts who were speaking at a forum in Bangkok. Most of the representatives of the parties at the forum hosted by Migrant Working
China will hold three days of military exercises around Taiwan from Saturday, the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theatre Command announced, the day after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen returned from a trip to the United States. China will hold “combat readiness patrols” and exercises around in the Taiwan Strait and to the north, south and east
One of Pheu Thai party’s three prime ministerial candidates, Chaikasem Nitisiri, was taken to hospital in the northern province of Nan for a CT scan yesterday (Saturday), which revealed a small blood clot in his brain. An informed party source said that doctors at the hospital suspect that the clot might have been in the
