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
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Thaksin’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,
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 moreRuam Thai Sang Chart tipped to split up after Pirapan’s anticipated ouster
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE RUAM THAI SANG CHART could possibly disintegrate after Pirapan Salirathavibhaga, leader of the military-installed party, is ousted as energy minister from the Pheu Thai-led government in the next few months, according to partisan sources. De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra would prefer to keep the Ruam Thai Sang
Read morePirapan tipped to be kicked out of Pheu Thai-led cabinet
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ENERGY MINISTER PIRAPAN Salirathavibhaga is currently speculated to be kicked out of the Pheu Thai-led cabinet sooner or later within this month, a partisan source said over the weekend. Pirapan, who concurrently performs as leader of the military-installed Ruam Thai Sang Chart under de facto guidance of former army chief-turned-prime
Read moreBhumjaithai MP held guilty of ethical abuse
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI MP NATCHANON Srikorkua is currently charged with perpetrating a severe violation of the code of political ethics for which the Supreme Court will hand out a ruling against him sooner or later. National Anti-Corruption Commission Secretary-General Sarot Puengrampan confirmed today (Jan. 2) that the anti-graft agency has formally held
Read moreRangsiman mocks Phumtham’s drug suppression target
PEOPLE’S MP Rangsiman Rome mocked Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai’s goal to solve the drug trafficking problem in six months’ time saying he only give orders while this government has turned into one that is good at talking, Naewna newspaper said last evening (Dec.30). That the government has ordered drug suppression is nothing
Read moreThaksin, Thammanat quietly visit Koh Lipe, rumoured to have met Malaysian PM
FORMER prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and former agriculture and cooperatives minister Thammanat Prompao quietly travelled Koh Lipe island on a fleet of six yachts and were rumoured to have met Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on a yacht sailing in the middle of sea, Amarin TV said this morning (Dec. 27). The fleet of yachts
Read moreNACC probe panel lobbied to lift Thaksin’s fake-out case
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE UNDER the National Anti-Corruption Commission has been intensely lobbied and pressed to waive an historic case of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s alleged fake-out at Police Hospital, according to a partisan source. For fear of not only involving the billionaire power player, previously officially viewed
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 morePheu Thai-led govt likely to survive four-year term: Thaksin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra today (Dec. 24) forecast that the current Pheu Thai-led government under premiership of his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra will likely survive their four-year term until 2027. The billionaire power player told reporters in Chiang Mai that disputes between coalition partners may spontaneously arise in
Read moreThaksin denies Pheu Thai-Bhumjaithai conflict
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra today (Dec. 23) categorically denied that his party, core of the current coalition government, had developed a critical conflict with Bhumjaithai, the second largest coalition partner. The billionaire power player said he had had no problem to clear up with Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Interior
Read moreThaksin is the real leader of this government: Ex-MP
WITH the Paetongtarn Shinawatra government implementing everything that her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra says, it is clear that he is the real boss, former MP Thepthai Senapong said in his Facebook post “Thepthai -Talking about Politics” with the topic being “Thaksin is the Real Owner of the Government” today (Dec. 22).
Read moreThaksin accused of buying his way to power, privilege
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra was today (Dec. 18) accused of buying his way to power and privilege with his money since he returned home from self-exile abroad last year. Former leading Red Shirt and Yellow Shirt activists today submitted a joint petition to the National Anti-Corruption Commission
Read moreThammanat’s clique of 20 renegade MPs join Klatham
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A CLIQUE OF 20 RENEGADE MPs headed by former Palang Pracharath secretary-general Thammanat Prompao are joining the Klatham as part of the current Pheu Thai-led coalition government, a partisan source said today (Dec. 18). The Thammanat-led lawmakers, recently ousted from the opposition Palang Pracharath headed by former deputy prime minister
Read more20 Palang Pracharath renegade MPs formally ousted
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PALANG PRACHARATH today (Dec. 11) resolved to oust a clique of 20 renegade MPs, led by former Palang Pracharath secretary-general Thammanat Prompao, from the opposition party. Palang Pracharath Secretary-General Paibul Nititawan confirmed the party’s executive board has decided to formally expel the 20 renegade MPs, including former agriculture &
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 moreYingluck won’t be returning under ‘Thaksin model’: Pita
FORMER Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat said today (Dec. 8) that it is unlikely fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will return home under a similar model her brother/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra used to do so, Naewna newspaper said. Pita, who is currently adviser to Progressive Movement’s chairman Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and
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