"Thai Rak Thai"

Even before Thaksin Shinawatra entered politics, his family was involved in dubious, if not totally illegal, business documentation. In fact, it was something in his pre-Thai Rak Thai past – the massive transfers of shares from his inner circles to people who were not supposed to have them – that kick-started Thailand’s ongoing and detrimental national divide. 

WHILE THE two military coups that occurred in the past 12 years have tried to eliminate the so-called Thaksin regime from the Thai political landscape, the junta’s latest campaign to promote General Prayut Chan-o-cha’s administration has only brought the influential tycoon back into the political discourse.

The Appeal Court yesterday reduced the jail term of Pol Colonel Charnchai Netiratkan from three to two years, over the charge of offering bribe to Constitutional Court judges in a bid to prevent the dissolution of the now-defunct Thai Rak Thai Party in 20

THE SUPREME Court’s February 3 ruling that acquitted the dissolved Thai Rak Thai Party of charges that it had hired smaller parties to contest a general election cannot change history.