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Thai top court orders ex-PM Thaksin jailed for one year

Thailand’s Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday the country’s most powerful and polarising politician Thaksin Shinawatra to be jailed for one year, ruling that he improperly served a 2023 prison term in hospital.

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Ex-Thai PM returns ahead of court ruling

Influential Thai ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra landed back home on Monday ahead of a scheduled watershed ruling by the kingdom’s top court which may see him jailed.

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Thai tycoon takes office as PM

Thai tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul took office as prime minister on Sunday, with the cannabis-championing conservative ousting the nation’s dominant political dynasty and setting course for elections early next year.

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Acting Thai govt moves to dissolve parliament

Thailand’s acting prime minister moved to dissolve parliament Wednesday, his party said, after the largest opposition group backed a rival candidate to lead the country...

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Thai power vacuum won’t affect border security: ministry

Thailand’s lack of a formal government will not affect border security with Cambodia, the defence ministry said Saturday, as the kingdom scrambles to fill a power vacuum following the dismissal of the prime minister by the constitutional court.

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Thai court sacks PM over Cambodia phone call row

Thailand’s Constitutional Court sacked prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and her cabinet on Friday over her handling of the country’s border row with Cambodia, throwing the kingdom into political turmoil.

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Thai ex-PM Thaksin acquitted of royal insult charges

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.

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Thai-Myanmar trade crossing shut for 2nd day

Myanmar and Thailand’s busiest trade crossing was closed for a second day on Tuesday after the military junta pledged to throttle black markets funding armed opposition groups ahead of a disputed December election...

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Thai soldier wounded in Cambodia border blast

A landmine blast on Thailand’s border wounded a soldier on Tuesday, the military said, accusing Cambodia of planting new explosives in breach of a truce between the countries.

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Cambodian workers flock home from Thailand

Hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrant workers have returned from Thailand following deadly border clashes between the two neighbours, a labour ministry official said on Wednesday...

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Thai-Cambodian cyberwarriors battle on despite truce

Thailand and Cambodia may have reached a ceasefire to halt their bloody border clashes, but cyber warriors are still battling online, daubing official websites with obscenities, deluging opponents with spam and taking pages down.

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Cambodia urges Thailand to return soldiers

Cambodia called on Thailand Thursday to return 20 soldiers it said were taken captive hours after a ceasefire to halt the neighbours’ bloodiest border clashes in decades...

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Cambodia, Thailand truce holds after shaky start

An uneasy ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia appeared to be holding Tuesday, as military commanders met despite Bangkok’s allegations the truce had been breached with overnight skirmishes...

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Thailand-Cambodia clashes enter fourth day

Thailand and Cambodia’s leaders will meet in Malaysia for peace talks on Monday, the Thai government said, as the countries clashed for a fourth day in a deadly border dispute...

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Thai-Cambodia clashes spread, death toll hits 33

Thailand and Cambodia pounded each other with heavy artillery fire for a third day on Saturday, as a border conflict that killed at least 33 people and displaced more than 150,000 from their homes spread across the frontier.

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Thailand warns of war with Cambodia as 1,38,000 flee fighting

Thailand’s acting prime minister Phumtham Wechayachai warned Friday that cross-border clashes with Cambodia that have uprooted more than 1,30,000 people ‘could develop into war’, as the countries traded deadly strikes for a second day.

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Myanmar junta drone crashes over Thailand border

A Myanmar junta drone targeting anti-coup fighters crashed over the border in Thailand, the kingdom’s military said, prompting an official rebuke over hazardous spillover from the civil war....

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Thaksin appears on stand in royal defamation case

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra testified in court on Wednesday, seeking to defend himself against royal defamation charges in a watershed case for his faltering political dynasty.