The Business Times

Pheu Thai Party

ASEAN Business

Reformist People’s Party still favourite as Thai elections loom: poll

Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (centre) is escorted into a police van outside the Supreme Court in Bangkok after he was sentenced to a year in prison, Sep 9, 2025.
ASEAN Business

Thai ex-PM Thaksin begins first full day in prison

Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, Sep 9, 2025. Police would take Thaksin into custody, a Reuters reporter who attended the verdict said.
ASEAN Business

Thai court orders Thaksin Shinawatra must serve one year in jail 

Thaksin, the central figure in a tumultuous two-decade battle for power in Thailand, left on his private jet for Dubai late on Thursday, with his family’s ruling party Pheu Thai in disarray.
ASEAN Business

Thai parliament to vote on new PM, as Thaksin jets off amid chaos  

Pheu Thai secretary general Sorawong Thienthong told AFP that acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai (pictured) “has submitted a house dissolution decree”.
ASEAN Business

Thailand’s acting PM moves to dissolve parliament: party

epa12184934 Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra (C) performs a traditional Thai greeting in a public apology during a press conference at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, 19 June 2025.during a press conference at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, 19 June 2025. Paetongtarn issued a public apology following the leak of a phone call with former Cambodian premier Hun Sen regarding the countries' border dispute. EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRIT
International

Thailand's ruling Pheu Thai party moves to dissolve parliament

Parliament is due to hold a special session starting Wednesday and the secretary-general of the house told Reuters it could hold a vote on a new prime minister this week, if parties were ready to nominate a candidate.
ASEAN Business

Impasse in Thailand as big party stalls on deciding who to back for PM  

A guilty verdict will end Paetongtarn Shinawatra's term as the nation’s youngest leader after just one year in power. An acquittal would return her to the office for the remainder of the government’s tenure until 2027.
ASEAN Business

Thai ruling party remains upbeat over PM Shinawatra’s fate ahead of verdict

On Tuesday, PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra was temporarily suspended from office until the court rules on a petition seeking her ouster for alleged ethical violations, over the handling of a long-running border dispute with neighbour Cambodia.
Opinion & Features

Thailand’s most divisive family may have no more moves left

The Stock Exchange of Thailand’s main index dropped 2.4% on Jun 19 after a major party withdrew from the ruling coalition.
ASEAN Business

Thai stocks may fall to Covid lows amid political crisis: analyst

Latest T-bills Treasury Bills Results & Interest NewsLatest SSB Singapore Savings Bonds NewsLatest COE Certificate of Entitlement News
Latest Johor-Singapore SEZ NewsLatest BTO Build To Order & Sales of Balance NewsLatest STI Straits Times Index NewsLatest SGX Dividends, Share Price NewsLatest Bonds Market NewsLatest Singapore Stocks To Buy NewsLatest Singapore Economy News
View More