The death of Queen Sirikit has removed the final protective layer from the current monarch, King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

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 ...

King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand has arrived in China on Thursday, the first ever visit by a reigning Thai monarch.

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 ...

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 ...

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, Sept 20 (Reuters) - 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 ...

BANGKOK — 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 of her ...

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 ...