Former Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat on Tuesday revealed that his brother-in-law Thaksin Shinawatra would assist in the campaigning for Pheu Thai Party to form the next government. “Thaksin will help to the fullest extent of his ability to enable Pheu Thai to form a single-party government,” he said. The Nation
THAI Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in his annual address to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) on Monday night said this. “It is time for Thailand to move forward,” he declared. But it was also clear that the shadow of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will loom large over the polls, which are expected […]
Party leader may not be contender for top govt job, in a ploy to survive another dissolution The opposition Pheu Thai Party will announce its candidate for the next prime minister as soon as the government calls for dissolution of the House of Representatives, fugitive ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra said in a message on Sunday night. […]
BANGKOK, March 20 2011 (NNT) – During his phone-in speech to the red-shirt rally on Saturday night, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra denied being the cause of the problems of the country as accused. According to the former Prime Minister, he is in good health and has been to Europe visiting red shirts living in […]
For a certain someone, there is nothing more important than being reinstalled back to power. 1.) Despite some remarks made by the red shirt leaders in the past, claiming that former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is no longer relevant to their movement, the red shirts announced at their latest rally that they are still fighting […]
On Friday, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced he would dissolve Parliament in the first week of May, paving the way for Thailand’s next general election, to take place in June or July. Last year’s red shirt protests, which resulted in the deaths of 91 people and injuries to at least 2,000, aimed to force Abhisit […]
BANGKOK, March 10 – Leading Red Shirt activist Adisorn Piengket, charged with terrorism, turned himself in to police on Thursday after being on the run for nine months, and was released on bail after reporting. The former deputy agriculture and cooperatives minister in the Thaksin Shinawatra administration surrendered to the Department of Special investigation (DSI) […]
The Appeals Court has upheld the Criminal Court’s decision to dismiss the defamation suit filed by the ex-wife of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra against the chairman of the now-defunct Assets Examination Committee. The ex-wife of the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Khunying Pojaman Na Pombejra, had filed a malfeasance suit against the chairman of […]
