Sompong Amornvivat, leader of the Pheu Thai party and opposition coalition, said on Monday that the opposition will not support the government’s proposed spending budget for 2020 when it comes up for consideration in the House of Representatives on October 17.

Several of the 10 countries in Southeast Asia have adopted clean-energy policies, and yet the use of coal continues to increase in the region.

Representatives of the “Wacoal Pink Bra Fights Breast Cancer” project on Wednesday presented the Thai National Cancer Institute with Bt1 million it raised to cover the cost of “Check-up Gold” mammograms and ultrasound scans being offered for free this month.

Commercial operations began on Thursday for the San Buenaventura, Philippines, power plant managed by San Buenaventura Power Co Ltd (SBPL), a joint venture company of EGCO Group and Meralco PowerGen Corporation, Jakgrich Pibulpairoj, the president of Electricity Generating Public Co Ltd, announced.

Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan on Tuesday denied an allegation that his Phalang Pracharat Party was trying to buy support from 14 so-called “cobra” the so- Pheu Thai MPs for the coalition government.

Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan said he has pacified micro-parties and is confident that they will not leave the 19-partner Phalang Pracharat coalition government.

The coalition whips have asked the Cabinet to make a decision on the date for holding a House debate on the allegation that Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Cabinet failed to complete the wording of the oath as required by the charter.

Coalition leader Phalang Pracharat secretary-general said its merger with the one-MP People Reform Party is awaiting the Election Commission (EC)’s decision. 

The People Reform Party’s leader and sole MP announced on Thursday that he would disband the party and join Phalang Pracharat, which leads the ruling coalition.

The coalition government may stay in power for only two years as it will be shaken by economic woes and questions of its legitimacy, academics warn.

The opposition New Economics Party confirmed Tuesday that some of its six MPs will switch sides and join the coalition government of Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha.

Singer-turned-actor-turned-politician Rattapoom “Film” Tokongsup decided to ditch his membership with coalition partner Palang Thong Thin Thai Party (PTTT) and sign up on August 19 with opposition leader Pheu Thai Party.

Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan said on Thursday that he would start working as the chairman of the coalition-leading Phalang Pracharat Party’s strategic committee next week.

Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan will be appointed as the chief strategist of the coalition-leading Phalang Pracharat Party, Deputy Agriculture Minister Thammanas Phraophao said Tuesday (August 13).

PTT Plc’s subsidiary in Indonesia, Sakari Resources Ltd (SAR), has invested in a small coal mine in Indonesia that has 10 million tonnes of reserves.

A woman was found dead in her pickup truck into which she had placed a charcoal stove in Pathum Thani’s Sam Khok disttrict Thursday morning, police said.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission has resolved to charge the chief coalition whip and two other Phalang Pracharat Party MPs as well as 21 other people in connection with a school project in the two MP’s Nakhon Ratchasima province.

Interior Minister Gen Anupong Paochinda said Thursday he has not yet planned to apply for membership of the coalition leader Phalang Pracharat Party.

Eleven MPs from the South, both from coalition parties and the opposition, called on Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha to meet them and review measures for dealing with the ongoing insurgency in the southern border region.