Suthep Thaugsuban’s hatred for the Shinawatra knows no limit. The PDRC chief has sent a barrage of hate speech, defamatory and sexist remarks on to Ms. Yingluck and her brother Mr. Thaksin, while Suthep’s allies take potshots at the children of the Shinawatra. Jeers are met with cheering, whistle blowing and cat-calls. The cheering are […]
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I read Lennox Samuels article “Anti-Thaksin Protesters Are Thailand’s Tea Partiers” with interest. He said: But Thailand is supposed to be a democracy. Didn’t Yingluck and her Pheu Thai Party win 265 seats in the 500-seat Parliament in the 2011 election? Didn’t they almost sweep Thaksin’s strongholds in the North and Northeast? Didn’t they win […]
Almost a year ago, an air stewardess revealed her intention of embarrassing the daughter of an ex-Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, on en route from Bangkok to Hong Kong. Hate speech along with the revealing of private airline information to the public had caused much distress to Cathay Pacific airline and the passenger but the matter […]
General Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces, visits Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra.
Iftar refers to the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan. Prime Minister and Defense Minister Yingluck Shinawatra held an evening meal with Muslim Thais and foreign dignitaries in Bangkok. Everyone present prayed for peace and harmony in Thailand, specially in the troubled Deep South.
Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, visited the Sai Hospital House which is a community for the elders.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visited Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, to offer condolences to Prime Minister Hun Sen and his family for the passing of his father, Hun Neang. Hun Neang, passed away from natural causes at the age of 89.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra chaired a meeting with provincial governors and government agencies with regards to the Roi Mua Sang Muang (Hundred Hands Built Cities).
Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is scheduled to pay a historic visit to Mozambique in late July 2013, as she will be the first Thai leader to make an official trip to the Southeast African nation since both nations established their diplomatic relations in 1989. Yingluck’s tentatively-scheduled trip to Mozambique was announced on Friday, when […]
Photos of the people-friendly Thai Prime Minister.
Yingluck Shinawatra visited the Deepaduttaramaya in Kotahena which is the first Siamese temple to be established in Sri Lanka in 1885. Members of the Maha Sangha led by the Chief Incumbent of the temple Ven. Waskaduwe Mahindawansa Thera invoked blessings on the Thai Premier.
Democrats facing defamation charges at Thai criminal court Democrat Party spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut and deputy spokeswoman Mallika Boonmeetrakul have been indicted on charges of defaming Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra over comments relating to her private meeting with businessmen at the Four Seasons Hotel in February last year. Prosecutors said Monday there was enough evidence to […]
A perpetrator places a knife on a picture of Yingluck because of her family and her connections with the Pheu Thai party. Bias motivated threats and preconceived ill-feelings towards the Shinawatra family is largely confined to the Democrat Party and the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD). The Elites in Bangkok are determined to maintain the […]
Thailand Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra launched a special event in commemoration of the 180-year anniversary between the Kingdom of Thailand and the United States of America. For more news and pixs: 180-year Friendship USA, Thailand and ASEAN US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and Thailand DPM
Thai Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra in a courtesy call to Japan‘s Crown Prince, HIH Naruhito.
Yingluck Shinawatra, performing her devotion at a Thai Buddhist temple. Source: Uploaded by user via Areva on Pinterest
Over the decades, Thailand has gone through many many phases of ideological experimentation. Sometimes it has worked and sometimes is has not. Even though Thai society has experienced many civil unrest and neo-fascist growth, we are not without hope. The majority of us want to see peace through a system called democracy. But this is […]
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and accompanying Thai ministers and officials, on Wednesday, arrived in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, to attend this year’s ASEAN Summit.
Thailand Government’s earnings in the first half of the 2013 fiscal year amounted to over THB 950 billion, while budget disbursement rose to THB 1.37 trillion. Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) Director-General Somchai Sujjapongse, in his capacity as Commerce Ministry spokesman, disclosed that the government earned a total revenue of approximately THB 957 billion over the […]
Yaowapa Wongsawat, sister of Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s by-election for MP of Chiang Mai city, running under the tickets of the ruling Puea Thai Party and defeating a woman arch-rival from the opposition Democrat Party. According to officials of the Election Commission based in the Thai northern city, Yaowapa, won […]