By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SENATE WAS today (July 2) petitioned to put forward a fresh impeachment lawsuit against the newly-named Culture Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra after she has been already ordered by the Constitutional Court to stop running the country as head of government pending a court verdict on basis of allegations that she
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Paetongtarn fears court suspension as PM, plans to take culture portfolio
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra plans to assume the culture portfolio in concurrent fashion in the wake of the probability that she would be suspended by court from performing as head of government from next week, a partisan source said today (June 27). In case that Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto
Read moreWanted ex-culture minister, Pattaya mayor has fled the country
FORMER culture minister and Pattaya mayor Itthipol Khunpluem, wanted under arrest warrant issued over malfeasance charges stemming from approval of a condominium project over a decade ago, has already fled the country, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV said this afternoon (Sep. 6). Pol. Maj. Gen. Chomchawin Punathananon, acting commander for Chonburi, said Itthipol flew
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