Thailand

Pheu Thai MPs and a coalition of activists will petition the Civil Court to repeal the implementation of the emergency decree levied in Bangkok to deal with anti-government protests. They include Narinphong Jinaphak, president of the Thailand Lawyers’ Association, Pheu Thai MP for Nan Cholnan Srikaew, Jirayu Huangsap, Pheu Thai MP for Bangkok, and Thanawat Wongchai, a key member of …

Free Youth and the United Front for Thammasat and Demonstration (UFTD) asked their social media supporters to turn to interacting with them through Telegram, a messaging app, following reports that the government would ask Facebook to take down the pages of the groups. The groups posted on their Facebook pages that they had heard the request had already been made …

Anti-government demonstrators are preparing to defy a third-day ban on demonstrations in Thailand ‘s capital and stage nationwide protests, accelerating a three-month – old campaign to encourage reform of the monarchy and greater democracy. The pro-democracy protesters will return to stage a demonstration in Bangkok after tens of thousands of them challenged an emergency declared on Thursday by Prime Minister …

According to the House committee reviewing the proposed amendments, one referendum, not two, will be held to determine the fate of an revised constitution. After reviewing the charter, the committee decided that the referendum would be held only after a third and final reading of the amendment draft bill was passed in parliament, but before it was proposed for royal …

Tensions are expected to increase at an anti-government rally in Bangkok  after police detained a number of protest leaders, including Jatupat “Pai Daodin” Boonpatararaksa. Police also vowed to stop them from marching to Government House in another move likely to frustrate the demonstrators, after a group of royalists tried to foil them by mobilizing supporters along the path of a …

For the second time in less than a month, a royalist group gathered outside an office building owned by the family of Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit to dismiss him from the country. The party, called the People ‘s Centre Defending the Organisation, relocated from the Southern People’s Association to the Thai Sumit Building on New Phetchaburi Road in Bangkok. Led by Jakkapong …

Protest leader Arnon Nampa declared a proposal to surround Government House a rally to demand the government’s ouster. In view of this, Mr. Arnon, co-leader of the Khana Ratsadorn (People’s Party), a new name for the Free People ‘s Group, and anti-government protesters would assemble at the Democracy Monument on Ratchadamnoen Avenue before heading to Government House. Initially, the name …

Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, the Minister of Tourism and Sports, the entire batch of tourists coming to Thailand via the special tourist visa (STV) in the first step must be 100 percent free of the coronavirus or the reopening plan will be scrapped indefinitely. He started that if in October and November the system sees no infections for the first groups, concerns …

In order to fire up demand and fight the worst economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Thailand will expand tax incentives to millions of its middle and upper income classes. The concession would allow around 3.7 million taxpayers, Deputy Prime Minister Supattanapong Punmeechaow told reporters in Bangkok on Wednesday (Oct 7), to subtract 30,000 baht (S$1,306.15) each from their …

Here’s the Senses Resort having a private infinity pool, gourmet food and two daily temperature checks. Welcome to Thailand’s five-star quarantine, where well-heeled visitors will live in comfort while adhering to some of the strictest anti-coronavirus measures in the world. The tourism-reliant country is reopening to a limited number of holidaymakers after barring tourists for six months, with the first …