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Hun Manet: Cambodia's new prime minister
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» PHNOM PENH - Hun Manet has an economics degree from England and graduated from the US military academy West Point, but there are few expectations he will uphold Western liberal ideals when he succeeds his father as Cambodia's prime minister.
As elections loom, Prayut gets cosy with old political clans
AFP, Published on 07/05/2018
» The sons of a convicted murderer, a rural "don" who has spun a fortune from football and gun-loving provincial bigwigs -- as elections near, Thai junta leader Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is cosying up to "influential figures", a group he vowed to expunge from politics with his coup four years ago.
Fear spreads as Thai junta jails online critics
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» BANGKOK - The Thai junta's fresh arrests of online critics is spreading paranoia across the country, say rights activists, with eight people being held for disparaging the regime on Facebook.
Abhisit echoes Thaksin in lambasting junta rule
AFP, Published on 11/03/2016
» The government is in "panic mode" over the economy and is failing to heal the country's deep political rifts, former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Friday in unusually strident criticism of the country’s ruling generals.
Thai army to appoint national assembly but junta to remain
AFP, Published on 26/06/2014
» Thailand's army rulers will appoint a national assembly stacked with military officers to pick an interim government leader, officials said Thursday, as they seek to retain their influence over the kingdom's political transition.
Cambodia slams Thailand over post-coup worker exodus
AFP, Published on 18/06/2014
» Cambodia has accused Thailand's new military rulers of fomenting an exodus of migrant workers which it claimed had caused at least eight deaths and economic hardship for both countries.
Thai forces curb anti-coup flashmobs
AFP, Published on 08/06/2014
» Thai police arrested seven anti-coup protesters after a flashmob rally held Sunday outside a Bangkok shopping centre in defiance of thousands of security forces deployed city-wide to enforce a ban on political gatherings.
Thai Red Shirts freed as Facebook 'block' sows panic
AFP, Published on 28/05/2014
» Thailand's junta Wednesday freed leaders of the "Red Shirt" movement allied to the ousted government, as social media users reacted with alarm to rumours of a "block" of Facebook.
Thai coup leader cements grip, assumes law-making power
AFP, Published on 24/05/2014
» Thailand's military junta said Saturday it had disbanded the Senate and placed all law-making authority in the hands of the army chief, dramatically tightening its grip after a coup that has sparked Bangkok protests and drawn international condemnation.
Thai opposition torn between elections and 'revolution'
AFP, Published on 16/12/2013
» She is a poster child for a Thai elite campaigning to freeze democracy. But when Chitpas Bhirombhakdi is not on stage cheerleading for a self-styled "people's revolution", she is quietly preparing a bid for parliament.