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Reuters, Published on 18/02/2024
» Thailand's controversial billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole on Sunday after serving six months in detention.
Reuters, Published on 16/08/2023
» The Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a request from the election winning Move Forward Party to review a parliamentary decision that blocked its prime ministerial candidate from being re-nominated.
Reuters, Published on 07/06/2023
» WASHINGTON: Thailand is in a "delicate phase" after the May 14 election and the goal of the United States is to support an "effective, stable, democratic government" there, a top US official for the Indo-Pacific region said on Tuesday.
Reuters, Published on 14/05/2023
» Public Health Minister and cannabis advocate Anutin Charnvirakul turned heads during Sunday's election as he arrived to cast his vote at a polling station wearing a dark shirt with bright green marijuana leaves.
Reuters, Published on 14/09/2022
» The Constitutional Court on Wednesday set Sept 30 for its ruling on when Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha's eight-year tenure as prime minister began and ends.
Reuters, Published on 08/02/2022
» The boycott of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s cabinet meeting by seven ministers on Tuesday is being seen as another sign of discord growing in the former army chief's troubled 18-party coalition.
Reuters, Published on 10/11/2021
» The government defended the controversial law criminalising criticism of the powerful monarchy on Wednesday, as United Nations member states expressed concern over the country’s rights record and arrests of youth protesters pushing for royal reforms since last year.
Reuters, Published on 02/09/2021
» Often seen at the wheel of one of his supercars, ultra-royalist Tanat "Nat" Thanakitamnuay became a well-known face at demonstrations that ushered in Thailand's 2014 coup.
Reuters, Published on 09/06/2021
» Parliament on Wednesday started debating a bill to allow the government to borrow an additional 500 billion baht to help deal with the country's latest and biggest coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters, Published on 29/03/2021
» Hundreds of anti-government protesters gathered on Monday in defiance of a threat by police to make more arrests, a day after nearly 100 demonstrators were detained for breaching public health measures against the coronavirus.