By-election for MP to replace court-deposed Padipat due in mid-September
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A BY-ELECTION FOR a constituency-based MP to replace former deputy House speaker Padipat Santipada will likely be held by the middle of next month. The Election Commission is expected to schedule the by-election in Phitsanulok’s Constituency 1 for Sept. 15 to find replacement for Padipat who was immediately stripped of […]
Read MoreCoalition partners’ No. 2 figures to concurrently assume Cabinet seats
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SECRETARIES-GENERAL of two coalition partners will likely be concurrently given ministerial seats in a new cabinet lineup under Prime Minister-designate Paetongtarn Shinawatra, partisan sources said today (Aug. 17). That refers to Pheu Thai Secretary-General Sorawong Thianthong and Ruam Thai Sang Chart Secretary-General Ekkanat Prompan, both of whom are largely […]
Read MoreThaksin given complete freedom among 50,000 royally-pardoned convicts
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra who had been released on parole earlier this year was today (Aug. 17) given complete freedom among 50,000 royally-pardoned convicts nationwide. The royal pardon was today declared in a royal decree with immediate effect to the extent that the billionaire, politically powerful Thaksin […]
Read MoreMyanmar workers protest over unpaid wages
OVER 700 Myanmar workers staged a protest in front of a factory they are constructing within Rojana Industrial Park Prachinburi after Chinese capitalists had not paid their wages for two months while forcing them to work everyday, Amarin TV said today (Aug. 17). Police at Ro Bo Pai station, Si Maha Phot district, were […]
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