How this censure might differ from last
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published : 30 Jan 2021 at 04:00
18 In this photo from February last year, the Prayut Chan-o-cha government survives a no-confidence motion in parliament after reports of disunity among opposition parties. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu)
All eyes are on opposition parties as another motion of no-confidence in the government draws near. The debate, tentatively scheduled for Feb 16-19, will be a test to see whether the bloc can make a difference, unlike in the previous attempt.
The opposition has targeted 10 cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, and his brothers in arms, Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, and Interior Minister Gen Anupong Paochinda.
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A fraught year in politics
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published : 30 Dec 2020 at 11:02
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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.
1. Anti-government protests
Anti-government protesters, most of whom were students, fill Ngam Wong Wan and Phahon Yothin roads at Kasetsart intersection in Bangkok on Oct 19. (Photo by Varuth Hirunyatheb)
Stray bullet grief, Benz road rage, mute thief sent packing
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published : 27 Dec 2020 at 04:00
Teen fight cuts boy s life short
The mother of a 12-year-old boy killed by a stray bullet during a teen fight outside a Si Sa Ket temple is appealing to police to arrest the culprit.
Wassana Wapeeneh
Wassana Wapeeneh, 39, left a message on Facebook last week pleading with police to speed up the case as the young man whose stray bullet killed her son, Premnach Pluem Sarapol, 12, remains free.
Pluem was playing with his friends at Wat Ban Nong I Tong on Dec 16 where locals had gathered to celebrate a birthday.
27 Voters cast their ballots in the Provincial Administration Organisation election in Songkhla on Sunday. (Photo by Nutthawat Wicheanbut)
Last Sunday, Thailand had a long-overdue election of the chairs and council members of all Provincial Administration Organisations (PAO). Are these elections really meaningful?
Following the 2014 coup, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), under then-army chief Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha upended a foundation of Thai democracy by issuing an order to suspend local elections. The politically powerful junta then began to co-opt all locally elected politicians and local government officials to become centrally appointed representatives of the central government.
This process began with NCPO s Order Number 1/2557, in which one prescribed role of the locally elected leaders was to become partners of the military junta in restoring peace and order to the country. This made them complicit in undermining local government