By Reuters Staff, published by The Straits Times Yangon – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore pushed for a harder stance against Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing at a “tense” meeting that decided to exclude him from a regional summit this month, four sources with knowledge of the talks said. South-east Asian ministers
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Fresh push to dissolve Pheu Thai Party
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A FRESH PETITION WILL BE FILED in pursuit of the dissolution of Pheu Thai Party on a charge of being illegally masterminded and influenced by an outsider, namely former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Palang Pracharath MP Sira Jenjakha alleged today (Oct. 19) that Thaksin was evidently masterminding and pulling the strings
Read moreOver 70% of Bangkok residents doubled jabbed
THE Bangkok Metropolitan Administration said in a Facebook post today (Oct. 19) that 70.63% of the capital’s population have received the second Covid-19 jab with 7.7 million people being vaccinated since February this year, Siam Rath newspaper said. Pol. Lt. Col. Pongsakorn Kwanmuang, BMA’s spokesman, said in the post that so far 8,132,826 people have
Read moreTruck convoys heading for Bangkok to stage diesel price protest
A HUNDRED 10-wheel trucks, heavy trucks, trailers and buses from western and upper southern regions drove in a convoy to Bangkok this morning (Oct. 19) to join a protest by altogether a thousand large vehicles with six other convoys also participating to push for the capping of diesel price at 25 baht a litre, Matichon
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