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Thailand poised to legalise same-sex marriage after parliament passes bill

27. March 2024

Lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to make country the first in south-east Asia to recognise same-sex unions

Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill that would make the country the first in south-east Asia to legalise equal rights for marriage partners of any gender.

Four hundred of 415 lawmakers present voted for the bill on Wednesday and footage from inside parliament showed people standing and applauding afterwards.

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Thailand election body seeks to dissolve progressive party that won 2023 vote

13. March 2024

Move comes after court found that efforts to amend lese majeste laws by Move Forward party were unconstitutional

Thailand’s election body has said it will seek the dissolution of a pro-reform party that won the most votes in last year’s election, saying there is evidence the party “undermines the democratic system with the king as the head of state”.

Move Forward came top in last year’s election after promising major reforms, including to amend Thailand’s draconian lese-majesty law, under which criticism of the powerful royal family can lead to up to 15 years in prison. However, the party was blocked from taking power by military-appointed senators, and has faced legal cases.

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Red panda found in luggage of smuggling suspects at Thailand airport

07. March 2024

Bangkok customs officers arrest six after finding 87 animals, including lizards, birds, a monkey and snakes

Thai customs officials have arrested six Indian nationals for attempting to smuggle dozens of wild animals, including a red panda and cotton-top tamarin monkey, out of the country.

Officers found 87 animals, including monitor lizards, birds and snakes, packaged inside the suspects’ checked luggage at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport. They were trying to fly to Mumbai.

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Anthony Albanese flatly denies claim Thai PM asked for slowing of fuel efficiency standards

06. March 2024

According to Thai government Srettha Thavisin asked for new standards to be gradually implemented to protect exports

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has denied that the Thai prime minister, Srettha Thavisin, asked him to slow the introduction of Australia’s planned fuel efficiency standard, as tensions simmer between climate advocates and car companies over the proposal to import cleaner vehicles.

Albanese and Thavisin met on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Asean summit in Melbourne. An account of the conversation released by the Thai government said Thavisin raised Australia’s proposed fuel efficiency standard and how it might affect car exports from his country.

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24 in 2024: first job, making money and avoiding ghosts in Thailand

26. February 2024

Titapa Thaipreecha is back living with her parents in Bangkok and will soon veer away from her engineering degree to take a corporate job

Twenty-four in 2024 is a series on the lives, hopes and fears of 24-year-olds around the world in a year of election uncertainty, conflict and climate change.

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Singapore sought exclusivity deal over Taylor Swift concerts in south-east Asia, Thai PM alleges

19. February 2024

Srettha Thavisin claims promoter told him Singaporean government offered ‘subsidies’ of $2m-$3m a show

Thailand’s prime minister has claimed that Singapore sought a deal with Taylor Swift to prevent her from playing elsewhere in south-east Asia on her Eras tour.

Srettha Thavisin said the concert promoter AEG had informed him that the Singaporean government offered subsidies of US$2m-$3m (£1.6m-£2.4m) a show as part of an exclusivity agreement.

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Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra released on parole from police hospital

18. February 2024

Formerly exiled billionaire freed six months into eight-year sentence due to age and health

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been freed on parole and returned home, six months after he was arrested on his dramatic return to the kingdom from 15 years of self-imposed exile.

The controversial billionaire, twice elected premier and ousted in a 2006 military coup, was jailed for eight years on graft and abuse-of-power charges after he arrived in Thailand in August.

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