Move Forward seeking general debate against govt

Move Forward seeking general debate against govt
After being selected to succeed Pita Limjaroenrat, Move Forward Party chief Chaithawat Tulathon addresses a group of party members on September 24 in Bangkok. ( Image: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul )

According to Chaithawat Tulathon, the leader of the Move Forward Party( MFP ), the opposition camp intends to hold a general discussion against the Pheu Thai-led government early in 2019.

The Democrat Party and the Fair Party, two opposition parties, held their first formal meeting on Thursday, according to Mr. Chaithawat, to discuss their work for the legislative session and split.

The MFP head, who will take on the role of opposition leadership, stated that he had asked opposition partners to work together and effectively to examine the government’s work and encourage public involvement in the check-and-balance system.

After the Budget Bill is passed, the opposition intends to file a motion for public debate to grill the government about its performance early the following year, according to Mr. Chaithawat.

Without casting a vote, the House may question and propose ideas to cabinet ministers during the public debate under Area 152 of the constitution.

But, Mr. Chaithawat stated that if the opposition has information or proof regarding any irregularities, the planned public debate may be changed to a no-confidence debate.

Every Tuesday night, one day before the House discussions on Wednesday and Thursday, the foe paddles are supposed to convene, he continued.

Pita Limjarorenrat, who left the group’s leading position after being suspended as an MP due to his internet ownership situation, was replaced by Mr. Chaithawat when he was elected as the MFP president last month.

After the MFP fired Deputy House Speaker Padipat Santipada, who has since joined the Fair Party, Mr. Chaithawat was given the go-ahead to take over as criticism leader.

Mr. Padipat’s extrusion was needed for the MFP to assume the position of opposition leader because Section 106 of the charter forbids a part of an opposition party from serving as the government minister or House presenter.

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PM Srettha to visit China next week

PM Srettha to visit China next week
Srettha Thavisin, the prime minister, will give a media conference on Friday at Government House. ( Image: Government House)

Next week, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin may travel to China for a four-day official visit.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs( MFA ), he will also attend the 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing during the Oct. 16 – 19 andnbsp, where Chinese President Xi Jinping will give a keynote speech.

Mr. Srettha, the finance minister, will speak at the forum with the theme” Green Silk Road for Harmony with Nature ,” which emphasizes cooperation in the green economy and sustainable development.

Mr. Srettha will attend President Xi Jinping during the formal visit at the offer of Taiwanese Premier Li Qiang, and he and Zhao Leji, Chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, will have a brief conversation.

In order to further Thailand and China’s trade and investment assistance, Mr. Srettha will also speak with Taiwanese business leaders.

To improve company partnerships, representatives from the Thai private sector may also join with those from China.

At an expense advertising forum, which will be attended by company leaders from both nations, Prime Minister Srettha did make remarks on important financial policies, according to the MFA.

It added that the prime minister’s attend offers a chance to improve the Thailand-China Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and forge closer ties in all areas, especially in business, investment, connectivity, and people-to-people exchanges, which will benefit both nations’ economies and quality of life.

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119 more Thai workers to return from Israel on Friday, Sunday

119 more Thai workers to return from Israel on Friday, Sunday
Due to their departure on Friday’s El Al trip to Bangkok, the next group of 19 Vietnamese workers met with Thai embassy representatives at Tel Aviv airport. They are expected to show up on the same day at 5.15 p.m. ( Facebook Trafficpro FM91 image )

Following the first group of 15 workers who arrived on Thursday, the second and third groups of Thai workers — a total of 119 — are scheduled to leave Israel on Friday and Sunday.

The second group of 19 workers, all of whom were men, boarded El Al Airlines Flight LY085 at 4.30 am( local time ) on Friday, as planned by the Thai embassy in Israel.

The trip is scheduled to touch down at 5.15 p.m. on the same day at the Suvarnabhumi airport.

The next group of 100 male Thai workers may return from Israel on Sunday, according to Kanchana Patarachoke, a spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry.

On Saturday at 11 a.m.( native time ), they will take off from Tel Aviv for Dubai on Fly Dubai Flight FZ1550. Then, on Saturday at 8 p.m.( local time ), they will board a connecting flight, the FZ1837, and arrive at U-tapao airport in Rayong’s Ban Chang area at 7:25 am on Sunday.

They will be driven by bus from the U-Tatapao airport to the SC Park Hotel in Bangkok’s Wang Thonglang area. According to Ms. Kanchana, family members may wait for them at the resort where they will occur around 10 a.m.

The number of Thai workers affected by the Israel-Palestine fight as of Friday was 21 killed, 14 injured, and 16 thought to have been taken prisoner.

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Deaf woman killed by train in Bangkok while crossing tracks

Deaf woman killed by train in Bangkok while crossing tracks
A 61-year-old blind woman was killed by a station on Friday night as she was crossing the songs to her community in Bangkok’s Huai Kwang district. Police and rescuers are inspecting the picture. ( Facebook image: Spirit Ambulance Service )

On Friday night in Bangkok’s Huai Kwang city, a vendor who had hearing impairment was struck by train and killed.

According to Pol Lt Col Thanakorn Thongmon, assistant research main at Makkasan police station, the tragedy happened in front of Wat Uthaitharam on Kamphaeng Phet 7 Road in the Bang Kapi neighborhood of Huai Kwang. & nbsp,

Around 8.15 a.m., the fall, according to rescue workers, happened. & nbsp,

When they arrived at the scene, they discovered the body of a noodle vendor named Pawinee Sonnoi, 61, who had suffered serious head injury and was lying dead close to the monitor. Ten meters away from the body, a rider station from Bangkok to Kabin Buri was discovered parked.

The woman, who was silent and mute, resided in a local neighborhood, according to the authorities investigation. She used a bike to purchase the natural materials for her soup shop before the crash. She parked her bicycle on the way up and crossed the tracks and nbsp to get to her community. She might not have heard the sound andnbsp of the vehicle’s whistle before the effect at the time, when it was approaching.

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Another Siam Paragon shooting victim dies

Another Siam Paragon shooting victim dies
After a 14-year-old torpedo was apprehended on October 3, police escort criminal officials into Siam Paragon shopping plaza in Bangkok’s Pathumwan area. ( Image: Wichieanbut Nutthawat)

According to press reports, a 30-year-old lady who was one of the five people hurt in the shooting at Siam Paragon on Oct. 3 at the age of 14 passed away early on Friday night ten days after the incident.

She was the shooting’s third accident.

The 14-year-old boy used a modified plain gun to start shooting in the Bangkok luxury shopping mall on October 3.

A female tourists from China and a female worker from Myanmar were among the two fatalities, along with five other people who were hurt.

Penpiwan Mitthampitak, 30, was one of the injured. She received two headshots and two breast shots from the attacker. For the purpose of treating critical wounds, she was admitted to the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital.

Penpiwan passed away on Friday at around 2 a.m. after ten days of treatment. & nbsp,

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Pickup hit by train at rail crossing, driver escapes death

Pickup hit by train at rail crossing, driver escapes death
On Friday, police searched the picture of a coach and pickup truck collision in Surat Thani province’s Chaiya area. ( Image: Supapong Chaolan )

SURAT THANI: On Friday morning in the Chaiya area of this southwestern province, a pick-up driver was struck by an approaching train, barely avoiding death.

According to the police, the tragedy happened in tambon Talad Chaiya at around 3.50 am at a railroad crossing close to an open market.

The delivery driver, 56-year-old Tassanai Jiewmaidaeng, claimed to have overtaken another pickup while driving from his home to the market and sped toward the railroad cross without noticing that the wooden restaurants at the cross had been lowered. The approaching expressway train No. 37( Bangkok – Sungai Kolok ) struck the pickup on the rail track after it broke through the wooden bars.

The pickup’s kept back tire blew out. Mr. Tassanai suffered a minor injury.

Before continuing to the Chaiya railway train, which was about 200 meters away, the coach took a brief break.

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Police to join illicit meat crackdowns

Police to join illicit meat crackdowns

After one of its auditors was shot dead and another was hurt during a raid in Phetchabun, the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry announced that it would work with the authorities to crack down on illegal meat merchants and reduce procedures to prevent fatalities.

The death of a Phetchabun Provincial Livestock Office national on Wednesday, according to Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow, is concerning, and the believe may be punished.

” Capt. Thamanat said,” I would like to express my condolences to the family of the late livestock official, whom I heard was a head of inspection unit.” The director-general of the ministry will set up payment for the victim’s household, starting at 100,000 baht.

The injured formal may also receive assistance, he continued.

He claimed that the affair won’t cause Thailand’s meat warehouse inspections to be slowed down.

Thamanat: The firing was concerning.

He claimed that with the full support of the local police, he had mandated that all municipal livestock offices evaluate meat warehouses.

” Some of the leads I’ve received suggest that[ illegal meat wholesalers ] have threatened officials along the Thai border, particularly in the Mae Sot district of Tak ,” he said.

He continued by saying that the agency’s crackdown on smuggled frozen meat may have led to the firing of the cattle officials.

According to him, in Chon Buri on September 29, on four tonnes of unlawful meat that had been seized from 161 shipping vessels were destroyed.

About 800 – 1 000 kilograms of unlawful meat were reportedly discovered at a frozen foods inventory in tambon Chang Talut in Phetchabun’s Lom Sak district on Wednesday.

Anusorn, the owner, apparently was unable to provide the authorities with evidence of the purchase of livestock.

Mr. Anusorn allegedly opened fire on them while officials were imposing a 20, 000 good for possessing illegal flesh. At the field, one national passed away, and another was taken to the hospital.

According to Phetchabun police chief Pol Maj Gen Thadech Klomkliang, Mr. Anusorn admitted to shooting the two stock authorities. According to him, the suspect has been charged with murdering an established, attempted murder, and improper gun ownership.

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Lawmaker says he’s a ‘victim’ of smear campaign

Lawmaker says he's a 'victim' of smear campaign
Wuttiphong: Likely to face an investigation

The Move Forward Party (MFP) MP at the centre of an online sexual harassment scandal has complained that he is the victim of a ploy to discredit him as he is likely to face a probe for breaking MP ethics.

In a video clip posted on his Facebook, ‘T.Wuttiphongofficial’, Prachin Buri MP Wuttiphong Thonglour laments what he calls an ill-intentioned campaign by political rivals in Prachin Buri to discredit him and to drag his name through the mud.

The sexual harassment allegation against him was made to divert public attention from his anti-graft investigations that are mounting in the province, the MP said.

Accused of sending inappropriate text messages to a woman, Mr Wuttiphong said it was part of a series of allegations levelled against him by elements who stand to lose from his anti-graft investigations.

He added the text messages leaked to social media were part of a wider conversation he had with a woman more than a year ago before he became an MP.

Despite the allegation, Mr Wuttiphong has vowed to press ahead with his investigations to expose corruption in anti-pollution projects in Prachin Buri’s Sri Maha Phot district.

The MP’s explanation, however, drew criticism from Kittithat Chaiprasit, an independent academic specializing in architecture and political philosophy.

Mr Kittithat said the MP had shown no remorse, offered no apology and proceeded to blame the victim for the crime.

“It’s essentially about someone trying to talk black into white,” he said.

Meanwhile, Srisuwan Janya, leader of the nationalist Rak Chart Rak Pandin (“Love the Nation, Love the Land”) group, on Thursday petitioned the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), calling for an investigation into Mr Wuttiphong for breaching MP ethics over the alleged messages.

The activist said the MP tried to move away from this point in his explanation posted on Facebook, one that is irrelevant to the question of whether he committed the harassment or not.

He presented documentary evidence along with his petition to the NACC. If found guilty, Mr Wuttiphong could be banned from politics for life.

Also on Thursday, Parit Wacharasindhu, an MFP list MP and spokesman, admitted at a press briefing that the party had been rocked by claims of sexual harassment committed by its members.

“What we must strive to do is face up to the problem and mete out justice for the victims,” he said, adding that a culture that condones a cover-up has no place in the MFP.

Mr Parit said the party’s executive board probed two prior cases and punished the members involved, one over a brawl and the other over sexual harassment. The party expelled the latter.

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Srettha visits to boost ties

Srettha visits to boost ties
Lee Hsien Loong, the Malaysian equivalent to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, greets him upon his arrival in the city-state on Thursday. ( Image: Government House)

As he landed in Lion City on Thursday to meet his Taiwanese counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, and President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin urged the Singapore authorities to further strengthen economic ties between Thailand and the city-state.

As Thailand’s new prime minister, Mr. Srettha intended to meet other East Asian officials during his first visit of the area after taking business.

Mr. Srettha stated that Singapore is still dedicated to being a” good friend” to Thailand after speaking with Mrs. Shamugaratnam and Lee. Additionally, he vowed to keep up the effort to improve diplomatic relations for the benefit of both nations.

The state is prepared to discuss cooperation in different areas that have not yet been fully explored, such as the online economy, clean business and bonds, and high-tech industries, but he also vowed to make the most of the current channels for diplomatic cooperation.

Additionally, Mr. Srettha invited Singapore to invest in data centers in Thailand, which he claimed would be crucial in guiding the economy of both nations.

Thailand also promised to support Singapore’s efforts to increase food safety by encouraging agricultural imports.

However, Mr. Lee praised the governments of both nations for successfully integrating PromptPay and PayNow, two QR code-based payment gateways that enable account holders in each nation to get their funds without having to make a cash withdrawal.

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PM mourns Thai dead

The most fatalities in the Hamas-Israel battle

PM mourns Thai dead
Healthy return: On Thursday, a family hugs her brother, who was among the first class of Thai workers to transfer from the Hamas-Israeli war in Israel. The workers took a corporate flight operated by Israel’s flag carrier EI AI again to Suvarnabhumi airport. A plan to send flights to rescue additional Thai nationals stranded in Israel is being finalized by the state. Varuth Hirunyatheb ( picture )

After returning from his trip abroad on Thursday, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin stated that the number of Thais killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict is among the highest in terms of citizenship.

Although the Siamese people are not involved in the conflict, our nation has suffered the most casualties, he claimed.

Repatriating Thais who want to go home is our top priority, he said, adding that any business flights with available airplane should get in touch with the Foreign Affairs Ministry for assistance.

He added that at the current rate of evacuation — about 200 Thais per day— it will take a month to repatriate all 6, 000 Thai workers who have asked to return home.

We’ve considered using land transportation for evacuation, but the route must go through the Gaza Strip, which is an impractical action, he said.

We considered sending Thais to nearby nations like Egypt, but some of the Vietnamese people lost their visas, he said. However, there shouldn’t be a concern with this. The Foreign Affairs Ministry did receive assistance from local officials, the state may ensure.

Thailand has the second-highest fatality rate, at 21, after the United States, with 22 mortality, according to an AFP statement released on Thursday.

According to the department, there were 14 Thais who were hurt in Israel, and as of Thursday, 5,990 Thai people had expressed a desire to return home.

According to federal statistics, there are about 30,000 Thai people living in Israel, the majority of whom are employed in agriculture.

At least three airlines — Thai AirAsia, Thai Airways International, and Nok Air — have agreed to arrange repatriation flights in three days, the Ministry of Transport announced on Thursday.

The PM claimed that Gen Songwit Noonpakdi, the head of the defense forces, was requesting assistance from his Jewish rival in gathering and transporting Thais to the Thai consulate in Tel Aviv.

As Thais wait for return planes to take them home afterwards, Dubai, the UAE, or India are now being considered as potential centres, according to Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit.

Following a Thursday meet with the Royal Thai Armed Forces and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was speaking.

In addition to these nations, the state has asked Jordan and other nations close to Israel for permission to operate relocation flights as well, if necessary, according to Mr. Suriya.

The only way to guarantee that all Thais who intend to return back arrive at the airport properly is to go in an Israeli military aircraft, according to Mr. Srettha. Traveling in Israel is now difficult because many streets are closed.

The possibility that Israeli aircraft will soon be shut down presents another issue, he said, and it’s possible that the repatriation flights to Israel won’t be able to transport people back to their homes as intended.

The situation in Israel is getting worse, and rocket attacks are virtually happening nonstop, so we must take that. We will still have wish if Israeli aircraft is kept available and the conflict situation gets better, said Mr. Srettha.

About 120 Thais from Israel will be repatriated by the air pressure on Sunday morning, and another 100 will do so later in the day. On October 18, the air pressure will launch its subsequent relocation flight.

In the meantime, deputy foreign affairs minister Jakkapong Sangmanee stated that the government was coordinating negotiations with Hamas to free 16 Thai victims.

The government was looking for assistance from Asean and other global organizations while also attempting to communicate with Hamas through global offices in Thailand that have good relationships with the Palestinians.

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