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Latest news and updates on the Thailand general election which takes place on May 14, 2023. This vote is shaping up to be a battle between the pro-establishment groups of the ruling military-backed coalition and a pro-democracy camp of opposition parties.
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9 September, 2024
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives to face charges of insulting the monarchy at the Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 19. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Asian Angle | Thaksin’s return at Udon Thani election sparks play for national influence

The return of ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra turned a local election into a national political stage, aiming to motivate Pheu Thai’s voter base.

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Thaksin is back, but can the Shinawatras win over a changing Thailand?

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Opinion | Can the US lure a China-friendly Thailand back into its orbit?

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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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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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Thai court dissolves election winning reform party, bans executives from politics

The party was found guilty of attempting to overthrow the monarchy for its calls to reform the country’s royal defamation law.

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Asian Angle | Thailand’s grand compromise: is Thaksin’s deal with political foes in danger?

The unlikely alliance could yet stand the test of legal and political pressure despite four seemingly interconnected high-profile cases.

Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra at an event in Bangkok in June. Photo: Reuters
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Thai court delays decision on Move Forward Party’s dissolution case

The pro-democracy group is accused of attempting to overthrow the monarchy by promising to overhaul the royal defamation law.

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Thailand’s Move Forward party to ‘fight tooth and nail’ against dissolution

The election commission sought to disband Move Forward after the constitutional court in January ruled the group’s campaign to loosen Article 112 of the Thai penal code amounted to an attempt to overthrow the constitutional monarchy.

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Thailand’s ex-PM Thaksin to face trial for royal defamation

Thailand’s lese-majeste law, which carries up to 15 years in jail per conviction, has been wielded against pro-democracy activists in recent years.

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Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo: AP
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Thailand’s poll body asks court to disband party that won 2023 election

The move comes after a ruling by the Constitutional Court that said Move Forward violated the constitution with its plans to change a law against insulting the monarchy.

Thailand’s election commission will ask the Constitutional Court to dissolve the reformist Move Forward Party which won most seats in last year’s election. Photo: AFP
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Asian Angle | In Thailand, Srettha Thavisin is the prime minister, but is he really in charge?

Thailand’s politicians and foreign leaders have preferred to turn to Thaksin Shinawatra, even though the 75-year-old is serving a jail term for corruption.

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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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Former Thai PM Thaksin charged with royal insult

Thailand has some of the world’s strictest royal defamation laws protecting King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his close family, with each charge bringing a potential 15-year prison sentence.

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Thailand’s attorney general is considering prosecuting convicted former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra over an alleged insult of the powerful monarchy. Photo: AFP
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Jailed Thai ex-PM Thaksin qualifies for ‘special’ parole next month

Thaksin, whose eight-year jail sentence was commuted to a year following a royal pardon, qualifies for release on parole next month due to his age and health.

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Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra waves at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok on August 22. Photo: Reuters
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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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Can US$275 handout to citizens benefit Thailand’s economy, property market?

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin’s plan to stimulate the economy and consequentially prop up a flagging property market by ramping up government spending and boosting consumption has received mixed reactions from analysts.

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Thailand still bullish on Chinese investments as new PM heads to Beijing

Net foreign direct investment to Thailand from China in the first six months of 2023 was up 56 per cent year-on-year to US$690 million, central bank data showed.

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Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport to attend the Third Belt and Road Forum in China on Monday. Photo: Reuters/Pool
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Thailand’s opposition Move Forward Party names new leader

Chaithawat Tulathon, a former political magazine editor, will head the progressive party after Pita Limjaroenrat stepped down earlier this month.

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‘Most popular’ Thaksin could play advisory role after jail release, says Thai PM

Thailand PM Srettha Thavisin says Thaksin Shinawatra can play a role in the government, and that it would be ‘unwise’ of him not to seek the ex-premier’s opinion.

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Former Thai leader Thaksin eligible for parole in February

The Thai king had commuted Thaksin’s eight-year sentence to a year, but he could be released sooner on parole for prisoners older than 70 or those who are ill.

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra flanked by his son Panthongtae and daughter Paetongtarn at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport on August 22. Thailand’s most famous politician made a dramatic homecoming last month, 15 years after he entered self-exile, having been ousted by a military coup in 2006. Photo: Reuters
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Thai artist pelted with poop in show of protest against army-linked government

Architect and artist Duangrit Bunnag carried out a promise to be pelted with faeces in a performance following the formation of a coalition government involving army-backed parties.

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Thai architect Duangrit Bunnag has bags of cow faeces thrown at him in response to Pheu Thai Party’s inclusion of army-linked parties in the government coalition. Photo: AFP
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Thai PM Srettha Thavisin to take finance portfolio amid tepid economic growth

Reviving Thailand’s faltering economy will be one of the biggest tasks for political newcomer Srettha, who became prime minister last month.

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Thai king reduces former PM Thaksin’s prison sentence to one year

The Royal Gazette state journal said 74-year-old billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra had ‘accepted his crime and shown remorse’.

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Thai billionaire ex-PM Thaksin requests royal pardon

Thailand’s most famous politician returned home last week from living abroad in self-exile for 15 years after his party was ousted in a coup.

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Thaksin Shinawatra bows in homage to the Thai king’s portrait at Bangkok airport. Photo: AFP
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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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Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra beside his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok on August 22. Photo: Reuters
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Asian Angle | Thaksin’s back, but Thailand’s anti-democratic forces are as strong as ever

Thailand’s politics is set to enter another volatile era with the election of Srettha Thavisin as prime minister, and the return and incarceration of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra.

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New Thai PM Srettha discusses overcoming divisions with coup leader

Srettha Thavisin – who needs to form a cabinet from an 11-party alliance – has met with his ex-military predecessor Prayuth Chan-ocha, the architect of a 2014 coup against the last Pheu Thai government.

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