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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.
Shoring up the auto sector
Published on 24/02/2025
» The recent announcement by the Board of Investment (BoI) that Nissan Motor Thailand will maintain its investment here, following news reports that the parent company plans to close three factories overseas, is reflective of changes in the Thai automotive industry.
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.
Graft convict found after 10-year hunt
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/02/2025
» Suthee Chuamthaisong, who was among the 16 people who were found guilty of corruption in relation to the graft-ridden rice-pledging scheme initiated by the Yingluck Shinawatra administration, has been arrested in Khon Kaen after evading authorities for several years.
'Know-how', not 'know who'
News, Published on 15/02/2025
» The old saying that "acquiring know-how matters less than who you know" is not only prevalent but is practised in its most blatant form in elite study courses, according to observers.
‘Tuhao’ acquitted of money-laundering and drug charges
Wassayos Ngamkham and Online Reporters, Published on 11/02/2025
» Chinese businessman Chaiyanat “Tuhao” Kornchayanant has been acquitted, along with his former police officer wife and 17 others, on charges of organised transnational crime, money-laundering and drug offences, on grounds of insufficient evidence.
Yingluck's return 'still in the works'
Post Reporters, Published on 10/02/2025
» The attempt to bring fugitive former PM Yingluck Shinawatra back to the country is still on, with her brother Thaksin saying there are still several factors that need to be taken into consideration before she could return home.
Government to name new central bank chairman choice
Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 04/02/2025
» The Ministry of Finance is preparing to nominate a new candidate for the chairmanship of the Bank of Thailand on Wednesday, and has expressed confidence that the selection process will not take long.
Father Thaksin's busy agenda could be Paetongtarn's undoing
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 19/01/2025
» Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra's rise to power is relatively premature considering her age and political experience. However, her nomination as one of the Pheu Thai Party's three prime ministerial candidates suggested she was ready to take on the role.
PM Paetongarn faces another bid to remove her from office
Post Reporters, Published on 15/01/2025
» Activist Sonthiya Sawasdee has filed a petition against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra over her appointment of a previously jailed activist as her adviser.