THAILAND’S National Security Council is exploring avenues to file lawsuits against Cambodia at an international court for violence along the Thai-Cambodian border, Naewna newspaper said today (Aug. 6). Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa said this morning that while the government is preparing to file civil and criminal lawsuits against Cambodia, he does not yet
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Thavi undaunted over senators’ counterattack lawsuit
By Thai Newsroom Reporters JUSTICE MINISTER THAVI Sodsong today (March 13) shrugged off the legal action taken by 100-plus senators against him, saying he will certainly see to it that rules of law and justice be upheld in regard to an historic probe by the Department of Special Investigation into senatorial rigging scandals. Thavi
Read moreThaksin no longer happy-go-lucky power player
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra could no longer afford to be a carefree, happy-go-lucky power player or underestimate his frenemies’ potential in the face of multiple legal battles which could possibly result in an ouster of his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra as elected prime minister and a dissolution of
Read morePaetongtarn faces dilemma over Thaksin’s alleged fake-out at hospital
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra is facing a critical dilemma with her elected power at stake amidst legal battles directed against her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, a partisan source said yesterday (Sep. 18). A latest petition aimed at holding the billionaire power player Thaksin guilty of deliberately committing
Read morePaetongtarn deemed vulnerable to latest impeachment bid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra is currently viewed as susceptible to the latest impeachment-seeking lawsuit filed against her on charges of failing to abide by the wide-ranging code of political ethics by naming an allegedly dishonest person for minister, according to partisan sources. Among several lawsuits lodged against Paetongtarn, daughter of
Read moreChances of Pheu Thai being dissolved by court ‘slim and unlikely’: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters CHANCES OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT dissolving the Pheu Thai, the largest ruling party covertly steered by the billionaire power player Thaksin Shinawatra, are ultimately slim and unlikely in foreseeable future, according to a noted academic. Chiang Mai University’s Humanities Faculty’s historian Attachak Satayanuruk predicted that the Constitutional Court will likely
Read moreDozen ministers-designate might bring adverse déjà vu to Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A DOZEN NOTORIOUS ministers-designate are legally held “innocent” despite allegations of having perpetrated wrongdoings which are all to be finally judged by court, said deputy Pheu Thai leader/MP Chusak Sirinil today (Sept. 2). Chusak, reportedly named minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office in the latest cabinet lineup, was responding
Read morePaetongtarn might lose PM status, Pheu Thai leadership in Srettha case aftermath
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PAETONGTARN SHINAWATRA could possibly not only be deprived of premiership but Pheu Thai leadership in latest lawsuits filed against her as an aftermath of last month’s impeachment of her predecessor Srettha Thavisin. Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, could possibly be deprived of her prime-ministerial status
Read more81 protest-related lawsuits filed in 10 days
A POLICE report shows that during 10 days of demonstrations, from October 13 till today October 23, a total of 81 lawsuits have been filed against 77 adults and four youths with 70 bailed out and eight imprisoned, Amarin TV reported this afternoon. Pol. Maj. Gen. Piya Tawichai, deputy head of the Metropolitan Police, said
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