The government’s sustained efforts to promote clean energy and high-tech investment, especially regarding data centres, may lead Thailand to embark on a new energy chapter.

The Sangha Supreme Council (SSC) will form a special committee to revise monastic regulations following a high-profile sex scandal involving 11 monks and a woman known as “Miss Golf”.

Chief of Defence Forces Gen Songwit Noonpakdee has urged Cambodia to coordinate border operation hours and withdraw long-range weapons to facilitate cross border trade and ease tensions between the two countries.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is being urged to investigate Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira after he invited former premier Thaksin Shinawatra to participate in a high-level discussion about US tariffs with the government.

Capt Thammanat Prompao, chief adviser to the Klatham Party, says he is confident the coalition government will carry on despite its slim majority, while declaring the party’s goal of winning at least 70 seats in the next election.

An opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration early this month found more than 80% of respondents wanted suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to either resign or dissolve the House. Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha was the most favoured choice as the next premier.