BANGKOK, July 7 – Thailand’s prime minister-to-be Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday denied media reports that her brother, ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, is involved in selection of her Pheu Thai-led government’s cabinet, asserting that the selection process will be done in Bangkok, not abroad. Unconfirmed reports claim that several groups of elected Pheu Thai MPs are […]
Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya will lead a team to the International Court of Justice in the Hague which is scheduled next week to rule on a request by Cambodia for Thailand to immediately withdraw its troops from a disputed area near Preah Vihear Temple. The Court said in its website on Friday, “On Monday 18 […]
Sem Pringpuangkaew, a former public health minister and the first surgeon to use new technology to operate on Siamese twins, died early Friday morning, reports said. He was 100 years old. Read more: Bangkok Post
A schoolgirl was killed and six others injured when a Mercedes-Benz, which reportedly had faulty brakes, ran them over inside the Temrak Suksa School campus in Nonthaburi’s Bang Bua Thong district Thursday morning. Of the seven victims who were taken to Kasemrat Rattanathibet Hospital, Prathom 6 student Anchisa Kesornbua succumbed to her injuries, while two […]
BANGKOK, July 7 – Thailand’s Democrat Party is expected to hold its general assembly in mid-August to choose a new leader to replace Abhisit Vejjajiva who resigned Monday to take responsibility for his party’s loss to the opposition Pheu Thai party in the July 3 general election, according to former party secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban. Mr […]
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected Pyeongchang, South Korea as host of the 2018 Winter Games today. The committee meeting in Durban, South Africa, made its selection in the first round of voting. The South Korean city won over Munich, Germany and Annecy, France after failing in two previous tries. It was an emphatic success […]
BANGKOK, July 7 – Thailand’s New Democrat Party, with only one elected member of parliament, on Thursday announced that it would join the Pheu Thai Party and other four parties in the new coalition government, adding a single seat to a new coalition government with 300 seats in total. Pheu Thai party leader Yongyuth Wichaidit […]
