Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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The Thai government ended a nearly 2-week-old state of emergency Friday, following last week's widespread and sometimes violent political unrest.
Thailand's prime minister told CNN Friday he will not lift a state of emergency until he is convinced anti-government protests that flared into deadly clashes this week would not return to the capital.
Reeling from violent street protests this week, Thailand's government Wednesday announced it has revoked the passport of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who's accused of helping stoke anti-government hostility.
Riot police descended on scores of anti-government protesters in the streets of Thailand's capital as violence intensified early Monday.
Riot police descended on scores of anti-government protesters in the streets of Thailand's capital and violence intensified early Monday.
Anti-government demonstrators say they will gather in the thousands in the capital city Wednesday in a bid to force Thailand's prime minister from office.
Thousands of supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra demonstrated peacefully outside government headquarters on Tuesday to push their demand for a general election.
Thailand's new Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is the first to be democratically elected since the nation's bloodless coup in 2006. A veteran politician and former governor of Bangkok, Samak is accused of being a nominee of friend and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. As he prepares to take office, he joins Talk Asia's Dan Rivers to discuss his allegiance to his ousted predecessor, corruption, and his alleged role in the Thammasat massacre of 1976.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
In countries like Iran, most of the wealth comes from the government-controlled oil industry. Voters care more about who gets which share of the booty than about the government's economic competence. That favors anti-market populists like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It doesn't do a lot for democracy.
The Thai government ended a nearly 2-week-old state of emergency Friday, following last week's widespread and sometimes violent political unrest.
Thailand's prime minister told CNN Friday he will not lift a state of emergency until he is convinced anti-government protests that flared into deadly clashes this week would not return to the capital.
Reeling from violent street protests this week, Thailand's government Wednesday announced it has revoked the passport of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who's accused of helping stoke anti-government hostility.
Riot police descended on scores of anti-government protesters in the streets of Thailand's capital as violence intensified early Monday.
Riot police descended on scores of anti-government protesters in the streets of Thailand's capital and violence intensified early Monday.
Anti-government demonstrators say they will gather in the thousands in the capital city Wednesday in a bid to force Thailand's prime minister from office.
Thousands of supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra demonstrated peacefully outside government headquarters on Tuesday to push their demand for a general election.
Thailand's new Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is the first to be democratically elected since the nation's bloodless coup in 2006. A veteran politician and former governor of Bangkok, Samak is accused of being a nominee of friend and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. As he prepares to take office, he joins Talk Asia's Dan Rivers to discuss his allegiance to his ousted predecessor, corruption, and his alleged role in the Thammasat massacre of 1976.
The ex-wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Bangkok Friday to visit her ailing mother, a source close to the family told CNN.
Anti-government protesters said Monday they would abandon their three-month siege of the Thai prime minister's main offices in Bangkok and join thousands of fellow demonstrators who have occupied the city's main airport.
Bangkok's two main airports remained occupied by anti-government protesters Friday but Thai authorities appeared to have backed down from earlier threats to end the siege by force.
Thai prime minister Somchai Wongsawat declared a state of emergency Thursday at Bangkok's two main airports, which are still being besieged by anti-government protesters, a government spokesman said.
The second grenade attack in three days targeted protesters occupying the Thai prime minister's compound in Bangkok early Saturday, local officials said.
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Thailand's caretaker government has lifted a state of emergency that the capital city, Bangkok, had been under since September 2.
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Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has declared a state of emergency in Bangkok in the wake of brutal anti-government protests, state television said Tuesday.
The thousands of protestors camped outside the offices of Thai PM Samak Sundaravej are just getting comfortable. How long will the embattled leader play the gracious host?
Thailand's Supreme Court issued arrest warrants Monday for deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife after they skipped a court appearance and fled to the United Kingdom, court officials said.
The wife of deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was found guilty Thursday of evading millions of dollars in taxes and sentenced to three years in prison, state media reported.
The corruption trial of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra began Tuesday, almost two years after he was deposed in a military coup.
Thailand may once have been a political bright spot in a region overshadowed by juntas, but the last few years have been nothing short of chaos
Despite winning a string of government concessions, hundreds continued to protest on the streets of Thailand Monday, some calling for the country's prime minister to resign.
Thailand's prime minister has warned he may send in police and soldiers to disperse several hundred people who have been staging an around-the-clock protest in Bangkok for the past six days.
TIME's Bangkok bureau chief Hannah Beech talks with Thailand's new Prime Minister
Thailand's parliament reopened Monday, marking the end of 16 months of military rule and the return of democracy to the Southeast Asian country.
Polls opened Sunday in Thailand's first national election after a military coup, with loyalists of deposed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra expected to capture the most votes, The Associated Press reported.
Thailand's voters have approved an army-drafted constitution, but a hefty "No" vote suggests December's general election will be messy, with ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra still a potent political force.
A healthy majority of Thai voters approved an army-drafted constitution on Sunday designed to prevent a repeat of the powerful single party government of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, an exit poll showed.
Thais voted on Sunday in a referendum on a military-drafted constitution analysts say is aimed at preventing a repeat of the Thaksin Shinawatra era, a single party government led by a charismatic politician.
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DR: Dan Rivers TS: Thaksin Shinawatra
Bangkok traffic is jammed again. The tanks and soldiers that cleared the Thai capital's boulevards during the September coup have gone back to their barracks. The crowds who cheered them on--gleefu...
CNN's Dan Rivers spoke to ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The following is a transcript of the interview. Rivers began by asking Shinawatra about his alleged involvement in New Year bombings in Bangkok.
Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced his resignation from his ruling Thai Rak Thai party Tuesday, two weeks after military officers seized power from him in a bloodless coup d'etat.
Thailand's ruling military junta, which seized power in a bloodless coup 10 days ago, has chosen a new prime minister for the interim government, but has not yet officially released the new leader's name.
In the wake of this week's military coup in Thailand, former central bank Governor Chatumongol Sonakul is favored to become the country's interim civilian leader, The Bangkok Post newspaper said Saturday.
Thailand's military coup leaders began on Friday probing alleged corruption under ousted billionaire leader Thaksin Shinawatra and sacked police officials tied to the former prime minister.
Thailand's military has banned political activity and detained four top members from the administration of Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a bloodless military coup this week.
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Opponents of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra have gathered for a rally to celebrate his departure from office and, more importantly, to remind the nation of his pledge not to seek the post again.
Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra has handed over his duties to Deputy Prime Minister Chidchai Vanasatidya after a poor showing in a snap election over the weekend.
A day after claiming victory in a national election, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced he will resign amid mass protests and a political crisis that has thrown the future of the government into question.
Thailand's three opposition parties have said they would run in a new election if Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resigns immediately, the Democrat Party has said.
Thailand's prime minister has claimed victory in the weekend's snap election, saying his party got more than 50 percent of the overall vote.
Bombs exploded at three polling stations Sunday in Thailand's troubled southern region, injuring two policemen and four soldiers in Narathiwat, one of three Muslim-majority provinces plagued by a separatist insurgency.
A police squad defused a bomb at the headquarters of the opposition Democrat Party, six days before Thais head to the polls in a snap election called by the beleaguered prime minister.
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An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people rallied Sunday in Bangkok to call for the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, with many vowing to remain on the streets until he does.
Tensions between Thailand's Prime Minister and his opponents are growing despite Thaksin Shinawatra's decision to dissolve Parliament and call new elections on April 2, three years ahead of schedule.
Thailand's prime minister has asked the king to dissolve Parliament, a move that would require new elections to be held within two months.
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Thai police who have arrested two fishermen said they have confessed to raping and killing a British tourist, whose body was found a week ago, floating off a beach near the Koh Samui Island Resort.
A Thai-owned communications satellite was launched early Thursday off French Guiana, officials said. Billed as the world's largest, the satellite will provide Internet access and multimedia services for the Asia-Pacific region, Australia and New Zealand.
Authorities in Thailand are investigating a powerful car bomb that has killed five people in the country's Muslim-dominated south.
Government ministers from tsunami-ravaged Asian nations are gathering on the island of Phuket to plan for a proposed tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean.
At least 160 people were injured when two trains collided at a Bangkok subway station, police and eyewitnesses said.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has called for more tsunami aid relief, but says his nation does not need financial assistance.
An explosion in the southern Thai town of Sungaikolok has killed two people -- a boy and a government security worker -- and wounded seven others, police say.
Thousands of teachers in Thailand have walked off their jobs to protest a lack of security in the country's south.
The 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) opens its summit in Laos today, as political issues simmering beneath the surface begin to generate heat at the annual event.
Buddhists in Thailand have implored Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to end violence targeting them on an almost daily basis in the south of the country.
A marketplace bombing in southern Thailand Thursday morning killed one person and wounded at least 23 others -- nine seriously -- police and hospital officials said.
A powerful bomb has exploded in a crowded marketplace in southern Thailand, killing one person and wounding at least 23 others, officials said.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has toured a bullet-riddled mosque that has become a lightning rod for Muslim anger over his government's tough military response to an uprising in the restive south.
Authorities in Thailand are bracing for possible revenge attacks after police killed more than 100 assailants in the predominantly Muslim south.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has vowed to root out "a ring of troublemakers" who launched a series of attacks on security outposts in the nation's south that left over 100 people dead.
As many as 74 suspected militants have been killed by Thai security forces in the deadliest fighting this year in the country's predominantly Muslim south.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says he is "very worried" about the increasing violence in Iraq, and said for the first time Saturday the country may withdraw its troops if the situation continues to deteriorate.
Thailand is struggling to contain a wave of violence in the southern part of the country as the government comes under fire after a weekend bomb attack.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has reshuffled his cabinet, replacing his interior, defense and finance ministers.
Thai officials have confirmed the country's first human death from bird flu, while Indonesia has become the latest nation to be hit by the outbreak that is spreading rapidly throughout Asia.
Five people are being tested to see if they have bird flu, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told reporters, according to Reuters.
A group of armed men attacked a police station in Yala province, hitting it with grenades and automatic weapons fire, police said.
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