By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin reassured today (Feb.13) he has unfaltering intention to run the country throughout the Pheu Thai-led government’s four-year term during which, he said, the people’s welfare will be better. The Pheu Thai-endorsed Srettha was apparently responding to sustained speculation that he might possibly be pressed to resign
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Justice minister confirms Thaksin has been granted parole
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS-CUM-CONVICT Thaksin Shinawatra has already been granted parole, confirmed Justice Minister Thawee Sodsong today (Feb.13). After spending half of his curtailed, one-year jail sentence accounting for a six-month period at Police Hospital since August, the de facto Pheu Thai boss is being released on parole among
Read moreJournalist, photographer bailed out
A JOURNALIST and a freelance photographer who were arrested yesterday (Feb. 12) on charges of supporting the spraying of an anti-Section 112 of the Criminal Code, or lese majeste law, message on the outside wall of the Temple of Emerald Buddha last year have been bailed out at 35,000 baht each, Matichon newspaper said
Read moreJournalist, photographer remanded in custody
A JOURNALIST and a freelance photographer who were arrested yesterday (Feb. 12) on charges of supporting the spraying of an anti-Section 112 of the Criminal Code, or lese majeste law, message on the outside wall of the Temple of Emerald Buddha last year were ordered remanded in custody by the Criminal Court as had
Read morePanpree-Blinken hold talks on boosting strategic partnership
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara held talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington yesterday (Feb. 12, US time) during which it was agreed to advance Thailand-US Strategic Alliance and Partnership, Matichon newspaper said. The Thai minister and his delegation are officially visiting US at Blinken’s invitation. This discussion is a
Read moreCambodia reports a new bird flu case, the brother of a 9-year-old who died of the virus
By AP and published by US News & World Report Phnom Penh, Cambodia — The brother of a boy who died last week from bird flu has tested positive for the virus, Cambodia’s Health Ministry said on Monday (Feb. 12). The nine-year-old’s death in the northeastern province of Kratie was the first from bird
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