By Thai Newsroom Reporters A REFRESHED PETITION in pursuit of an ouster of the newly-named National Anti-Corruption Commission Chair Suchart Trakulkasemsuk has been planned by former deputy police chief Surachate Hakparn to be filed shortly at parliament. Surachate, who was dismissed last year as deputy police chief over kickback scandals, has planned to submit
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Phumtham downplays PM’s legal battle over ministerial naming debacle
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PHEU THAI WHEELER-DEALER/Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said today’s (May 23) event in which the Constitutional Court has accepted an impeachment bid against Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin was practically no cause for concern. Known as a right-hand man of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, the deputy prime minister-cum-commerce
Read moreSrettha spared court suspension in performing as PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SRETTHA THAVISIN was today (May 23) spared a court-ordered suspension from performing as prime minister amidst an impeachment bid filed against him. Constitutional Court judges voted 5:4 to not suspend the Pheu Thai-attached prime minister from doing his official duties with immediate effect, pending a court ruling on the severe
Read morePichit calls it quits as court action on impeachment bid nears
By Thai Newsroom Reporters JUST A FEW DAYS ahead of a court action on an impeachment bid, Pichit Chuenban has today (May 21) resigned as minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office. Yesterday, the Pheu Thai-attached Pichit had dismissed hearsay of his stepping down under pressure but today he has finally bowed to it
Read moreBiden, 80, makes 2024 presidential run official as Trump fight looms
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News Washington – US President Joe Biden launched his re-election bid on Tuesday with a promise to protect American liberties from “extremists” linked to former President Donald Trump, who he beat in 2020 and might face again in 2024. Biden made his announcement in a video released by his
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