Bangkok (EFE).- The king of Thailand has approved the new 36-member cabinet of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, the final step to form a government ahead of a swearing-in ceremony. The Royal Gazette published the endorsement on Friday of the ministers appointed by the Bhumjaithai Party’s conservative leader, who has chosen technocrats and businesspeople for key … Read more
Bangkok (EFE).- Thailand’s House of Representatives voted Friday to install conservative politician Anutin Charnvirakul as the country’s prime minister, following last week’s removal of Paetongtarn Shinawatra for ethical breaches. Anutin, a former health and interior minister, obtained more than the 247 votes needed out of the 492-member House. His success was enabled by a deal … Read more
Bangkok (EFE).- Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Friday ordered the dismissal of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra after she was found guilty of violating ethics for criticizing a senior military officer in a leaked telephone call. In the leaked audio recording of the conversation with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen, the Thai leader, who was suspended from … Read more
By Taryn Wilson Sisaket/Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand (EFE).- Kamonrat Phonsetthalert had just left the gas station she owns in Thailand’s Sisaket province when a rocket fired from across the border in Cambodia crashed through the roof, sending a fireball into the sky. The Jul. 24 strike was a decisive moment at the beginning of five days … Read more
By Lobsang DS Subirana Bangkok (EFE).- Fighting between Thai and Cambodian forces continued for a second straight day Friday morning along disputed sections of their shared border, with Thai authorities reporting sustained artillery attacks and more than 100,000 civilians fleeing violence. At least 14 civilians have been killed and 31 injured since clashes began early … Read more
By Lobsang DS Subirana Bangkok, Jul 24 (EFE).- Tensions between Thailand and Cambodia came to a boil Thursday along multiple points of their mutual border, resulting in at least 11 civilian deaths, 35 injuries and a retaliatory airstrike, following months of deteriorating diplomatic relations between the countries. Fighting took place from the morning into the … Read more
By Lobsang DS Subirana Bangkok, (EFE).- Authorities in Thailand continued working through the night and into Thursday after cries for help were allegedly heard from under the rubble, six days after a powerful earthquake in Myanmar felled a 30-story Bangkok building that killed at least 15 people. Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said rescuers had located … Read more
Bangkok, May 18 (EFE).- The Thai political party that took out a surprise victory in the country’s weekend general election has formed a coalition with seven other pro-democracy opposition parties, its leader announced Thursday. Pita Limjaroenrat told a news conference in Bangkok alongside representatives of the other parties that his “coalition is firmly taking shape.” … Read more
Bangkok, Mar 20 (EFE).- Thai authorities dissolved parliament Monday with the aim of calling general elections in May, which will be the first vote since the 2019 elections held under the military junta. After the dissolution was announced in a decree published in the Royal Gazette, the Electoral Commission will meet to decide in the … Read more
Bangkok, Mar 15 (EFE).- Thai police on Wednesday detained an armed former officer, who allegedly suffers from mental problems, after more than 24 hours barricaded in a house on the outskirts of Bangkok and after shooting several times at agents, local media reported. A special police command broke into the residence of the armed man … Read more
Bangkok, Mar 7 (EFE).- A Thai court sentenced a man Tuesday accused of parodying King Vajiralongkorn in a calendar with veiled references to the monarch, allegedly likening him to a duck, to two years in prison for royal defamation, a group of Thai lawyers reported. The duck, one of the symbols of the protests calling … Read more
Bangkok, Dec 23 (EFE).- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, announced Friday he would run for re-election in general elections scheduled for the first half of 2023 under a new political platform. “I want to introduce myself to give continuity to my projects,” Prayut told the media, adding that he would head the conservative Ruam Thai … Read more