Latest News in Thailand

Timeline for Thaksin Verdict Thai Supreme Court Judges started reading the verdict by delineation of the prosecution case. The high court began by outlining the prosecution case detailing Thaksin’s equity arrangement in Shin Corp. The prosecution asserts that the equity structure was designed to cover up true ownership. The next item is the change of [...]

Thaksin’s Lawyers Arrive for Verdict Lawyers representing the Shinawatra family, relatives of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s deposed Prime Minister arrived at the Supreme Court at 1pm on Friday, only minutes before the court began to read the assets seizure verdict. Thaksin Shinawatra’s ex-wife Khunying Potjaman na Pombejra and their two children Panthongtae and Pinthongta have not [...]

RULING TODAY The Thai Supreme Court will rule today on whether to seize 76 billion baht in assets from former Prime Minister Thaksin. Come back later to see the results.

Thaksin Says His Assets Should be Returned Thailand’s Fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in his website www.thaksinlive.com at 4am on Friday that all of his money and assets were resultant from years of working hard, not from corruption as charged. Thaksin claims that he had more than 60 billion baht in assets in [...]

Allegations of Extrajudicial Killings Resurface Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will create a commission to reexamine the extra-judicial assassinations of drug suspects during the Thaksin Shinawatra government’s war on drugs. Mr Abhisit declared the formation of the panel yesterday after being queried in parliament by Chalerm Yubamrung, leader of the Puea Thai Party MPs. Mr [...]

Train Derailment Injures 20 Twenty persons were hurt in a train derailment in Thailand’s southern region of Songkhla on Thursday morning. Of the 20 injured travelers, five, together with a pregnant woman, are gravely injured. The cause of the mishap is under examination. The disaster scene is a curve where accidents have transpired in the [...]

Calm but Tense for Thaksin’s Day of Judgement All Thai peacekeeping units recognize what to do to uphold law and order on Friday when the Supreme Court will give its judgment on the Thaksin Shinawatra assets seizure case and there is not anything to worry about, Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan announced on Thursday. “People should [...]

Tusk Tusk Thai customs officials apprehended more than two tons of ivory stored at Bangkok’s main international airport on its way from Dubai to Laos, a Thai customs division report said on Thursday. The Thai officials, acting on a tip, investigated a transit cargo storehouse at Suvarnabhumi airport on Wednesday evening and discovered 239 elephant [...]

Red Shirts Set Date to Rally The Red Shirted United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship will arrange a mass public meeting in Bangkok on March 14 to insist that the government disband the House of Representatives and call a general election, Veera Musikhapong proclaimed after a meeting of UDD senior members on Wednesday. Mr Veera [...]