Artikel erschien März 2019

  • Petition aims to impeach Election Commissioners

    Petition aims to impeach Election Commissioners

    PHOTO: Election Commission chief Ittiporn Boonpracong – The Nation More than 670,000 people have signed a petition at the change.org website calling for the Election Commission’s five commissioners to be ‘stood aside’ pending an investigation in the aftermath of the March 24 Thai election. Petitioners contend that the election was marred by mistakes, blunders and tampering. The campaign could actually become a legitimate threat to the five commissioners due to the large number of signatories.

  • Parties race to cobble together a working coalition

    Parties race to cobble together a working coalition

    Day Two following the election and the only thing that is clear is that nothing is clear at this stage. Pheu Thai and Phalang Pracharat are both claiming the right to form a government with support of like-minded parties. The two rival parties, the pro-democracy Pheu Thai and the pro-Junta Phalang Pracharat, are locked in a close battle to form the next government with little difference between the two in terms of strength in Parliament

  • Sea turtle dies after getting tangled in a fishing net – Prachuap Khiri Khan

    Sea turtle dies after getting tangled in a fishing net – Prachuap Khiri Khan

    PHOTOS: The Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand A series of photos that convey everything we should be concerned about in Thailand’s marine ecology. A Green Sea Turtle, tangled in a fishing net, has been washed up on a beach in Prachuap Khiri Khan. The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources reports that they were notified that a dead sea turtle had been washed up on a beach in Bang Saphan, Prachuap Kiri Khan.

  • Thai nationals in Frankfurt advised to exercise caution in face of terror threat

    Thai nationals in Frankfurt advised to exercise caution in face of terror threat

    PHOTO: NNT The Thai Consulate General in Frankfurt is advising Thai nationals in the German city and surrounding areas to exercise extra caution and avoid being in crowded places in the face of terrorist threats. The advice for Thai nationals follows the arrests of 10 terrorist suspects aged between 20-42 years in Germany on March 22, 2019

  • Stash of methamphetamine tablets seized from Mae Sai plantation

    Stash of methamphetamine tablets seized from Mae Sai plantation

    by Natthawat Laping About 50,000 methamphetamine pills have been seized by rangers of the Pha Muang task force along the Thailand-Myanmar border in Chiang Rai province. The drugs were seized at 6am yesterday (Monday) when patrolling rangers heard a dog barking at someone in an isolated banana plantation in Muang Daeng Tai village, Tambon Mae Sai, in Mae Sai district. They saw someone speed off on a motorcycle.

  • Maya Bay rehabilitation: Volunteer divers needed

    Maya Bay rehabilitation: Volunteer divers needed

    PHOTOS: The Marine National Park Operation Center 3 (Trang) It’s still closed but the coral reef restoration project at Maya Bay on Koh Phi Phi Ley needs more volunteer divers. The Marine National Park Operation Centre 3 (Trang) says that the project has been conducted by the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation under the support of the founder of Ocean Quest Global Anuar Abdullah who has provided advice and necessary training for the restoration process of the fragile coral infrastructure at the closed marine national park. He says that all methods being applied are natural methods of propagating coral.

  • Thaksin: Election rigged with many irregularities

    Thaksin: Election rigged with many irregularities

    Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra told Agence France-Presse yesterday that Thailand’s election was marred by “irregularities” and “rigged”. He says the military rigged the election system to retain their political grip on the kingdom

  • Election: The problems ahead, Tuesday

    Election: The problems ahead, Tuesday

    PHOTO: The political dance of horse-trading begins. Prayut Chan-o-cha in campaign mode And so we awake on the second day since the election. With 95% of votes counted we’re in firm territory now as far as voting trends are concerned

  • Pheu Thai wins the Lower House – Unofficial from the EC

    Pheu Thai wins the Lower House – Unofficial from the EC

    The Election Commission has just announced the official tally for constituency MPs, showing that Pheu Thai Party has won 138 of the 350 seats on offer. Phalang Pracharat, meanwhile, came in second with 96 seats, trailed by Bhumjaithai with 39.

  • Two Future Forward candidates win Pheu Thai strongholds in Chiang Rai

    Two Future Forward candidates win Pheu Thai strongholds in Chiang Rai

    Two long-time champions of the Pheu Thai Party in Chiang Rai have been defeated by candidates of the new Future Forward Party in yesterday’s general election. In Constituency 1, Pheu Thai several-term MP Samart Kaewmeechai was toppled by Future Forward’s Ekkapop Pianpiset in a closely run contest