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Chadchart rules out running for City Hall
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 15/03/2014
» Caretaker Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt has poured cold water on claims he was preparing to make a run for Bangkok governor.
Chadchart rules out governor bid
Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 14/03/2014
» Caretaker Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt says that running for Bangkok governor is something best left for the future, not now.
Academics say govt's status expired
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 05/03/2014
» A group of academics named Siam Prachapiwat on Tuesday declared the Yingluck Shinawatra government's caretaker status now over, as 30 days have passed since the Feb 2 general election.
Suvarnabhumi airport braces for rice farmer protest
Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 20/02/2014
» Suvarnabhumi airport has set aside its long-term parking area to host around 1,000 farmers coming to Bangkok to demand rice-pledging payments from the caretaker government.
PM offers to help end political crisis
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 14/02/2014
» Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Thursday she is ready to cooperate and support efforts to help end the political crisis.
3 electric train lines press ahead
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 06/02/2014
» Three electric train projects are pressing ahead though two are running behind schedule, caretaker Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt says.
Govt to mull reform decree in cabinet talk
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 25/12/2013
» The caretaker government will consider issuing a royal decree establishing a reform assembly at the cabinet meeting tomorrow, caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana says.
Scholars see few ways out of crisis
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 10/12/2013
» The next stage of the political tussle will be between the government's push towards a new election and protest leaders' attempts to remove the cabinet from its caretaker role, academics say.
Rising cabinet star Chadchat likened to Thaksin
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 12/11/2012
» After serving only eight months as deputy transport minister, academic-turned-politician Chadchat Sittipunt has leapt to the ministry's top post in the recent cabinet shake-up.