ASEAN leaders and the bloc's secretary-general Dr.Surin Pitsuwan (extreme right) during the photo session
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday urged the leaders within the 10-nation Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to intensify their efforts in establishing the regional bloc as a successful community.

In his address to mark the official opening of the 14th ASEAN Summit at Dusit Thani Hua Hin Hotel in Cha-am, Phetchaburi Province, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told the leaders of other ASEAN membered countries that their intensified efforts would be a significant force in …

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday announced that the venue of the 14th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, earlier planned to be held in Bangkok, will be in the beach resort of Hua Hin in Prachuap Khiri Khan province.
The dates for ASEAN Summit will however remain unchanged from the scheduled February 27-March 1, the premier said.
The government’s decision to change the venue to Hua Hin, about 280 kilometres south of Bangkok, has been made to avoid possible chaos which may erupt from a protest by anti-government United Front of …

By Susan C.

Pimpen and Abhisit are seen side by side

  
Although Thailand has never had the title of “First Lady” traditionally, the rise of Abhisit Vejjajiva to the premiership has made people unavoidably turn their eyes to his wife Pimpen, a little-known Thai woman who is working as a mathematics lecturer at Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
Abhisit, nicknamed “Mark”, may be quite an outgoing politician whom has become widely known since he joined Democrat Party and won his party the only parliamentary seat in Bangkok in 1992 to mark …

The new government of Thailand has officially been established after His Majesty the King yesterday gave a royal endorsement for the country’s 59th government which had been proposed by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
Abhisit’s Democrat Party took 18 seats in the 36-seat Cabinet, including the ministers of defence, foreign affairs and finance. The rest of the seats are four from Chart Thai Pattana Party, five from Friends of Newin Group, four from Puea Pandin Party, two from Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana Party, one from Social Action Party and two from …

Born:               3 August 1964
Birthplace:     Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Father:            Dr. Athasit Vejjajiva
Mother:          Dr. Sodsai Vejjajiva
Spouse:           Assistant Professor Dr. Pimpen (Sakuntabhai) Vejjajiva,
Lecturer at the Faculty of Science’s Department of Mathematics, Chulalongkorn University
Children:        Prang (F) and Pannasit (M)
Education:     Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Economics, Oxford University, UK
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), First Class honour, Oxford University, UK
Bachelor of Law, Ramkhamhaeng University
Honorary Doctorate in Law, Ramkhamhaeng University

His Majesty the King has today issued a Royal command appointing Abhisit Vejjajiva as Thailand’s 27th prime minister.
Oxford-educated Abhisit, the leader of Thailand’s opposition Democrat Party, had been elected as the country’s new prime minister by a small majority of 235-198 votes in an extraordinary session of the House of Representatives on Monday and his name was submitted to His Majesty the King for official appointment in accordance with the Constitution of Thailand 2007.
Abhisit, 44, graduated from Oxford University with first-class honour in philosophy, politics and economics and later earned …