Thaksin Shinawatra

Thailand last held a successful election in 2011

A symbol of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s opposition party has landed a Facebook user and journalist in hot water with the ruling junta.

After six months of political unrest and a day after the caretaker prime minister refused to stand down, Thailand’s army has declared martial law.

Questions have been raised over Thai prime minister’s appointment of Nalinee Taveesin to Cabinet, who counts Zimbabwe’s president as a friend.

The SABC’s new boss chaired a mining company that went into meltdown, in which controversial Thai billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra played a role.

Authorities in the Thai capital are repairing a damaged flood gate that has become the focus of anger, fear and rivalry between arms of government.

Yingluck Shinawatra has become politically turbulent Thailand’s first female prime minister after Parliament endorsed her crushing election victory.

Thailand said it would lift a state of emergency in Bangkok and three neighbouring areas, seven months after a bloody military crackdown.

No business was discussed with the fugitive Thai politician, says foundation.

Fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has appeared in Africa, where he says he is dealing in diamonds and visiting Nelson Mandela.

As Thai troops staged a bloody operation to disperse red shirt protesters on Wednesday, thousands of demonstrators in a fortified camp appeared calm.

Bangkok braced on Sunday for more unrest a day after the Thai government rejected a peace overture from demonstrators.

Thailand’s anti-government protesters on Wednesday started to congregate at a ritzy Bangkok shopping district, preparing for a "final battleground".

Thai "red shirt" protesters on Sunday ruled out negotiations with the government and said they would not give up their fight for early elections.

Red-shirted protesters emptied bottles of their blood outside the home of Thailand’s prime minister on Wednesday in a symbolic sacrifice.