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7 October, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who is on an official visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. Photo: Xinhua
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Xi Jinping praises Thailand’s crackdown on Myanmar scam hubs

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn meets Xi in Beijing after the kingdom cut power and internet to scam hubs around its border.

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Is it still safe to travel to Thailand?

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Thai PM uses AI to ‘speak’ Mandarin

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Thailand is pushing ahead with its grand casino plans – and Thaksin’s all for it

Thailand’s cabinet has approved a draft law to legalise casinos. The Thai PM’s father says gambling could net billions in tax revenue.

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Thai ex-PM Thaksin under fire for alleged racist jibe at African women

Former leader says Thai women have ‘natural beauty’ and his Pheu Thai party will promote them to become supermodels.

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Thai PM declares millions in watches and bags, among US$400 million assets

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of billionaire ex-PM, had to identify her assets and liabilities to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

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Thailand plans a huge economic revamp to tackle its mountain of household debt

An estimated US$475 billion of debt is driving inequality, the government says – as Thailand’s economic growth lags behind its neighbours.

Stacks of 1,000 baht banknotes at a foreign currency exchange in Bangkok. The new government says it plan to push ahead with a controversial 10,000-baht cash handout plan Photo: AFP
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New Thai PM Paetongtarn vows to stimulate the economy ‘right away’

Thailand’s new prime minister is formulating policies that she said will give the country’s economy a boost.

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Is Thai mega project a land bridge too far for ‘desperate’ government?

Analysts warn the project could become another white elephant, with funding, long-term viability and possible corruption among serious concerns.

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Thaksin is back, but can the Shinawatras win over a changing Thailand?

From coup to comeback, the Shinawatra clan’s restoration has thrust Thailand into a reckoning with its past – and an uncertain future.

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Thaksin Shinawatra and his daughter Paetongtarn arrive at Pheu Thai party headquarters in Bangkok before the royal endorsement ceremony appointing her as Thailand’s new prime minister on August 18. Photo: AP
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Thai opposition seeks to rein in constitutional court after political upheaval

The Constitutional Court has dissolved more than 100 political parties and unseated three prime ministers in the past 27 years, heightening concern about democracy in Thailand.

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Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, leader of the People’s Party, will push to curb the sweeping power of the Constitutional Court. Photo: Bloomberg
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‘I will work with an open heart’: Thai king appoints Paetongtarn as new PM

Paetongtarn received the monarch’s official written command to form a government in a ceremony in Bangkok.

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Thailand’s new PM Paetongtarn to remain in father Thaksin’s ‘shadow’: analysts

Thaksin will ‘hold even more sway’ over policymaking behind the scenes, with pro-China stance expected to continue, observers note.

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China ties strong enough to weather Thailand’s political turmoil: analysts

The departure of another Thai prime minister is unlikely to change the economic relationship between the two countries, observers say.

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A Thai court has dismissed Srettha Thavisin as prime minister. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Thailand’s Pheu Thai party chooses Paetongtarn Shinawatra as PM candidate

Thai politics has endured two decades of chronic instability marked by coups, street protests and court orders.

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Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra greets supporters with his youngest daughter Paetongtarn. Photo: AFP
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Explainer | Srettha’s exit: are Thailand’s conservatives on the rise, democracy in retreat?

Despite challenges from other parties, Pheu Thai “will almost certainly remain in government”, an analyst says

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‘The show is over’: Thailand PM Srettha Thavisin dismissed by court

The decision reached by the nine-member Constitutional Court has deepened the country’s political turmoil.

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Thai ex-PM Thaksin released on parole after serving 6 months in hospital

Thaksin was released from Police General Hospital, where for the last six months he had been serving time for corruption-related offences.

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Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives at his family compound with his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra after he was released from a police hospital in Bangkok on Sunday. Photo: AFP
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Jailed ex-Thai leader Thaksin to be released Sunday, PM Srettha says

Thaksin has been in hospital detention since August, after making a dramatic homecoming from living abroad for 15 years in self-exile to avoid prison for a conflict of interest.

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Destinations known | Songkran for a month? Thailand tests the water on festival extension

Thailand’s Songkran festival involves drenching others with buckets of water and water guns, and is a big tourist draw. A proposal to extend the three-day event to a month is getting a mixed reception.

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Thai ruling party elects Thaksin daughter as leader

Pheu Thai is the latest incarnation of the party founded by Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father, who was in self-imposed exile for 15 years following a coup.

The new leader of the Pheu Thai Party, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Thaksin’s daughter says ex-Thai leader fatigued as hospital stay criticism grows

Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand last week after 15 years of self-imposed exile and was immediately sent to prison, but was transferred to a hospital just hours after he began serving an eight-year sentence.

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Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra beside his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok on August 22. Photo: Reuters
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Thailand’s Thaksin poised for return as Pheu Thai seals pact with old foes

A possible ‘super-deal’ with former political foes may allow Thaksin to be held in special detention and swiftly seek a royal pardon from the Thai king.

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Most Thais oppose plan for Pheu Thai-military coalition government: poll

About 64 per cent of 1,310 respondents disagreed or totally disagreed with the idea of the Pheu Thai party forming a ‘special government’ with military-backed rivals.

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Exiled ex-PM Thaksin’s return to Thailand to coincide with new PM vote: daughter

Thaksin Shinawatra’s potential return to the kingdom on Tuesday coincides with a key parliamentary vote that could end a political deadlock to choose a new prime minister.

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Exiled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to return to the kingdom on August 22 his daughter said. Photo: AFP
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Thailand’s Thaksin spotted at Cambodian leader Hun Sen’s birthday party

Just a day earlier the former prime minister had said he would delay plans to return to Thailand following years of self-imposed exile.

Outgoing Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, right, gives a souvenir to former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh on Saturday. Photo: AP
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Thailand’s election-winning Move Forward Party excluded from coalition

Property tycoon Srettha Thavisin will be put forward as PM candidate by Pheu Thai party – seen as a vehicle for the Shinawatra political clan – which announced reformist MFP’s exclusion from the group trying to form the next government.

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Thailand’s Thaksin plans his return amid rumours of a ‘super-deal’ with ex-foes

Ahead of ex-PM Thaksin’s return to Thailand on August 10, his family’s Pheu Thai party will have to break from the more radical Move Forward Party, while sustaining as little lasting damage as possible to its pro-democracy brand.

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