Court okays Thaksin’s Malaysia trip, demands Bt5m bond
The Criminal Court gave the green light today for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to travel to Malaysia, but required a bond of Bt5 million.
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The Criminal Court gave the green light today for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to travel to Malaysia, but required a bond of Bt5 million.
The Election Commission (EC) has come under fire for designating February 1 as polling day for mayors and councillors in Provincial Administrative Organisations (PAO) in 47 provinces.
The Criminal Court will determine today whether to allow former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to travel to Malaysia for a meeting.
A low-profile local election in the southern province of Phatthalung started to attract more attention on Wednesday, after former-prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva appeared on stage to campaign for one of the candidates.
People’s Party-list MP Rangsiman Rome is asking why the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) has not cut the electricity supply to several townships in Myanmar, known to be havens for Chinese-operated call centres, even though it has the authority to do so.
One of Thailand’s top legal experts, former deputy prime minister Dr. Wissanu Krea-ngam, has been appointed chairman of a special panel of the Council of State to vet the draft Entertainment Complex bill, which has been approved by the cabinet, according to a well-informed source.
Public Health Ministry has ordered its office in Phetchaburi province to investigate earnings over the past decade by Senator Dr. Keskamol Pleansamai while working as a skin and beauty specialist at a clinic there.
The cabinet approved a draft bill today to amend the Technology Crime Prevention and Suppression Act, with the intent to provide better protection for smartphone users and to hold banks and mobile phone service providers more accountable to their customers who fall prey to online scammers and call centres.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s next mobile cabinet meeting will be held in Songkhla’s border district of Sadao on February 18th, focusing on the flooding in the region.
Thailand’s Muslim spiritual leader has pledged to join calls urging the Thai government not to repatriate Uyghurs detained here to China, as doing so could damage the country’s reputation in the eyes of the Muslim world.
Thailand on Wednesday posted an AI-generated video of its prime minister speaking in Mandarin encouraging Chinese tourists to visit the kingdom despite reports of kidnappings on the Thai-Myanmar border.
A group of protesters filed a petition today, through the government’s complaint centre, calling on the prime minister to separate her father-daughter relationship from the running of the country.