The Thai government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has back-tracked on a campaign pledge to establish a special administration zone in its troubled southern provinces. Political analysts say a simmering insurgency in the majority-Muslim Malay region can only be resolved by allowing some form of self-rule. But, the government has little incentive to challenge the […]
BANGKOK, 15 August 2011 (NNT) – The Pheu Thai-led government is preparing to arrange a weekly television show for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to elaborate policies, national situation and problems to people. Prime Minister’s Office Minister overseeing the mass media Medical Doctor Surawit Khonsomboon stated that the television programme will also be broadcast live via […]
PHNOM PENH, 25 September 2011 (NNT) – Red Shirt football players have beaten Cambodian players 10-7 in the Saturday friendship match in Phnom Penh. The Red Shirt team, which is named Team A, featured Cambodian Minister Hun Sen, Red Shirt core member and Pheu Thai MP’s Nattawut Saikua, and Jatuporn Prompan. The Cambodian team featured […]
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Thursday denied that her brother Thaksin had influenced her Cabinet by instructing the ruling Pheu Thai Party what to do, in his Skype call to Wednesday’s gathering of the party’s Cabinet members. “He just offered his moral support to the Cabinet regarding their job of serving the people,” Yingluck said. […]
BANGKOK, 21 September 2011 (NNT) – Pheu Thai Spokesperson Mr. Prompong Nopparit assured that SC Asset Corporation PLc Co Ltd, a real estate company, did not gain any benefit from the first home buyer scheme, adding that the Democrat Party was just trying to discredit the government. Following the accusation by Democrat’s shadow cabinet that […]
BANGKOK, Sept 15 – Pheu Thai party spokesman Prompong Nopparit on Thursday petitioned the Senate to investigate claims made by Cambodia regarding secret talks between former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban with his Cambodian counterpart Sok An. Mr Prompong submitted the document, saying it is not a personal conflict, to Jitipoj Viriyaroj, chairman of the […]
BANGKOK, 10 September 2011 (NNT) – Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has a plan to travel to Cambodia next week. Thaksin’s legal adviser Noppadol Pattama revealed that the former PM has been invited by the Royal Academy of Cambodia to give a lecture on Asian and world economies to parliamentarians from different countries on September […]
BANGKOK, Sept 8 – The Yingluck government’s programme to offer credit cards for farmers will be launched by Nov 1, fulfilling one of the major campaign promises that the Pheu Thai Party pledged to the grassroots that helped it win the July election. Luck Wajananawat, manager of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Co-operatives (BAAC), […]
