Thailand's Pheu Thai launches PM bid as Thaksin eyes return
Tuesday, 22 August 2023 Thailand's Pheu Thai Party will seek to form a new government with some of its biggest rivals in a parliamentary vote on Tuesday, coinciding with the promise of a historic return from 17 years of exile by its fugitive figurehead Thaksin Shinawatra.
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was swiftly arrested, taken to court and jailed after he landed back home in Thailand after 15 years in self-imposed exile. Thaksinβs return comes on the same day that a party affiliated with him plans to start forming a new...
Images of a buidling at Thai police hospital where Thailand's former premier Thaksin Shinawatra is believed to be, after he was moved from prison, a day after he was jailed on his return from 15 years..
An iced chocolate-mint concoction has won an unlikely publicity boost from political quarters in Thailand, winning it extra sales but also boycotts in the divided kingdom. The country is deadlocked..