Senator warns struggling state hospitals may have to return 4 billion baht
THE National Health Security Office (NHSO) may ask state hospitals nationwide that are already coping with heavy losses to return 4 billion baht with this impacting medical treatments, Naewna quoted a senator as saying this morning (July 19). Dr.Veerapun Suvannamai, a senator and vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Health, said in […]
Read More2026 budget bill sails through House at principle-approval stage
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LEGISLATION ON a government budget for fiscal 2026 overwhelmingly passed approval in principle from the House of Representatives today (May 31). Following a four-day debate on the House floor, a total of 322 Pheu Thai-led coalition MPs cast yea votes for the 3.78 trillion baht budget whilst a total of […]
Read MorePeople’s Party slams Constitutional Court’s budget
A PEOPLE’S Party MP lambasted a budget for a Constitutional Court course which allegedly did not meet the objective during the last day of deliberation of the 3.75 trillion baht 2025 budget legislation in the House of Representatives today (Sept. 5), Naewna newspaper said. Ms. Sasinan Thamnithinan, People’s Party MP for Bangkok, said the […]
Read More122 billion baht supplementary budget bill for digital wallet project sails through House
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LEGISLATION FOR the Pheu Thai-led government to acquire a sum of 122 billion baht in supplementary budget to partly finance the 450 billion baht digital wallet project today (July 17) smoothly sailed through the approval-in-principle stage in the House of Representatives. After a 10-hour floor debate on the highly contentious […]
Read More2025 budget bill sails through House at principle-approval stage
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE 2025 BUDGET legislation smoothly sailed through the House of Representatives tonight (June 21) after a three-day-long floor debate. A total of 311 government MPs cast yea votes to approve in principle the 3.75 trillion baht budget bill, compared to 175 opposition MPs who cast nay votes against it. A […]
Read MoreSuthin taken to task over contentious defence budgeting
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PHEU THAI-ATTACHED DEFENCE Minister Suthin Khlangsang was today (June 20) taken to task over the questionable defence budgeting which allegedly focuses on personnel rather than high-tech weapon systems and equipment to meet today’s warfare challenges. During the second day of House floor debate on the 2025 budget bill, Move Forward […]
Read MoreChinese-made goods to flood Thai markets under digital wallet scheme: Move Forward
By Thai Newsroom Reporters VARIETIES OF CHEAP, Chinese-made merchandise will likely flood Thailand’s domestic markets under the vote-wooing, Pheu Thai-initiated digital wallet project, Move Forward leader Chaithawat Tulathon concluded today (June 19). During the first day of a marathon floor debate in the House of Representatives, the Move Forward leader-cum-Opposition leader took the Pheu […]
Read MorePM underscores digital wallet project will spur economic growth
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin today (June 19) reconfirmed the much-heralded, yet-delayed digital wallet project will definitely become a major economic stimulus to increase domestic consumption, manufacturing of goods, creation of jobs and hefty revenue to the state coffers. Addressing the House of Representatives on the 2025 budget legislation during the […]
Read MorePM might fail to address House on 2025 budget bill next Wednesday
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin might possibly fail to address the House of Representatives on the 2025 budget legislation next Wednesday if suspended by court from doing his duties with immediate effect a day earlier. The Pheu Thai-attached prime minister could possibly be immediately suspended at an order of the Constitutional […]
Read MorePheu Thai Cabinet member seen watching football match in House Chamber
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY AGRICULTURE & COOPERATIVES Minister Chaiya Phromma was evidently seen watching a live football match in the middle of the House chamber where MPs were debating the 2024 budget bill last night (Mar.21). The Pheu Thai cabinet member-cum-MP and another Pheu Thai MP were seen seated next to each other […]
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