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Critical moment for Thai democracy as parliament fails to elect new prime minister By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn , CNN 5 minute read ...
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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 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 ...
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 ...
Former Thailand Prime Minister Suchinda Kraprayoon has died at age 91. He was an army commander who took power in 1992.
though forces like the unelected and unchecked Constitutional Court and a conservative-dominated Thai Senate remain viewed as defenders of the old guard, the movement for democracy in the country ...
Thai Courts That Have Disbanded Multiple Governments Are Accused of Setting Back Democracy BANGKOK (AP) — Wednesday’s decision by Thailand’s Constitutional Court to oust Prime Minister ...
Rules on hairstyles for Thai students are changing, influenced by a court ruling that deemed the country’s 50-year-old ...
The influence of Hinduism and Buddhism was evident in many aspects of Khmer life in Cambodia. Thailand too was strongly influenced by Hinduism.