Thailand’s parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister on Friday, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the country’s warring elites. The 37-year-old daughter of divisive political heavyweight Thaksin Shinawatra sailed through a house vote and now faces a baptism of fire,...
Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and ruled he “grossly” violated ethics by appointing a minister who was once jailed, raising the spectre of political upheaval and a shakeup in the governing alliance. Real estate tycoon Srettha is the fourth premier in 16 years to be removed in verdicts by the...
Six people including two Vietnamese Americans have been found dead in a Bangkok luxury hotel in Thailand and police say they died from cyanide poisoning with one of them believed to have poisoned the others over a bad investment, Thai authorities said Wednesday. The grisly discovery was made by a maid on Tuesday just after...
