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House Speaker Chuan Leekpai will submit the constitutional amendments draft, which has recently passed its final reading in parliament, to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday so that the amended legislation can be presented to His Majesty the King for Royal Assent. The House Speaker’s advisor, Dr. Sukit Atthopakorn, said that tomorrow (Sunday) will be
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister shared views with the President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the aspiration to build back better the post-COVID-19 world with a balanced approach and five elements of SDGs. On 22 September 2021, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai met
Police will be dealing more harshly, within the scope of the law, with trouble makers who are bent on destroying public property, following the arson attacks on six police traffic kiosks in Bangkok early this morning, said Pol Lt-Gen Pakkapong Pongpetra, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, today (Thursday). He also questioned the motives of
Though he survived a plot to unseat him at the latest censure debate, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is now suffering “aftershocks” in the ruling Palang Pracharath Party. Two Cabinet members that he reportedly sacked for their alleged involvement in the plot have retained their key positions on the party’s executive board. Moreover, a former Army
A representative of Thailand’s hard core anti-government “Talugas” group has indicated that they may shift their protest site from Din Daeng junction to elsewhere in Bangkok, possibly to Nang Lerng intersection, which is close to Government House. The representative, who did not identify himself, spoke to the media on Monday night at Din Daeng intersection,
Sixteen protesters were arrested by police in the Nang Lerng area of Bangkok last night (Sunday), after a “car mob” protest ended. The convoy of cars and motorcycles arrived at the Democracy Monument, after a journey through several parts of the capital, which had started at the Asoke-Sukhumvit intersection. After most of the protesters had
“Car mob” protesters gathered at the Asoke-Sukhumvit intersection shortly before 2pm today (Sunday) for a convoy of cars and motorcycles through different parts of Bangkok to the Democracy Monument, to repeat their demand for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Many of the protesters are former followers of the now defunct United Front for
Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has set up a panel to investigate fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and four others over their collective role in the purchase of ten Airbus A340-500 and A340-600 planes, worth about 53 billion baht, in 2003/4, a purchase which is blamed for Thai Airways International’s (THAI) heavy losses. The
Two Khon Kaen University students were separately arrested on Monday morning by provincial police this morning (Friday) for allegedly torching the portrait of His Majesty the King in front of the Srinagarind Hospital in the early morning of Monday (September 13th). Both were later granted bail by the provincial court. Armed with search warrants, issued
Thai police raided the house of leaders of the “United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration” (UFTD) on Friday morning and arrested one for allegedly violating the Computer Crime Act and the sedition law. UFTD leaders, such as Panusaya “Rung” Sithijirawattanakul, Benja Apan and Niraphorn Onnkhao, who was arrested, co-habit in the house. Though Niraphorn protested
The House of Representatives, today (Thursday), passed the long-awaited four draft bills against torture and enforced disappearance by state officials, in its first reading with 368 votes for, one vote against and one abstention. The four draft bills were separately proposed by the cabinet, by Palang Pracharat MP for Bangkok Sira Jenjaka, by former party-list
The Central Administrative Court has ordered Thailand’s anti-graft watchdog, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), to reveal its findings from an investigation into the expensive wristwatches seen being worn in public by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan. The ruling was read yesterday (Wednesday). The court ruled that, the disclosure of the findings about this case, including
