At the start of the year, the centrist Pheu Thai party (PT), dominated by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, led the government in a coalition which included a reluctant conservative ...

Dec. 12 (UPI) --Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved parliament on Friday, triggering fresh elections just three months after his minority government replaced a government headed by ...

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BANGKOK (AP) — Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, remains one of the country’s most influential and controversial figures nearly two decades after being ousted in a ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, remains one of the country’s most influential and controversial figures nearly two decades after being ousted in a ...

BANGKOK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - When Sakda Vicheansil, a lawmaker from western Thailand, announced his resignation from the ruling Pheu Thai party in early September, his words reflected the extraordinary ...

BANGKOK — Thailand’s Anutin Charnvirakul was elected prime minister on Friday after breezing through a parliamentary vote, trouncing the candidate of the Shinawatra family’s once-dominant ruling party ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s main opposition party agreed on Wednesday to support a rival party’s leader to be the next prime minister, in what appears to a move towards resolving the country’s political ...

Thailand’s deepening political crisis is insulating its bonds from the global rout, as growing expectations of further interest-rate cuts to support the sluggish economy boost demand for local debt.

Thailand’s political crisis deepened on Wednesday as rival parties, which lack clear mandates to lead, jostled to undermine each other’s bids for the premiership. Back-to-back developments in Bangkok ...