By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAILAND’S GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT is forecast to rise 3.8% next year partly due to the Pheu Thai-initiated digital wallet campaign, the Bank of Thailand’s assistant governor Piti Disyatat said today (Nov.29). Without the much-heralded digital wallet project under which a sum of 500 billion baht will be spent up by
Day: November 29, 2023
Thaksin’s medical expenses at Police Hospital entirely covered by taxpayers’ money
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL EXPENSES ON MEDICAL treatments of “sickly” de facto Pheu Thai boss/convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra at Police Hospital are being entirely covered by the taxpayers’ money and not his, according to an informed source. Thaksin, who has been admitted for undisclosed “illnesses” at Police Hospital since Aug.22, marking the
Read moreCourt puts off handing down verdict in Yingluck case
THE Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office-Holders today (Nov. 29) postponed handing down a verdict in a case against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on charges of abusing power in the transfer of a National Security Council official because one of a panel of nine judges had died and a replacement still to
Read moreForeign Minister welcomes two more Thais released by Hamas
By Naewna newspaper and Reuters – published by CNA FOREIGN Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara before dawn today (Nov. 29) in Thailand and at 11 p.m. in Israel posted a message on X, formerly Twitter, that two more Thai hostages had been released by Hamas, Naewna newspaper said. He was at the hospital where the two
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