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‘Don’t fall for Bhumjaithai ploy’
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 08/01/2026
» Former prime minister Chuan Leekpai, now a Democrat Party candidate, slammed Deputy Prime Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn of the Bhumjaithai Party on Wednesday for urging southern voters to support his party in the Feb 8 election in exchange for budget allocations.
Coalition in crisis
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 09/07/2025
» Amnesty bills are now taking precedence over the more controversial Entertainment Complex Bill as the administration walks a political tightrope, with critics wondering if the move is a sincere attempt to reconcile a fragmenting coalition or rather a strategic manoeuvre by an embattled government.
People's Party presses premier about alleged tax-dodging notes
Business, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 02/05/2025
» The People's Party (PP) is pressing ahead with an inquiry conducted in the House of Representatives into Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra's controversial use of promissory notes (PNs) in a 4.43-billion-baht share acquisition, which the main opposition party suspects to be a tax-dodging ploy.
Supplementary budget bill sails through Senate
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 07/08/2024
» The supplementary bill, which seeks to increase the budget for the current fiscal year by 122 billion baht to partially fund the government's digital wallet handout scheme, sailed through all three readings in the Upper House on Tuesday.
Senator blasts PM chief's 'election ploy'
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 19/04/2024
» Senator Somchai Sawangkarn is calling on the Election Commission (EC) to take action against any attempts to manipulate the election of new senators.
Lawmaker says he's a 'victim' of smear campaign
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 13/10/2023
» The Move Forward Party (MFP) MP at the centre of an online sexual harassment scandal has complained that he is the victim of a ploy to discredit him as he is likely to face a probe for breaking MP ethics.
Thaksin scraps plan to return next week
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 04/08/2023
» Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's plan to return to Thailand will be postponed until a Pheu Thai-led government is formed, a Pheu Thai source said on Thursday.
Debate on torture decree adjourned, House prorogued
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 28/02/2023
» The House debate on an executive decree postponing the enforcement of key provisions of the law against torture and enforced disappearance was adjourned on Tuesday after a group of MPs petitioned the Constitutional Court to rule its legality.
No-interest study loans a 'vote ploy'
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 20/09/2022
» House Speaker Chuan Leekpai on Monday criticised a proposed amendment to the Student Loan Fund (SLF) Act as an effort to curry favour with voters, saying the fund should come up with ways to promote repayments among borrowers.
Pheu Thai warns on House no-show
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 11/11/2021
» The Pheu Thai Party is threatening to get the Constitutional Court involved after several cabinet ministers failed to show up to a parliamentary inquiry, claiming they had a more important function to attend.