A FORMER chief doctor at Police Hospital linked to de facto Pheu Thai boss/inmate Thaksin Shinawatra’s six-month fake-out at this hospital until his parole early 2024 is poised for a promotion to the rank of general before his retirement in October this year according to a memorandum signed by Police Chief Gen. Kitrat Phanphet,
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Somsak, Suriya tipped to stay with Pheu Thai, Thaksin to join in post-election coalition talk
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SAM MIT GROUP, a faction of former MPs headed by Somsak Thepsuthin and Suriya Juangroongruangkit, will likely continue to stay with the Pheu Thai under de facto party boss/inmate Thaksin Shinawatra and seek re-election under the tickets of the neo-conservative camp in a general election tentatively scheduled for Feb.8, a
Read moreThaksin’s son-in-law tipped to be named among trio of Pheu Thai candidates for PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NATTAPONG KUNAKORNWONG, son-in-law of de facto Pheu Thai boss/inmate Thaksin Shinawatra, will likely contest an upcoming election as one of a trio of partisan candidates for prime minister, according to a partisan source. Nattapong, spouse of Thaksin’s daughter Pintongta Shinawatra, is largely speculated to contest alongside former transport minister Suriya
Read morePaetongtarn shares photo of Thaksin in prison uniform and cropped hair
FORMER prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra today (Nov. 27) shared a photo of her father de facto Pheu Thai boss-turn-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra taken during a family visit which Klong Prem Central Prison is allowing from Nov. 24 to Dec. 1 to mark the New Year festival, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon. In this photo Thaksin
Read moreThaksin to miss Pheu Thai electoral campaign, literally
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss/inmate Thaksin Shinawatra will likely not be able to spearhead the opposition party’s electoral campaign for a general election which may be held between the upcoming February and March due to his being literally put behind bars and preoccupied with sustained legal battles, according to partisan
Read moreWhat happened to Thaksin is unacceptable: Pheu Thai MP
A PHEU THAI party-list MP lamented the Supreme Court having ordered de facto party boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra to pay back taxes totalling 17.6 billion baht over the sale of his telecoms firm, Amarin TV said today (Nov. 18). The MP, Mr. Korkaew Phikunthong, said in a Facebook post that what has happened to Thaksin
Read moreOAG to appeal lese majeste lawsuit against Thaksin in Appellate Court
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL has finally resolved to appeal a lese majeste lawsuit in the Appellate Court against de facto Pheu Thai boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra. Attorney-General Itthiporn Kaeothip has eventually overruled the resolution of an ad hoc committee attached to the OAG earlier made in favour of the former
Read moreAnutin might dissolve House before Thaksin is freed from jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN Charnvirakul might probably dissolve the House of Representatives sooner than earlier expected for fear of the sustained potential of de facto Pheu Thai boss/inmate Thaksin Shinawatra to secure electoral wins over many of the northeastern and northern constituencies, among elsewhere in other regions, given his release from
Read moreYingluck might be accused during censure debate of taking scammers’ bribes, albeit unknowingly
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER PRIME MINISTER YINGLUCK Shinawatra could possibly be accused in absentia and retroactive fashion of taking kickbacks from suspected scammers, albeit unaware of their rogue activities, unless a censure motion against Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul or any other members of the Bhumjaithai-led cabinet in the House of Representatives was foiled
Read moreThaksin only knew Ben Smith as ‘acquaintance’: Lawyer
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra today (Nov.6) categorically denied he had dealt in “business investment” with scammer suspect Benjamin Mauerberger, alias Ben Smith, since the former only knew the latter as an “acquaintance”, according to the inmate’s lawyer Winyat Chatmontree. The lawyer who today visited Thaksin at Klong
Read moreAt last, Thaksin takes Shinawatra family off Pheu Thai leadership
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra has ultimately decided to have anyone other than those related to his Shinawatra family named a new party leader whilst leaving the burden of financing Pheu Thai electoral campaigns to former party secretary-general Suriya Juangroongruangkit, according to partisan sources. Thaksin has told his
Read morePaetongtarn resigns as Pheu Thai leader
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a significant twist in Thailand’s volatile political climate, former prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has today (Oct. 22) called it quits as Pheu Thai leader, leaving the neo-conservative party in limbo ahead of a general election which may be held in the next four or five
Read moreThaksin to teach English in prison instead of ‘overseeing’ sewer conduits clearance
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra might probably be assigned to teach English to fellow inmates whilst serving his one-year term in prison, Corrections Department director-general Prawut Wongsrinil confirmed today (Oct.10). Given his old age, the father of court-deposed prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will practically not be given any
Read moreThaksin to literally get out of jail to supervise fellow inmates clearing sewer conduits
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra has apparently found a way to literally get out of prison, albeit only for a matter of hours at a time and not as long as a stretch of half a year as had been earlier the case. The mega billionaire/power player who
Read moreThaksin could possibly be imprisoned beyond one-year term
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra could possibly be imprisoned for longer than a year, given an additional lawsuit which might probably be filed against him pertaining to an alleged conspiracy over his thinly-veiled fakeout at Police Hospital over the last couple of years, according to a former senior
Read moreOAG urged to go ahead with lese majeste case against Thaksin in Appellate Court
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL was today (Sep.22) pressed to put forward the lese majeste lawsuit earlier filed against de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra in the Appellate Court after it had been lifted by the Criminal Court last month. Members of the People’s Network for Reform in Thailand
Read morePotjaman urged to take helm of Pheu Thai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters POTJAMAN NA POMBEJRA, former spouse of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, has been advised to take the helm of the previously ruling, currently opposition party in place of her daughter/court-deposed prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in effort to keep all MPs of the neo-conservative camp from skipping over to
Read moreThaksin to meet a psychologist as daughters along with their husbands visit
DE FACTO Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra who has been in jail since Sep. 9 to serve a one-year sentence is scheduled to meet a psychologist while his daughters accompanied by their husbands visited him this morning (Sep. 18), Amarin TV said. The billionaire former prime minister was ordered back to jail by the
Read moreRed Shirts gather in front of prison to support Thaksin
A GROUP of Red Shirt followers gathered in front of Klong Prem prison to support de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra who was ordered back to jail by the Supreme Court to serve a one-year sentence with his six-month-long fakeout at Police Hospital until his release on parole early last year not holding
Read moreActivist group insists inmate Thaksin be denied ‘detention’ outside of prison
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A POLITICAL ACTIVIST group today (Sep.12) called on the Department of Corrections to never upgrade the convicted criminal status for de facto Pheu Thai boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra which could otherwise provide him leniency to the extent that he be literally “detained” outside of a prison sooner or later. The People’s
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