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Former Democrat MP Dr. Warong Dejkitvigrom, a frequent critic of the Future Forward party and its leader, has officially joined the Ruam Palang Prachachart Thai party. Dr. Warong, who shot to fame for being the whistle blower who exposed irregularities in the controversial rice pledging scheme of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s government, was welcomed
In what was seen as the possible start of a tit-for-tat battle between the Government and Opposition camps, the Future Forward party is to ask the Election Commission (EC) to check the qualifications of government coalition Palang Pracharat party-list MP Ms. Watanya Wong-opasee. Some believe she may also have owned shares in a media company
HONG KONG(Reuters) – Hong Kong’s public hospitals, long known for professionalism, have become a new front in the anti-government protests that have engulfed the city for more than five months. An incident in which riot police armed with shields and batons interrogated a pregnant woman at her bedside in a hospital labor ward has
Embattled Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit is to face charges of violating the election law and will be liable to a maximum prison term of ten years and banishment from politics for up to 20 years if found guilty. The Office of the Election Commission (EC) said in its press release today that, next
Embattled Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit is to face charges of violating the election law, and will be liable to a maximum prison term of ten years and banishment from politics for up to 20 years if found guilty. The Office of the Election Commission (EC) said in its press release today that, next
Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has questioned the Constitutional Court’s judgement against him, pointing out that it was based on assumptions rather than on facts. Unlike the other cases decided by the court, he noted that it did not disclose how the nine court judges voted in his case. It is reported, however, that
Thanathorn Jungroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward Party, has lost his MPs status after the Constitutional Court found him guilty of violating the Constitution by still holding shares in a media company when he registered to run in the March election. Legal experts said the ruling paves the way for Thanathorn to be charged under
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Dozens of Hong Kong protesters staged a dramatic escape from a university campus sealed off by police on Monday by shimmying down plastic hosing from a bridge and fleeing on waiting motorbikes as the police fired projectiles. Many more anti-government protesters remained trapped inside the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and
Another historic and highly-politicised case climaxes on Wednesday this week with a Constitution Court ruling on charges that Future Forward leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit still owned shares in a company doing a media business when he registered as a candidate for the March election. Here are facts about the case, which will determine the immediate
The Election Commission (EC) has unanimously decided to order the Future Forward party to submit documents related to the 191 million baht loan it borrowed from party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit. According to a press release today (Monday), from the Office of the Election Commission, the move is to enable the case to be cleared
Palang Pracharat MP for Ratchaburi province, Ms. Pareena Kraikupt, will have to cede to the state the 102 hectares of land in Chom Bung district of Ratchaburi, which she has occupied and utilized for several years, because part of the land is in national forest reserves and the rest is classified as Sor Por Kor
A malfeasance charge was filed today with the Criminal Court for Corruption Cases, by Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, against the seven election commissioners in connection with their handling of the Future Forward party leader’s media ownership case. The legal action came two days ahead of a ruling from the Constitutional Court, over Thanathorn’s holding of a substantial
