An US academic living in Thailand was arrested Tuesday on charges of insulting the Southeast Asian country's powerful monarchy. Paul Chambers, who teaches political science at Naresuan University in ...

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is currently feeling the sharp end of the country’s powerful judiciary. On July 2, 2025, Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Paetongtarn from office as ...

Thailand’s arrest of a prominent American academic on charges of insulting the monarchy has “alarmed” the United States, the State Department said, in a rare case of a foreign national allegedly ...

Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, seen here as crown prince in 2016. An American academic has been arrested and charged in Thailand on accusations of insulting the monarchy and faces up to 15 years' ...

BANGKOK — Thailand’s attorney general’s office has confirmed that it will not prosecute an American academic arrested in early April on a charge of royal defamation, his lawyer said Thursday. The ...

(CNN) — A prominent American academic working in Thailand could face years in jail after being charged with insulting the monarchy, in a rare case of a foreign national allegedly falling foul of the ...

BANGKOK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Since a longstanding taboo on criticising Thailand's monarchy was broken by protesters in early August, their rallies in Bangkok have got increasingly bold in criticising ...

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is swarmed by members of the media after a cabinet meeting at Government House on July 1, 2025. Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images Thai Prime Minister ...