Politics

Thailand’s panicked response to peaceful protests has been unrelenting, but none of that touched young protestors this weekend. The Herald’s Tyler Roney walked among them and captured the scene.

Three weeks ago, Sirawith Serithiwat stood on the steps of the Pattaya Provincial Courthouse, closing a chapter in the fight for democracy...

Pattaya’s hungry and unemployed still line up daily for food handouts. More businesses are closing by the week. The last thing many...

Media crackdown launched even as MPs plan talks, special session over protestors demands

Even as pro-democracy protestors faced off against in riot police with batons, shields and water cannons in Bangkok, fellow university students in...

Eight university students’ organizations condemned the crackdown on demonstrators at Bangkok’s Pathumwan intersection Friday. The condemnation was conveyed Saturday...

On 3rd night of protests, demonstrators blasted with water cannons, batons. Where activists go from here unclear

The scenes unfolding today in Bangkok’s Ratchprasong retail district and Wednesday night at the Democracy Monument are ominous reminders of years past,...

The ultraconservative backlash against the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has taken a racist turn, despite the dumbfounding irony that most of royalists...

Analysis: No, disinformation against a your own citizens isn't normal. That the army bungled it so badly doesn't make it less wrong.

Thailand’s new military chief said he has no interest in meddling in politics and toppling elected governments. Armed forces...

More than a year after democracy was supposedly restored to Thailand – at least in name – government authorities who overthrew the...

'Drowning in poverty and inequality submerged by capitalism and elites ... would be worse than death itself'

Overshadowed by new student movement, Ja Niew's New Democracy Group had faced prison for anti-junta protest

A Thai beauty queen has become a target for vicious verbal abuse, including racist slurs, from right-wing Thais after coming out...

The Herald's WIll Langston spent the day amidst the protestors, getting a close-up view of the rally's dead-serious, yet festive, atmosphere.

Thailand’s internet censors are shifting into overdrive to block more than 2,200 websites, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds before this weekend’s massive...

It used to be unthinkable, and even punishable by arrest, to not stand before a movie as the Royal Anthem played....

Analysis: The social network's lawsuit threat is a joke, and its critics know it

Foreigners don't get a vote, so why don't they mind their own business?

Thailand’s foreign minister has a message for local foreign correspondents: Butt out. In a meeting with Thailand-based foreign press...

The government on Wednesday night launched a fresh campaign of intimidation against young, pro-democracy activists with the arrests of four student leaders...

With the Election Commission having confirmed its readiness to organize local elections, while urging the government to hold them quickly, the Ministry...

With every week, the protests grow larger, bolder and more effective. A day after upwards of 10,000 young Thais rallied at...

If authorities thought they could intimidate young activists into silence, it clearly isn't working