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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's Election Commission on Tuesday said it would ask a court to dissolve the opposition Move Forward party over concerns the party's campaign to change a law against ...
Pattaya [a] is a city in Eastern Thailand, the second-largest city in Chonburi province and the eighth-largest city in Thailand.It is on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southeast of Bangkok, and has a population of 328,961 as of 2021.
The Election Commission then announced on March 14 that the date of the Pattaya and Bangkok elections would be held on May 22. [8] Elections in Pattaya often see low voter turnouts: 51.1% in the 2004 election, 51% in the 2008 election, and 41.5% in the 2012 election. 5 million baht is allocated to the election from the Ministry of Interior. [1]
Red Shirt protesters confront the military on Pracha Songkhro Road, Bangkok, 13 April 2009. A series of political demonstrations and following unrest occurred in Thailand from 26 March to 14 April 2009 in Bangkok and Pattaya against the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva and the military crackdown that followed.
CNA (an initialism of Channel NewsAsia) is a Singapore-based multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate.The network is broadcast in Singapore on free-to-air terrestrial television and Mediacorp's streaming service meWatch, and is distributed internationally via television providers in the Asia–Pacific, as well as streaming and free ad ...
The Waterfront Suites and Residence is an unfinished and abandoned condominium located on Chalermphrakiat road in Pattaya, Chonburi province, Thailand.Standing at 53 stories high, the building began development in 2011 but was halted in 2014.
4 March: Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is acquitted by the Supreme Court on charges of corruption over a 2013 campaign to promote her government's infrastructure projects involving allegations of mishandling 240 billion baht ($6.7 billion) and failure to conduct proper bidding processes.
Before its establishment, Walking Street was primarily a roadway for Pattaya's fishing industry when it was a fishing village. In the 1960s and 1970s, the area switched to providing services for soldiers from the United States Armed Forces on rest and recuperation breaks in Pattaya, resulting in the development of hotels, bars and restaurants on Walking Street, which was then referred to as ...