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Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira said today that he will not submit the name of Kittiratt Na-Ranong for chairmanship of the Bank of Thailand to the cabinet today, because he needs one or two more weeks to consider the matter and the relevant procedures.
The selection committee’s recent decision to name former finance minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong as chairman of the board of the Bank of Thailand is expected to be considered at the meeting of the mobile cabinet in Chiang Mai this Friday.
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong made his first official visit to Thailand since taking office in May 2024 today, as a guest of the Thai Government.
The Thai Navy’s procurement of its first submarine is likely to be further delayed, as Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said today that he needs more time to study the project having only recently assumed the defence portfolio.
The Thai Defence Council is scheduled to meet today to discuss reports that troops from Myanmar’s United Wa State Army (UWSA) have occupied the former bases of the now-defunct Mong Tai Army, some of which are located in Thai territory.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will lead her cabinet to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, two northern provinces severely affected by recent flooding, for their first retreat.
Police in the northern border province of Chiang Rai have arrested Samart Jenchaijitwanich, a former deputy spokesman of the Palang Pracharath Party, on money laundering charges.
Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has brushed aside a veiled threat of mass protests, if the government negotiates with Cambodia over joint development of the overlapping claim area in the Gulf of Thailand with the framework of MoU 44, which is signed by both parties.
Pheu Thai-backed candidate Sarawut Phetphanomporn won the Udon Thani Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO) mayoral election, while Bhumjaithai’s ally, Warin Chinwong, won in Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Thanyaporn Mungcharoenporn won the Surin Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO) mayoral election on Saturday with 222,724 votes.
Local elections were held this weekend in four provinces – Surin on Saturday (November 23), followed by Udon Thani, Phetchaburi, and Nakhon Si Thammarat on Sunday (November 24).
A group of Thai nationalists, led by Dr Warong Dechgitvigrom, the chairman of the royalist Thai Pakdee party, submitted a petition letter today. It was signed by over 100,000 people and demands the cancellation of MoU 44 between Thailand and Cambodia.
