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Anutin ready to hold talks with Trump if he calls

  PRIME Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said this afternoon (Dec. 10) that he is ready to talk to US President Donald Trump about the battle with Cambodia raging at the border with the Foreign Affairs Ministry having to schedule it, Amarin TV. Trump said he would make a phone call to stop the conflict, after he

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Police officer sacked for involvement with call centre gang

  A METROPOLITAN police officer holding the rank of deputy superintendent for investigation  was dismissed today (Oct. 28) after being arrested on charges of involvement with a call centre gang, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV said. Pol. Lt. Gen. Sayam Boonsom, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, and Pol. Maj. Gen. Kiattikul Sonthinet, commander of

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Cambodia calls for ceasefire with Thailand after deadly clashes

  By AFP and published by CNA Washington – Cambodia wants an “immediate ceasefire” with Thailand, the country’s envoy to the United Nations said Friday (July 25), after the neighbours traded deadly strikes for a second day, with Bangkok also signalling an openness to talks. A long-running border dispute erupted into intense fighting with jets,

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People’s leaders shown a hole used for illegal border crossing

  PEOPLE’S Party leader Mr. Nattapong Ruangpanyawut and deputy leader Mr. Rangsiman Rome were shown a now-blocked hole dug in the ground behind a department store at Aryanyathet district, Sa Kaeo province, believed to have been used to illegally cross over to Cambodia, Thai Rath newspaper said today (July 6). Col. Methee Khamtem, commander of

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Paetongtarn vows to ‘export’ Thailand’s soft power to the world

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra today (June 30) pledged to manage to “export” Thailand’s soft power worldwide with herself taking the culture portfolio in a new cabinet lineup whilst being likely suspended by court from running the country as head of government. Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin

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France to help Thailand stamp out call centre gangs

  IN a phone call with Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra today (June 27) French President Emmanuel Macron lent support to Thailand’s crackdown on call centre gangs and agreed to consider coordinating with Cambodia on the tension along the Thai-Cambodian border, Amarin TV said. Mr. Jirayu Huangtra, the Prime Minister’s spokesman, said the two leaders

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Academics appeal to King against ‘treacherous’ Paetongtarn

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters OVER 100 SCHOLARS plan to submit a joint appeal to His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn tomorrow (June 27) asking for the monarch’s rare remark on a significant phenomenon in which Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, has evidently perpetrated what they call an

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No damage done due to private telephone talk: Paetongtarn

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra today (June 24) categorically denied that her exposed conversation with Cambodian leader Hun Sen on her private cellphone has done any damage to Thailand at all. Speaking to reporters at Government House, the woman prime minister/daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, contended that

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Constitutional Court may keep Paetongtarn from running country from July 8

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT may either practically force Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to stop running the country from early next month or simply drop charges filed against her to the extent that she has severely compromised ethics and honesty whilst handling Thai-Cambodian border conflict. The Constitutional Court is scheduled for July

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Warning that a single audio clip could lead to Thai economy collapsing

  THE SWIRLING political storm over leaked audio clip of a phone call that Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra made to Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen may lead to the Thai economy collapsing, TV Channel 7 quoted Mr. Poj Aramwattananon, chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, as saying this evening (June 19). Thailand is currently

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Police measures against transnational crimes stepped up in Chanthaburi

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters POLICE HAVE STEPPED UP measures to deter and combat transnational crimes across the Thai-Cambodian border from Chanthaburi which could possibly flourish in lieu of those in Myanmar’s townships across the border from Thailand’s northern and northwestern provinces. Now that Thailand has shut off power and Internet signals earlier supplied ”unawares”

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