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Digital Economy and Society (DES) Minister Chaiwut Thanakmanusorn has rebutted a Nikkei Asia report that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is engaged in backdoor diplomacy with the head of Myanmar’s junta Min Aung Hlaing.

The record number of daily Covid-19 cases announced on Friday proves the government is not concealing information about the outbreak from press and public, said Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.

Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin has gone into a 14-day quarantine after learning that five guests at a party he had attended in Sukhothai province had tested positive for Covid-19.

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob has contracted Covid-19, an official report confirmed on Wednesday.

A Cabinet minister was eating and drinking with friends at a famous entertainment venue in Bangkok's Thong Lor district on March 25, where a friend was found to be infected with Covid-19.

A European minister, who arrived in Thailand on an official two-day visit on Tuesday, tested positive for Covid-19 and will return to his country in a private plane.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has given His Majesty the King the name of a candidate for the finance minister’s position, the Secretariat of the Cabinet reported on Friday.

Seven small parties within the government coalition have proposed that its candidate, Mongkolkit Suksintharanon, be considered for a ministerial position in case the government wants to reshuffle the Cabinet, Phichet Sathirachawan, partly list MP and leader of the Thai People Justice Party, said today (June 22).

Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow claimed that the Facebook photos of Sornsuwee Puraweerassawach together with his associate Pittinan Rak-iad hoarding face masks were edited. 

National Assembly president Chuan Leekpai was on Friday (January 31) guiding the first censure debate against the second Prayut Chan-o-cha government.

It is an year-end tradition for the press corps at Government House to come up with nicknames for the government and the ministers in an expression of collective opinions towards those in power, based on what they have achieved in the course of the year.

Eight entrepreneurs have submitted proposals to operate telecommunication businesses as part of the Pracharat free internet project , and Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDES) is now considering which will be granted a licence.