Tag: Somchai Srisuthiyakorn
EC working on 20-year national strategy
BANGKOK – The Election Commission (EC) has held a forum to hear opinions on its draft 20-year national strategy, which was drawn up with...
Election Commission ready for new general election
overnment to hold a general election in 60 days or invite political parties to reach an agreement on the new balloting date after the...
EC will soon decide if PM breaches election law
BANGKOK, 14 March 2014 The Election Commission (EC) says it is urgently investigating into the case of the prime minister to decide if her...
Election Commission prepares to summon Chalerm to explain CMPO’s 2 billion...
BANGKOK, 14 March 201 The Election Commission (EC) has approved a withdrawal of 1.25 billion baht from the central budget at the Cabinet’s request...
Re-run polls go well despite low turnout
BANGKOK, 2 March 2014 The election Commission (EC) has reported that the Sunday re-run elections in five provinces where the original vote was cancelled...
Elections in 5 provinces show 10% voter turnout
SAMUT SAKHON, March 3 – Thailand's Election Commission (EC) reported a 10 per cent voter turnout for elections in 106 polling stations in five...
Thai Election Commission hails govt, anti-govt negotiations to end political impasse
BANGKOK, Feb 28 – Thailand's Election Commission (EC) today welcomed a move for dialogue between the two main conflicting parties in Thailand’s four-month political...
Election Commission nods to Bt712 million for rice payments
BANGKOK, Feb 26 – Thailand's Election Commission (EC) yesterday permitted the government to withdraw Bt712 million from the central fund to pay farmers under...
Govt retracts Bt712 million request for rice payments
BANGKOK, Feb 20 – The caretaker government has withdrawn its letter to the Election Commission (EC) seeking Bt712 million from the central fund to...
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British woman reunited with son after Pattaya Tourist Police help
PATTAYA, Thailand – A British woman who was too intoxicated to return to her accommodation on her own was safely escorted back by Pattaya...
Police check on Russian tourist sleeping drunk in Pattaya hotel for safety
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya Tourist Police were called to a hotel on August 13 after staff found a heavily intoxicated foreign tourist sleeping on...
Rescue volunteers suspended after taxi driver assaulted near Bangkok MRT Station
BANGKOK, Thailand – A group of rescue volunteers has been suspended from duty after a video showing several volunteers allegedly assaulting a taxi driver...
Kating Lai Park off North Pattaya faces erosion threat, safety barriers installed
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya City officials have inspected damage at Kating Lai Beach Park after waves eroded more than 20 metres of the shoreline,...
Pattaya motorcycle taxi driver arrives at police station with bat seeking help
PATTAYA, Thailand – Police officers and members of the public at Pattaya City Police Station were left puzzled when a motorcycle taxi driver arrived...