Prim Chuwiruch Corben

Prim Natnicha Chuwiruch Corben.
News editor/reporter/journalist/writer
Ex- @Bloomberg @business & @AP.
Bangkok, Thailand.
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Views = mine

[Prim Chuwiruch Corben @prim_chuwiruch]

Woke up this morning to find out the Thai government has declared emergency in Bangkok, dispersed protesters at government house and made arrests.

Last night, a govt spokesman said legal actions would be taken against those who disrespected the monarchy.

https://t.co/CR9NwDorXL

[Khaosod English @KhaosodEnglish]

BREAKING: The Italian Embassy on Saturday release a statement regarding the BTS incident involving some Italian youth in Bangkok. #ThailandNews #Italy #ItalyinThailand #อิตาลี

[Bangkok Post @BangkokPostNews]

Anutin Charnvirakul’s 29-year political journey to becoming Thailand’s 32nd Prime Minister.

Listen to the story or get the full story in the 1st comment.

#BhumjaithaiParty #AnutinCharnvirakul #ประชุมสภา #นายกรัฐมนตรีคนที่32 #อนุทินชาญวีรกูล #พรรคภูมิใจไทย

[Patpicha Best 🧣 @patpichatan]

Chaos in Thailand after kingmaker People’s Party decided to back Anutin’s bid to form government following PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s ouster.

Now Paetongtarn’s Pheu Thai moved to dissolve parliament to derail new PM vote. Royal endorsement unclear. https://t.co/oz41TSkodl

[Thai PBS World @ThaiPBSWorld]

Paetongtarn Shinawatra dismissed as Prime Minister after the Constitutional Court announced its decision on her controversial conversation with Cambodia’s Hun Sen.

#ThaiPBSWorld #ThailandNews #แพทองธาร #ThailandUpdate #paetongtarnshinawatra

[Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @SaksithCNA]

#BREAKING: Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra dismissed as Prime Minister

Thai Const. Court finds her guilty of ethics and integrity violations in leaked call with Cambodian ex-PM Hun Sen.

Thailand's 31st and 2nd female PM - incl the whole cabinet - is removed from office.

[Patpicha Best 🧣 @patpichatan]

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the US had reached trade agreements with Cambodia and Thailand, days after the Southeast Asian neighbors agreed to a ceasefire at Trump’s urging. Lutnick didn’t say what the rates are though. https://t.co/cYkvDBv1gb

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The wife of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet is sharing fake news claiming that that Thailand is using chemical weapons in its battles with the Cambodian Army.

She, and other influential Cambodian accounts, are using a picture of an American plane extinguishing a wildfire in California to back their claims.

[Charlie Hub @TravelsCharlie]

Apparently there's a BBC directive out to side with Cambodia. After posting a picture of a 7-Eleven that Cambodia bombed, killing 11 Thai civilians, the BBC's headline was: "Thailand Launches Airstrikes on Cambodia."

Quoted below BBC S.E. Asia corresponded Head shows a picture of the aftermath while neglecting to mention those who were responsible for the bombing of the store.

You can't hate the media enough: https://t.co/XcE00WsAm9

[S4Lx @Titan95284500]

@pakhead

[Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @SaksithCNA]

UPDATE 7.30h:
- Thai-Cambodian border clashes enter 4th day with missile fire on both sides…
- …despite Trump’s calls to both leaders last night, saying both agreed to work out a ceasefire.
- Trump threatened both to pull out of tariff talks if they continue clashes

[Patpicha Best 🧣 @patpichatan]

President Donald Trump said he called the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia to urge them to stop the fighting that erupted earlier this week, warning he wouldn’t make a trade deal with either country while the conflict continued. https://t.co/j8JfKquLbv

[Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @SaksithCNA]

#BREAKING THAI PM SUSPENDED AS CONST COURT TAKES ON HUN SEN CALL LEAK CASE

Const. Court accepts ethics case against PM @ingshin over leaked call with Cambodia's Hun Sen, in which she appeared kowtowing amidst territorial dispute. She's suspended from duty until verdict.

[Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @SaksithCNA]

And here we are again...

20 years after protesters rallied against PM Thaksin Shinawatra that ended in a military coup; 11 years after many of the same people rallied against Thaksin's sister Yinglick that also ended in another military coup; today thousands of Thais rallied against Thaksin's daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra for her allged mishandling of the territorial dispute with Cambodia.

For longtime political observers, those lines are familiar yet unsettling. For a new generation of politically minded Thais, they have only heard of Thaksin from their parents and yet still see his blatant influence and ambition play out in the public domain, but failing to fix (if not exacerbate) a country suffering from economic and societal malaises caused by decades of political dysfunction.

What is that dysfunction? Go back to the top and read again.

[Prim Chuwiruch Corben @prim_chuwiruch]

It's a surprising move by the government to re-criminalize marijuana considering Thailand's cannabis market was worth 36.5 billion baht last year (according to info from the University of Thai Chamber of Commerce).

[Khaosod English @KhaosodEnglish]

BREAKING: Public Health Minister Somsak declares 'cannabis' will definitely return to being a narcotic. Points out that applying for-renewing licenses requires additional ministerial regulations.
Somsak Thepsuthin on Tues insists that in the future, 'cannabis' will definitely return to being a narcotic. He states that applying for or renewing licenses will require a new ministerial regulation. He sees the passage of the Cannabis Control Act within this gov't's term as a goal and denies that the crackdown on cannabis is politically motivated.

Somsak spoke at the Government House about the policy to relist cannabis as narcotic. He said that in the future, it should return to being a narcotic because there are still many "loose ends" from past actions. For example, the declaration of cannabis as a controlled herb under the Traditional Thai Medicine Wisdom Protection Act allowed for the establishment of cannabis shops, harvesting, and other related activities, but never mentioned medical operations.

PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra instructed him and the Prime Minister's advisors to hold a meeting on May 14, 2025, to discuss how to ensure that cannabis will be allowed for medical purposes only. After that, public opinions were gathered from May 22 to June 10 and the public accepted this approach.

Somsak stated that yesterday (June 23), he signed an announcement limiting cannabis to medical use only. People wishing to purchase cannabis must have a doctor's prescription and a medical certificate indicating their illness.

Regarding licenses for new operators who apply for or renew licenses, he will need to draft a new ministerial regulation, including a requirement for a doctor to be present at the shop. If inspections are conducted monthly and violations occur twice, the license will be revoked.

When asked whether the Bhumjaithai Party's push for the Cannabis Control Act would be timely during this government's term, Somsak said it was a "dream." He explained that if one looks closely, this law stems from the Narcotics Code, which was submitted for consideration and became part of the Narcotics Code around November 2021.

Section 29 indicates that two types of narcotics under Category 5, kratom and cannabis, were removed from the law, giving the Minister of Public Health the authority to make declarations after consulting with the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB). At that time, a Deputy Prime Minister chaired the ONCB. Therefore, when cannabis was no longer in Category 5 narcotics, a law should have been completed within 120 days according to the ONCB's opinion, but this did not happen, and tens of thousands of shops emerged because the law had not been fully declared at that time.

Furthermore, the Medical Protection Act was unclear, yet it permitted buying, selling, and cultivation. This was the true intention – political rhetoric that said it would be for medical use, but it wasn't written into the Ministry of Public Health's control. He said he had clarified this with the government and was assigned to resolve it within 45 days.

Regarding the crackdown on cannabis coinciding with the Bhumjaithai Party's withdrawal from the coalition government, which has been linked to a political game targeting Bhumjaithai, Somsak stated that it was not. He explained that this is a chronic problem, and they have received many complaints, especially during the government of former Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. He reiterated their efforts to make cannabis a narcotic, and today it is successfully a strictly controlled herb for medical use, but in the future, it will be a narcotic.

When pressed on earlier observations that the Ministry of Public Health, from the era of Dr Cholnan Srikaew (former Public Health Minister) to the present, had not resolved the cannabis issue, possibly out of deference to the Bhumjaithai Party's continued presence in the government... Read more: https://t.co/PKZ8CYePDc
#Thailand #cannabis #marijuana

[Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @SaksithCNA]

We have now the bizarre (but not unprecedented) situation of several parties split on both sides of parliament: @PPRPofficial's Prawit faction vs Thamanat's, @democratTH vs the 4 traditionalists (incl. Chuan) and @PheuThaiParty vs Chalerm - all of them not getting kicked out because they'd walk over but them also not resigning because they want to keep their MP seats.

[Khaosod English @KhaosodEnglish]

(1/2) Thai Journalists Assoc & Thai Broadcasting Journalists Assoc issue a joint statement Sat calling for an investigation by the House of Reps to find out if Gen Prawit Wonguwan violated pol ethics as an MP by shoving a female reporter twice on Fri.
#Thailand #Prawit

[Patpicha Best 🧣 @patpichatan]

Political earthquake in Thailand: the Constitutional Court dismisses Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin from office after finding him guilty of a “serious violation” of ethical standards https://t.co/jv1AgWNAIG via @bpolitics

[Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @SaksithCNA]

Parliament has unanimously agreed in principle to law changes proposed by the opposition @MFPThailand aimed at outlawing corporal punishments against children. A committee will now be vetting the proposal before returning it for further deliberations.

[iLawClub #เขียนรัฐธรรมนูญใหม่ @iLawclub]

ชวนดูคุณสมบัติของผู้ได้รับเลือกเป็น #สว67 ปุณณภา จินดาพงษ์ จากจ.เลย กลุ่ม 12 เมื่อปี 2563 มีประกาศกกต. เรื่องการเปิดเผยบัญชีทรัพย์สิน ในฐานะสมาชิกอบจ.เลย https://t.co/K8Xk6L6x59

ซึ่งการเป็นสมาชิกองค์กรท้องถิ่นในระยะเวลาห้าปีก่อนการสมัครสว. เป็นคุณสมบัติต้องห้ามตามมตรา 14(24)

[Khaosod English @KhaosodEnglish]

(1/3) Netizens are thrilled that Thai superstar & K-pop sensation #Lisa has released the MV #ROCKSTAR. It features #Bangkok's #Yaowarat area, or #Chinatown, as a backdrop, along with scenes from the New World department store in #Banglamphu.
#LISAxROCKSTAR #bangkok #thailand