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Paetongtarn offers moral support for Yingluck after rice scheme verdict
Online Reporters, Published on 23/05/2025
» Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has given her aunt and former premier Yingluck moral support after the Supreme Administrative Court ordered her to pay 10 billion baht in compensation for the financial losses from the controversial rice-pledging scheme.
Former Thai PM Yingluck says she can't pay B10bn compensation
Post Reporters, Published on 23/05/2025
» Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra took to social media on Thursday to defend herself against a ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court, which ordered her to pay over 10 billion baht in damages over her administration's failed rice-pledging scheme, despite never being named a defendant in the case.
Ex-PM Yingluck ordered to pay B10bn for Thai rice scheme losses
Online Reporters, Published on 22/05/2025
» The Supreme Administrative Court has ordered fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 10 billion baht in compensation for the losses incurred by her administration’s rice-pledging scheme more than a decade ago.
Coalition cracks deepen as Pheu Thai, Bhumjaithai feud escalates
News, Published on 17/05/2025
» The open bickering between the ruling Pheu Thai Party and its largest coalition partner, Bhumjaithai, has prompted an opposition party to go on the defensive, according to observers.
Would more debt fix the economy?
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 17/05/2025
» A total of seven emergency loan decrees were issued from 1998 to 2021, authorising combined borrowings of 3.83 trillion baht to address various economic crises, including the Asian financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Revealed: Thaksin’s hospital haven
Online Reporters, Published on 15/05/2025
» Mention “the 14th floor” to almost anyone in Thailand and they will know instantly what you mean — it’s where former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra spent six months while serving out his prison sentence at the Police General Hospital in Bangkok
Back to the future
Postbag, Published on 04/05/2025
» Re: "VAT mulled for firms with less revenue -- B1.8m threshold may be erased", (Business, May 2).
ABOUT POLITICS: A spanner in the works?
News, Published on 03/05/2025
» Many have made an ominous prediction after hearing Bhumjaithai Party secretary-general Chaichanok Chidchob say in parliament that the coalition government is living on borrowed time.
Hospital stay haunts Thaksin again
Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 03/05/2025
» A decision of the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions to launch an inquiry into claims of improper enforcement of the prison sentence against ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra over what is known as the "14th floor saga" has triggered wild speculation about another round of political bargaining games.
Last three Uyghurs 'resettled'
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 28/04/2025
» The remaining three Uyghurs held at Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre have been transferred for resettlement in a third country, effectively ending a diplomatic saga which spanned more than a decade.