It had been about three months since the coup, and last Friday Prayuth went on TV, for the first time as Thailand’s Prime Minister, and that Prayuth, becoming the Prime Minister, surprised few. Then the cabinet was announced. Before the Cabinet list was made public, Prayuth said on Friday in his weekly televised address that…
Yesterday, Thailand’s ruling military junta forced a human rights group to cancel a presentation on the situation in the country. Local press reports, the military told Bangkok-based Thai Lawyers for Human Rights that if it had concerns about lack of freedom of expression or access to the justice system it should report them to the…
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, a Thai constitutional law scholar that is well reputed globally, says of the junta’s Interim Constitution, quote: “Oligarchy is obvious” & “Moral Absolutism.” Wikipedia defines Oligarchy follows: Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía); from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning “few”, and ἄρχω (arkho), meaning “to rule or to command”)[1][2][3] is a form ofpower structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These…
A local press, Bangkok Post, reports US Ambassador Kristie Kenney met Thai air force chief ACM Prajin Juntong in Bangkok on Thursday evening and confirmed Washington would go ahead with a service update for some of Thailand’s F-16 fighter jets. . Air force spokesman AM Monthol Satchukorn said Mrs Kenney paid a courtesy call on…
In a statement of the Organisation of Free Thais for Human Rights and Democracy (FT-HD) said in the coming days and weeks the FT-HD will present the People’s Constitution in order to return democracy and sovereignty to the Thai people. “The FT-HD wants to make it clear that NCPO is a criminal organisation that has…
A man on the run from Prayuth’s junta prosecution, Thantawut Taweewarodomkul, says, quote: “I decided that I will go to a third country after this in order to begin a new life. I have left my son, who I love with all my heart, with my parents. They have been threatened every day. Police and…
The New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch released a public statement today condemning what it’s calling a “charter for dictatorship.” Human Rights Watch and Thailand’s military junta is on a collision course. A top junta official has dismissed criticism from the US-based Human Rights Watch that Thailand’s new provisional constitution grants superfluous power to…
The attached ADB paper says: “The idea of the Asian bond market emerged first from Thailand in the summer of 2002. The creation of a bond market requires both issuers of bonds and investors in those bonds. The Thai initiative focused mainly on the investor side as then-Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, proposed that the members…
The news that Suthep and Prayuth worked together to topple Yingluck, is not the real news to many, as many in Thailand already knew that for a long time or suspected it, but what is news is that Suthep said the in public in front of journalist. And the question many in Thailand are asking…
Thailand just got “Slammed for Human Trafficking” in U.S. State Dept. Report, says Forbes. And Forbes says Thailand is bracing for the repercussion. On repercussion, the Thai junta is counting on Thailand not having to face sanctions. The junta spokesman, before the report came out, said the junta does not expect, if Thailand was downgraded,…
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