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Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said Army chief General Apirat Kongsompong must wait for two years after retirement to be eligible for the position of prime minister, while Apirat says he will not jump into politics.

Army chief General Apirat Kongsompong voiced strong opposition to proposals to amend the Constitution’s Section 1. He was speaking at a special seminar on national security held at the Army headquarters on Friday (October 11). 

Army Commander-in-Chief General Apirat Kongsompong on Friday visited Yala and inspected the construction progress of the Betong International Airport, which is aimed at pushing an economic and tourism boom in the deep South.

Army Commander-in-Chief General Apirat Kongsompong, his wife and daughter arrived at a polling station in Bangkok's Chatuchak district at 8am to cast their votes.

Apirat’s intolerance bodes ill for a nation trying to climb out from beneath the military’s boot

Army chief draws on ultra-nationalist rhetoric of modern Thailand’s darkest era

Making critics enemies of the state dangerous, say analysts, as politicians told to listen to ultra-rightist song.

Yangon - Myanmar's powerful army chief has given a rare foreign media interview to insist there was no "certain proof" the military had persecuted the country's stateless Rohingya Muslim community.

The Army plans to have some of its soldiers ordained into the monkhood and assigned to posts in temples, Commander in Chief General Apirat Kongsompong said on Tuesday.

The Thai Army chief is seeking cooperation from courier service providers to prevent drug smuggling.

Hope is rising that Thailand will return to civilian rule with a general election next February, more than four years after the military staged a coup in May 2014. But the country now has a younger hawkish Army general, whose father was also a junta leader 27 years ago. 

Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong is visiting southern border provinces from Saturday to Monday to deliver his policies, an Army spokeswoman said.