Yingluck Shinawatra is expected to be named the Puea Thai Party’s No.1 party-list candidate, giving her an opportunity to become the country’s first female prime minister. A Puea Thai source yesterday said the party’s key figures had travelled to meet former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the party’s main supporter and de facto leader, in Dubai […]
BANGKOK, 5 April 2011 (NN)-The Democrat Party said it was ready to contest in the upcoming election while believing that the unrest would continue to dominate Thailand’s political arena if the Red Shirt core leaders were fielded as Puea Thai Party candidates. The personal spokesperson of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjivija, Thepthai Senpong, said the Democrat […]
Thailand will nominate the old capital of Ayutthaya as the site for World Expo 2020. The cabinet yesterday approved Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart’s proposal to nominate the central province as the World Expo site, reasoning that the ancient city has the strongest potential among the candidate locations of Chonburi, Chanthaburi, Phetchaburi, Chiang Mai and […]
Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, and a US Senate candidate in 2004, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for their role in furthering a “radical” Facebook Page called “Third Palestinian Intifada,” which openly advocated another uprising against the citizens of Israel. The complaint reserves the […]
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has selected the Pheu Thai Party’s PM candidate, Thai Rath Online report. Thai Rath Online quoted Deputy House Speaker Apiwan Wiriyachai as saying that the four candidates earlier mentioned were only decoys. Apiwan said Thaksin would announce the real candidate once the House is dissolved. The Nation
Yingluck Shinawatra, the youngest sibling of self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, has emerged as a strong candidate for the premiership among the key figures of the opposition Pheu Thai Party. The 43-year-old business executive and mother appears to have the backing of veteran politician Chalerm Yoobamrung and her brother Thaksin, who is believed to be […]
Party leader may not be contender for top govt job, in a ploy to survive another dissolution The opposition Pheu Thai Party will announce its candidate for the next prime minister as soon as the government calls for dissolution of the House of Representatives, fugitive ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra said in a message on Sunday night. […]
Thailand’s deposed leader Thaksin Shinawatra marked his 61st birthday Monday with tweets from exile that called for peace, a day after a grenade exploded in downtown Bangkok that left one person dead and 10 wounded. There have been no claims of responsibility for Sunday’s blast at a bus stop in a busy shopping district, which […]
