Former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat on Friday threw a dinner party at his home in Chiang Mai’s Mae Rim district to welcome Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, along with several Pheu Thai MPs and political figures.

THE prime minister on Monday denied any prior knowledge of a security operation that shut down a dinner meeting of 50 former MPs at a hotel in Bangkok last weekend.