Army-led ISOC won’t be dissolved: PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will the Internal Security Operations Command be dissolved as the army-led agency will be obliged to play more government-assisting roles, according to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. The prime minister confirmed today (Oct.31) the Pheu Thai-led government has had no intent to dissolve the ISOC but planned to […]
Read MoreThailand to offer Indian, Taiwanese tourists visa-free entry
By Reuters and published by Swissinfo.ch THAILAND will waive visa requirements for arrivals from India and Taiwan from next month to May 2024, a government official said today (Oct. 31), in a bid to draw in more tourists as high season approaches. Thailand in September scrapped visa requirements for Chinese tourists, the country’s top […]
Read MoreProtesters urge govt to return Thaksin to jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A DOZEN POLITICAL activists today (Oct.31) pressed the government to return de facto Pheu Thai boss/”sickly” inmate Thaksin Shinawatra from hospital to jail. The street protesters led by the so-called Students’ & People’s Network For Thailand Reform peacefully gathered outside Government House calling on the Pheu Thai-led government to take […]
Read MorePadipat finally accepted as MP of Fair Party
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY HOUSE SPEAKER Padipat Santipada, previously attached to the Move Forward, has been officially accepted as MP of the Fair Party following last month’s “technical” ouster of him from the largest opposition party. Fair Party leader Pitipong Temcharoen confirmed today (Oct.31) that the first deputy House speaker has been recently […]
Read MorePanpree urgently flies to Qatar, Egypt for talks on freeing hostages
FOREIGN Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara is urgently flying to Qatar and Egypt for emergency talks with their leaders to help free 22 Thais held hostage by Hamas fighters as the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, TV Channel 7 said this morning (Oct. 31). As instructed by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin Parnpree will also be promoting bilateral relations […]
Read MoreMinistry promotes childbearing as births plunge
PUBLIC Health Minister Chonlanan Srikaew said as the shrinking birth rate has reached a critical level promotion of childbirth is now a “national agenda” with the government to be the main investor in human resource development, Amarin TV said this evening (Oct. 30). The important issues in promoting childbearing are balancing work and taking […]
Read MorePhumtham puts the brakes on sugar price hike
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai today (Oct. 30) halted a four-baht increase in the ex-factory price of sugar nationwide for the 2023/24 production season excluding VAT as earlier announced by the Cane and Sugar Board, Matichon newspaper said. Speaking after chairing a meeting of the Central Committee on Prices of Goods and Services […]
Read More‘Big Joke’ jeered for literally kneeling before Potjaman
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE FAMOUS DEPUTY POLICE chief Pol.Gen. Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn has been lambasted and ridiculed online for staging an act of excessive subservience to Potjaman na Pombejra, former spouse of de facto Pheu Thai boss/”sickly” inmate Thaksin Shinawatra. During yesterday’s ceremony for a mass walk-run-bicycle activity at Sanam Luang ground, […]
Read MoreMpox surges with 24 infected, one more death in just a week
THE PUBLIC Health Ministry said this morning (Oct. 30) mpox (monkeypox) cases increased over the past week with 24 getting injected while one patient who was HIV positive died with two having succumbed to this disease so far, TV Channel 7 said. Dr. Thongchai Keeratihatthayakorn, acting director-general of the Disease Control Department, revealed that […]
Read MoreMinistry slams showing video of Thai being brutally killed at UN
THE Thai Foreign Ministry today (Oct. 29) criticised the showing of a gruesome video of a Thai being brutally killed by a Hamas fighter at the UN General Assembly last Thursday, Naewna newspaper said. Israel’s UN envoy Gilad Erdan showed the 193-member General Assembly the brief video that he said showed a Hamas fighter […]
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