Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is at the centre of an uproar against a government-proposed decree widely seen as being enacted primarily to pardon his jail term, said he had no knowledge of the move. Speaking from his Dubai base late on Wednesday, Thaksin said the cabinet was discussing the annual pardon of […]
BANGKOK, 28 August 2011 (NNT) – Self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has left Japan and is now in Macao. Mr Thaksin had met Japanese senior officials and visited the tsunami and quake-hit areas. During his interview with Kyodo News before leaving Japan, he denied reports of any plan to visit Cambodia. The former premier […]
BANGKOK, 14 August 2011 (NNT) – Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has offered to help promote the country’s economy as the trade ambassador according to a Pheu Thai Party MP. Pheu Thai party list MP Thanik Masipitak said Mr.Thaksin had expressed his wish during their meeting in Dubai. The MP claimed the former premier was […]
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 […]
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra denies he aspires to be re-elected as a prime minister. Instead, the former premier says he hopes to help forge national reconciliation and does not want his assets, which have been seized by the state, to be returned to him. During an interview with foreign press from his mansion in […]
The Pheu Thai Party will not form a single-party government even if it has enough votes but will invite other parties to join in a coalition, fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in an interview with Thai television stations from Dubai on Sunday. He said if Pheu Thai was victorious, as all exit polls […]
BANGKOK, July 3 – Fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Sunday pledged he would not seek revenge as the Thai people want to see a national reconciliation to push the country forward. The deposed premier, who is now living in exile in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, was interviewed by media in Thailand shortly after exit […]
A United Arab Emirates national arrested last month with baby leopards in his carry-on luggage has fled Thailand under suspicious circumstances, police confirmed Wednesday. Noor Mahmood, 36, was arrested at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on May 13 as he prepared to fly first class to Dubai, after police found four baby leopards, one marmoset, one gibbon […]
