The Appeals Court Tuesday upheld the Criminal Court’s ruling rejecting a defamation lawsuit filed by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and the Thai Rak Thai against Sondhi Limthongkul and 10 others. Thaksin and the now-defunct Thai Rak Thai alleged that Sondhi, owner of Manager Media Group, had defamed him during a seminar on May 24 […]
BANGKOK, Jan 31 – Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra today categorically denied an international news report that her elder brother, ousted premier Thaksin, controls the cabinet remotely from abroad via various telecommunications channels. The New York Times said Mr Thaksin Shinawatra, in self exile since 2008 and residing mostly in Dubai and London, has […]
BANGKOK, Jan 29 – A group of Red Shirt activists rallied at Government House today, demanding the government’s promulgation of a law to grant amnesty to political prisoners held since the 2006 against the then government of Thaksin Shinawatra. Led by Suda Rangkupan, a lecturer in Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Arts, the group said the […]
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen appears to be confused about issues related to land and maritime border disputes with Thailand, Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday. He denied having tried to politicise these issues, as alleged by Hun Sen, saying he had merely reacted to remarks by government leaders and to those of former […]
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is voted the most creative politician in 2012 in a poll by Bangkok University. While Yingluck wins the 52.1 per cent score, trailing behind are former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (16.3 per cent), Chuwit Kamolvisit (15.3 per cent), Chalerm Yoobamrung (7.1 per cent) and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra (2.6 […]
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra Wednesday had his lawyer file defamation complaint with police against the Pitak Siam leader and a Democrat MP. Worawit Laolaeng represented Thaksin to file the complaints at the Dusit police station. Read more: The Nation
Former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and former deputy PM Suthep Thaugsuban said yesterday that they were ready to accept their fate in relation to the murder charges levelled against them, but said they would never make compromises and let amnesty be provided to former PM Thaksin Shinawatra. Abhisit and Suthep told the press that the […]
BANGKOK, Nov 6 – Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has cancelled his planned trip to the Myanmar border town of Tachilek following reports of an assassination plot against him, but his scheduled meeting with Myanmar President Thein Sein in the capital remains in place, his legal advisor said on Tuesday. Lawyer Noppadon Pattama said […]
