Since a longstanding taboo on criticising Thailand's monarchy was broken by protesters in early August, their rallies in Bangkok have got increasingly bold in criticising King Maha Vajiralongkorn and ...

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Openly challenging the monarchy of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, thousands of protesters marched in Bangkok on Sunday to present demands that include a call for reforms to curb his powers.

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is currently feeling the sharp end of the country’s powerful judiciary. On July 2, 2025, Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Paetongtarn from office as ...

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, seen here in Bangkok, Thailand in August of 2023. He was acquitted Friday of charges related to royal defamation. File Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA-EFE ...

An appeals court in Thailand has upheld a two-year prison sentence for a lawmaker from the progressive People’s Party for ...

Thailand’s arrest of a prominent American academic on charges of insulting the monarchy has “alarmed” the United States, the State Department said, in a rare case of a foreign national allegedly ...

Authorities arrested American lecturer Paul Chambers, who teaches at a university in Thailand, for criticizing its monarchy. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said the United States was ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A woman in Thailand sentenced to a prison term of more than four decades on a charge of royal defamation was released on Wednesday by a royal pardon after serving just under one-fifth ...

(CNN) — A prominent American academic working in Thailand could face years in jail after being charged with insulting the monarchy, in a rare case of a foreign national allegedly falling foul of the ...

BANGKOK — Thailand’s attorney general’s office has confirmed that it will not prosecute an American academic arrested in early April on a charge of royal defamation, his lawyer said Thursday. The ...

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is swarmed by members of the media after a cabinet meeting at Government House on July 1, 2025. Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images Thai Prime Minister ...