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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 11/06/2026

🎥 WATCH: The main suspects in the 2015 Erawan Shrine bombing were handed death sentences by a Thai court. Here’s my @channelnewsasia.bsky.social report on why the judges found them guilty and what happened in the court room.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 10/06/2026

After nearly 11 years, a court will deliver its verdict against the main suspects in the 2015 Erawan Shrine bombing, which killed 20 people. The trial was plagued by delays, as the motive behind the attack was never officially acknowledged. Here's our @channelnewsasia.bsky.social report.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 05/06/2026

Thai Dep-PM and FM Sihasak tells me he sensed Cambodia would launch a rarely used UN arbitration process over long-time maritime claims dispute and the latest in simmering border tensions. More from my sit-down interview with him on #AsiaTonight at 7pm BK @channelnewsasia.bsky.social.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 08/04/2026

Thailand confirms the death of 3 Thai crew members after their cargo ship was attacked by Iran in the Straight of Hormuz on Mar 11. Here's my @channelnewsasia.bsky.social live report with everything we know and the wider impact of the conflict on Thailand.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 06/04/2026

The new cabinet of PM Anutin Charnviralkul had its traditional “family photo” taken by the media. However, since is taking place before the royal audience, protocol dictates that we can’t publish anything until the ministers are taking the oath in front of the King this evening.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 03/04/2026

Thai govt is cracking down on oil smuggling and hoarding amidst the ongoing global energy crisis "regardless of influence", says PM Anutin, as he reassures there'll be enough petrol for the Songkran if people don't hoard and use as usual.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 31/03/2026

👥AT A GLANCE: The new cabinet of Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul was endorsed by the King on Tuesday morning. It consists of 35 ministers (15 carried over from the previous cabinet) from only 2 parties: Bhumjaithai Party with the lion's share and now junior partner Pheu Thai Party.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 27/03/2026

Our #CNACorrespondent episode "They Are Coming Home" on the release of the Thai hostages in Gaza has been shortlisted for the 2026 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards ! Super stoked and proud of my team for this recognition! You can re-watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B7x...

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 19/03/2026

#BREAKING: ANUTIN CHARNVIRAKUL RE-CONFIRMED AS PM The Bhumjaithai Party leader and incumbent has clinched the majority of votes in parliament and will remain the country's 32nd Prime Minister.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 18/03/2026

2 months after his snap #ThaiElection26 gambit paid off handsomely, Anutin Charnvirakul will be (almost certainly) re-confirmed as Thai Prime Minister by the new parliament on Thu (19 March). Here's our @channelnewsasia.bsky.social report looking at the state of play.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 16/03/2026

The most visible effect of the Iran war in Thailand is an apparent panic at the fuel pump over the last few days. Here's our @channelnewsasia.bsky.social report about why motorists are rushing to petrol stations - and what the government is doing about it.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 02/02/2026

Hello, I know I've been a bit quiet lately. That's because we've been preparing our #ThaiElection26 coverage. Starting today on @channelnewsasia.bsky.social, we look at the issues and main parties in this race. We'll have analysis and observations. Hope you'll like what we have for you this week. :)

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 01/10/2025

The Shinawatras, the Duertes, the Kims - powerful patriarchs with daughters as (future) leaders. On this week’s #CNACorrespondent we ask if there’s no other way for women in Asia to rise to top? “My Father’s Daughter” airs TONIGHT (Oct 1) at 8.30pm BK on @channelnewsasia.bsky.social

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 22/09/2025

The Economist's artist doing the illustration on Thailand's new PM Anutin Charnvirakul definitely understood the assignment. 🐭 (Note: Anutin's nickname "Noo" ("หนู") colloquially means both rat or mouse in Thai)

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 19/09/2025

🎥WATCH: The Cabinet of new Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul is endorsed and will take up office very soon. But this government may have a short lifespan despite the formidable challenges. Here's our @channelnewsasia.bsky.social report explaining it.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 19/09/2025

AT A GLANCE: The cabinet of new Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul was endorsed by the King today, with a mix of familiar faces that were ministers before but also many technocrats tasked to steer an interim minority govt for 4 months before snap elections are called next year.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 05/09/2025

#BREAKING: ANUTIN CHARNVIRAKUL BECOMES THAILAND's 32nd PRIME MINISTER The Bhumjaithai Party leader has secured a majority, as parliament is still casting votes. He will lead an interim minority govt, pledging to @peoplesparty.or.th to call for snap elections within 4 months in office.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 04/09/2025

In personal news: We won an award!!! 🏆 Our #CNACorrespondent episode on the freed Thai hostages has won the @ContentAsia Award in the category “Best Current Affairs Programme Made in Asia”. Thank you to my @channelnewsasia.bsky.social team and to you for keeping these stories alive!

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 30/08/2025

9) Late evening, Anutin claims to have enough votes to become PM incl. 10 defections from Pheu Thai. Phumtham later disputed that and signals PT's readiness to make a deal with @peoplesparty.or.th, the 2023 election winner they initially cooperated with but ultimately shunted them.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 30/08/2025

8) And Education Min Narumon Pinyosinwat from the Khlatham Party (25 + 5 defectors) also showed up at BJT instead of the coalition announcement. Their support alone could tip things over. They're playing hard to get now, hoping to get more cabinet seats essentially.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 30/08/2025

7) And this is where things get spicy: Dep. Commerce Min Suchart Chomklin leads a breakaway faction of the United Thai Nation Party with ~20 MPs and showed up at BJT to offer his support. Many within UTN have been unhappy being stuck in a frenemy coalition with Pheu Thai and want out.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 30/08/2025

6) Later that evening, the @bhumjaithai_TH agreed to @PPLEThai's demands, meaning that BJT leader Anutin is gunning for the PM seat - and revenge just months after his party was more or less chased out of the coalition. But they'd need to pull over more MPs.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 30/08/2025

5) Leading opposition @peoplesparty.or.th demands that to get their endorsement, the new PM must dissolve House and hold snap elex within 4 months while pushing for constitutional reform at the same time in order to end a political vicious cycle - but also hoping not to appear selling out.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 30/08/2025

4) So, the Pheu Thai Party-led coalition announced yesterday evening that they're sticking together. But caretaker PM Phumtham Wechayachai did NOT confirm Chaikasem as their pick, only acknowledging that he's an option. If you want to close the power vacuum asap, you'd say that outright.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 30/08/2025

2) In the House, the coalition has a tiny majority after Bhumjaithai left the coalition after the Hun Sen call leak. This graphic doesn’t include defections increasing the lead a bit - but that also means allegiances can easily switch the other way.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 30/08/2025

1) Currently, a PM can only be confirmed by parliament if they have been on the list of candidates submitted before the 2023 elections. No new ones can be added now. That means @PheuThaiParty only has Chaikasem left, @PPLEThai has none.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 30/08/2025

Good morning...or is it? After the ouster of PM Paetongtarn, the scramble to form the next Thai govt is on. - Pheu Thai Party-coalition sticks together, but does NOT confirm Chaikasem as PM pick - Bhumjaithai Party claims to have enough votes with @peoplesparty.or.th 🧵Here's a break down...

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 29/08/2025

In a different universe, people wouldn't have called her a nepo-baby. And may be she'd wouldn't have been Prime Minister right away under such circumstances. (cont.)

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 29/08/2025

#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.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 26/08/2025

On this day 9 years ago, the Bangkok Post marked the 96th birthday of Privy Council head Prem Tinsulanonda like this

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 21/08/2025

Suspended Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra gave her testimony at the Const. Court as she faces allegations of ethics violations her leaked phone call with Cambodia's Hun Sen while her ex-PM father Thaksin's lèse majesté case verdict falls on Friday. Here's our @channelnewsasia.bsky.social report.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 21/08/2025

HAPPENING NOW: Suspended Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrives at the Const. Court to give her testimony in the leaked Hun Sen call case. Her defense called for initially 5 witnesses, but the court only accepted the sec-gen of the Natl. Security Council. Verdict is set for Aug 29.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 20/08/2025

🎥 An independent observer team from ASEAN members are on the ground monitoring the ceasefire at the Thai-Cambodian border. @channelnewsasia.bsky.social is among a few selected outlets accompanying them today for a rare glimpse at their work. Here's our report from Surin.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 18/08/2025

Thailand's GDP grew by 2.8% in Q2 of this year, with exports off-setting slowing tourism. Here's our @channelnewsasia.bsky.social report on the challenges the country is currently facing, from global economic uncertainties to impending political instability within.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 15/08/2025

Princess Bajrakitiyabha, who has been hospitalized and fallen unconscious due to a heart condition since December 2022, was diagnosed with a "severe bloodstream infection" and has received additional medication, according to a statement by the Royal Household Bureau.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 14/08/2025

On this day a year ago, Thailand's Constitutional Court removed PM Srettha Thavisin, almost a year in office, for ethics violations in appointing an ineligible cabinet minister. Paetongtarn Shinawatra succeeded him, as she herself is facing removal by the same court for the same offense now.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 13/08/2025

Thai PM Paetongtarn is accused of violating Sec 160.4 & 5 in the leaked phone call with Cambodian ex-PM Hun Sen in June, in which she criticized the 2nd Region Army Commander during a brewing border conflict and appeared to be kowtowing to a friend of the Shinawatra clan.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 13/08/2025

BREAKING: Thai Const. Court to rule on Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Aug 29 in leaked Hun Sen call case Court schedules hearings for Aug 21 (PM and Natl. Security Council sec-gen to testify) and Aug 27 (closing arguments) before deliberating and delivering the verdict on Aug 29

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 07/08/2025

Speaking after the meeting, Thai Dep Defense Minister Gen Natthaphon Narkphanit says Malaysia's role is to facilitate between both countries and provides a temp. observer team led its military defense attaches and from other ASEAN states. US and China also observed meeting.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 07/08/2025

BREAKING: Thailand and Cambodia sign 13-point ceasefire agreement to ease border tensions after General Border Committee meeting in Kuala Lumpur, which incl. Malaysian and other ASEAN observers.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 07/08/2025

HAPPENING NOW: A high-stakes General Border Committee meeting between Thailand's and Cambodia's defense ministers is under way in Kuala Lumpur to finalize conditions to calm tensions after deadly clashes killed dozens and displaced 100,000s on both sides.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 07/08/2025

BREAKING: Prosecutors charge 23 individuals and companies over the State Audit Office construction site that collapsed during the March 28 earthquake and killed 92. Allegations incl. negligence in building design, supervision and construction as well as document forgery.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 05/08/2025

JUST IN: In a read out statement, acting Thai PM Phumtham announces the govt will compensate families of bereaved killed in the Thai-Cambodia border conflict, establish an anti-fake news committee, and also launch soft loans, debt relief and farmer aid to ease US tariff impact.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 05/08/2025

The Thai cabinet has approved the purchase of 4 Saab JAS 39 Gripen E/F fighter jets worth 60 billion Baht as part of a program to replace the Royal Thai Air Force's aging fleet of F-16 jets. The C/D models have conducted air strikes in the recent Thai-Cambodian border conflict.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 01/08/2025

We’re on our way back from Ubon Ratchathani and Sisaket and the govt-organized trip for diplomats, defense attaches and media. We got to see a convenience store and hospital hit by rockets from the Cambodian side. More on that media blitz tonight at 7pm on @channelnewsasia.bsky.social.

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · 31/07/2025

⁠Thai Finance Min Pichai Chunhavajira expects to be notified within 24 hrs if Thailand has a trade deal with the US. This comes after US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told US media they've made a deal with Thailand and Cambodia as a result of US Trump's intervention in the border conflict.

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