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Pheu Thai set to name new opposition leader

June 13, 2019

Pheu Thai leader Viroj Pao-in is set to step down to make way for a new leader who will also lead the opposition against Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha’s government.

Yongyuth’s verdict on Alpine case upheld

February 28, 2019

THE APPEALS COURT on Thursday upheld a two-year jail term against former Pheu Thai leader Yongyuth Wichaidith for his role in the Alpine Golf Club land scandal.

Junta downplays surveillance of Pheu Thai politician as she campaigns

MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2019

A junta spokesman on Monday tried to downplay criticism after a video clip showed a Pheu Thai leader talking to soldiers reportedly assigned to follow her election campaign.

New party, old faces: political entrant’s leaders are Shinawatra loyalists

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 08, 2018

Family members and loyalists to the powerful former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra were on Wednesday elected to head a new party, reinvigorating the division that has characterised and paralysed Thai politics for over a generation.

As elections loom, Thai leader gets cosy with old political clans

MONDAY, MAY 07, 2018

The sons of a convicted murderer, a rural "don" who has spun a fortune from football and gun-loving provincial bigwigs -- as elections near, Thai junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha is cosying up to "influential figures", a group he vowed to expunge from politics with his coup four years ago.

New Pheu Thai leader to be known after April 1: Watana

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2018

THE NEW LEADER of Pheu Thai Party will be known after April 1 and there would be no surprises, key party figure Watana Muangsook said.