Pheu Thai-led govt pressed to scrap Thai-Khmer MoU in 15 days
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI-LED government has been ultimately pressed by a former Yellow Shirt activist to rescind a “treacherous” MoU reached in 2001 between Thailand and Cambodia on a profit-sharing, undersea resources development project in a 15-day period from today (Dec. 9). Sonthi Limthongkul today submitted a fresh petition to Prime […]
Read MoreCourt urged to declare Thai-Khmer MoU null and void
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN was today (Nov. 25) asked to call on the Constitutional Court or Administrative Court to declare immediately null and void a 2001 MoU signed between Bangkok and Phnom Penh. Political activist Sonthiya Sawasdee submitted a petition to the Office of the Ombudsman asking the agency […]
Read MoreMass petition against Thai-Khmer undersea project to be submitted to Govt
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A FRESH PETITION undersigned by over 100,000 people in opposition to a Thai-Cambodian MoU on a joint undersea natural resources development project will be submitted to the Pheu Thai-led government on the upcoming Friday. Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom confirmed today (Nov. 20) that the mass petition to which over […]
Read MoreThai members to a joint undersea resources panel to be named ASAP
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER Maris Sangiampongsa confirmed today (Nov. 20) a group of persons will be named “as soon as possible” to sit on a Joint Technical Committee for a profit-sharing, undersea resources development project between Thailand and Cambodia. Maris stopped short of elaborating on the shortly-anticipated naming of members on […]
Read MorePhumtham denies rumours of Thaksin-Hun Sen hush-hush deal on undersea scheme
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai today (Nov. 11) downplayed criticism that de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen had mutually made a secret deal over a contentious, profit-sharing undersea resources development scheme in an upper part of the Gulf of Thailand. Phumtham, […]
Read MoreGovt urged to scrap Thai-Khmer MoU on developing undersea resources
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI-LED GOVERNMENT was today (Nov. 8) encouraged to entirely rescind the 2001 Memorandum of Understanding between Thailand and Cambodia in regard to a joint undersea resources development scheme which allegedly keeps the Thai side in undue disadvantage. The Palang Pracharath today gave a press conference to insist that […]
Read MoreThai-Khmer MoU on joint undersea resources scheme deemed ‘unconstitutional’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE THAI-CAMBODIAN Memorandum of Understanding made in 2001 in regard to a joint undersea natural resources development scheme may be deemed “unconstitutional” and finally declared null and void by Thailand, said Palang Pracharath Secretary-General Paiboon Nititawan today (Nov. 7). Given a sustained controversy over the legitimacy of the MoU undersigned […]
Read MoreChina, Vietnam cautioned over dredging, landfill work on South China Sea reefs
By Thai Newsroom Reporters CHINA AND VIETNAM are advised to stop dredging and landfill work on submerged coral reefs of Spratly Islands in the South China Sea to help preserve the otherwise deteriorated ecological systems. Researchers at the Centre For Strategic And International Studies have recently cautioned that the Chinese, the Vietnamese and others […]
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