DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra has been seen jubilantly joining northern villagers in celebrating Songkran festival at venues in Chiang Mai over the weekend without a single trace of any “illnesses” as earlier claimed.

 

Thaksin’s “illnesses” earlier reported by the authorities have not evidently shown any symptoms throughout his three-day visit to his northern home province. Thaksin who arrived to Chiang Mai on Saturday (Apr. 13) and was scheduled to return to Bangkok today (Apr. 15) had been earlier described by officials of Police Hospital and the Corrections Department as being tantamount to “a matter of life and death” which would have warranted constant, close vigils by doctors.

 

But the de facto Pheu Thai boss has not looked like a “critically ill” 74-year-old mingling with local villagers, revelling in the fun-filled, water-splashing festival in the northern city hit by PM2.5 airborne particles over the hot weekend.

 

Since the deposed prime minister/de facto Pheu Thai boss was granted parole from Police Hospital last February, he had been seen alternately with or without soft splints around his neck and right arm.

 

Thaksin has been invariably alleged of manipulating to come back from 17 years in self-exile overseas without spending a single day behind bars to otherwise serve a curtailed, one-year jail term on a few counts of misconduct during his previous premiership and instead being contentiously granted double-standard privileges with a private ward at Police Hospital to stay for a six-month period for “critical illnesses” which he had been accused of feigning.

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra celebrating Songkran festival in Chiang Mai. Top photo: Naewna

 

Full story: THAI NEWSROOM 2024-04-16

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thaksin’s “illnesses” earlier reported by the authorities have not evidently shown any symptoms throughout his three-day visit

Cum-convict......

It's a Songkran - Festivus miracle!!

He's a undeniable proof that miracles do happen, from being very sick to a complete recovery in no time,

no jail time that is... 

The Shinawatra era is well before my time here, but from what I've learned over the last 10 years this comes as no surprise to me. 

 

I guess it will be Yingluck's turn next. Safe journey.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

without a single trace of any “illnesses”

 

 

 

I don't know about that....Few would look at this as a picture of health 😉 

Edited April 15, 20242 yr by mania

3 hours ago, webfact said:

DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra has been seen jubilantly joining northern villagers in celebrating Songkran festival at venues in Chiang Mai over the weekend without a single trace of any “illnesses” as earlier claimed.

He was never ill.. it was a well planned return to Thailand, play a game for a while then freedom.

But this is Thailand, land of corruption, what else would anyone expect?

So when will all those people to helped him with his I-am-so-ill-scam be prosecuted and jailed?

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

So when will all those people to helped him with his I-am-so-ill-scam be prosecuted and jailed?

Don't be expecting too much on that one!

Then man is and was never ill..... Only for the homecoming and the press ..... All done so that he can be in the next elections

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

So when will all those people to helped him with his I-am-so-ill-scam be prosecuted and jailed?

Well the Main Man who helped him is above any laws. 

The excellent medicinal affects of the Chiang Mai air no doubt.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

 

"DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra"

Webfact....your journalistic "skills" need updating as soon as possible.

Name-calling is just so unworthy of a journalist. Time to grow up.

Joe

 

 

 

gotcha!

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

Then man is and was never ill..... Only for the homecoming and the press ..... All done so that he can be in the next elections

I am sure most people wouldn't feel very good when they go to prison. Higher blood pressure and all that.

All prison sentences should now be 48 hours or less after witnessing this rehabilitation phenomenon and the resurrection of Tony 🤔   

41 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

Well the Main Man who helped him is above any laws. 

Sometime, I have hope with that one. He also changes his mind from time to time, radially.

 

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Sometime, I have hope with that one. He also changes his mind from time to time, radially.

 

Inbreeding can cause that. 

I'm happy to see him looking well and enjoying Songkran 🙂

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I am sure most people wouldn't feel very good when they go to prison. Higher blood pressure and all that.

i am not going to prison, I have a normal life in a non touristic area but I have high bloodpressure too... But with a tablet a day i feel fine and no need to stay in ahospital for months happily.......

2 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

All prison sentences should now be 48 hours or less after witnessing this rehabilitation phenomenon and the resurrection of Tony 🤔   

Well Saint Tony did come back for Easter.

8 hours ago, YouAgain said:

It's a Songkran - Festivus miracle!!

The good air in Chiang Mai helped to recover quickly.

Amazing. I must get myself some of those blue pool dumbbells, they clearly work miracles! lol.

 

8 hours ago, ezzra said:

He's a undeniable proof that miracles do happen, from being very sick to a complete recovery in no time,

no jail time that is... 

It is good to see that with 6 months of hospital and medical treatment by good doctors does work.

 

As usual many posters seem to assume  a complete recovery can be done in no time at all.

 

Depending on the severity of his illness it does take time and effort to recover.

 

If he had low blood pressure all it takes is to stand up too quickly and you will black out and collapse with NO warning, and you need to be in hospital very quickly.

 

High blood pressure is talked about here.

 

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hypertension

 

i was on BP medicines for more than 20 years before a good Thai State Hospital got me off them.

 

Last year I blacked out twice with lower blood pressure.

 

The first time I blacked out I lost around 4 hours that I simply know nothing about until I woke up in hospital 65 km away without any idea where I was, how I got there or even if my wife knew where I was and what happened to me.

 

The second time 5 months later, I remember that I was sitting in my chair watching a YouTube video when I woke up to find my wife beating ne to wake up and stay awake. The emergency ambulance crew took me to the local hospital, who couldn't do anything and they shipped me off to the provincial hospital.

 

Both times I had NO warning, and both times I was confined to bed for a week.

 

Meds and gentle exercise brought me back but it takes a long time to recover, but you never recover fully'

 

 

6 hours ago, hotchilli said:

He was never ill.. it was a well planned return to Thailand, play a game for a while then freedom.

But this is Thailand, land of corruption, what else would anyone expect?

What hospital did you qualify as a doctor.

 

What a brilliant diagnosis, when you have never met the patient, examined him or read all his medical history,

 

Yet you know he faked it.

 

I wonder how you came to that conclusion?

15 minutes ago, billd766 said:

What hospital did you qualify as a doctor.

 

What a brilliant diagnosis, when you have never met the patient, examined him or read all his medical history,

 

Yet you know he faked it.

 

I wonder how you came to that conclusion?

Are you for real??

25 minutes ago, billd766 said:

What hospital did you qualify as a doctor.

 

What a brilliant diagnosis, when you have never met the patient, examined him or read all his medical history,

 

Yet you know he faked it.

 

I wonder how you came to that conclusion?

I have a brain

Why would a man of 74 who was supposedly desperately ill only a few weeks ago go out and stand in 40c heat? You don't need to be a doctor to know that is extremely ill-advised.

7 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

So when will all those people to helped him with his I-am-so-ill-scam be prosecuted and jailed?

Maybe after the former unelected soldier who called himself the PM after leading an illegal coup and hiding behind the rest of his soldiers with their guns and tanks for nine years gets prosecuted and jailed.

9 hours ago, ezzra said:

He's a undeniable proof that miracles do happen, from being very sick to a complete recovery in no time,

no jail time that is... 

Yes, and those miracles happen only to saints (or billionaires)