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Thailand will import more energy, aircraft, and farm produce from the United States, promote increased Thai investment in the US, and ease restrictions on US imports, in response to the Trump administration’s imposition of 36% tariffs on Thai exports to the US market, said Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
The Medical Council has had to postpone its review of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s treatment at the Police General Hospital, scheduled on April 10th, due to the late arrival of additional documentation from the Corrections Department’s hospital and the Police General Hospital, on March 31st and April 1st respectively.
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra met yesterday with visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 6th Summit of the Bay of Bengal regional grouping in Bangkok.
Seoul, South Korea - South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday upheld President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment over his disastrous martial law declaration, voting unanimously to strip him of office for violating the constitution.
House Speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha said today that the draft entertainment complex bill will not be debated during the House meeting today. It has been postponed until April 9th at the earliest.
The government’s draft entertainment complex bill will be debated in parliament this Thursday, a week sooner than expected.
The Criminal Court today sentenced Palang Pracharath MP Sira Jenjaka to one year in jail, and stripped him of his electoral rights for 20 years, for standing in the 2019 general election while knowing he was not qualified to do so.
The government will ask the House Speaker to include the draft entertainment complex bill in the agenda for deliberation in parliament on April 9th, Wisut Chainaroon, government chief whip, said today.
The Myanmar government has agreed to pardon and free four Thai crew members of a fishing boat, captured by Myanmar officials on September 30th last year while fishing in Myanmar’s waters, said Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in her Facebook post today.
The Cabinet approved a controversial draft bill today, to establish integrated entertainment complexes that will include casinos, a move aimed at boosting tourism, stimulating the economy and addressing illicit gambling.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that Senator Somchai Lenglak has lost his parliamentary status, because he was not qualified to contest senatorial election after the Supreme Court withdrew his voting rights for ten years for involvement in vote buying during the general election in 2023.
Former prime minister and Democrat party-list MP Chuan Leekpai has refuted the prime minister’s statement, made during the no-confidence debate, that her father, Thaksin Shinawatra, went into exile because he was persecuted.
