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BANGKOK (AP) — The election of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as Thailand’s prime minister represents a remarkable comeback for the political dynasty founded by her billionaire father, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by a military coup in 2006.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -- India will hold provincial elections in the Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir from Sept. 18, the Election Commission said on Friday, the first regional polls there in a decade and five years after New Delhi scrapped the region's special autonomy.
The Indian Medical Association, the largest association of modern medicine doctors in India, has called for the suspension of non-emergency medical services for 24 hours across the country after a female trainee doctor was raped and murdered last week at a hospital.
Thailand’s Parliament chose Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 37, to become the country’s prime minister on Friday, elevating a candidate with no governing experience to the leadership of a nation in profound political turmoil.
“Southeast Asia will not be a focus for a re-elected President Trump, which may allow other parts of the US system, including Congress, State Department, and US Indo-Pacific Command, to drive US engagement,” the institute’s Southeast Asia Program director Susannah Patton said.
BANGKOK -- Paetongtarn Shinawatra was elected Thailand's 31st prime minister on Friday, becoming the country's second female leader and, at 37, the youngest head of government in Asia. She is also the third from her billionaire clan to serve as premier, after the ill-fated tenures of her father Thaksin and aunt Yingluck ended in military coups.
The appointment of Paetongtarn Shinawatra – a politically inexperienced novice – as Thailand’s new prime minister will mean that she will remain under the tutelage and in the “shadow” of her father, former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, who will “hold sway” over policymaking, analysts have said.
BANGKOK -- The Thai parliament on Friday elected Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the 37-year-old leader of the ruling Pheu Thai Party, as prime minister, two days after Srettha Thavisin was removed from the position by the Constitutional Court.