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Former Pheu Thai heavyweight Watana Muangsook lost his appeal on Friday as a panel of judges decided to uphold a guilty ruling over his role in irregularities in a low-cost housing project and stood by the prison term of 99 years he was handed earlier.
Former cabinet minister Watana Muangsook has lost his final legal battle, with the Supreme Court’s division for politicians upholding a 50-year jail term for corruption in a low-cost housing project nearly two decades ago.
Clear direction badly needed Clear direction badly needed Kla Party leader Korn Chatikavanij questions what the government is doing with the trillion baht it borrowed | Opposition seeks to focus on the handling, or mishandling, of the new Covid outbreak in a no-confidence debate next month published : 9 Jan 2021 at 10:20 1 About this time last year, Covid-19 was rearing its ugly head on the back of growing predictions that an outbreak was imminent and bound to take a devastating toll on lives and hit the government where it hurt the most -...
A fraught year in politics 1 published : 30 Dec 2020 at 11:02 1 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 oppos...
Sudarat launches new party Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, centre. (File photo) Former Pheu Thai heavyweight Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, who left the opposition party last month, has started a new political party. Her Thai Srang Thai (National Building Party) has been registered with the Election Commission (EC) and once it is formally approved, will convene a general assembly to select an executive board, according to a Pheu Thai source. The party is also likely to be renamed to avoid being confused with the similar-sounding Srang Thai Institute, which is chaired ...