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Thailand may be ruled by a military dictatorship until 2016, a senior junta official has revealed. His comment came as a purge of political rivals intensified in the Southeast Asian nation ...
Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Thursday banned the political party that nominated a former princess to run for prime minister, dealing a blow to opposition forces vying to defeat allies of ...
Thailand’s parliament voted on Friday for Paetongtarn Shinawatra to become the country’s youngest prime minister, thrusting another member of the kingdom’s most famed and divisive political ...
Credit: Flickr/Prachatai 2015 was a year of stillness in Thailand, at least in the political realm. The military staged a coup that ousted Yingluck Shinawatra’s elected government in May 2014.
Thailand’s Constitutional Tribunal on Wednesday announced the landmark dissolution of the country’s former ruling party, further unsettling a nation that has suffered more than a year of ...
It was an iconic TV moment in Thai political history: May 20, 1992, the end of a bloody standoff between pro-democracy protestors led by Chamlong Srimuang and a military-backed prime minister ...
In simple terms, the Thai government — like governments in many other developing countries — has moved from taxing the rural economy to subsidising it. The origins of Thailand’s recent political ...
Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Tuesday as it considers a petition filed by 36 senators seeking her removal. The senators have accused the 38-year-old ...