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BANGKOK, June 8 ― Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today he was ready to face charges of insulting the monarchy that mark a setback to a political heavyweight whose allies are currently in government. Advertisement The complaint, lodged by the royalist military that ousted the government of his …

BANGKOK, Aug 30 — Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is preparing documentation to draft a request for a royal pardon, but when it would be submitted was at his discretion, his lawyer said today. Thaksin returned to Thailand in a vaunted homecoming last week after spending 15 years abroad …

BANGKOK, May 22 — An alliance led by Thailand’s progressive Move Forward party hopes to draft a new constitution, end monopolies and allow same-sex marriage, among other aims, according to a draft of objectives that made no mention of a divisive royal insult law. The opposition Move Forward and Pheu …

Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has denied charges of less majeste against him. — Reuters pic BANGKOK, April 11 — A prominent Thai politician faces up to 20 years in prison following his indictment today for insulting the king and violating a cyber law, after he criticised the government for over-reliance on a …

Demonstrators take cover from rubber bullets during a clash with the police while protesting against the amendment of the lese majeste law, in Bangkok, Thailand November 14, 2021. — Reuters pic BANGKOK, Nov 14 — Hundreds of protesters rallied in Bangkok today against a decision by a top court that …

Riot police cover themselves with shields during a pro-democracy rally at 11th Infantry Regiment, in Bangkok, Thailand, November 29, 2020. — Reuters pic BANGKOK, Nov 29 — Hundreds of protesters marched on a barracks of Thailand’s royal guards unit today hoisting inflatable rubber ducks high above their heads, a whimsical …

Thousands of protesters marched on Thailand’s royal barracks last night holding inflatable rubber ducks – a symbol used by the peaceful pro-democracy movement to ridicule the police. Heavily-armoured officers defended by shields and banks of barbed wire kept the demonstrators from getting close to the King’s Guard headquarters in Bangkok …

Thailand’s king has officially reinstated his mistress as his royal consort after releasing her from jail to rejoin his harem.  The restoration of Sineenatra Wongvajirabhakdi to the good graces of King Maha Vajiralongkorn was confirmed by an official announcement published today in the Royal Gazette.  The announcement, dated August 29, …

The king of Thailand has pardoned his concubine after throwing her in jail last year and had her flown to Germany to join his Alpine harem, it is claimed.  Playboy monarch Maha Vajiralongkorn, 68, has spent much of the pandemic in Germany with a reputed entourage of ‘sex soldiers’ assembled as …

A taxi driver in Brighton has reportedly been told to self-isolate after coming into contact with a coronavirus patient, while an NHS A&E doctor in Worthing was today confirmed as being one of the eight Britons struck down by the killer infection. The unidentified taxi driver is believed to be …