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21 Aug 1986
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7 October, 2024
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Thai PM uses AI to ‘speak’ Mandarin

A Chinese actor’s disappearance near the Thai-Myanmar border in early January 2025 raised safety concerns about visiting Thailand

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Thailand is pushing ahead with its grand casino plans – and Thaksin’s all for it

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Thai ex-PM Thaksin under fire for alleged racist jibe at African women

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Thai PM declares millions in watches and bags, among US$400 million assets

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of billionaire ex-PM, had to identify her assets and liabilities to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

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Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has declared assets of over US$400 million, her party said, including millions of dollars worth of designer handbags. Photo: via AFP
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Thailand plans a huge economic revamp to tackle its mountain of household debt

An estimated US$475 billion of debt is driving inequality, the government says – as Thailand’s economic growth lags behind its neighbours.

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New Thai PM Paetongtarn vows to stimulate the economy ‘right away’

Thailand’s new prime minister is formulating policies that she said will give the country’s economy a boost.

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Is Thai mega project a land bridge too far for ‘desperate’ government?

Analysts warn the project could become another white elephant, with funding, long-term viability and possible corruption among serious concerns.

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Former Thai prime minister Srettha Thavisin stands in front of an infographic depicting the land bridge to bypass the Malacca Strait. Photo: Facebook/Srettha Thavisin
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Thaksin is back, but can the Shinawatras win over a changing Thailand?

From coup to comeback, the Shinawatra clan’s restoration has thrust Thailand into a reckoning with its past – and an uncertain future.

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Thai opposition seeks to rein in constitutional court after political upheaval

The Constitutional Court has dissolved more than 100 political parties and unseated three prime ministers in the past 27 years, heightening concern about democracy in Thailand.

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‘I will work with an open heart’: Thai king appoints Paetongtarn as new PM

Paetongtarn received the monarch’s official written command to form a government in a ceremony in Bangkok.

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrives for the royal endorsement ceremony appointing her as the new prime minister of Thailand, in Bangkok on Sunday. Photo: AFP
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Thailand’s new PM Paetongtarn to remain in father Thaksin’s ‘shadow’: analysts

Thaksin will ‘hold even more sway’ over policymaking behind the scenes, with pro-China stance expected to continue, observers note.

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Pheu Thai party’s leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra after the Thai parliament confirms her as the country’s next prime minister, in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday. Photo: Reuters
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China ties strong enough to weather Thailand’s political turmoil: analysts

The departure of another Thai prime minister is unlikely to change the economic relationship between the two countries, observers say.

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Thailand’s Pheu Thai party chooses Paetongtarn Shinawatra as PM candidate

Thai politics has endured two decades of chronic instability marked by coups, street protests and court orders.

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Explainer | Srettha’s exit: are Thailand’s conservatives on the rise, democracy in retreat?

Despite challenges from other parties, Pheu Thai “will almost certainly remain in government”, an analyst says

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A newspaper featuring a photograph of Thailand’s former prime minister Srettha Thavisin, at a news stand in Bangkok. Photo: Bloomberg
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‘The show is over’: Thailand PM Srettha Thavisin dismissed by court

The decision reached by the nine-member Constitutional Court has deepened the country’s political turmoil.

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Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin speaks to the media in Bangkok on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
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Thai ex-PM Thaksin released on parole after serving 6 months in hospital

Thaksin was released from Police General Hospital, where for the last six months he had been serving time for corruption-related offences.

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Jailed ex-Thai leader Thaksin to be released Sunday, PM Srettha says

Thaksin has been in hospital detention since August, after making a dramatic homecoming from living abroad for 15 years in self-exile to avoid prison for a conflict of interest.

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Destinations known | Songkran for a month? Thailand tests the water on festival extension

Thailand’s Songkran festival involves drenching others with buckets of water and water guns, and is a big tourist draw. A proposal to extend the three-day event to a month is getting a mixed reception.

Thailand’s Songkran festival involves drenching others with buckets of water and water guns, and is a big tourist draw. An idea to extend the three-day event to a month is getting a mixed reception. Photo: Getty Images
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Thai ruling party elects Thaksin daughter as leader

Pheu Thai is the latest incarnation of the party founded by Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father, who was in self-imposed exile for 15 years following a coup.

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Thaksin’s daughter says ex-Thai leader fatigued as hospital stay criticism grows

Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand last week after 15 years of self-imposed exile and was immediately sent to prison, but was transferred to a hospital just hours after he began serving an eight-year sentence.

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Thailand’s Thaksin poised for return as Pheu Thai seals pact with old foes

A possible ‘super-deal’ with former political foes may allow Thaksin to be held in special detention and swiftly seek a royal pardon from the Thai king.

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Exiled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2019. Photo: AFP
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Most Thais oppose plan for Pheu Thai-military coalition government: poll

About 64 per cent of 1,310 respondents disagreed or totally disagreed with the idea of the Pheu Thai party forming a ‘special government’ with military-backed rivals.

Thai democracy supporters protest in Bangkok earlier this month to condemn Pheu Thai party after it announced that it would form a coalition government that does not include the election winner of the Move Forward Party. Photo: dpa
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Exiled ex-PM Thaksin’s return to Thailand to coincide with new PM vote: daughter

Thaksin Shinawatra’s potential return to the kingdom on Tuesday coincides with a key parliamentary vote that could end a political deadlock to choose a new prime minister.

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Thailand’s Thaksin spotted at Cambodian leader Hun Sen’s birthday party

Just a day earlier the former prime minister had said he would delay plans to return to Thailand following years of self-imposed exile.

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Thailand’s election-winning Move Forward Party excluded from coalition

Property tycoon Srettha Thavisin will be put forward as PM candidate by Pheu Thai party – seen as a vehicle for the Shinawatra political clan – which announced reformist MFP’s exclusion from the group trying to form the next government.

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Supporters of Thailand’s election-winning Move Forward Party try to remove barricades during a protest on Wednesday over its exclusion from the coalition that is trying to form a government. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Thailand’s Thaksin plans his return amid rumours of a ‘super-deal’ with ex-foes

Ahead of ex-PM Thaksin’s return to Thailand on August 10, his family’s Pheu Thai party will have to break from the more radical Move Forward Party, while sustaining as little lasting damage as possible to its pro-democracy brand.

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra at a rally on August 7 in front of an image of her father, ex-prime minister Thaksin. Photo: Handout
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Thaksin Shinawatra returning to Thailand from exile on August 10: daughter

The 74-year-old former PM is a bogeyman for Thailand’s pro-military and royalist establishment and his return could inflame an already tense political situation.

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Approve Pita as PM or ‘get out’, Bangkok protesters tell Thai senators

The Move Forward Party’s leader Pita Limjaroenrat has twice failed to be confirmed as Thailand’s next prime minister, largely thanks to obstinate senators

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