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Thailand’s new Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. | Photo Credit: AFP Thailand has postponed its hosting of next month’s BIMSTEC summit of the leaders of seven mostly South Asian countries until after a new administration is formed, its foreign ministry said on Friday (August 23, 2024). Thailand currently has a caretaker government following a court’s dismissal…
Thailand Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin could be thrown out of office this week when the country’s Constitutional Court rules on his appointment of a cabinet minister with a criminal conviction. The case comes a week after the same court disbanded the kingdom’s main opposition political…
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A general view of Thailand Senate. (File photo used for representational purpose only.) | Photo Credit: Reuters Forty caretaker senators on May 17 petitioned Thailand’s Constitutional Court to dismiss Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin over a Cabinet appointment which they say breaches the constitution. The senators object to the appointment of Pichit Chuenban, a former lawyer,…
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Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin reads the policy statement at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 11, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin vowed to act quickly to relieve the country’s economic problems in his inaugural speech to Parliament on September 11, following four months of political uncertainty while parliamentarians…