BANGKOK – Paphatya Poonpratin – a 25-year-old office worker in Bangkok – felt pleased about the evening news on television last week. One report showed...
SURAT THANI — Former anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban surprised many by appearing as a monk today, raising speculation that he is joining a long...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission has unanimously found former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra “guilty of negligence” in connection with the country’s ill-fated rice pledging...
CHIANG MAI – A Thai businessman has been sentenced to five years in prison for royal defamation, a court official said Wednesday, one of a...
– – BANGKOK – The National Council for Peace and Order late this evening issued an order dismissing the governor of the State Railway of Thailand...
TOKYO – Pavin Chachavalpongpun, the prominent Thai political scholar and outspoken opponent of the country’s coup, has had his passport revoked as part of the...
BANGKOK – The arrest of a magazine editor for posting comments critical of the military on his Facebook page is emblematic of the military government’s...
BANGKOK – Permanent-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Sihasak Phuangketkaew is slated to attend a United Nations ministerial meeting in New York to further clarify Thailand’s political...
BANGKOK – The National Council for Peace and Order (NPCO) have revealed their plans for the interim charter that, if approved this week, will build...
KHON KAEN – Resentment toward Thailand’s latest military coup is palpable in the Isaan region of northeastern Thailand, reinforcing a long-standing sense of ethnic separateness among...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s military government said on Monday it had begun an overhaul of the electoral system following an announcement by junta leader General Prayuth...
– BANGKOK – The Thai junta justifies its coup last month and ongoing martial law as necessary to reconcile a deeply polarized society. However, evidence emerged...
BANGKOK – Thailand called on the United States on Wednesday to reconsider moving the Cobra Gold military exercise from the military-ruled country. Col. Virachon Sukonthapatipak,...
– – Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific...
After being arrested by the military in Chonburi province on 28th May, Kritsuda, age 27, was detained by the military for more than three weeks, despite...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s military court has issued warrants for the arrest of 28 people for resisting the orders of the National Council for Peace and Order...
BANGKOK – Suthep Thaugsuban says coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha told him it was the army’s “duty” to take over the task of opposing Yingluck Shinawatra’s...
BANGKOK – Police in Thailand arrested eight people on Sunday for demonstrating against the nation’s increasingly repressive military junta, including a man who was dragged...
BRUSSELS – European Union foreign ministers on Monday condemned the military takeover in Thailand and agreed punitive measures to back up calls for an urgent...
BANGKOK – As an excellent piece in the Associated Press notes this week, Thailand’s junta appears to be entrenching itself for the long haul. Junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha has...