The head of the police panel considering whether Thaksin Shinawatra should be stripped of his police rank reiterated Tuesday that his panel had already fulfilled its job after it resolved unanimously by 5 against 0 votes to take away the police rank. Pol Gen Chaiya Siriamphankul, a police advisor and the panel chairman, disclosed that […]
The Royal Thai Police commissioner has beefed up security in the capital and the provinces fearing that perpetrators might create unrest in the country after the Foreign Ministry revoked the passports of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. He ordered special action force police units to be set up and required that the special forces will […]
The committee in charge of police ranks has agreed unanimously to strip ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra off his police lieutenant colonel rank, Pol Gen Chaiya Siri-ampolkul, advisor to the Royal Thai Police commissioner, said today. The committee will recommend the decision to the Royal Thai Police commissioner Pol Gen Somyot Phumphanmuang late today to forward […]
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government has cancelled two passports held by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra due to an interview with CNN in South Korea last week. Below the statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today: The cancellation of the passport of Police Lieutenant Colonel Thaksin Shinawatra The security forces, the State Department had […]
Former leader of the yellow-shirt People’s Alliance of Democracy (PAD) Sondhi Limthongkul was freed today after he was earlier sentenced to prison with no suspension of jail term by two courts in a libel suit filed against him by the lawyer of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra in 2007. Sondhi arrived at the Criminal Court to […]
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha says he can’t talk to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in pursuit of national reconciliation, as Thaksin is a convicted fugitive. Gen Prayut, also chairman of the National Council for Peace and Order, said he cannot hold talks with anyone wanted for legal action. Read more: Bangkok Post
The future looks bleak for both the Pheu Thai Party and the Shinawatra family now that former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been impeached and barred from politics by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) over her role in the loss-ridden rice-pledging scheme. But it was the Office of Attorney-General (OAG) that stole the show yesterday. […]
The Criminal Court today acquitted former foreign minister Kasit Piromya of defaming ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra in a public address made in November 2008. Thaksin filed defamation case against Kasit after he addressed at a protest rally at Government House organised by the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) in November 2008, accusing Thaksin of trying by […]
