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Timeline: Ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra's life in politics
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.
Germany does not believe king has breached state business ban
Reuters, Published on 29/10/2020
» BERLIN: Germany does not believe that Thailand's king has so far breached its ban on conducting politics while staying there, a parliamentary source said on Wednesday, after lawmakers were briefed by the government.
Govt to universities: Stop students' calls for monarchy reform
Reuters, Published on 13/09/2020
» Authorities have summoned the heads of universities to tell them to stop students demanding reform of the monarchy, warning that such calls could lead to violence, a member of the military-appointed Senate said on Sunday.
Protesters unveil plans for big march on PM's office
Reuters, Published on 09/09/2020
» Anti-government activists on Wednesday announced plans to hold an overnight protest and to rally up to 100,000 people to march on Government House next week, piling more pressure on the military-backed administration to step down.
From tweet to street: New Thai generation joins protest
Reuters, Published on 16/12/2019
» It wasn't only the moves to ban Thailand's most vocal opposition party that brought Gift onto the street for the first time.
Rights groups: Three accused of insulting king disappear
Reuters, Published on 10/05/2019
» Three activists facing charges of insulting the monarchy have disappeared after reportedly being arrested in Vietnam, rights groups said on Friday, months after two exiled critics of the military and monarchy turned up dead.
Election 'war room' polices social media
Reuters, Published on 18/03/2019
» In the election "war room", authorities scroll through thousands of social media posts, looking for violations of laws restricting political parties' campaigning on social media that activists say are among the most prohibitive in the world.
Pheu Thai fires up fervour in Isan heartland
Reuters, Published on 18/02/2019
» UBON RATCHATHANI: Leaders of Thailand's biggest opposition party campaigning on Monday never mentioned ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose policies they espouse, nor the princess whose shock candidacy could see its ally banned from the March 24 election.
Tired of army rule, youth a rising force in March election
Reuters, Published on 29/01/2019
» Standing atop the stairs outside his university auditorium, 20-year-old activist Prit Chiwarak led a protest of hundreds of people calling for an end to Thailand's ruling military junta.
Thai politics: No country for young men?
Reuters, Published on 25/03/2018
» A 39-year-old motor parts billionaire and extreme sports enthusiast seeking to shake up Thai politics has been compared to France's Emmanuel Macron and Canada's Justin Trudeau for his youth.