By Thai Newsroom Reporters SCATHING, RELENTLESS verbal barrages and intermittent, vehement protests will likely prevail over a two-day censure debate on the House floor beginning on the upcoming Monday against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Though the historic motion launched by the People’s-led opposition bloc was primarily designed to grill the country’s second woman prime
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PM furious over alleged deal for Shinawatra family
PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra snapped at reporters today (March 20) when questioned about the no-confidence debate, set for Monday-Tuesday March 24-25, with the opposition’s theme allegedly being “a country deal” for Shinawatra family, pointing out that everything must be done with reason, not emotion, Amarin TV said. Paetongtarn has become the sole target of
Read morePM: Thaksin’s visit to Far-South not linked to attacks
PRIME Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said this afternoon (March 11) attacks in the Far-South occurring since last Saturday with another one taking place this morning are not linked to her father/de factor Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s visit there last month, Amarin TV and Naewna newspaper said. Asked by reporters whether these attacks were linked
Read moreThailand and Trip.com to jointly launch package to boost tourism
PRIME Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra held talks with executives of Trip.com while attending a tourism trade fair in Berlin, Germany, with an agreement reached to jointly launch a package to stimulate tourism during the current Amazing Thailand Grand Tourism and Sports Year 2025, Naewna newspaper said this evening (March 6). Aside from jointly launching a
Read morePrawit to take the floor on censure debate against Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WILL BE SEEN as a rare political phenomenon, Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan plans to take the House floor during censure debate against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra later this month. That will mark the first time that Prawit, a former deputy prime minister and currently the leader of
Read morePheu Thai taken to task for not relying on Paetongtarn in censure debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI, core of the current coalition government, was today (March 1) taken to task for alleged failure to trust their own leader/Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in a censure debate scheduled for later this month. That the Pheu Thai under de facto party boss Thaksin Shinawatra has resolved to
Read morePaetongtarn sole target of censure debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra has become the sole target of a censure motion due no later than the second week of next month, given allegations that she is virtually merely a “puppet” pulled by her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. The censure motion was today (Feb.27) lodged by
Read moreChina’s Xi and Paetongtarn vow to crack down on scam networks that plague Southeast Asia
By AP and published by Yahoo!News CHINA’S leader Xi Jinping and visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra vowed to crack down on the scam networks that plague Southeast Asia as the two leaders met today (Feb. 6) in Beijing. Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, which are south of China and share borders with Thailand, have
Read moreTorrential rain forces PM to skip visiting Pattani and only go to Yala, Narathiwat
PRIME Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s visit to the three southernmost provinces today (Jan. 16) had to change because torrential rain pounding Pattani made it impossible for her to go there so she is now only visiting Yala and Narathiwat, TV Channel 7 said. The Prime Minister held a meeting with some ministers and senior officials
Read morePirapan not getting a portfolio after losing energy seat: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ENERGY MINISTER PIRAPAN Salirathavibhaga would probably be kicked out of the Pheu Thai-led government for good rather than be reshuffled to any other portfolio in cabinet, forecast a noted academic today (Jan.9). According to Pichai Ratanadilok na Phuket, director of NIDA’s Political & Development Strategies Project, de facto Pheu Thai
Read moreWhatever Thaksin may have said might not necessarily happen: Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra said today (Jan. 7) whatever her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra may have said in regard to government policy matters might not necessarily happen in response to his word. The woman prime minister told reporters at Government House today her father was undoubtedly free
Read morePaetongtarn reported to possess 13.8 billion baht in wealth
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra was officially reported today (Jan. 3) to be a billionaire national figure with some 13.8 billion baht in wealth. Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, was officially reported to have 13.8 billion baht in varied categories of assets, compared to 147 million
Read morePM urged to dissolve House due to fiasco over high power rates
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra was today (Dec. 24) suggested to dissolve the House of Representatives sooner than later to take responsibility for her sustained failure to cut the expensive power rates. People’s leader Nattapong Ruangpanyawut was holding the woman prime minister/daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra completely
Read morePM to boost ties with Malaysia in all areas during official visit
PRIME Minister Paetongtarn Shinawater and her delegation arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last evening (Dec. 15) for the seventh annual full-fledged Thai-Malaysian meeting to jointly push forward various projects, especially cooperation in developing border areas, Naewna newspaper and TV Channel 7 said. Invited by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and welcomed at the
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 moreColumnist slams Paetongtarn’s fashion faux pas at global meeting
A FORMER columnist of “Dichan” and “Ploy Kaem Petch” magazines who now resides in US criticised Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s dress sense during her trip to Peru to join the 31st Apec Economic Leaders’ Meeting and related meetings last week, Naewna newspaper said today (Nov. 19). In a Facebook post Mr. Kiccha Buranond blasted the
Read moreThaksin bargains for Paetongtarn to be spared suspension as PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has recently held hush-hush talks with unidentified, highly-placed figures in a last-ditch effort to bargain for his daughter-turned-Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to stay in power, a partisan source said today (Nov. 18). Given an encompassing lawsuit earlier filed against Thaksin and his largest
Read moreThais in LA hold protest against Paetongtarn
A GROUP of Thais in Los Angeles staged a protest against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra during her visit with a video clip of their demonstration shared online, Amarin TV said last evening (Nov. 12). The video clip shows the Thais shouting and booing at Paetongtarn while the prime minister posted a photo and message
Read morePM offers to ‘cooperate’ over dad’s stay at Police Hospital
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra today (Nov. 5) offered to “cooperate” with the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) in search of information pertaining to her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s previous, contentious stay at Police Hospital. Though the prime minister-cum-Pheu Thai leader yesterday declined to comment on the controversy surrounding
Read moreNACC urged to ask PM for info about her father’s medical treatment
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission was suggested today (Nov 4) to directly ask Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra for information pertaining to her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s medical treatment at Police Hospital. Thai Liberal leader Seripisut Temiyavej advised the NACC to officially call on the prime minister to provide
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