By AFP and published by CNA PARLIAMENT yesterday (May 15) revived a law that would enshrine the right to breathable air and tax emitters, setting up a final vote in the senate on the landmark legislation. Several cities in Thailand, including Bangkok and northern tourist hub Chiang Mai, suffer from seasonal smog, sometimes ranking
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Cabinet nod for draft Financial Hub Act – to be immediately sent to the House
THE CABINET today (July 15) approved the draft Financial Hub Act B.E…. after the Council of State completed reviewing the legislation with this to be immediately forwarded to the House of Representatives for the first reading, Amarin TV said. Deputy Finance Minister Paopoom Rojanasakul said this new legislation, consisting of nine sections and 94
Read moreNewin’s son airs dissent to Pheu Thai-designed casino bill
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI SECRETARY-GENERAL/MP Chaichanok Chidchob today (Apr. 9) took the House floor to say he ultimately disagrees with the questionable Pheu Thai legislation to open casinos anywhere in Thailand. Chaichanok made his rare, resolute comments at parliament in the wake of concerted opposition by varied sectors of society to the highly
Read moreCasino bill indefinitely put off
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra confirmed today (Apr. 8) legislation to open casinos under entertainment complex projects in certain tourist spots is being indefinitely put on hold amidst sustained, predetermined opposition from within parliament and without. Nevertheless, the prime minister, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, stopped short
Read moreNearly 200 ex-senators oppose Pheu Thai-designed casino, online gambling scheme
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NEARLY 200 FORMER SENATORS have aired stern opposition to the ruling Pheu Thai’s disputable scheme to open casinos and legalise online gambling and insisted that the coalition government give it up now. Led by former Senate speakers Manoonkrit Roopkhachorn, Thiradej Meepian and Pornpet Wichitchonchai, the 189 former senior lawmakers today
Read more50-day deadline set to review draft Entertainment Complex Act
THE Council of State has been given 50 days to review the draft Entertainment Complex Act after the Cabinet approved the landmark legislative proposal in principle on Jan. 13 with this opening the door for casinos to be part of larger entertainment complexes, Amarin TV said today (Jan. 21). Mr. Pakorn Nilprapan, the Council
Read moreThaksin denies masterminding anti-coup legislation
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra categorically denied he had ordered legislation to keep the military top brass under control of an elected government or to thwart possible future coups saying he was “personally appalled” by it. The billionaire power player recently confided to partisan members that he had
Read morePM denies plot to interfere in military affairs with anti-coup legislation
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra today (Dec. 11) categorically denied her Pheu Thai-led government might probably seek to interfere in military affairs with a planned anti-coup legislation. Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, told reporters at Government House that the current coalition government would by no means
Read morePeople’s MP backs Pheu Thai’s anti-coup legislation
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PEOPLE’S MP PARIT Wacharasindhu today (Dec. 10) endorsed a fresh move of the Pheu Thai to put forward an anti-coup legislation, given a numerical advantage of MPs supposedly in support of it. The MP of the People’s, the largest in the opposition bloc, insisted that the anti-coup legislation drafted by
Read morePheu Thai to push for anti-coup legislation
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE RULING PHEU THAI plans to put forward legislation to thwart the military’s possible attempts to stage coups to overthrow elected governments in the future. The Pheu Thai under de facto party boss Thaksin Shinawatra will sooner or later introduce legislation to prevent the military top brass from possibly staging
Read moreMarijuana U-turn raises question who is the real PM: Thepthai
By Naewna and Reuters – published by CNA AFTER Interior Minister-cum-Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakil said yesterday (July 23) that the government will now work towards legislating marijuana for medical use, signalling a U-turn on plans to re-criminalise the plant by yearend, former MP Thepthai Senapong questioned who is really the prime minister of this
Read moreMany southernmost villagers favour ISOC dissolution: MP
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MANY SOUTHERNMOST PEOPLE would unquestionably agree to an ongoing massive move for the dissolution of the Internal Security Operations Command, according to a Move Forward MP. MP Romadon Panjor posted on his Facebook page today (Nov.1) to confirm that many people in predominantly Muslim southernmost provinces would almost certainly endorse
Read moreJoint House/Senate session adjourned again due to lack of quorum
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A JOINT HOUSE/SENATE meeting on legislation to discontinue the senators’ power to vote for prime minister was today (Feb.8) adjourned again due to lack of a quorum. After three hours of waiting to no avail for MPs and senators to make a quorum for the joint House/Senate session, Parliament President
Read morePeople-endorsed bid to end senators’ power to pick PM aborted again
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LEGISLATION TO END the power of senators to vote alongside MPs for head of a post-election government was aborted again today (Sept 7). During today’s joint House/Senate meeting on the legislation primarily drafted to amend the constitution’s Section 272 and endorsed with signatures of over 75,000 people in sustained effort
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