Current Affairs

This week, seven small parties decided to back Mongkolkit Suksintaranont, leader of the Thai Civilized Party, for a cabinet positions. Why they chose to do so, I do not understand.If anything, the decision by the parties shows that...

“Nothing is so firmly believed,” the skeptic Michel de Montaigne once wrote, “as that which we least know.” A fitting corollary to be added could be that nothing is so confidently tweeted as that which we least understand.It is the...

“I had no desire to change from one king to many – which is a democratic system but only its outer husk.” Pridi Panomyong wrote in 1933, “I am focused on the important point: ‘improve the well-being of the people’.”Protests...

The cabinet has on Tuesday approved a four-day holiday in July to promote domestic tourism.The four-day holiday will be from July 4-7, said culture minister Ittipol Khunpluem after the cabinet meeting.The cabinet, which usually meets on Tuesday, will also...

Thailand’s government on Tuesday said that it had discovered five new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.This is the 29th straight day of no new local transmitted case in Thailand.The new discoveries bring the total number of...

Thailand's government said on Tuesday that activists planning protests and events to commemorate the Siamese Revolution of 1932 on June 23 would have to respect the law and listen to security officials that would be present to ensure security...

Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan accepted, on Monday, the nomination to be the leader of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party. His ascension to the party's highest post will pull back the loosely held curtain that had been in place...