By Thai Newsroom Reporters A GROUP OF PERSONS in reserve position for senators today (April 2) repeated their formal petition for the Election Commission to immediately suspend the polling agency’s secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee from work, pending an in-depth probe into his duty-negligence charges pertaining to last year’s senatorial rigging scandals. The petitioners revisited the
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Paetongtarn’s fiasco over spouse’s assets report fuels fresh scandal
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra might probably freshly face wealth concealment allegations involving her spouse’s failure to officially, completely report all his assets. The prime minister, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, had evidently failed to report 1.6 million baht in cash profit from the sale of corporate
Read moreRevenue Dept urged to dig into PM’s tax evasion scandal
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE REVENUE DEPARTMENT was today (March 28) prompted to officially determine whether Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra may have taken legal loopholes to evade tax in corporate shares transferred to her by close members of her family. People’s MP Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn formally petitioned Revenue Department Director-General Pinsai Suraswadi to look into
Read moreElection Commission urged to impeach Thai Sang Thai renegade MPs
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE THAI SANG THAI today (March 21) pressed the Election Commission to speed up investigation into alleged misconduct of two of the opposition party’s renegade MPs and impeach them accordingly. Thai Sang Thai leader Sudarat Keyurapan formally prompted the Election Commission to finish its probe sooner than later into the
Read moreNominees for Charter Court judges rejected by senators
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a preplanned, concerted move of pro-Bhumjaithai senators, a couple of prominent nominees for judge of the Constitutional Court were overwhelmingly denied by those senior lawmakers today (March 18). In a weekly Senate session, a prevailing majority of the senators, over 100 of whom are known
Read morePro-Bhumjaithai senators to reject political scientist as charter court judge
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a quid pro quo between the Pheu Thai and Bhumjaithai, a majority of a total 200 senators is anticipated to deny the naming of a prominent political scientist as judge of the Constitutional Court tomorrow (March 18), according to a partisan source. The 100-plus, pro-Bhumjaithai
Read moreSenatorial rigging scandals now special case for DSI
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LAST YEAR’S senatorial rigging allegations were today (March 6) collectively handled as a special case for the Department of Special Investigation to find and bring to justice any guilty perpetrators. The Special Lawsuit Committee, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai and consisting of 22 high-ranking government officials, today
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 morePita: Ethics still used as political tool to undermine democracy
FORMER Move Forward leader and current People’s Party campaign assistant Pita Limjaroenrat marked the fifth anniversary of the dissolution of Future Forward Party by underscoring that ethics is still being used as a political tool to destroy people’s choices while confident that democratic power will not dissipate along with disbanded parties, Naewna newspaper said
Read moreThaksin looks to keep ‘independent’ agencies under control via Senate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has quietly looked to exert his hidden power via the Senate over “independent” agencies ranging from the Election Commission and the National Anti-Corruption Commission to the Constitutional Court, among others, according to partisan sources. Thaksin, father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, has taken
Read moreDSI likely to probe scandals over senatorial race riggings
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION will likely launch investigation into allegations that last year’s senatorial elections were blatantly riddled with vote-buying, rigging shenanigans, a partisan source said over the weekend. DSI Director-General Yutthana Praedam who himself has recently received a refreshed petition from a defeated senatorial contestant at the agency’s
Read more‘Parliament collapses’ hashtag top X.com trend today
GOING VIRAL on social media today (Feb. 14) is People’s Party calling on Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to dissolve the House of Representatives and hold a general election after a lack of quorum at a joint session for the second day in a row prevented deliberation of two constitution amendment bills with this being
Read more5 factors preventing Thaksin from bringing Yingluck back: Thepthai
A FORMER Democrat MP said in a Facebook post today (Feb. 10) there are five key factors preventing de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra from bringing his sister/former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra back to Thailand from her self-exile overseas, Naewna newspaper said Mr. Thepthai Senapong voiced his opinion in his post entitled “Will
Read moreGovt MP denies being loan shark in disguise
By Thai Newsroom Reporters KLATHAM MP Pi Lick today (Jan.22) categorically dismissed allegations that he had been clandestinely involved in loan shark business with the help of one of his former girlfriends. Known as a protégé of former Palang Pracharath secretary-general/former agriculture & cooperatives minister Thammanat Prompao, the MP of Kampaengpet denied he had
Read moreMedical Council begins to probe Thaksin’s alleged fake-out
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE under the Medical Council of Thailand has today (Jan.16) begun to look into allegations of a fake-out staged by de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra as a former, highly-privileged convict who had stayed at a hospital in lieu of a prison for a six-month period.
Read moreSupreme Court urged to bring Thaksin back to jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SUPREME COURT has been formally asked to consider bringing de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra back to jail as an unduly released convict and launch a probe into irregularities allegedly done in his favour by the Corrections Department. Former Democrat MP Charnchai Issarasenarak has today (Jan.16) filed the
Read moreThaksin’s medical records feared to be a tall tale: Ex-MP
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A FORMER LAWMAKER has doubted that medical records of Police Hospital on last year’s purported treatment of the “critically-ill” de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra will be entirely based on factual evidence and no tall tale. Ex-Democrat MP/now Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom posted on his Facebook page yesterday
Read moreDemonstration held to press for details of Thaksin’s medical treatment
DEMONSTRATORS rallied at Oct. 14 Memorial today (Jan.11) to pressure the Police Hospital to answer the Medical Council’s letter inquiring about the medical treatment de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra underwent there, Naewna newspaper said. Mr. Phichit Chaiyamongkol, leader of Network of Students and People for Reform of Thailand, said his group’s movement,
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