Politics

Opposition parties plan to vote against the 2023 Budget Bill in hopes that it fails and forces Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to resign. Deputy PM...

Pattaya may have to rerun ballots due to irregularities preventing even unofficial vote tallies. City Manager Pramote Tubtim, who served as election director, admitted that...

. Proposed law would enable authorities to shut down groups whose work they consider a threat

Chadchart Sittipunt began his first day as Bangkok’s unofficial 17th governor with a 5 a.m. run through Lumpini Park, with reporters trying to keep...

Unofficial results of Pattaya’s mayoral and city council elections have been withdrawn while officials investigate ballot sheets that went missing from two city polling...

Eight years ago Sunday, Chadchart Sittipunt was arrested, handcuffed and detained during the 2014 coup. On May 22 he was elected democratically in a...

Pattaya is headed for four more years under the rule of the Kunplome clan after handpicked successor Poramet Ngampichet won the unofficial vote count. The...

Representatives the United States, Japan and three other countries walked out of Saturday’s Asia-Pacific trade ministers meeting to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The two-day...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha departed for Washington on Wednesday to attend the second ASEAN-U.S. Special Summit. Government spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said Prayut’s visit follows several...

Thailand and Japan agreed to expand investment opportunities and cooperate to combat Covid-19 during a state visit by Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. Prime Minister...

Young Thais increasingly are using the internet and social media to blast the government as it edges toward snap elections. Youths accuse the government of...

Opposition parties on Tuesday said they intended to file a yet another no-confidence motion against the government once amendments to two organic laws necessary...

Democrat Party leader Jurin Laksanawisit apologized for the sexual abuse scandal involving Prinn Panitchpakdi that he first called a “personal matter” for the ex-deputy...

“Rambo Issan”, a former Red Shirt turned military-government apologist resigned from the government on Monday amid corruption allegations. Seksakol Atthawong quit all his positions in...

A career politician who spent most of his career in the Middle East and Africa was nominated as the United States’ new ambassador to...

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has begun accepting applications for Bangkok governor candidates and has stated that the upcoming election will be held. According to Chalermpol...

. Kittipon Thaingamsil protested that he was unemployed and starving. Now he faces lese majeste charge.

. Freedom House survey again lowers Thailand’s scores for political rights and civil liberties

Bangkok and Pattaya voters will get to cast ballots for their local leaders for the first time nearly 10 years on May 22, the...

. It was once a given that when Bangkok voters go to the polls, the Democrat Party candidate would be elected governor. No more.

. Move Forward Party names lifetime Pattaya resident, banker as mayor candidate

NGOs of all stripes are taking a bid to expel Amnesty International from Thailand as a warning that the military-backed government is growing more...

A stateless democracy activist says he was physically assaulted by police officers in Bangkok who detained him for participating in a candlelight vigil for...

Thailand’s ruling coalition claims it is still united as yet another government-censure debate looms. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha called an informal meeting with key members...

Thailand’s do-nothing legislature had drawn the pique of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha who admonished politicians of every party to actually show up for work. The...