People’s Party MPs preparing for heated debate on govt policy statement
PEOPLE’S Party MP Sirikanya Tansakul said the debate on Pheu Thai-led coalition government’s policy statement to be delivered by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra which is scheduled to take place next Thursday and Friday (Sep. 12-13) will be intense with her party gearing up field 30 MPs to question it, Naewna newspaper said today (Sep. […]
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 hurls a surprise retort at Democrats during censure debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN AS a surprise retort, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin today (Apr. 3) lambasted the Democrats in the middle of the House chamber, saying they could be merely looking to skip over from the opposition bloc to the Pheu Thai-led coalition government. In response to former Democrat leader […]
Read MorePM, govt warned to not repeat mock jail sentence for Yingluck
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin and the Pheu Thai-led government have been warned today (Apr. 3) to not repeat the alleged compromising and flaunting of the country’s rules of law in favour of deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra who is reportedly looking to return home from self-exile abroad. During the first […]
Read MoreSenators to grill Pheu Thai-led govt over Thaksin’s ‘double-standard privileges’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SENATORS PLAN TO GRILL the coalition government over alleged double-standard privileges provided for de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra, among other bones of contentions, on the upcoming Monday, sources said today (Mar 23). In Monday’s censure debate on performance of the Pheu Thai-led government without a subsequent […]
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 […]
Read MoreGovt urged to cancel Chinese submarine deal
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI-LED GOVERNMENT was today (Jan.4) encouraged to cancel the navy’s Chinese submarine purchase deal since the Chinese shipbuilder has already failed to deliver it. During a second day of floor debate on the 2024 budget bill, Move Forward MP Chayapon Sathorndee suggested Defence Minister Suthin Khlangsang to entirely […]
Read MoreThammanat urging rice farmers to give up 3-harvests-a-year farming
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AGRICULTURE & COOPERATIVES MINISTER Thammanat Prompao said today (Jan.3) rice farmers are being encouraged to give up their three-harvests-a-year occupation and grow another cash crop as an alternative. During the first day of floor debate on the 2024 budget bill, the agriculture minister confirmed that the Agricultural Extension Department plans […]
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