Politics

Thailand’s police crackdown on young pro-democracy protesters is raising more concerns about child abuse after a 12-year-old boy was detained in Bangkok this week. The...

Scores of political dissidents, environmental activists and rights advocates have disappeared since 2014 coup

The chief whip for Thailand’s ruling party, his wife and 85 others were indicted for corruption over futsai field projects in Nakhon Ratchasima. Wirach Ratanasate...

Proving that the former military junta leader who put Bangkok and Pattaya’s mayors in office isn’t ready to let his men go, the Cabinet...

Morality police are "the last gasp of a declining regime that seeks to reverse the tide of history".

PM Prayut under pressure to resign as rallies call for the people's freedoms to be restored .

Pattaya activists launched their fourth anti-government “carmob’ demonstration, rolling a loud demonstration from the Dolphin Roundabout to the Sattahip Naval Base Sept. 5. The rolling...

The relatives of a detained Thai pro-democracy activist have been denied access to him even as he is suffering from a severe case of...

Stuck with junta-appointed mayors, councils since 2016, voters finally can exercise democratic rights in city/SAO polls

Thailand’s first and only female prime minister, who was ousted in a coup by the military in 2014, has called out the men who...

The police deny it, but live bullets ended up in the brain of an anti-government protestor and the world wants answers. Amnesty International on Friday...

Thai opposition parties filed a censure-debate motion targeting Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and five ministers over their handling of the coronavirus epidemic. Sompong Amornwiwat, leader...

The Royal Thai Police commissioner claimed its hardline, riot-control tactics against now-daily anti-government protests was “lawful” and in accordance with the international standard. Pol. Gen....

The arrest of nine Thai pro-democracy activists over their participation this month in a protest demanding the release of 32 other activists shows that...

After getting a smackdown from the courts, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha formally revoked his recent dictate that banned the dissemination of any news that...

Unable to stop a raging pandemic and fearful of a public uprising, ex-coup leaders look to jail those publishing even the truth.

In their latest judicial action, authorities have charged Thanathorn Jungroongruangkit with royal defamation

Their work overshadowed by a raging second-wave coronavirus outbreak, Thailand authorities are rounding up young, pro-democracy activists and slapping them with lese majeste charges...

Move Forward took its national platform to the provinces and learned the hard way that all politics are local

Ten companies of police again will summoned to meet anti-government demonstrators when they descend on the Crown Property Bureau tomorrow. Pol. Maj. Gen. Piya Tawichai,...

Bangkok residents came out to clean up after this week’s messy protest outside the Royal Thai Police headquarters. Volunteers gathered Thursday in front of Pathumwanaram...

Escalating threat of violence to largely peaceful demonstrators comes from both government, yellow shirts

Tyler Roney goes inside the music and brings RAD's message to the English-speaking world.

34 companies of Bangkok cops to flood streets

Days after a Frenchman was threatened with deportation for sticking his nose too far into Thai politics, a Russian in Pattaya got his protruding...