By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI today (Apr.5) announced a major populist policy to hand out 10,000 baht in digital wallet for each of all Thai adolescents and adults only if the party becomes government after the May 14 general election. Real estate tycoon Settha Taweesin, one of a trio of Pheu Thai
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Feature: Move Forward’s novel campaign style attracts Bangkokians
By Thai Newsroom Reporters Bangkok – Move Forward candidates running in constituency-based mode for MP of the capital are applying a novel campaign style to literally get closer than usual to prospective voters on the city streets. The Move Forward constituency-based contestants for the May 14 general election stand on a chair or a
Read moreKoh Samui residents hit by water shortage for months
RESIDENTS of Koh Samui’s Bophut subdistrict turned to the media for help after suffering water shortage for four months now with tap water either not flowing at all or flowing weakly and it is also salty, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Apr. 5). They added that they had complained to the Provincial Waterworks Authority
Read moreMet police rescanning background of Chinese nationals
THE gruesome kidnap-murder of a Chinese music student last week has led to Metropolitan police rescanning the background of Chinese nationals who have come to Thailand and look into pending cases, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Apr. 5). Pol. Maj. Gen. Noppasin Poolsawat, deputy chief of Metropolitan Police Bureau, said all metropolitan units had
Read morePheu Thai, Move Forward tipped to together get over 50% party-listed MPs
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IT WILL BE LIKELY FOR the Pheu Thai and the Move Forward to combinedly get more than half the total of 100 party-listed MPs in the May 14 general election, according to Chulalongkorn University political scientist Siripan Nogsuan Sawasdee. Siripan made a prediction on the nationwide election last night (Apr.4)
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