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Paetongtarn likely to be named Pheu Thai leader

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters PAETONGTARN SHINAWATRA, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convicted inmate Thaksin Shinawatra, will likely be named leader of the ruling party, said an outspoken Pheu Thai MP today (Sep.25). In an extraordinary caucus speculated next week, Pheu Thai members will overwhelmingly vote Paetongtarn for the top partisan leadership, said Pheu

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Anything about Thaksin’s surgery remains a mystery: Justice Minister

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters JUSTICE MINISTER TAWEE Sodsong today (Sep.21) admitted that details of a recent surgery of de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convicted inmate Thaksin Shinawatra at Police Hospital still remain a mystery to him. Tawee told reporters he himself has not yet been officially reported of anything about the surgery on the former

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Police Hospital doctors suspected of unethically keeping ‘sickly’ Thaksin from jail

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters DOCTORS AT POLICE HOSPITAL have been suspected of compromising their professional ethics to keep “sickly” de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra literally away from prison despite his one-year jail sentence. The so-called Students and People’s Network for Thailand Reform today (Sep.18) called on police chief Pol.Gen.Damrongsak Kittiprapat to promptly

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Suthin denies 2 Shinawatra family members are getting Defence Ministry posts

  DEFENCE MINISTER Suthin Klangsaeng branded as fake news a draft document circulating widely on social media today (Sept. 10) showing that two Shinawatra family members are getting important positions in this ministry, TV Channel 7 said. “Regarding news that I have appointed people to various positions, I would like to inform you that no

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Hearsay over Paetongtarn taking over Pheu Thai dampened

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-CUM-Commerce Minister Bhumtham Wechayachai today (Sep.8) dampened speculation that de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra will eventually take over the leadership of the core coalition partner. Paetongtarn who had run among a trio of Pheu Thai candidates for head of a post-election government apart

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Pheu Thai govt to be slammed if ‘inmate’ Thaksin allowed out of jail for long: Academic

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CONFIDENCE of the Pheu Thai-led government under Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will be adversely affected if de facto party boss Thaksin Shinawatra continues to literally keep himself as a convicted inmate out of jail for longer than appropriate, according to a noted academic. Thammasat University law lecturer Prinya Thaewanarumitkul

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Could Srettha be free of Thaksin’s influence? Academic

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters A PROMINENT ACADEMIC said today (Sep.4) he wondered if Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin could practically be independent of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Thammasat University law lecturer Prinya Thaewanarumitkul commented that nobody could be completely positive that Srettha could be practically free of Thaksin’s alleged influence which has

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Thaksin might probably be given parole: Wissanu

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters “SICKLY” DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra who is reportedly serving a one-year “imprisonment” might probably be granted parole, according to former deputy prime minister Wissanu Krea-ngam. The former prime minister who currently remains under official custody at Police Hospital where he has been admitted for “illnesses” might probably

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Allocation of cabinet seats among coalition partners completed

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters CABINET SEATS IN THE Pheu Thai-led government headed by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin have been completely meted out among coalition partners, partisan sources confirmed today (Aug.26.). As core of the coalition government, the Pheu Thai under de facto party boss Thaksin Shinawatra has proportionately grabbed most cabinet seats apart from

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Sickly Thaksin involved hands-on in allocation of cabinet portfolios

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters A SICKLY THAKSIN SHINAWATRA, the de facto Pheu Thai boss, has managed to virtually put his hands on the business of compromising and allocating cabinet portfolios among varied coalition partners, a partisan source said today (Aug.23). Having been transferred from Bangkok Remand Prison to the Police Hospital for illnesses reported

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Thaksin slightly better but still needs oxygen, room cooled by fans

  THE Police Hospital’s top physician said this afternoon (Aug. 23) that Pheu Thai de facto boss/former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is now slightly better than when he arrived last night but still requires respiratory support and while able to communicates suffers from shortness of breath, Matichon newspaper said. Pol. Lt. Gen. Sophonrat Singharu, the

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Thaksin’s name not listed on private jets arriving tomorrow

  WHILE four private aircraft have officially requested permission to land and park at Mjets Ltd.’s private passenger terminal within Don Mueang Airport tomorrow (Aug. 22), Pheu Thai Party de facto boss/former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s name is not listed among the passengers arriving on all four private airplanes, Matichon newspaper and Sanook.com said this

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