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  • THAILAND

    Thailand 'ready' for Songkran festivities

    Panumate Tanraksa, Published on 07/04/2024

    » This year's three-week-long Songkran festival with festivities to take place across the country is expected to give tourism a much-needed boost as it is expected to bring in tens of billions of baht in tourism income.

  • THAILAND

    A pill policy that may just pop

    News, Published on 02/03/2024

    » Yosapat Kongduang, 22, did not sleep for three straight nights after taking methamphetamine pills or ya ba. He was restless and aggressive when police arrested him at his house in Buri Ram on Feb 16.

  • THAILAND

    MFP unfazed by court ruling

    Published on 05/02/2024

    » The Constitutional Court's unanimous ruling against the Move Forward Party (MFP) concerning its push to amend Section 112 of the Criminal Code, known as the lese majeste law, has established the limits on any attempts to change the law.

  • THAILAND

    Shooting probe unearths macabre student gang

    News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/11/2023

    » At first glance, it looked like the Klong Toey shooting on Oct 11 was a revenge attack between technical students who study at rival vocational colleges but when the police team of the Metropolitan Police Bureau dug deep, they found the shooter and his partner were part of a crime syndicate comprised of at least 84 members.

  • THAILAND

    Hands up for a pay rise

    Published on 12/11/2023

    » Despite being in office for only two months, the Pheu Thai-led government has made progress on several campaign pledges including plans to raise salaries for civil servants and the daily minimum wages for unskilled workers, although the timeframe set for these changes is within four years.

  • THAILAND

    Divided cabinet faces tough tests

    Published on 03/09/2023

    » Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has completed his first task of putting together a cabinet which received royal endorsement on Saturday but questions remain as to whether he is putting the right people in the right jobs.

  • THAILAND

    Move Forward's fortunes still up in the air

    News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 25/06/2023

    » The Election Commission's (EC) endorsement of all 500 MPs-elect has paved the way for parliament to convene and choose a new prime minister.

  • THAILAND

    A matter of survival

    News, Published on 22/05/2023

    » Political observers were surprised by the Move Forward Party's victory in the May 14 election and that the Pheu Thai Party came runner-up in the race.

  • THAILAND

    Fighting Thailand's 'scamdemic'

    News, Published on 17/05/2023

    » The April 8 arrest in Bangkok of a Chinese woman with Thai citizenship alleged to be the leader of a criminal syndicate involved in fraud, surrogacy and human trafficking is just one recent example of an increasingly sophisticated crime wave inside Thailand.

  • THAILAND

    A grab-bag of mass appeal promises

    News, Published on 26/03/2023

    » Ahead of the May 14 election, parties are outlining populist policies, with few bothering to spell out how they will fund them.

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