By Thai Newsroom Reporters PHEU THAI LEADER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra admitted today (May 24) she is not yet ready to become prime minister anytime soon as Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is currently engaged in a legal battle over an impeachment lawsuit filed against him. Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, told
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Thai Navy admirals bow to China while keeping Defence Minister at bay: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAI NAVY ADMIRALS have ultimately succumbed to China whilst Thai Defence Minister Suthin Khlangsang has obviously capitulated to their whims over the long-delayed procurement of a submarine with a “low-quality” engine from the Asian superpower, concluded a noted academic today (May 24). Chulalongkorn University’s political scientist Prof. Emer. Surachart Bamrungsuk
Read moreA powerful person stopped release of video clips on activist’s death: Lawyer
THE LAWYER for woman activist Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom who died while holding a hunger strike during detention at a Bangkok prison said he suspects someone powerful has ordered the Corrections Department to not hand over video clips on her medical treatment at prison hospital prior to her death, Amarin TV said today (May 24).
Read moreSeveral injured passengers on turbulence-hit flight need spinal surgery
By AP and published by Yahoo!News SEVERAL of the more seriously injured people who were on the Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence earlier this week will need spinal surgery, a Bangkok hospital said yesterday (May 23). Twenty people remained in intensive care and a 73-year-old British man died after the Boeing 777,
Read morePattaya police fire gunshots in chasing drug dealer
POLICE fired gunshots at Na Jomtien beach in Pattaya yesterday afternoon (May 23) as they chased an armed drug trafficker they were trying to nab in a sting operation with the suspect injured in the leg, TV Channel 7 said. At 2.20 p.m. Pol. Col. Navin Therawit, head of Pattaya City police station, was
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