Politics

BANGKOK - Thailand's national anti-graft agency says it needs more evidence to determine whether the military government's purchase of pricey microphones involved corruption.

BANGKOK — A top legal adviser to the Pheu Thai Party says he hopes the military junta will grant amnesty to former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and dissolve the impeachment verdict handed down to her yesterday.

BANGKOK — Dozens of Thai royalists defied the junta's ban on protests to stage a rally in front of the New Zealand Embassy in Bangkok yesterday, demanding NZ authorities extradite an alleged anti-monarchist back to Thailand.

BANGKOK — Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has insisted on her innocence following the junta-appointed parliament's decision to impeach her this morning, posting a statement on Facebook after the military forced her staff to cancel a formal press conference.

A Khaosod English translation of the statement posted by former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on her official Facebook account this afternoon.

BANGKOK — Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been impeached by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), a body whose members were handpicked by the Thai military junta after the 22 May 2014 coup that ousted Yingluck’s elected government.

By Cod Satrusayang

BANGKOK — Wanchai Benjapat says there is only one way to describe the conditions of the Thai fishing boat he worked on for 10 months: unendurable.

BANGKOK – The director of an internet freedom advocacy group in Thailand has warned that the military junta's Cyber Security bill could spell the end of internet privacy for Thais.

BANGKOK — Thai junta leader and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has asserted his authority to pass a mass surveillance bill that would allow officials to inspect any form of communication without a requesting a court warrant.