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Outbreak no reason to delay polls
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 22/06/2020
» After a six-year vacuum in local politics, by the end of this year, some Thais might be able to cast their votes to elect local administrators.
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Pay hikes 'not tied to polls'
News, Published on 03/03/2023
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has come under fire as the government plans a pay raise for local leaders in what some see as a move to woo their support ahead of the upcoming general election.
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TAO pay hike 'not political': govt
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 12/02/2023
» The government has dismissed allegations that it approved a pay raise for local leaders in exchange for ballot-box gains in the upcoming election.
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Pension rule change draws fire
News, Post Reporters, Published on 15/08/2023
» Critics have slammed the outgoing government for issuing a new regulation imposing income limits on the elderly receiving monthly allowances.
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Govt blames cost for new payout rules on pensions
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 16/08/2023
» The government has defended new requirements for the receipt of the elderly allowance, which replaces universal welfare payments. It said the universal welfare payments were too great a burden on state coffers.
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Ministry pledges to safeguard pensions
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 18/08/2023
» The Social Development and Human Security Ministry has vowed to protect welfare benefits for the elderly following the introduction of a new regulation that has restricted access for many ageing citizens.
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New government forms, but at what cost?
News, Published on 23/08/2023
» Thai politics is entering a new chapter as the colour-coded political divide which has polarised the country for several years is expected to end after Pheu Thai Party's prime ministerial candidate Srettha Thavisin won parliament's endorsement to become the country's 30th prime minister on Tuesday.
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Govt urged to scrap new pension rules
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 17/08/2023
» Thai Labour Solidarity Committee (TLSC) has called on the caretaker government to consider revising a new regulation imposing income limits on the elderly receiving monthly allowances.
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Thank you, 'Mali San'
News, Postbag, Published on 24/08/2019
» We Thais owe many, many thanks to "Mali-San" or Ms Megumi Morimoto, 46, a freshman at Kasetsart University's Sakolnakorn campus. As shown by the clip on Facebook by Udomsak Nak-chang-in and on television, she's been blocking motorcyclists from illegally riding their bikes on the sidewalk at Rumsalee intersection, thus protecting pedestrians from being run over. She's done this over 100 times. Although local bikers have beaten her up four times, Thai onlookers have rescued her.
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Ex-mayor gets jail for journo strip incident
News, Chakrapan Nathanri, Published on 22/06/2018
» KHON KAEN: A local court has sentenced former Ban Phai municipality mayor Premsak Piayura to two months in jail without suspension for detaining a journalist and forcing him to strip, after the reporter revealed his apparent engagement to an underage girl.
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