Tag: Thaksin Shinawatra

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January 12, 2016December 6, 2023

Administrative Court rejects Thaksin’s call to suspend the order scrapping his two passports

The Central Administrative Court has rejected fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s petition for the suspension of the Foreign Ministry’s order scrapping his two passports. The court reason that there is no ground to suspect that the Foreign Ministry’s order revoking Thaksin’s two passports is illegal and also the ministry’s order was based on the […]

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January 5, 2016December 6, 2023

PM brushes aside planned protest by ex- Pheu Thai MPs over calendar seizure

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has brushed aside a planned petition from some former Pheu Thai MPs to protest against the military seizure of about a dozen of calendars featuring former prime ministers Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra’s images in Khon Kaen on Monday. He said that there was no need for such petition and he would […]

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December 21, 2015December 6, 2023

Thaksin Shinawatra sues consular affairs officials for his passport cancellation

Former premier Thaksin Shinawatra has filed a legal suit against the director-general of the Department of Consular Affairs and two senior officials for what he called illegal cancellation of his passports in May this year. His quiet law suit was brought to the Administrative Court by his lawyer Wattana Tiangkul early this month. Read more: […]

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November 1, 2015December 6, 2023

Red-dressing day turns pale

The campaign to wear a red shirt on Sunday as an indicator of support for former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra passed quietly, even in some strongholds of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD). The atmosphere in Udon Thani, Pha Yao and Udon Ratchathani provinces, where UDD members were active before the coup last […]

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October 12, 2015December 6, 2023

Arrest Warrant Issued for ex-PM Thaksin for Failure to Appear

BANGKOK — A Bangkok court today issued an arrest warrant for fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after he failed to turn up for a defamation case filed against him by the army. The ruling would appear to mean little as Thaksin lives abroad anyway to avoid a jail sentence handed down in 2008 for […]

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October 8, 2015December 6, 2023

Suthep Thaugsuban acquitted of defaming Thaksin

The Supreme Court today acquitted Suthep Thaugsuban of defamation charge brought against him by the fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra for addressing in the House of Representatives and giving press interview saying that Thaksin wanted to be a president. Suthep, who was then deputy prime minister in charge of national security, told members of parliament during […]

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September 19, 2015

Police look on as anti-coup rally goes ahead

Hundreds of anti-coup activists rallied at Democracy Monument on Saturday evening after defying an order not to march there, but police made no attempt to break up the event. Security officials earlier tried unsuccessfully to put the brakes on the protest after a seminar marking the ninth anniversary of the 2006 military coup. Read more: […]

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September 5, 2015December 6, 2023

General Prayut invokes Section 44 to strip Thaksin of his police rank

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, acting in his capacity as the head of the National Council for Peace and Order, invoked Section 44 of the interim constitution to strip former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra of his police lieutenant colonel’s rank effective as of Sunday September 6. The order invoking Section 44 said that Thaksin’s police rank […]

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