By Thai Newsroom Reporters UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will the Internal Security Operations Command be dissolved as the army-led agency will be obliged to play more government-assisting roles, according to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. The prime minister confirmed today (Oct.31) the Pheu Thai-led government has had no intent to dissolve the ISOC but planned to
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Thailand to offer Indian, Taiwanese tourists visa-free entry
By Reuters and published by Swissinfo.ch THAILAND will waive visa requirements for arrivals from India and Taiwan from next month to May 2024, a government official said today (Oct. 31), in a bid to draw in more tourists as high season approaches. Thailand in September scrapped visa requirements for Chinese tourists, the country’s top
Read moreProtesters urge govt to return Thaksin to jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A DOZEN POLITICAL activists today (Oct.31) pressed the government to return de facto Pheu Thai boss/”sickly” inmate Thaksin Shinawatra from hospital to jail. The street protesters led by the so-called Students’ & People’s Network For Thailand Reform peacefully gathered outside Government House calling on the Pheu Thai-led government to take
Read morePadipat finally accepted as MP of Fair Party
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY HOUSE SPEAKER Padipat Santipada, previously attached to the Move Forward, has been officially accepted as MP of the Fair Party following last month’s “technical” ouster of him from the largest opposition party. Fair Party leader Pitipong Temcharoen confirmed today (Oct.31) that the first deputy House speaker has been recently
Read morePanpree urgently flies to Qatar, Egypt for talks on freeing hostages
FOREIGN Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara is urgently flying to Qatar and Egypt for emergency talks with their leaders to help free 22 Thais held hostage by Hamas fighters as the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, TV Channel 7 said this morning (Oct. 31). As instructed by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin Parnpree will also be promoting bilateral relations
Read moreMinistry promotes childbearing as births plunge
PUBLIC Health Minister Chonlanan Srikaew said as the shrinking birth rate has reached a critical level promotion of childbirth is now a “national agenda” with the government to be the main investor in human resource development, Amarin TV said this evening (Oct. 30). The important issues in promoting childbearing are balancing work and taking
Read morePhumtham puts the brakes on sugar price hike
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai today (Oct. 30) halted a four-baht increase in the ex-factory price of sugar nationwide for the 2023/24 production season excluding VAT as earlier announced by the Cane and Sugar Board, Matichon newspaper said. Speaking after chairing a meeting of the Central Committee on Prices of Goods and Services
Read more‘Big Joke’ jeered for literally kneeling before Potjaman
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE FAMOUS DEPUTY POLICE chief Pol.Gen. Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn has been lambasted and ridiculed online for staging an act of excessive subservience to Potjaman na Pombejra, former spouse of de facto Pheu Thai boss/”sickly” inmate Thaksin Shinawatra. During yesterday’s ceremony for a mass walk-run-bicycle activity at Sanam Luang ground,
Read moreMpox surges with 24 infected, one more death in just a week
THE PUBLIC Health Ministry said this morning (Oct. 30) mpox (monkeypox) cases increased over the past week with 24 getting injected while one patient who was HIV positive died with two having succumbed to this disease so far, TV Channel 7 said. Dr. Thongchai Keeratihatthayakorn, acting director-general of the Disease Control Department, revealed that
Read moreMinistry slams showing video of Thai being brutally killed at UN
THE Thai Foreign Ministry today (Oct. 29) criticised the showing of a gruesome video of a Thai being brutally killed by a Hamas fighter at the UN General Assembly last Thursday, Naewna newspaper said. Israel’s UN envoy Gilad Erdan showed the 193-member General Assembly the brief video that he said showed a Hamas fighter
Read morePolitical climate to determine how quickly Paetongtarn becomes PM: Anutin
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul today (Oct. 29) said political atmosphere will determine how quickly de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinwatra’s daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes the prime minister after she was elected leader of this party on Friday, Naewna newspaper said. Upon being asked by reporters whether Paetontarn could take the helm
Read moreGovernors told to push families to bring Thai workers back from Israel
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul tonight (Oct. 28) sent an urgent Line message to all governors across the nation to coordinate with families of Thai workers in Israel to persuade them to return home immediately, TV Channel 7 said. This step came after Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin had earlier in the day issued
Read moreSrettha slammed for literally bowing to Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SRETTHA THAVISIN was today (Oct.28) lambasted for literally bowing to newly-named Pheu Thai leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra in what was seen as an undue act of subservience of a prime minister. Moments after Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss/”sickly” inmate Thaksin Shinawatra, had been named leader of the core
Read morePM tells Thais in Israel to change their minds and return immediately
PRIME MINISTER Sretta Thavisin said in a post published on X, formerly Twitter, this afternoon (Oct. 28) that as Israeli forces have intensified their ground operation along the Gaza Strip with the war likely expanding Thais in Israel should change their minds and return home immediately, Matichon newspaper said. The government is extremely concerned
Read moreCaptain of ‘Wild Boars’ football team killed himself at UK school, coroner rules
By BBC and Thai Newsroom THE CAPTAIN of the “Wild Boars” youth football team trapped in a cave for several days in 2018 took his own life while at school in the UK, a coroner has ruled. The deceased 17-year-old youth. Duangphet Phromthep, or Dom, headed a team of 12 young footballers who together
Read morePrice of sugar hiked by 4 baht a kg
THE CANE and Sugar Board last night (Oct. 27) announced a four-baht increase in the ex-factory price of sugar nationwide for the 2023/24 production season excluding VAT effective today, Naewna newspaper said. The announcement, signed by Mr. Rit Wisetsin, the board’s deputy secretary-general and acting secretary-general, said the new ex-factory price is to be
Read moreThai police, DEA bust Nigerian drug gang
THAI narcotics police together with a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official in Thailand smashed a Nigerian drug trafficking ring based here with four Nigerians and an Ivory Coast national as well as three Thai women being arrested, Amarin TV said this afternoon (Oct. 22). In mounting Operation Mouse Hunt altogether 17 locations in
Read morePaetongtarn named Pheu Thai leader
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PAETONGTARN SHINAWATRA, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss/”sickly” inmate Thaksin Shinawatra was today (Oct. 27) named leader of the core coalition party. In today’s extraordinary caucus, Paetongtarn was unrivalled to assume the top Pheu Thai leadership practically under influence of her father who has been invariably regarded by the
Read moreTwo fairground rides closed after accident injures three people
SOON after a giant octopus ride at a funfair beneath Rama VIII Bridge malfunctioned, throwing three people to the ground last night (Oct. 26) the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) quickly closed both this and the risky flying bee ride, Matichon newspaper said. Bangkok Governor Chadchat Sittipunt sent Deputy Governor Wissanu Supsompon and Bang Plad
Read moreAt UN podium, Israel’s envoy plays gruesome video of Thai being attacked
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News United Nations – Israel’s United Nations envoy showed the 193-member General Assembly a brief video on Thursday (Oct. 26) that he said showed a Hamas fighter trying to decapitate a man with a garden tool during the Palestinian militants’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Ambassador Gilad Erdan told
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