Thailand’s fragile democracy suffered two major setbacks this month at the hands of an unaccountable, all-powerful court whose rulings cannot be appealed. The latest developments once again show ...

Critical moment for Thai democracy as parliament fails to elect new prime minister By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn , CNN 5 minute read ...

Though Thailand has vacillated between a parliamentary democracy and military autocracy throughout the decades, it is technically a constitutional monarchy. The monarchy is in one sense a ...

The election broadly pits pro-democracy parties, including the main opposition Pheu Thai and the youth-facing Move Forward, against conservative rivals, whose leading light is caretaker prime ...

But the Thai Senate race, which culminated this week, has put its candidates and voters through the shrubbiest of hedge mazes—and raised questions about the still-evolving state of democracy in ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. After dismantling the initial coalition of eight pro-democracy parties that ...

In an exclusive interview with DW, former Thai prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat called the past ten years "a lost decade" for democracy in Thailand, which he said was governed by a ...

The court’s decision is the latest dilution of democracy by the conservative Thai establishment which refuses to cede power to pro-democracy movements, reform advocates say. The nine judges ...

While transgender rights have become a contentious issue in the West,the deeply conservative Thai government is making strides in areas such as transgender health care. Why is that?

Rules on hairstyles for Thai students are changing, influenced by a court ruling that deemed the country’s 50-year-old ...

Prominent Pheu Thai MP and chief government whip Wisut Chainarun yesterday downplayed the public reconciliation of Jatuporn Prompan with rival Sondhi Limthongkul last week, calling it the norm in ...

Move Forward Party supporters react to a speech from Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of the Move Forward Party, during a campaign rally in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday, April 22, 2023. Thailand's Move ...