Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was cleared Friday of royal defamation charges, relieving one of the threats to his embattled dynasty, which has dominated Thai politics for two decades.

A Bangkok court has acquitted controversial billionaire and former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was accused of ...

In a decision that has bucked the trend of surefire convictions linked to the country's harsh lese majeste laws, a criminal ...

Thaksin’s opponents, who were generally staunch royalists, accused him of corruption, abuse of power and disrespecting ...

But the reprieve for Thaksin Shinawatra, who remains a political force, did not mean that the legal troubles for him and his ...

In a country of 70 million where a handful of men can remove an elected government time and again, there can be no stability and progress, only tension and regression. This is how Thailand can be ...

Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was cleared Friday of royal defamation charges, relieving a threat to his ...

Church officials in southern India denounce pro-Hindu politician’s attempt to portray the man’s complaint as a bid to ...

A Bangkok court has dismissed a case accusing billionaire politician Thaksin Shinawatra of defaming the monarchy. In the ...

Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, remains one of the country's most influential and ...