Bangkok Post - Thaksin ready to fight 'baseless' case
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday that he was ready to face charges of insulting the monarchy.
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Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday that he was ready to face charges of insulting the monarchy.
The adoption of remote identity verification introduced the need for biometric liveness detection and optical character recognition to read the Thai NID card.
Thailand appears to be a country of 70 million, ultimately ruled by an unelected few. This sobering reality was on display when two connected groups of top generals seized power from democratically elected governments in September 2006 and May 2014. Unlike these blatant military coups over the past two decades, at issue now is the power and role of the judiciary. While Thailand has another democratically elected civilian government under Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, the question that needs to be asked is whether the country is effectively under judicial rule.
Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra says she sees light at the end of the tunnel now that the country has returned to a democratic path, 10 years after the coup that ousted her government.