Academics appeal to King against ‘treacherous’ Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters OVER 100 SCHOLARS plan to submit a joint appeal to His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn tomorrow (June 27) asking for the monarch’s rare remark on a significant phenomenon in which Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, has evidently perpetrated what they call an […]
Read MoreRuam Thai Sang Chart faces party dissolution bid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE RUAM THAI SANG CHART, the currently second largest coalition partner of the Pheu Thai-led government, has been thrown into a pivotal legal battle with a fresh petition filed today (June 25) in pursuit of dissolution of the ultra-conservative party and a political ban to all the party’s executive board […]
Read MoreThaksin to keep Paetongtarn in power until budget bill’s final reading
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has stalled for time to keep his daughter-turned-prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in power until after legislation on the 2026 government budget passes final approval in parliament in August, a partisan source said over the weekend. Thaksin, father of the besieged woman prime minister, […]
Read MoreBhumjaithai rejects Pheu Thai call for return of interior portfolio
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI LEADER Anutin Charnvirakul today (June 18) categorically denied a persistent Pheu Thai demand for an immediate return of the interior portfolio to the core of the current coalition though such an ultimate dismissal would likely prompt an ouster of the second largest coalition partner from the Pheu Thai-led government. […]
Read MoreBhumjaithai told to return interior portfolio within couple of days
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI, core of the current coalition, has bluntly told the Bhumjaithai, the second largest coalition partner, to return the interior portfolio to the largest ruling party within a couple of days or else the latter could be eventually expelled from the coalition government. The Pheu Thai under Prime […]
Read MoreAnutin softens stand for Interior portfolio
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI LEADER Anutin Charnvirakul today (June 17) eased up his verbal insistence on his continuing to take charge of the interior portfolio and advised that the current Pheu Thai-led cabinet under Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra be subject sooner or later to a reshuffle of the whole deck which may invariably […]
Read MoreNewin, Anutin summoned for questioning over senatorial rigging scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters The polling agency has called Bhumjaithai de facto boss Newin Chidchob, party leader Anutin Charnvirakul plus a few others for questioning over senatorial rigging scandals. DE FACTO BHUMJAITHAI BOSS Newin Chidchob and other big names of the second largest coalition partner have been recently summoned by the Election Commission for […]
Read MoreNewin, not Anutin, has final say over new cabinet lineup
By Thai Newsroom Reporters WHETHER THE BHUMJAITHAI may continue to be part of the Pheu Thai-led coalition government or depart for the opposition bloc will ultimately depend on de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob and not titular party leader Anutin Charnvirakul. Though Anutin, the current deputy prime minister-cum-interior minister, has recently threatened to leave […]
Read MoreBhumjaithai will shift to opposition if stripped of interior portfolio: Anutin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI LEADER ANUTIN Charnvirakul said today (June 13) the coalition partner would rather become an opposition party if he himself was removed as interior minister anytime soon. The titular leader of the second largest coalition partner steered by de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob declined to say whether he would […]
Read MoreCourt trial over Thaksin’s Police Hospital fake-out case delayed
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a technical respite quietly provided for de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, a court trial on the Police Hospital fake-out case against him has been put off until after the next couple of weeks. The Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against […]
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