By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul has been ultimately advised against literally co-piloting a military combat aircraft for safety reasons during his official visit to Wing 1 air force base in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) scheduled shortly, according to an air force source. The prime minister will be strongly suggested by air marshals
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PM rejects calls permitting teachers to carry firearms
AFTER the deadly school shooting by a 14-year-old male student leading to seven fatalities, including himself, within the premises with the perpetrator having also shot dead his grandparents prior to that Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul today (Aug. 8) rejected proposals to allow teachers to carry firearms, TV Channel 7 and PPTVHD36 said. Anutin bluntly
Read moreMyanmar president visits Thailand on quest for legitimacy as Bangkok backs engagement
By Panu Wongcha-um, Reuters, and published by Yahoo!News MYANMAR’S junta chief turned President Min Aung Hlaing will make an official visit to Thailand today (Aug. 6), as Bangkok makes a push for re-engagement between its war-torn neighbour and the regional bloc Asean. Myanmar’s leaders have been barred from summits of the Association of Southeast
Read moreAnutin lacking personal maturity, emotional control: NIDA Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul has been taken to task for alleged lack of personal maturity and emotional control since he recently lost his cool blatantly lashing at whom he called “pathetic” critics. NIDA’s Doctorate Project For Politics & Development Strategies Director Pichai Ratanadilok na Phuket remarked that Anutin was obviously
Read moreAnutin loses his cool over Newin-Pipat conflict
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (July 28) lost his cool and irritably retorted to any government critics who might probably take liberty to pry into “family-like” relationship between de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob and Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Transport Minister Pipat Ratchakitprakarn reportedly due to mutual conflict of interest. The prime
Read moreAnutin brands moves to possibly dissolve Bhumjaithai over senatorial rigging scandals ‘pathetic’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (July 27) called anyone’s legal moves to have the Bhumjaithai, core of the current coalition government, dissolved by court pertaining to 2024’s senatorial rigging scandals “pathetic” and repeatedly denied that he had been by any means involved in such electoral frauds. Asked by reporters whether
Read morePM, Bhumjaithai ministers accused of involvement in alleged senatorial rigging conspiracy
‘ By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul and several other members of his cabinet were yesterday (July 21) publicly accused of clandestine, unlawful involvement in the alleged rigging of 2024’s senatorial election now that the Election Commission has been repeatedly taken to task for dragging their feet on the notorious issue. Yingcheep Atchanont,
Read moreThai PM boosts trade ties with China’s Sichuan province
THAI Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul held talks with Mr. Wang Xiaohui, secretary of the Communist Party of China for Sichuan province in Chengdu today (July 18) with both sides agreeing to upgrade cooperation in trade, investment, science, technology, innovation, tourism, and local-level cooperation in concretely connecting the Thai economy with the western Chinese market,
Read moreThai PM urged to ask Chinese leader to not deliver more tanks to Khmers
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAI RUAM PALANG MP Wasawat Poungponsri today (July 17) advised Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to ask Chinese President Xi Jinping to suspend delivery of a supplementary batch of Chinese-built, main battle tanks to Cambodia for the sake of Thailand’s border security reasons. The elected lawmaker/secretary-general of the splinter opposition party
Read moreAnutin has no courage to fight vices at Ministry of Interior: Nattapong
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PEOPLE’S LEADER Nattapong Ruengpanyawut today (July 15) straightforwardly took Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to task, saying he has not seemed to have courage to combat wrongdoings allegedly perpetrated by high-ranking government officials at the Ministry of Interior where he himself is taking charge in concurrent fashion. The People’s leader charged
Read morePeople’s leader lauds former Shinawatra family PMs meeting Asean leaders while slamming Anutin
PEOPLE’S leader and party-listed MP Nattapong Ruangpanyawut said talks between three former prime ministers of the Shinawatra family, Thaksin, Yingluck and Paetongtarn, with Asean leaders is a positive development if people’s problems are solved while criticising Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul for not moving fast enough to resolve the temporary ban on export of five
Read moreAnutin, Anwar Ibrahim open key road across the border
THAI Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim presided over a ceremony opening a road linking Sadao checkpoint in Songkhla province on the Thai side with the Bukit Kayu Hitam checkpoint in Malaysia’s Kedah state late this morning (July 10) heralding the Thai-Malaysian Economic Gateway with the aim of racking in
Read moreThai, Malaysian leaders agree to boost cooperation in all dimensions
THAI Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim agreed during the former’s two-day visit to the neighbouring country to upgrade cooperation in all dimensions and create “areas of opportunity” in economics, trade, investment, tourism, and security to lift the quality of life and income of the people of both countries, Naewna
Read moreNo hush-hush meet between Anutin and Thaksin/Paetongtarn in KL?
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul has categorically dismissed speculation that he might probably see a couple of his predecessors, namely de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra, albeit in hush-hush fashion somewhere in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur between tomorrow (July 9) and the following
Read moreConflict of interest emerges between Anutin and Newin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters CONFLICT of interest has quietly loomed between Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob over bureaucratic transfers between Interior Ministry Undersecretary Ansit Sampantharat, known as invariably obedient to the former, and Provincial Administration Department Director-General Narucha Kosacivilize, viewed as personally staunch to the latter, according to
Read morePM pressed to set up panel to investigate ‘Do Help the Blue’ scandal
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul was today (June 15) repeatedly pressed to set up an “independent” committee to look into allegations that a senior government official had unlawfully ordered any of his subordinates via Line messages to “Do Help the Blue”, apparently referring to the Bhumjaithai electoral campaign during the
Read moreAnutin does not dare do anything to ‘boss’s son’ over AI project?
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul was today (June 15) taken to task for not trying to put an end to controversy over the TH-AI Passport project launched by Digital Economy & Society Minister Chaichanok Chidchob only because the latter is a son of the former’s boss, namely de facto Bhumajaithai boss
Read moreAnalysis: Thai farm debt crisis deepens in early test for Anutin’s government
By Orathai Sriring and Panarat Thepgumpanat, Reuters, and published by Yahoo!News AHEAD of Thailand’s February general election, politicians often came to court voters like 69-year-old rice farmer Chaon Taiupok in Ayutthaya, about 80km (50 miles) north of the capital, Bangkok. “Once they won and formed the government, they disappeared,” said Chaon, who is struggling
Read moreAnutin, Chaichanok face impeachment bid over alleged, illicit occupation of land
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul and Digital Economy & Society Minister Chaichanok Chidchob are facing impeachment charges in court which could possibly warrant a loss of their ministerial status amidst allegations that they have been illicitly occupying part of Khao Kradong land in their northeastern home province of Buriram. Anutin, who
Read moreAnutin tells Macron Thailand was not the aggressor in battle with Cambodia
IN A MEETING with French President Emmanuel Macron at 9.30 a.m. in Paris (2.30 p.m. in Thailand) today (May 26) Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul insisted that Thailand was not the aggressor in the two rounds of fighting with Cambodia last year, PPTVHD36 said. As Macron had inquired about the border conflict with Cambodia, Anutin
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