Thailand

With almost two months left until the House of Representatives completes its term and a new election will be held by mid-2023, here are five things you need to keep…

Thai activists are pressuring the opposition Pheu Thai Party to do away with the royal defamation law if elected to office this year. The requests come at a time when three demonstrators are seriously ill after…

The latest statement by hardline politician Piyabutr Saengkanokkul provides the clearest evidence that one of Thailand’s newest political parties, which thrives on unorthodoxy and drastic reforms that border on extremism, has reached a soul-searching point probably in record…

Political activists met Thailand’s biggest opposition party on Tuesday (Jan 31) to demand that, if it wins in upcoming elections, it revoke a tough law that criminalises insults of the…

The opposition Pheu Thai Party alerted police on Thursday (Feb 2) after a small handmade bomb was thrown at a campaign billboard erected outside its office in Bangkok’s Don Mueang…

The date of the next national election hasn’t even been set, but campaign posters have started going up in Pattaya. The constitution requires the next polls by May, but they…