Tag: Pheu Thai

News

June 21, 2011December 6, 2023

Activists seek DSI lawsuit against top-listed Pheu Thai candidate Yingluck Shinawatra

BANGKOK, June 21 – Activists on Tuesday asked the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to take legal action against Yingluck Shinawatra, youngest sister of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, top listed candidate of the Pheu Thai Party, accusing her of perjury and falsified stock trading in connection with the assets concealment case involving her brother […]

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Bangkok

June 20, 2011November 3, 2012

Thai Democrat Party going ahead with rally at Ratchaprasong

BANGKOK, June 20 – Thailand’s Democrat Party will press ahead with a major election campaign rally at Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong intersection on Thursday, at the site where last year’s clashes between government forces and ‘Red Shirt’ United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) protesters in April and May, a party executive said here Monday. Ongart Klampaiboon, […]

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News

June 20, 2011December 6, 2023

Pheu Thai Urged to Clarify Stand on Red-shirt Group

The Democrat leader has expressed his disappointment with the top Pheu Thai MP candidate’s denial of her party’s involvement in the red-shirt group’s disruption of the Democrat poll campaigning. Democrat Party leader Abhist Vejjajiva expressed his disappointment with Pheu Thai Number One party-list MP candidate Yingluck Shinawatra’s denial of any involvement with the red-shirt group’s […]

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News

June 17, 2011December 6, 2023

Yingluck Shinawatra: Thaksin to return in December

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will return to Thailand this December to attend his eldest daughter’s wedding, his youngest sister, Pheu Thai’s No.1 party list candidate Yingluck Shinawatra, said on Friday. “It’s not unusual for my brother to want to attend the wedding of his daughter (Pinthongta Shinawatra).” “I have conversations with him regularly and […]

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News

June 17, 2011December 6, 2023

Red Shirt villages not obstructing peace plan: UDD

BANGKOK, 17 June 2011 (NNT) – The United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) has stressed that its ‘red villages’ scattering around the nation are merely symbolic and legal and will not affect the operation towards reconciliation. In response to a call by Democrat Party Leader Abhisit Vejjajiva for the UDD to explain its concept […]

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News

June 15, 2011December 6, 2023

Thailands Election: Meltdown Coming?

Thailand will hold a long-awaited federal election on July 3, pitting the governing Democrat Party against the opposition Puea Thai party, as well as a group of smaller parties. For some Thai politicians, this poll will be the culmination of a process of national reconciliation that began in the wake of bloody riots in Bangkok […]

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News

June 15, 2011December 6, 2023

Thai Army Gen Prayuth urges voters to back the ‘good people’

Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha has called on the electorate to turn out in force for the July 3 general election and vote “good people” into parliament to protect the monarchy and change the country for the better. Gen Prayuth’s comments were televised yesterday on Channel 7 and Channel 5, when he urged the public to […]

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South

June 14, 2011

Yingluck visits Democrat’s stronghold for the first time

Pheu Thai No 1 party list candidate Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday visited for the first time the southern region, a longtime stronghold of Democrat party. Yingluck, who is challenging the premiership in the upcoming election, arrived in the southernmost province of Yala at about 11 am where she was welcomed by her party candidates and […]

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