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Can Thailand engage with Trump's US?
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 03/06/2025
» Thailand must be bold and dynamic in recalibrating its diplomatic ties with the United States under President Donald Trump. Asia's oldest relationship with Washington carries little weight in the era of transactional diplomacy. Although the 1833 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the US and Siam described their relations "as long as heaven and earth can endure", the two countries now face formidable challenges in living up to that 192-year-old oath. That treaty was the United States' first treaty with a country in Asia, making Thailand America's oldest friend in the region.
Generational politics
Life, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 11/11/2024
» Political conflicts around the world typically arise from divisions based on class, ethnicity, rural-urban disparities and caste, rather than age differences. This observation caused Asst Prof Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, to investigate if it is true that political conflict in Thailand is one between generations.
Stand-in Thai PM Phumtham dismisses 'communist' jibe
Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 03/09/2024
» Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai brushed aside claims that he is unfit to become defence minister because he joined the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) in the 1970s.
The making of a monarch: King Rama X
News, Published on 01/07/2024
» As the auspicious occasion of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua's 72nd birthday on July 28 approaches, Thais are expressing their loyalty and offering best wishes to the monarch.
Ex-minister Thawee Kraikupt dies
Online Reporters, Published on 20/04/2024
» Veteran politician and former cabinet minister Thawee Kraikupt died at the age of 84 at Siriraj Hospital.
Jatuporn wants action on amnesty bill
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 09/03/2024
» Former red-shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan accused the government of stalling over an amnesty for people facing legal action in politically motivated cases.
Former red-shirt leader seeks new probe into 2010 political deaths
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/02/2024
» A former co-leader of the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) has called upon the ruling Pheu Thai Party to form an independent committee to reinvestigate the violent handling of street protests in April 2010, which resulted in scores of deaths.
Politics, parties and PMs
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 29/12/2023
» With 2024 fast approaching, the 'Bangkok Post' takes a look back at five top political stories that captivated and intrigued the nation over the past year.
Thailand's semi-democracy returns
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 01/12/2023
» The appointment of Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha as privy councillor has neatly bookended Thai politics over the past decade. It coincides with the 10-year anniversary of the street demonstrations that were led by the People's Democratic Reform Committee, paving the way for Gen Prayut to stage a military coup in May 2014. While the interim was a period of hard and soft military-authoritarian rule in 2014-19 and 2019-23, the new moving balance in Thai politics is a semi-democracy of sorts under the Pheu Thai Party-led coalition government.
Prayut named privy councillor
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/12/2023
» His Majesty the King has appointed former prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha as a privy councillor, according to an announcement in the Royal Gazette published on Wednesday.