Anti-establishment demonstrators rallied at three locations in Bangkok today, to protest against the alleged use of violence, by the...

Thailand’s National Communicable Diseases Committee (NCDC) has agreed, in principle, to reduce the 14-day mandatory quarantine period, for people...

The State Railways of Thailand (SRT) signed a 50-billion baht contract, with China Railway International Company Limited, today for...

The Thai Cabinet has given approval for entry into Thailand of tourists arriving on yachts carrying special tourist visas...

Two Thai crew members of a freighter were injured and five others are missing after their vessel capsized in...

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, who transformed the South Korean firm into a global tech titan, died at the age of...

More royalist groups rallied in support of the monarchy in many provinces across the country on Wednesday. In Bangkok,...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has revoked the severe state of emergency imposed in Bangkok last week to deal with...

In a rare move, the Criminal Court admitted that its earlier order to close down all online platforms of...

Three people were killed and about 28 others injured when NGV gas leaked from a pipeline and ignited, opposite...

Parliament President Chuan Leekpai has scheduled an informal cross-party meeting for consultation on how Thailand’s Parliament can contribute to...

The Governor of Thailand’s northwestern province of Tak has ordered a temporary halt to all movement of goods across...

A group of 386 doctors, from hospitals across Thailand, has issued a joint statement, urging the Government to stop...

More than 50 houses, in a small village in Pak Thong Chai district of Thailand’s northeastern province of Nakhon...

Four protest leaders were today held on remand in prisons in Chiang Mai and Pathum Thani provinces, after courts...

The Thai Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rain and isolated very heavy showers in the northeastern, central and eastern...

Military units, tasked with public disaster relief responsibilities,have been placed on standby, to help people affected by flooding, as...

Thai people nationwide came out in force this morning to pay tribute to late King Bhumibol the Great on...

The anti-establishment Khana Ratsadon group and royalists are mobilizing support for, what could be, a confrontation on Ratchadamnoen Avenue...

Once hailed as the “white knight” who crushed high-profile criminals, Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang is now feeling the pressure...

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was reported to be on his way to the national palace...

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered help to be rushed to Pak Chong district of the country’s northeastern...

His Majesty the King of Thailand has graciously granted permission for members of the public to pay respect to...

Thailand has recorded six new COVID-19 infections today, all arrivals from abroad and in state quarantine. According to the...

The Royal Army (RTA) has dismissed Twitter’s accusation that more than 900 Twitter accounts, engaged in spreading disinformation about...

Most red-shirt followers are unlikely to join the October 14th protest, being organized by the so-called Khana Rasadorn at...

Thailand’s Free People and Free Youth movements have renamed themselves the “Khana Rasadorn”, as their leaders vowed today to...

Forty-eight COVID-19 patients have recovered, while seven new cases, all in state quarantine, were reported today by the CCSA....

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health will, in the next fortnight, propose to the CCSA a reduction in the mandatory...

The first group of 150 Chinese tourists will fly into Phuket tomorrow, from China’s Guangdong province on a chartered...

A network of labour groups is demanding that Thailand’s Ministry of Labour set up a panel to investigate the...

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, has published its assessment of the Thai economy, saying that...

Bangkok MP Sira Jenjakha has vented his frustration over what he alleges is Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang’s indifference to...

Eleven teachers and staff, of a kindergarten and nursery at Sarasas Witaed Ratchaphruek School in Nonthaburi province, have been...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he and first lady Melania Trump are awaiting their own test results...

The opposition Pheu Thai Party’s first priority is to pursue the restoration of true democracy in Thailand and to...

The organizing committee of Miss Universe Thailand 2020 has disqualified a leading contestant, for allegedly allowing her manager/chaperone to...

Former Director-General of Thailand’s Meteorological Department, Mr. Suparoek Tansrirattanawong, was sentenced to three years and four months in prison...

Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan has resigned as the chief of strategy for Thailand’s opposition Pheu Thai Party, and Anudit Nakhontap,...

A group of people, including students, in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai staged a protest against the Government...

The bi-partisan parliamentary panel, tasked with studying the six motions proposing amendments to Thailand’s constitution, is scheduled to meet...

Thailand’s Parliament President and House Speaker Chuan Leekpai said Thursday night that he was duped into believing that there...

Civil Society for State Welfare is demanding clarification from the board of the Social Security Office (SSO) about its...

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha made a last-minute appeal this evening to protest leaders to postpone their rally, planned...

Riverside residents in 24 northern and northeastern provinces of Thailand have been warned to brace for flash floods or...

Thailand’s Constitutional Court has suspended Democrat MP Theptai Seanapong from performing his duty as an MP, pending its ruling...

Thailand’s National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has been tasked by the Prime Minister to draw up a...

As the planned September 19th mass protest draws near, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngarm warned the anti-dictatorship protesters today...

Thammasat University has forbidden the Thammasat Alliance Group to use the Tha Prachan campus to stage a protest rally...

The SRT Electric Train Company, the operator of the airport rail link service, will propose that the SRT board...

Reported by Kitipat Chuensukjit Thai PBS World Tonight September 9, 2020

Thailand’s Ministry of Interior has ordered all provinces bordering Myanmar to increase border surveillance and patrols, to prevent a...

How the young activist has managed to “lift the ceiling” on Thailand’s most sensitive issue.

How the student activist rattles the establishment with a demand for radical changes.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has given an assurance that the government will not use force against students who plan...

Reform of the Thai Monarchy will be one of the issues raised at the protest, scheduled for September 19th...

The opposition Kao Klai party’s motion to amend Section 272 of Thailand’s Constitution, to exclude senators from process of...

Thailand’s Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered an investigation into the hacking of the computer system of Saraburi...

Police General Veerachai Songmetta has been removed from his post as the deputy national police chief. The move is...

A powerful typhoon began to lash southern Japan on Sunday, with officials warning it could bring record rainfall and...

Thailand recorded six new COVID-19 cases today, all among returnees from abroad in state quarantine. According to the CCSA,...

China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic’s origin story...

After the lockdown, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw Thailand’s world famous and normally bustling resort...

Amnesty International has launched a campaign to pressure the Thai government into droping all charges against 31 anti-establishment activists....

Patients involved in early tests of a Russian coronavirus vaccine developed antibodies with “no serious adverse events”, according to...

Environment-conscious villagers have blocked access to a rock crushing plant in their community, in Suwankhuha district of Thailand’s northeastern...

Almost 600 people have been found to have been in close physical contact with a COVID-19 infected DJ, with...

A popular pub, in the Rama 5 area of Bangkok’s neighboring Nonthaburi province, has been ordered to close for...

China’s national security law for Hong Kong poses a serious risk to the city’s freedoms and breaches international legal...

Army chief General Apirat Kongsompong has stirred up politics and ruffled more than a few feathers during his two...

Thailand today reported the first locally transmitted case of COVID-19 infection in about 100 days. According to Dr. Walairat...

The Royal Thai Air Force’s first satellite, for security applications, was successfully launched into space at 8.51am Thursday local...

The Criminal Court withdrew the bail granted to human rights lawyer Anon Nampa today (Thursday), for violating bail conditions...

Two western tourists, who took a selfie of themselves holding one of Thailand’s species of protected marine wildlife while...

Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has approved a new 45 billion baht stimulus package, for distribution to...

A complaint has been filed, with the Mae Rim district police in Chiang Mai province, by the district’s assistant...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s twin daughters, Tunya and Nittha, have defended themselves against accusations currently being discussed on social...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s twin daughters assigned a lawyer to file a complaint with Nang Loeng police today (Wednesday),...

Anond…breaking the taboo. How a human rights lawyer catapults himself to the forefront of anti-establishment protests

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Reported by Kitipat Chuensukjit

The general assembly of Supreme Court judges today (Thursday) upheld the one-month suspended jail term, imposed on Bhumjaithai party-list...

The opposition Pheu Thai party today (Thursday) issued a statement reconfirming its call for the creation of a Constitution...

Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society is sending notifications to social media networks asking them to block access...

The Royal Thai Navy’s (RTN) plan to procure two Chinese-made Yuan-class submarines, at an estimated cost to the taxpayer...

The opposition Pheu Thai party has rejected the Kao Klai party’s proposal to amend Section 272 of the Constitution,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted more Thai people to put their savings in banks, increasing the number of bank...

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said today that the Government is ready to fight Facebook in the courts, as...

Thai police, in the western province of Kanchanaburi, yesterday seized a massive haul of illicit drugs concealed in a...

The Bangkok South Criminal Court has issued a fresh warrant for the arrest of Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya...

The Thai cabinet today decided to retain the 7% value-added tax rate for all trade transactions, services and imports...

Thailand’s well-known political activist Sirawith Seritiwat, alias Ja New, reemerged from a long absence today when he gave a...

Two musical video clips, posted on YouTube by the Thai Government’s Department of Public Relations (PRD), have been taken...

Several northern and northeastern provinces of Thailand are flooded today, after they were lashed by torrential rains induced by...

A former election candidate for the Kao Klai Party has offered a public apology for an incident, which occurred...

A panel of the House Budget Scrutiny Committee has approved, by a slim majority, the Royal Thai Navy’s (RTN)...

Thailand is free from new COVID-19 infections today, both in and out of quarantine, according to the CCSA. Meanwhile,...

Former top Trump strategist Steve Bannon, who was arrested this week for defrauding donors to a Mexico border wall...

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has formally opened a new landmark, the Chao Phraya Sky Park, which straddles the...