Current Affairs

For this week’s Big Interview, we caught up with Move Forward Party Leader Pita Limjaroenrat to talk about the issues facing the country and his party.The following interview has been edited for clarity.On the need for a...

Thailand’s government said on Sunday that it had discovered 15 new coronavirus infections bringing the total number of infected to 2,922.There were no new fatalities with the death toll still at 51547 more patients have recovered from the virus...

Thailand's TrueVision has posted a job listing on JobsDB for qualified candidates to monitor 17 "talk show and foreign news channels" for content that might be anti-monarchy or against Thailand's constitution.The successful candidates would have to monitor...

Trouble continues for the 5,000 baht scheme as the "officers" sent to verify the eligibility of workers filing for compensation were not qualified nor were they civil servants, according to local newspapers.More than 2 million people filed an appeal...

Thailand’s government said on Saturday that it had discovered 53 new coronavirus infections bringing the total number of infected to 2,907.The 53 new cases are a sharp increase over the previous days findings where numbers averaged around the teens....

Leaders of the opposition parties met last week to call for an ad hoc parliamentary meeting on May 22. They will discuss the end of the State of Emergency (SOE), which is due to expire on June 30, and...

The Court of Justice said on Friday that more than 18,000 individuals have been arrested for the violation of the State of Emergency (SOE) between April 3-23.The SOE introduced a curfew between 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. that...

Piyabutr Saengkanokkul may have been banned from politics for ten years by the Constitutional Court but the one-time Secretary-General of the Future Forward Party said that his political journey is just beginning.Now part of the Progressive Movement, Piyabutr...

Three former Prime Minister candidates from the 2019 election discussed their views on how to combat the coronavirus outbreak in Thailand during an interview with Workpoint News on Wednesday.The former candidates were Sudarat Keyuraphan from the Pheu Thai Party,...

Thailand’s government said on Friday that it had discovered 15 new coronavirus infections bringing the total number of infected to 2,854.The 15 new cases continues the trend of sub 20 cases, the lowest trend since the outbreak began. The...