The influence of Hinduism and Buddhism was evident in many aspects of Khmer life in Cambodia. Thailand too was strongly influenced by Hinduism.

The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions will on Friday begin an inquiry into former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's 181-day hospital stay at the Police General ...

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Former Thailand Prime Minister Suchinda Kraprayoon has died at age 91. He was an army commander who took power in 1992.

Sondhi demands the Thai government cut services to Cambodia's border towns if Phnom Penh ignores Thailand's territorial ...

Despite these setbacks to Thailand’s democracy, the country is changing fast. It is becoming more progressive and less submissive to military and monarchy authority. So, these latest manoeuvres ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thailand’s military has a reputation for overthrowing elected governments. In 2023, Thailand wavered between competitive authoritarianism and defective democracy. At the beginning of 2023, the ...

Prayut Chan-ocha. Speaking ahead of the vote, Chaitawat Tulathon, the MFP secretary, decried the state of Thai democracy. “You give people an election no more than a symbolic gesture ...

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 ...