By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE LATEST LINEUP OF 36 members of a new Pheu Thai-led Cabinet with the Democrats replacing the Palang Pracharath has been finished, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra confirmed today (Aug 30). Following yesterday’s historic event in which the Democrats jumped onto the Pheu Thai government bandwagon, capping 23 years of antagonism
Day: August 30, 2024
Tunnel search ends with all three workers found dead
ALL three workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel, which is part of the Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima section of the Sino-Thai high speed train project, died there with the bodies of the two Chinese workers found today (Aug. 30) after their Myanmar colleague’s body was brought out yesterday and have been taken for autopsy, TV Channel
Read moreExclusive-Thai central bank chief, finance minister to meet over inflation target as govt eyes rate cut
By Reuters and published by CNA THAILAND’S central bank chief and finance minister will meet in early September to open negotiations on an inflation target for 2025, a senior official said, as the government seeks a new goal with an eye on a rate cut that it has pushed for months. The government has
Read moreDemocrat entry into Pheu Thai-led govt ends 23 years of mutual antagonism
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE DEMOCRATS TODAY (Aug. 29) reached a unanimous, formal resolution to join the Pheu Thai-led coalition government, capping 23 years of mutual, polarised antagonism. The coalition-entry resolution was endorsed by 34 votes in today’s partisan meeting attended by 25 Democrat MPs and a number of Democrat executive board members without
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