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Protesters fighting the industrial estate project in Chana district of Thailand’s Songkhla province agreed to return home this morning (Wednesday), after the cabinet decision to suspend the project and to assign the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) to run the strategic environmental impact assessment (SEA) was finally published in the government’s website last
Narongsak Osottanakorn, former governor of Chiang Rai province, who shot to fame for his leading role in the dramatic operation to rescue 12 young footballers and their coach from a flooded cave in Chiang Rai in 2018, broke his silence today (Tuesday) to end speculation that he may contest Bangkok gubernatorial election. Currently the governor
The Thai cabinet decided today (Tuesday) to suspend the implementation of the controversial industrial estate project in Chana district of the southern province of Songkhla, pending a new Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the project to be undertaken by an ad hoc committee. Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister’s OfficeMongkolchai Somudon told the media
After decades of shining bright in Thailand’s engineering and educational sectors, Prof Dr Suchatvee Suwansawat is now ready to kick-start his political career. The academic is preparing to contest in the upcoming Bangkok gubernatorial election under the banner of Thailand’s oldest party – the Democrat. “I feel a debt to the people of Thailand and
The Democrat Party’s executive committee today (Monday) unanimously nominated Prof. Dr. Suchatvee Suwansawat, former rector of King Mongkut Institute of Technology’s Lat Krabang campus, as its sole candidate to run in the Bangkok gubernatorial election next year. Democrat party leader Jurin Laksanawisit, also deputy prime minister and commerce minister, said that the party, Thailand’s oldest,
Police closed roads to traffic near the Government House in Bangkok this morning (Monday), in anticipation of the arrival of protesters from Songkhla province’s Chana district. Police were seen manning barricades on Phitsanulok Road,from Panichakarn intersection to Suan Misakawan junction. Anti-riot police are also on standby. The protesters, who are objecting to the industrial estate
Bangkok police warned anti-establishment protesters to refrain from violence during their protests at three locations in Bangkok this afternoon (Sunday), or face legal action. The “Ratsadon”, “Talu Gas”, “Talu Fah”, “United Front for Thammasat and Demonstration” and a feminist group rallied this afternoon at Ratchaprasong and Din Daeng intersections and at the Supreme Court. They
Former rector of King Mongkut Institute of Technology’s Lat Krabang campus, Dr. Suchatvee Suwansawat, is tipped to be the Democrat Party’s candidate in the Bangkok gubernatorial election early next year. Dr. Suchatvee resigned from KMITL, effective this Monday,which coincides with the meeting of the Democrat party’sexecutive committee to announce its candidate. Party leader Jurin Laksanawisit
The Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA) and Nitihub, an open forum for public discussion of issues of public interest, have threatened to seek redress from the Central Administrative Court if the Thai Bar Association does not respond to their petition for a change to its dress code, which currently forbids female lawyers from wearing trousers
Defiant protesters from Jana district, of Thailand’s southern province of Songkhla, have vowed to return to Government House next Monday to demand that the government fulfils its commitments over the controversial Jana industrial estate project, as defined in a memorandum of understanding (MoU). Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has, however, rejected the MoU, claiming that it
Five former core members of the now defunct People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) have lost their parliamentary status in a ruling by the Constitutional Court today (Wednesday). The five are Chumphol Julasai, an MP for Chumphon province, Isara Somchai, Democrat party-list MP, Thavorn Senniam, Democrat MP for Songkhla, Buddhipongse Punnakanta and Nataphol Teepsuwan, both party-list
Thailand’s six-party opposition bloc has issued a joint statement outlining the government’s failures during the past three years under the leadership of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Leaders of the opposition parties, among them Chonlanan Srikaew of Pheu Thai, Pita Limjaroenrat of Move Forward, Pol Gen Seripisut Temiyavet of Thai Liberal Party, Wan Muhamad Noor Matha
