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Daily Covid cases surge in Bangkok
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/04/2023
» The number of daily Covid-19 cases in Bangkok has surged from 400 to 700, nearly twice the number of cases reported before the Songkran festival.
Cops nab school chief for graft
News, Wassayos Ngamkham and Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 03/02/2023
» A Bangkok school director has been suspended for allegedly extorting money from a supplier of student lunches and keeping it in his office.
Watana loses appeal in housing graft case
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/03/2022
» Former Pheu Thai heavyweight Watana Muangsook lost his appeal on Friday as a panel of judges decided to uphold a guilty ruling over his role in irregularities in a low-cost housing project and stood by the prison term of 99 years he was handed earlier.
Watana business 'not closed'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/10/2021
» The owner of the burnt-down Watana Footwear Company building in Samut Prakan claims the business in not closed and staff will be paid this month.
Pheu Thai raises eyebrows
News, Published on 12/06/2021
» The main opposition Pheu Thai Party raised many eyebrows when it declared this week that it was ready to take over the government from the ruling Palang Pracharath Party if Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha caved in to mounting political pressure.
Knives at the ready
News, Published on 16/01/2021
» A no-confidence debate has been termed a "necessary ritual" by critics and this year the opposition is wasting no time drawing up a timetable for filing a censure motion against the government at the earliest available opportunity.
Clear direction badly needed
News, Published on 09/01/2021
» About this time last year, Covid-19 was rearing its ugly head on the back of growing predictions that an outbreak was imminent and bound to take a devastating toll on lives and hit the government where it hurt the most -- its coffers.
A fraught year in politics
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 30/12/2020
» It is often said that Thailand resolves around political events. Here are the five most dynamic and attention-grabbing stories — the youth-led, anti-government protests, the Future Forward Party’s spectacular fall, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha surviving the Constitutional Court’s rulings that threatened to deliver the death warrant on his premiership, the Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO) elections held for the first time in six years and the internal turbulence experienced by the main opposition Pheu Thai Party — which have left their mark this year.
Sudarat launches new party
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 29/12/2020
» Former Pheu Thai heavyweight Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, who left the opposition party last month, has started a new political party.
Thaksin plays down splits
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 13/12/2020
» Ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra says he has no regrets over the resignation of key politicians from the main opposition Pheu Thai Party, a group now locked in dispute with the leader of the red-shirt movement.