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Srettha invites Putin for official visit
AFP, Published on 18/10/2023
» BEIJING - Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin for an official visit next year, he said in Beijing on Wednesday.
Activists acquitted of libel, decry 'judicial harassment'
AFP, Published on 29/08/2023
» Three Thai human rights activists were acquitted of criminal defamation on Tuesday, but lamented what they called a hollow victory over the country's restrictive libel laws.
Thais vote overwhelmingly for democracy parties, reject military
AFP, Published on 15/05/2023
» Voters have delivered a clear rejection of nearly a decade of military-aligned rule, election results showed Monday, backing two pro-democracy opposition parties.
Amnesty: Hundreds of children face protest-related charges
AFP, Published on 08/02/2023
» More than 200 children are facing serious criminal charges, including sedition, for their role in the largely peaceful pro-democracy protests that began in 2020, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Red Bull heir still at large 10 years on
AFP, Published on 03/09/2022
» A crashed Ferrari, a dead policeman and a fugitive heir to a multibillion-dollar fortune -- a decade on, Thailand is no closer to resolving one of its most notorious hit-and-run cases.
Chinese gambling kingpin taken into custody in Bangkok
AFP, Published on 13/08/2022
» Authorities in Bangkok have detained a controversial Chinese businessman who is the subject of an international arrest warrant for allegedly running an illegal online casino, police said Saturday.
Japanese man jailed for attacking Thai dissident
AFP, Published on 08/06/2022
» A Japanese man was jailed for 20 months on Wednesday for attacking a Thai academic in Japan where he lives in self-exile following his vocal criticism of the military and monarchy.
British man convicted of infamous 'body in suitcase' murder
AFP, Published on 31/05/2022
» A court in Kanchanaburi on Tuesday convicted a British man of the 2014 murder of a woman whose dismembered body was found in a suitcase dumped in a river.
UN condemns Thailand for deporting third Cambodian refugee
AFP, Published on 23/11/2021
» The United Nations refugee agency has condemned Thailand for deporting a third Cambodian refugee in two weeks, after a former female politician was sent back to a Phnom Penh jail.
Thailand confirms return of Iranians held over 2012 bomb plot
AFP, Published on 26/11/2020
» Thailand confirmed on Thursday it had returned three Iranians jailed over a 2012 bomb plot in Bangkok, in an announcement that came after Tehran freed an Australian-British lecturer imprisoned for alleged spying.