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Embattled Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit is to face charges of violating the election law, and will be liable to a maximum prison term of ten years and banishment from politics for up to 20 years if found guilty.
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Read moreAs many analysts, detractors, opponents and insiders say, the Constitution Court's Wednesday verdict against Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, stripping him of his MP status, is just the beginning. His and the Future Forward Party's paths ahead continue to be plagued with great and potentially treacherous uncertainties.…
Read moreThanathorn Jungroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward Party, has lost his MPs status after the Constitutional Court found him guilty of violating the Constitution by still holding shares in a media company when he registered to run in the March election.
Legal experts said …
Read moreFuture Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has questioned the Constitutional Court's judgement against him, pointing out that it was based on assumptions rather than on facts.
Unlike the other cases decided by the court, he noted that it did not disclose how the nine …
Read moreHONG KONG Dozens of Hong Kong protesters staged a dramatic escape from a university campus sealed off by police on Monday by shimmying down plastic hosing from a bridge and fleeing on waiting motorbikes as the police fired projectiles.
Many more anti-government protesters remained …
Read moreAnother historic and highly-politicised case climaxes on Wednesday this week with a Constitution Court ruling on charges that Future Forward leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit still owned shares in a company doing a media business when he registered as a candidate for the March election.
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Read moreThe Election Commission (EC) has unanimously decided to order the Future Forward party to submit documents related to the 191 million baht loan it borrowed from party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.
According to a press release today (Monday), from the Office of the Election Commission, …
Read moreThe former head of Cambodia's opposition party, Kem Sokha, will be tried for treason, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday, despite the easing of restrictions on his house arrest last week that led some to believe his case could be dropped as part of …
Read moreA police officer was struck by an arrow fired by a Hong Kong protester on Sunday, as fierce clashes raged around a campus which has turned into a base for a pro-democracy movement switching tactics as it plunges the divided city deeper into turmoil.…
Read moreKingsgate Consolidated Limited of Australia and the Thai government have agreed to change the location of the arbitration hearings over the closure of gold mine operations in Thailand, from Hong Kong to Singapore, due to the intensifying protests in the Chinese territory.
According to …
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