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Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Aug. 22, 2023. Thai prosecutors said Thaksin was formally indicted Tuesday, June 18, 2024, on a charge of defaming Thailand's monarchy in one of several court cases that have unsteadied Thai politics. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin was indicted on a charge of royal defamation

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Mother, Chamchuri, stand with newborn elephant twins female, left, and male, right, in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, Monday, June 10, 2024. Buddhist monks in Thailand on Friday blessed twin baby elephants, one male, the other female, a week after their rare birth came close to being a tragedy. (AP Photo/Nathathaida Adireksara)

Rare twin elephants in Thailand receive monks’ blessings a week after their tumultuous birth

By Napat Kongsawad - Associated Press

Potential candidates to become members of Thailand's next Senate arrive at the Phaya Thai district office in Bangkok on Monday, May 20, 2024. Thailand on Monday officially kicked off the task of selecting a new set of Senators, a process that has become part of the ongoing war between progressive forces hoping for democratic political reforms and conservatives seeking to keep the status quo.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Candidates begin registering in complicated process to select Thailand’s new Senate

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

FILE - Thai rescuers cover a body on the shore of the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom province northeast of Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday Dec. 27, 2018. DNA tests show that two bodies found washed up on the shore of Thailand's Mekong River are the corpses of anti-government activists, police said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in what are feared to be political killings. A leading international human rights organization on Thursday, May 16, 2024, criticized the Thai government for helping its authoritarian neighbors by expelling political dissidents who fled to Thailand for safety and forcing them to return to their home countries. (AP Photo, File)

Human rights group urges Thailand to stop forcing dissidents to return home

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Thailand's Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara arrives at the government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. Thailand’s Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nugara, who is also a deputy prime minister, abruptly resigned Monday, April 29, 2024, after the cabinet reshuffle removed him from the latter position. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thailand’s foreign minister abruptly resigns after being dropped as deputy prime minister

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Chinese tourists takes selfies with Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, right, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn province, Thailand, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Electric shock: Chinese EV makers moving in on rivals in lucrative Thai market

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Thai military soldier keeps guard along the Moei river on the Thai side, under the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot in Thailand's Tak province on Friday, April 12, 2024. Thailand’s foreign minister says he has urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents, and that so far it seemed to be exercising restraint. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai foreign minister urges Myanmar’s military to avoid violent attack on border town its army lost

By Jerry Harmer and Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Myanmar soldiers are seen on the Myanmar side of a bridge across the Moei River linking to the district of Mae Sot in Thailand's Tak province on Thursday, April 11, 2024. Guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority on Thursday claimed to have captured the last of the army’s outposts in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar, virtually clearing the way for them to take over Myawaddy town, the major crossing point for trade with Thailand. In a statement by the Karen National Union, the ethnic group’s leading political body, said retreating soldiers seeking to cross into Thailand for refuge were hiding on the Myanmar side of the No.2 Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Bridge. Photos carried by Thai media showed men they identified as Myanmar soldiers resting by the bridge. (AP Photo/Nava Natthong)

Myanmar’s ethnic Karen guerrillas claim to have seized the last army base defending key border town

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

File - A camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar is seen across the Moei river from Mae Sot, Tak province Thailand, Monday, March 25, 2024. Guerrilla fighters belonging to Myanmar's Karen ethnic minority claimed Monday to be close to seizing control of a major trading town bordering Thailand, as soldiers and civil servants loyal to the military government appeared to be preparing to abandon their positions. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Fighting escalates in eastern Myanmar as army holds out against resistance push on key border town

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Move Forward party leader Chaithawat Tulathon, right, flanked by its former leader Pita Limjaroenrat, talks to reporters during a news conference at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan. 31, 2024. Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday, April 3, said it has accepted the petition from the election body seeking a dissolution of the progressive party that captured the most seats from last year's election on the ground that they may have violated the constitution by proposing to amend a royal defamation law. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thailand’s Constitutional Court says it will rule on whether to dissolve popular Move Forward party

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

A Royalist protester waves a Thai national flag in front of the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 24, 2023. The U.S. ambassador to Thailand dismissed claims of American interference in recent elections as a "disservice" to the Thai people, saying Tuesday, June 27, 2023, that Washington does not support any individual candidate or political party. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

AI-generated ‘people’ to take over as reporters of TV news shows

By Staff - The Washington Times

Participants hold a rainbow flag during a Pride Parade in Bangkok, Thailand, on June 4, 2023. Lawmakers in Thailand's lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, that would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Lawmakers in Thailand overwhelmingly approve a bill to legalize same-sex marriage

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Visitors look at BYD's electric vehicle "Sealion" during the 45th Bangkok Motor Show in Nonthaburi , Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Chinese EV makers challenging market leaders at auto show in Bangkok

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A Myanmar’s truck driver is reflected on a mirror as his truck carrying aid leaves at a customs checkpoint near the border with Myanmar, in Mae Sot, Tak province Thailand Monday, March 25, 2024. Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar sending ten trucks over the border from the northern province of Tak in what they hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand sends aid to war-torn Myanmar, but critics say it will only help junta

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

People wait in line to enter into the Thai Embassy for visa appointments in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Crowds of people have thronged to get passports and visas to neighboring Thailand in the two weeks since the government activated a law making at least 14 million young people subject to conscription.(AP Photo)

Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription into an army they despise

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, center, with his son Phantongtae and his daughter Pinthongta, arrives at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Thaksin Shinawatra, a controversial former Prime Minister of Thailand, made his dramatic return to Thailand last year after nearly a decade of self-imposed exile. Although he was detained in a hospital and never appeared in the public eye for six months after his arrival, his presence in the country alone brings a turmoil into Thai politics like no other politician could ever achieve. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit,File)

Polarizing Thaksin is back, and Bangkok wonders what’s next

By Richard S. Ehrlich

President Joe Biden, from left, Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah pose for a family photo at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

A geopolitical tug of war as Thailand woos investors for long-coveted ‘Land Bridge’

By Richard S. Ehrlich

In this Handout photograph released by the Sri Lanka President's Office HO, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, second right, poses for a photograph with Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin at the presidential secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. (Sri Lanka President's Office HO via AP)

Debt-stricken Sri Lanka signs a free trade pact with Thailand

By Bharatha Mallawarachi - Associated Press

Aleksandr "Shura" Uman, left, and Yegor "Lyova" Bortnik perform during the Bi-2 rock band concert in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Members of the band, which has been critical of the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, were arrested Thursday in the southern resort island of Phuket for playing without proper working papers, and sent to the immigration jail in Bangkok, from which human rights workers fear they could be deported to Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Thailand may deport visiting dissident rock band that criticized war in Ukraine back to Russia

By Jutarat Skulpichetrat - Associated Press

Firefighters work on a cite of an explosion at a firework factory in Suphan Buri province, Thailand, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. The Thai government’s disaster relief agency says an explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand has killed at least 20 people. (Samekan Suphan Buri Foundation via AP)

Officials in Thailand say an explosion at a rural fireworks factory has killed at least 23 people

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press