By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER WISSANU Krea-ngam said today (August 9) Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha cannot be compared with the late statesman Prem Tinsulanonda as to whether the former may ever step down after eight years in power. The deputy premier in charge of legal affairs was responding to Prayut’s critics calling
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‘Banana feeding’ scandal: Prawit dismisses allegations rocking party, foundation
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER PRAWIT Wongsuwan today (August 9) categorically dismissed allegations that he had secretly handed out kickbacks in cash to a dozen MPs currently attached to six splinter parties. Prawit who concurrently heads largest coalition partner Palang Pracharath Party denied that he had managed to provide 100,000 baht in
Read moreWarning of heavy rain as tropical storm Mulan heads to Vietnam
PARTS OF Thailand will be hit by heavy to very heavy rain during August 11-13 as a depression in the South China Sea has strengthened into a tropical storm named “Mulan” and is now moving to make a landfall on the upper part of Vietnam, the Thai Meteorological Department said at 4 p.m. today
Read moreThai drama director freed, Myanmar junta says he wasn’t kidnapped
THE Thai drama director held by Red Wa ethnic group at their stronghold in Myanmar since the beginning of this year with 24 million baht ransom demanded for his freedom was released by Myanmar junta troops today (August 9) but they said he was not kidnapped and had willingly gone to the Red Wa
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