By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin would be very likely acquitted of impeachment charges later this month, thus relieving de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, largely known as “Mr. Fix-It”, of topical stress and tempting him to take a private trip to Dubai, albeit denied by court, a prominent academic concluded
Day: July 31, 2024
Myanmar junta extends state of emergency by 6 months
By AFP and published by CNA Yangon – Myanmar’s junta on Wednesday (July 31) extended the state of emergency by six months, again delaying fresh polls it has promised to hold as it battles opposition to its coup. The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the February 2021 coup which ended a
Read moreTwo bomb blasts in Narathiwat province
A TEAM of eight policemen travelling in two pickup trucks escaped unscathed after two bombs went off on a road in southern Narathiwat province’s Cho-airong district today (July 31) but one civilian got injured in the blasts, TV Channel 7 said. At 11.10 a.m. just as the police investigators got close to a bridge
Read moreThaksin’s requested trip to Dubai denied by court
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CRIMINAL COURT today (July 31) denied a request filed by de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra as a criminal suspect on bail to leave Thailand for the United Arab Emirates for a couple of weeks next month. The Criminal Court denied Thaksin’s personal request for a departure from
Read moreProvincial prosecutor held on bribery charges
A PROSECUTOR in Nakhon Si Thammarat was arrested today (July 31) on the charges of taking a bribe from a man facing a land grab case just as the victim went to his office to give the second instalment of the payoff, TV Channel 7 said today (July 31). Mr. Niwatchai Gasemmongkol, secretary-general of
Read moreHamas says its leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran by an Israeli airstrike
By AP and published by Yahoo!News Beirut – Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said early Wednesday (July 31), and Hamas blamed Israel for the attack. Israel has vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas over the group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200
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