Thailand

The chief government whip Wirat Ratana-sate and Palang Pracharath Party MP are being tipped to head the parliamentary committee that will vet draft charter amendment drafts. In fact, For the first time, the 45-member committee, created after Parliament voted to approve two charter amendment drafts in the first reading of this week’s contentious two-day joint session, is scheduled to meet. …

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced that all laws and all articles will be enforced against protestors who breach the constitution. In a statement released from his office, in the face of street protests by pro-democracy demonstrators demanding his resignation, as well as reform of the monarchy and he’s serious about giving notice. He highlighted the government and different organizations had …

The recent night’s protest at Ratchaprason intersection in downtown Bangkok, police intend to arrest anti-government protesters who reportedly destroyed police headquarters, splashed paint, and fired slingshots at police. Pol Col Kissana Phathanacharoen, deputy spokesperson highlighted that demonstrators had hurled objects at the headquarters building and splattered paint all over the signboard until the protesters dispersed. Consequently, The police in Pathumwan …

 It’s surprising that the Police use water cannon to fire tear gas solution at protesters attempting to cut outside parliament erected via razor wire. In view of this, The line of concrete barriers and razor wire installed near the Bang Krabue intersection in front of the parliament in Dusit district at around 2.30 pm was reached by a group of …

The bill to change the charter introduced by the Internet Law Reform Dialogue (iLaw) is the least likely of seven bills to make it through parliament, although it is the most controversial. Any senators could also not show up for the first-reading vote on the seven drafts as they fear there may be tensions between anti-government demonstrators and pro-government backers …

Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, co-founder of the Democratic Movement, called off a scheduled campaign trip to Surat Thani on for fear that he might face resistance close to what he faced from a group of yellow-clad royalists in Nakhon Si Thammarat. Instead in the 20th of December, regional administration organization (PAO) election there Mr Thanathorn went to Phangnga to assist with his …

In the middle of a tour to the north-east of the region, King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand wrote messages of national reconciliation and love two days after demonstrators sent him a letter requesting royal changes that would curtail his powers. The Royal Palace did not comment on months of demonstrations, but the King’s communications in the South-East Asian nation are …

The protest over the King is on-going and as thousands marched to the Grand Palace, Thai police used water cannons against demonstrators in Bangkok once again, raising tensions in a kingdom increasingly rife with controversy over its monarchy’s position. The young demonstrators, who have been staging flash mobs all over the world since January, said they needed King Maha Vajiralongkorn …

The government has vowed to boost its attempts to rehabilitate the tourism sector in Phuket, which has been hammered on both its short-term and long-term targets by the pandemic. His advisory committee, headed by Thosaporn Sirisamphand, former secretary general of the National Economic and Social Development Council, has already been instructed by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to finalize the recommendations …

As the protesters want Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his government to resign immediately in order to implement a new Constitution and to reform the monarchy, The youth-led demonstrators have held almost regular rallies in Bangkok and other cities for three weeks, prompting counter rallies by pro-royalist groups opposed to any reform of the monarchy. The Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon …