Thailand’s foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul said yesterday he was considering returning the Thai passport of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. “I am trying to determine if it was right to seize [Thaksin’s] passport. A passport is an important official document required when you travel overseas. It is not different from an identification card. Do convicts […]
Proposals to reverse certain court rulings in the wake of the 2006 coup have split the larger Thai community, mostly down pro- and anti-Thaksin lines. Former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva opposes the attempt to nullify legal changes which followed the 2006 coup that toppled the Thaksin Shinawatra government, while Thaksin’s supporters are largely backing the […]
Thailand’s former prime minister appeared in neighboring Cambodia Saturday for high level talks with that country’s leadership. Thaksin Shinawatra publicly embraced Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during a meeting in Phnom Penh. Officials said the two were scheduled to discuss a variety of issues, including trade, an ongoing border dispute and the release of two […]
BANGKOK, 15 September 2011 (NNT) – The United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) is prepared to demonstrate at Bangkok Democracy Monument on 18 September to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 2006 coup d’état. Acting UDD Chairperson Thida Thawornset announced that the group would stage a gathering on 18 September at the Democracy Monument […]
BANGKOK: Thailand’s new Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is mobilising a crackdown on illegal drugs as a United Nations agency reveals a massive increase in the production and use of amphetamines across Asia. The crackdown comes eight years after a “war on drugs” overseen by Ms Yingluck’s older brother Thaksin Shinawatra during which almost 3000 Thais […]
Thailand’s exiled leader Pol lieutenant Col. Thaksin Shinawatra would arrive in Phnom Penh on Friday. Pol Lieutenant Col. Thaksin is due to arrive in Cambodia one day after his younger sister Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, who is the Prime Minister, leaves Phnom Penh for an official visit to the country after being appointed Thailand’s 28th premier.The […]
BANGKOK, 10 September 2011 (NNT) – Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has a plan to travel to Cambodia next week. Thaksin’s legal adviser Noppadol Pattama revealed that the former PM has been invited by the Royal Academy of Cambodia to give a lecture on Asian and world economies to parliamentarians from different countries on September […]
BANGKOK, 5 September 2011 (NNT) – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has denied speeding up the process concerning the royal pardon petition for her brother ex-Prime Minister Police Lieutenant Colonel Thaksin Shinawatra, which has been submitted by the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD). Speaking about the UDD’s movement asking for a progress in the […]
