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Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gives a traditional greeting as she arrives at the Constitutional Court in Bangkok on May 6, 201, to face allegations of abuse of power. (AFP Photo/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)

Thai court to rule Wednesday in abuse of power case against PM

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 6, 2014 | World

Bangkok, Reuters—Thailand’s Constitutional Court said it will rule in an abuse of power case against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday, with a guilty verdict likely to force her from office and possibly bring her supporters onto the streets. That...

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Members of the pro-government red shirt movement face riot police outside the offices of the National Anti-Corruption Commission in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok March 24, 2014. (Reuters/Chaiwat Subprasom)

Opponents resume protests as Thai PM faces risks impeachment

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 24, 2014 | World

Bangkok, Retuers—Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand resumed street protests on Monday after lying low for weeks, piling pressure on increasingly beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who is expected to face impeachment within days. Her opponents were...

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a Thai police officer inspecting a pile of blood after an attack on anti-government protesters at a noodle stall near their rally stage in Khao Saming district, Trat province, Thailand (EPA/STR Thailand)

Girl killed, dozens hurt in attack on Thai protest

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 23, 2014 | World

Bangkok, AP—Gunmen in a pickup truck attacked an anti-government protest in eastern Thailand, killing a child and wounding dozens of other people, as violence in the country’s 3-month-old political crisis spread outside the capital, officials said Sunday. The...

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Voters hold their identification cards and the chains that held the gate of the polling station closed, as they demand the right to vote during general elections in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Thai vote goes peacefully, but political paralysis looms

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 2, 2014 | World

Bangkok, Reuters—Elections in Thailand passed off peacefully on Sunday but the country was no nearer to ending its intractable political conflict, with the government facing the prospect of months of paralysis, protests and complex legal challenges. Voting was...

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Thai soldiers stand in a queue before voting at a polling station in Pattani, southern Thailand on January 26, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/TUWAEDANIYA MERINGING)

Thai protesters obstruct vote; 1 dead in violence

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 26, 2014 | World

Bangkok, AP—Anti-government demonstrators swarmed dozens of polling stations in Thailand on Sunday to stop advance voting for next week’s general elections, chaining gates shut, threatening voters and preventing hundreds of thousands of people from casting...