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Thai Cannabis-championing Tycoon Takes Office As PM

Thai tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul took office as prime minister on Sunday, with the cannabis-championing conservative ousting the nation's dominant political dynasty and setting course for elections early next year.

International Business Times

Thailand’s PM-elect names veterans to cabinet in bid to ‘bring confidence’

Economist Ekniti Nitithanprapas, executive Auttapol Rerkpiboon and diplomat Sihasak Phuangketkeow selected as ministers.

Al Jazeera

Pro-cannabis and a karaoke crooner: meet Thailand’s next prime minister

Anutin Charnvirakul’s hobbies, which include playing saxophone, flying planes and cooking, show a relaxed and casual yet shrewd politician

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Anutin wins enough MP votes to become Thailand's new prime minister

Bhumjaithai Party leader Anutin Charnvirakul has secured enough votes to become Thailand

Bangkok Post

Tycoon who led push to decriminalise cannabis becomes Thai PM

Anutin Charnvirakul voted in by parliament after promising election in four months, as Thaksin Shinawatra jets out

The Guardian - UK

Who is Thailand’s new prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul?

New prime minister Anutin’s Bhumjaithai party is known as ‘the quintessential power broker’

The Independent UK

Thailand has another new prime minister and an opening for progress. But will anything change?

Thai politics is often chaotic. But this past week has been especially tumultuous, even by Thailand’s standards.

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A look at where Thailand's cannabis laws stand

Thailand became the first Asian country to decriminalize cannabis in 2022

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Thai parliament elects Anutin Charnvirakul as prime minister

The vote is a major blow to the Shinawatra clan, a mainstay of Thai politics for the past two decades.

Al Jazeera

Thailand’s ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra suddenly leaves country ahead of court ruling

Police say the 76-year-old billionaire boarded a private jet from Don Mueang airport

The Independent UK

Thai Tycoon Leads Pack As Parliament Votes For New PM

Thailand's parliament is set Friday to vote in a right-wing tycoon as prime minister, ousting the nation's dominant political dynasty from office after their leader was sacked by court order.

International Business Times

Sax-playing Pilot Anutin Plots Path To Thai Premiership

Saxophonist, occasional pilot and heir to a construction fortune, Anutin Charnvirakul was once banned from politics but is now the leading candidate to become Thailand's next prime minister.

International Business Times

Thailand’s acting PM moves to dissolve parliament amid leadership bid

Move comes days after Thai court removed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office.

Al Jazeera

Thailand tycoon who championed cannabis laws takes lead in race for PM

Anutin Charnvirakul gets main opposition party’s conditional backing to form interim government

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Acting Thai Government Moves To Dissolve Parliament

Thailand's acting prime minister has moved to dissolve parliament, his party said Wednesday, after the largest opposition party backed a rival candidate to lead the country.

International Business Times

Five Thai PM Candidates Vie To Fill Power Vacuum

With Thailand's prime minister sacked by court order, would-be successors are waging backroom campaigns to secure their rise to the kingdom's top office.

The Independent UK

Thailand’s embattled prime minister has been dismissed. What happens now?

The court ruling opens the door to a flurry of deal-making

The Independent UK

Bangkok to review quake safety after collapse of high-rise leaves dozens missing

The governor of Bangkok says authorities are investigating why a high-rise under construction collapsed during an earthquake Friday that otherwise caused limited damage in the Thai capital

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7-day deadline for probe into Chinese-built high-rise collapse

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Thailand cuts power supplies to Myanmar border towns in effort to curb scam rings

Thailand on Wednesday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry demanding government action to tackle the problem

Bangkok Post

Flood victims to get cash aid

Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the government intends to compensate every household affected by flooding in the South with 9,000 baht.

Bangkok Post

Koh Kut is Thai territory: PM

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said there is no doubt about Koh Kut

The Independent UK

Searchers recover 3 bodies from Thai rail tunnel that collapsed during construction

Thai officials say the bodies of three foreign workers who were trapped for days in a railway tunnel in northeastern Thailand that collapsed while under construction have been retrieved after an intensive rescue effort

Salon

Why Thailand's weed battles matter

After loosening cannabis laws, Thailand tried to reinstate prohibition. Its failure has lessons for drug reform

Bangkok Post

Thailand signals another U-turn on cannabis

Thailand will work towards controlling the use of cannabis through laws instead of re-listing it as a narcotic, according to Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, in yet another policy U-turn.

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