Politics

BANGKOK (DPA) — Annual joint military exercises started Monday in Thailand with a reduced US contingent, an official said, amid Washington's reservations over the Thai junta that seized power in May.

BANGKOK — A spokesperson for Thailand's military government has asked the public to focus on what junta chairman and Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha is doing for the nation, and not the protests that reportedly greeted his arrival in Japan.

BANGKOK — The parents of the wife of Thailand's Crown Prince, who resigned from the Royal Family last December, denied charges of lese majeste today in their first public appearance since their family was stripped of their royal surname last year.

BANGKOK — Thailand’s military junta has reportedly barred former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from the leaving the country.

BANGKOK — Thailand's national anti-corruption agency says it will prosecute former Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and his deputies for authorizing a crackdown on Yellowshirt protesters in October 2008.

BANGKOK — The military has released a former Pheu Thai Party MP from custody after holding him incommunicado at an army camp for five days.

BANGKOK — Thammasat University students in Bangkok used an annual pre-football match parade to ridicule and criticize Thailand's military junta despite security officers' attempts to block the event.

BANGKOK — A former Pheu Thai Party MP has been held in an army camp and denied communication with the outside world for three days, a military officer confirmed.

BANGKOK — Organizers of Thammasat University's annual football parade have snubbed the Thai army's request to cancel the parade because of its political nature.

BANGKOK — A senior Chinese minister reportedly praised the May 2014 military coup in Thailand and vowed to strengthen ties between the two countries during his state visit in Bangkok today.