France to help Thailand stamp out call centre gangs
IN a phone call with Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra today (June 27) French President Emmanuel Macron lent support to Thailand’s crackdown on call centre gangs and agreed to consider coordinating with Cambodia on the tension along the Thai-Cambodian border, Amarin TV said. Mr. Jirayu Huangtra, the Prime Minister’s spokesman, said the two leaders […]
Read MoreRed Shirts show up at Pheu Thai head office to encourage PM
HUNDREDS of Red Shirt activists went to Pheu Thai Party’s head office today (June 27) to encourage Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra amid the current political storm over her recent leaked phone call to Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen and urged her to neither dissolve the House of Representatives and call an election nor resign, Amarin […]
Read MorePaetongtarn fears court suspension as PM, plans to take culture portfolio
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra plans to assume the culture portfolio in concurrent fashion in the wake of the probability that she would be suspended by court from performing as head of government from next week, a partisan source said today (June 27). In case that Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto […]
Read MoreRussian journalist kidnapped by countrymen, paid big ransom
A RUSSIAN journalist told Pattaya police that a gang of his countrymen kidnapped him from a hotel at this seaside city and only freed him after he and his wife paid 2.5-million-baht ransom, Amarin TV said this morning (June 27). At 9 a.m. yesterday a Russian man, later identified only as Mr. David, 28, […]
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