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Opposition asks if PM lied about her father's 'serious illness'
Online Reporters, Published on 25/03/2025
» The Opposition has pointed out that Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra told reporters her father Thaksin was healthy just two days before he returned to Thailand, and questioned why he was then deemed "seriously ill" and spent his prison term in the comfort of the Police General Hospital.
The time is not ripe
News, Published on 01/03/2025
» It doesn't look like former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra -- in self-exile abroad -- will be celebrating the Songkran festival in Thailand next month after all, according to her fiercest critic responsible for her downfall.
Jailed PKK leader expected to make 'historic' call for peace with Turkey
AFP, Published on 27/02/2025
» ISTANBUL - Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was expected to make a "historic declaration" on Thursday on ending the decades-long conflict between Kurdish groups and the Turkish state.
Smart geopolitics starts on home front
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 21/02/2025
» According to a longstanding axiom, all politics is local. If so, then smart and crafty geopolitics must start at home with sufficient domestic political stability and consensus about how the country should navigate what is increasingly a turbulent geostrategic chessboard. Put this way, few countries can appreciate the intersection of geopolitics and domestic politics more than Thailand. Its rocky and volatile home front over the past two decades continues to impede and constrain its geostrategic projection.
Senator pulls motion on prison healthcare
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 18/02/2025
» Proceedings in the Senate chamber were briefly disrupted on Tuesday when a motion to debate equal rights for prisoners was suddenly withdrawn by the senator who submitted it.
Leave Thaksin be, Pheu Thai warns
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 11/02/2025
» The ruling Pheu Thai Party on Monday warned the opposition against using the no-confidence debate as an opportunity to attack or defame former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra verbally.
Thai opposition launches bid to stage a 5-day censure debate
Published on 09/02/2025
» The opposition is looking to submit a no-confidence motion against the government in parliament on Feb 27 although its plan to hold the debate for five days could be cut to three.
Reading-based early parole plan mulled
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/02/2025
» The Department of Corrections (DoC) is floating the idea of adopting reading as one of the criteria for prisoners' early release, says Justice Minister Pol Col Tawee Sodsong.
Criminal Court permits Thaksin to travel abroad
Published on 31/01/2025
» The Criminal Court has approved a request from Thaksin Shinawatra to temporarily leave Thailand, with a 5-million-baht cash surety to guarantee his return.
'Love for humanity': Low-crime Japan's unpaid parole officers
AFP, Published on 22/01/2025
» TOKYO - Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife fight between an ex-offender and their mother -- all in a day's unpaid work for Japan's army of volunteer probation officers.