BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s king endorsed on Friday a new Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul after a court order removed his predecessor due to ethics violations and public outrage ...

The passing of Queen Sirikit has placed Thailand in a period of royal mourning. Here are some things to expect and etiquette to be aware of.

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra pays his respects to a portrait of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 22, 2023.

Thailand newly elected Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrives with her father and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra before the royal endorsement ceremony appointing Paetongtarn as ...

Thailand’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the Move Forward party must stop advocating for amendments to the law on royal defamation. The court deemed it unconstitutional to advocate changing ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Anutin Charnvirakul was elected prime minister on Friday after breezing through a parliamentary vote, trouncing the candidate of the Shinawatra family's once-dominant ...

Thailand’s king has officially endorsed Paetongtarn Shinawatra, a scion of the country’s most famed and divisive political dynasty, to become the country’s new prime minister. Her appointment follows ...

Thailand’s king on Friday reduced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's eight-year prison term to a single year following the divisive politician's return last week from 15 years of self-imposed ...

BANGKOK — A prominent Thai human rights lawyer was convicted Tuesday of insulting the king and sentenced to four years in prison, the first conviction under a controversial law protecting the monarchy ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The latest member of the Shinawatra family recently rose to become head of the ...

Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has endorsed a cabinet proposed by the country’s new prime minister, Srettha Thavisin. The announcement was published on a Thai government website, Royal Gazette on ...