Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha today (Thursday) accused fugitive former prime minister Thaksin of being the man who pulls the strings behind all the recent and current disruptive political activities. “Don’t you know who? Where they came from? Who have supported them? Who plotted? The foreign lobbyists, Thaksin. And tomorrow you bash me again,” said the […]
Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra told former Pheu Thai MPs to visit people in their constituencies and to try to tend to their problems, especially drought which has affected farmland and caused widespread hardship to rural inhabitants. Through Skyping, Thaksin joined key members of the party, including former prime ministers Yingluck Shinawatra and Somchai […]
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha insisted Tuesday that no one can distribute red plastic bowls, printed with names of ex-PMs Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra for Songkran splashing. Prayut said it would be illegal to do so because Thaksin is fugitive and Yingluck is still going under prosecution process. Read more: The Nation
A Chiang Mai woman who posted a photo of herself showing a thumbs-up for a red plastic water bowl, a Songkran gift from Thaksin Shinawatra, was charged with breaching the sedition law, an offence carrying a jail term up to seven years, but was allowed bail. Anon Nampa, a member of the Thai Lawyers for […]
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be the speaker at World Policy Institute’s private discussion on March 9. The institute announced on its website that the private discussion is part of its Global Leader Briefing Series, and in association with the World Economic Roundtables. Read more: The Nation
The government has shut the door on Thaksin Shinawatra’s offer to engage in dialogue after his statements casting doubt over the government’s attempts to return Thailand to civilian rule. Senior officials said the main reason they declined the meeting is that the former prime minister, who escaped a 2008 court ruling over abuse of power […]
Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, along with his sister Yingluck Shinawatra, also an ex-premier, are exploiting the foreign media to ratchet up global pressure on the military government, a Pheu Thai source says. The Pheu Thai Party also plans to turn Ms Yingluck into a democracy heroine, likening her to Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San […]
THE Pheu Thai Party yesterday dismissed the charter draft as a “political soap drama”, and a tool to sabotage and destroy the party. The party said coup-makers had earlier achieved their four-step mission – of toppling the Thaksin regime; confiscating assets and prosecuting the Thaksin camp; dissolving the Thai Rak Thai Party and banning its […]
