Court rules Thai premier must quit over TV cooking shows

Tuesday 09th September, 11:29 PM JST

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rjd_jr at 07:57 AM JST - 10th September

A sad state of affairs, the Thai people deserve better than this farce.
CavemanLawyer at 12:23 PM JST - 10th September

Three sentences. There must be something important missing. Did he say something bad about the king?

On the surface, having a cooking show on TV seems like a cool thing for a PM to do. What is the problem?

--Cirroc
Jyan_Bon at 04:56 PM JST - 10th September

There are LOTS of problems with PM Samak. 1. He has strong link with the fugitive ex-prime minister Thaksin. 2. He has another legal case against him coming up soon, he could go to jail for this case. 3. The party is being accused of bribing/vote rigging during the last elections. 4. He is the regional advocate of the THUGS (Burmese generals) across the border, in exchange for natural Gas from that country. There are more.............
thedeath at 09:53 AM JST - 11th September

as from what i know, thai's constitution doesn't allow a PM to be full / part-time employed by any other private company both in and out of the kingdom.

he showed up in a cooking show, he received the pay from the tv station. it is what against the thai's constitution.

"CavemanLawyer" if you do something against your own constitution. then every thing is wrong, cool or not it doesn't matter.