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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Police start investigating two doctors for helping Thaksin
A POLICE fact-finding committee has started investigating two doctors suspended for assisting de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra stay for six months in a Police Hospital suite instead of prison to serve out a curtailed one-year jail term until he was released on parole early last year, TV Channel 7 said this evening
Read more‘Thaksinism’ continues to stay in politics even with founder behind bars: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters “THAKSINISM” WILL likely keep its presence felt in Thailand’s political landscape albeit with diminished bargaining power despite its founder/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra being literally put behind bars, supposedly serving his one-year jail term, remarked a noted academic today (Sep.10). Though Thaksin was yesterday sent back to jail
Read moreSupreme Court sends Thaksin back to jail for one year
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra was today (Sep.9) ordered by court to be sent back to jail for a one-year time after he had quietly staged a six-month-long escapade at Police Hospital in spite of the law. The Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons
Read moreUrgent: Supreme Court orders Thaksin back to jail for one year
THE Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons in political positions this morning (Sep. 9) passed a verdict returning de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to jail and serve out the one-year sentence he had received on charges of perpetrating a few counts of misconduct during his previous premiership over
Read moreRed Shirts gather at Supreme Court to support Thaksin
RED-SHIRT followers gathered at the Supreme Court in Sanam Luang early this morning (Sep. 9) in support of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra as a verdict in a lawsuit against him for his alleged six-month fakeout at Police Hospital will be delivered at 10 a.m., Naewna newspaper said this evening. Both Thaksin
Read moreTight security at Supreme Court for Thaksin’s verdict tomorrow
AROUND a hundred policemen are being deployed at the Supreme Court next to Sanam Luang for handing down the verdict in a lawsuit against de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and others for his alleged six-month fakeout at Police Hospital tomorrow (Sep. 9), Naewna newspaper said this evening. Court officials and police officers
Read moreThaksin has returned from Dubai today
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has today (Sep.8) returned to Bangkok from an unanticipated trip to Dubai, apparently dampening speculation that he may never have. The mega-billionaire power player, father of the court-deposed prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, arrived in his private jet at Don Mueang airport this afternoon
Read moreThaksin’s jet heading for Singapore then likely returning to Thailand
LATEST data from global flight tracker Flightradar24 shows that de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s private airplane has left Dubai and is expected to land at Singapore this morning (Sep. 8) before flying onwards to Thailand, as previously announced, Thai Rath newspaper said. At 6.50 a.m. the Swedish flight tracking service said a
Read moreThaksin says he’s coming back from Dubai on Monday?
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has informally confirmed that he is definitely coming back to Bangkok on the upcoming Monday after he had unexpectedly departed for Dubai on Thursday. Thaksin, father of former prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, posted on his X page to say he is certainly returning
Read moreThaksin’s bodyguard among four others flying to Dubai with him
DE FACTO Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra flew to Dubai last night (Sep. 4) after immigration delay at Don Mueang Airport prevented him from landing in Singapore as planned with his bodyguard being among four other passengers flying with him on the private jet, Naewna newspaper and Isra News Agency said. The passenger list
Read moreIs Thaksin heading for Dubai?
AFTER being cleared to fly to Singapore for a two-day health checkup this evening (Sep. 4) de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s private jet was tracked and seen deviating from its course and flying from Andaman Sea to Bay of Bengal amid speculation that he could be heading for Dubai, Naewna newspaper said.
Read moreThaksin allowed to fly to Singapore after being held up at airport
OFFICIALS at Don Mueang Airport this evening (Sep. 4) allowed de facto Pheu Thai boss to fly to Singapore for a two-day health checkup after holding him back to rigorously check whether he is allowed to travel overseas, Amarin TV said. It was initially rumoured that Thaksin wanted to fly to Hua Hin on
Read moreThaksin scrambles to get Prayut return as PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra was covertly scrambling to have former coup leader-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha named for prime minister again in a last-ditch effort to prolong his Pheu Thai-led coalition government, a partisan source said today (Sep.2). The mega-billionaire, power playing Thaksin has conjured another secret deal
Read moreChaikasem ready to follow party’s decision
PHEU THAI’S candidate for prime minister MP Chaikasen Nitisiri said this evening (Aug. 29) after the Constitutional Court deposed Paetongtarn Shinawatra as head of government that he is ready to follow his party’s decision on this key issue, Amarin TV said. He briefly told a reporter who contacted him that he is dining
Read moreOffered payoffs feared to be the only way to save Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters OFFERED PAYOFFS might probably be the only way to attempt to save the court-suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from being deposed as head of government in a court verdict on an impeachment lawsuit scheduled for the upcoming Friday, according to a former senior government official. Fears of kickbacks in cash
Read moreAttorney-General weighing whether to send Thaksin’s lese majeste case to Appellate Court
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IT REMAINS TO BE seen whether Attorney-General Itthiporn Kaeothip will file a lese majeste lawsuit against de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra in the Appellate Court now that the Criminal Court has lifted the case and acquitted him today (Aug.22). Though the attorney-general is being given a 30-day time
Read moreThaksin acquitted of violating lese majeste law
By Thai Rath and Naewna newspapers plus Thai Newsroom Reporters THE RATCHA Criminal Court this morning (Aug. 22) dismissed charges of violating Section 112 of the Criminal Code, better known as the lese majeste law, and Computer Crimes Act of 2017 against de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. The court had earlier cross-examined
Read morePaetongtarn urged to keep distance from dad to make decision on her own
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE COURT-SUSPENDED prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was suggested today (Aug.21) to virtually keep her distance from her power-playing father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra for the time being now that she still has time to decide for herself whether to step down or stay put until the Constitutional Court
Read morePaetongtarn’s refusal to step down means predicted survival in court: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE COURT-SUSPENDED prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been quietly assured of a victory in court over an impeachment lawsuit, thus resolutely refusing to step down at any time from now until Aug.29, the date on which the Constitutional Court is scheduled to deliver a verdict on it, according to a
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