Thaksin Return News Today

The rift between Thaksin and the establishment finally appears to have been resolved. This compromise not only fails to address any of Thailand’s past mistakes, but it actually repeats them.

Thaksin Shinawatra has been informed about a lese-majeste complaint claiming that he insulted the monarchy in a 2015 interview in South Korea.

Thailand’s political floor grows increasingly unpredictable as new alliances and unexpected power plays threaten more democratic backsliding, writes Napon Jatusripitak (ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute).

It is widely believed that Thaksin returned out of hope that a new government friendly to him would reduce his sentence, and that he may have made a deal with authorities.

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returns home to serve jail time after spending nearly two decades in self-imposed exile.

Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is the darling of millions of Thai voters, but his human rights record legacy in the Deep South is as bleak and dismal as his military rivals’.