BANGKOK, 1 September 2015 (NNT) – The Royal Thai Police has finished examining the evidence and is deliberating the revocation of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s police title. Police Chief Police General Somyos Poompanmuang said he has already received a letter from the Office of Official Information Commission regarding the possibility of revoking the police […]
Royal Thai Police commissioner Pol Gen Somyot Poompunmoung assured today that the proposed stripping of the former premier Thasksin Shinawatra’s police rank is still underway but needs cautious scrutinisation. He said the proposal is now with the Council of State to scrutinise on two to three legal issues. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
BANGKOK — Thailand’s ruling military junta has dismissed claims that former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been barred from attending the birthday of her brother Thaksin Shinawatra, another former PM who is currently living in a self-imposed exile to avoid a corruption conviction. Many supporters of Yingluck, known as the Redshirts, have been posting on […]
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is now on a tour of ASEAN countries after having visited China last week. Matichon Online said Thaksin is now in Singapore after having visited and made merit at Xishuangbanna, a Tai Lü autonomous prefecture in the south of Yunnan Province of the People’s Republic of China, and Hong Kong. […]
Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck will likely disappear from the political scene for good based on the latest revision of the constitution draft. However, most of the 220 politicians banned after their parties were dissolved in the aftermath of the 2006 coup — the so-called Houses No. 109 and 111 — would be able […]
No Thai passports? No problem if you’re Thaksin Shinawatra. The former prime minister was in Montenegro to renew his passport as it was running out of pages, his daughter Paetongtran wrote on her Instagram account, @ingshin21, on Saturday. Read more: Bangkok Post
The Royal Thai Police commissioner has again rejected a police committee’s recommendation to strip Thaksin Shinawatra’s of his police rank reasoning that it lacks details of his misbehaviours that could justify the action. The committee headed by Pol Gen Chaiya Siri-ampolkul forwarded its recommendation to the commissioner Pol Gen Somyot Phumphanmuang. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been found to have had no role in her brother, fugitive ex-PM Thaksin, being granted a passport, anti-corruption panel chairman Panthep Klanarongran said Wednesday. He said investigators from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) looking into the allegation decided that former foreign minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul and then-Foreign Ministry permanent secretary […]
