Thailand's top court ordered the influential former prime minister and billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra to prison for one year on Tuesday in a dramatic turn of events for the embattled political titan.
Thaksin, 76, a towering and divisive figure, (...)
Thailand's influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra suddenly left the country on his private jet Thursday days before a court ruling that could see him imprisoned, raising speculation that he might not return to face the verdict.
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Thailand's parliament has chosen business tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul as the country's prime minister — the third in two years, after yet another leader was removed from office.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who belongs to Thailand's most powerful (...)
A Thai court removed suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office on Friday, ruling that her controversial phone call with Cambodia's former leader breached ethics rules, in a move that plunges the kingdom into fresh political (...)
A court in Bangkok is due to rule on a case of lese majeste involving controversial billionaire and former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
If found guilty, Thaksin could face up to 15 years in jail. The charge relates to an interview he gave (...)
The guns along the forested Thai-Cambodian border have been silent for three weeks now.
But a fierce war of words is still being waged by both countries, as they seek to win international sympathy and shore up public support at home. And a (...)
Aid agencies are warning of starvation in war-torn Myanmar's Rakhine State, with the World Food Programme (WFP) making an urgent appeal for more donations to avoid a "full-blown disaster".
The agency has been trying to feed the rapidly rising number (...)
Three Thai soldiers were wounded Saturday when one stepped on a land mine while on patrol near the Cambodian border, the Thai army said, in the latest flare-up of tensions despite a recent ceasefire agreement.
The explosion occurred in Sisaket (...)
State prosecutors in Thailand have formally indicted 23 individuals and companies on charges related to the collapse of a Bangkok office building that was destroyed after an earthquake, killing at least 92 people.
The partially built high-rise, (...)
Five people were killed in a mass shooting at a food market in Bangkok on Monday.
The suspect in the attack at Or Tor Kor Market died after taking his own life, police in Thailand's capital confirmed.
Four of those who were killed were security (...)
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an "immediate and unconditional" ceasefire, Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim announced on Monday.
Ibrahim hosted Thailand's acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, who met (...)
At least 16 people have been killed and more than 130,000 displaced amid intense fighting along the Thailand-Cambodia border, Thai authorities confirmed Friday, as both nations continue to exchange artillery and rocket fire despite international (...)
At least 12 have been killed since border clashes broke out between Thailand and Cambodia on Thursday morning, the Thai authorities have said.
Both countries accused the other of shooting first in a serious escalation of their long-running border (...)
Police in Thailand arrested a woman Tuesday who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then pressured them into making large payments to cover up their intimacy.
The possible violation of the celibacy rule for (...)
Thailand's Constitutional Court has suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who has come under mounting pressure to resign over her leaked phone conversation with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen.
The clip, in which Paetongtarn called him (...)
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra's coalition government is on the brink of collapse after a phone call between her and former Cambodian leader Hun Sen about a festering border dispute was leaked.
The leak provoked public anger and prompted (...)
A Thai court has issued arrest warrants for 17 people including a high-profile construction tycoon over their alleged involvement in the building of a skyscraper that collapsed and killed scores of workers during a powerful March earthquake, Reuters (...)
Thai prosecutors have said they will not pursue charges against an American academic who was arrested last month under a strict law against defaming the monarchy.
Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University, was arrested after the army filed a (...)
A Thai-Chinese company has denied allegations its steel rods did not pass safety standard tests after nationwide criticism prompted an investigation into the collapse of a high-rise building under construction after an earthquake last month in (...)
Two survivors have been pulled from under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Myanmar, more than five days after the country was struck by a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake.
The miraculous rescues of the two men offer rare moments of hope in (...)
A Thai court has issued an arrest warrant for an American academic under Thailand's lese-majeste law that forbids insulting the monarchy.
The army filed a complaint against Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in central Thailand, under (...)
At least 26 people were killed and 43 remain missing after powerful earthquakes struck Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, triggering widespread destruction and rescue operations across the region.
The 7.7-magnitude quake, centered in (...)
A British tourist has been reported missing in Thailand after a boat caught fire off the coast of the island of Koh Tao.
The Surat Thani Provincial Public Relations Office said 26-year-old Alexandra Clarke from Lambeth, south London, was the only (...)
Dozens of Uyghur men detained in Thailand after fleeing China may have been secretly deported to their home country, activists and rights groups said on Thursday, warning they could face torture and imprisonment on their return.
The 48 men were (...)
More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centers in Myanmar's Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand.
The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian (...)
