Sources: BBC
Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Thailand after a court ruling that placed him at risk for arrest. Police indicate that he was allowed to leave the country as there is no active warrant for his arrest. 2025-09-4
The Thai Department of Special Investigation seizes 2.4 metric tons of methamphetamine disguised as corn flour packages worth $90.8 million from a tourist boat off the coast of Eastern Thailand and arrests eight men in Rayong province for attempted drug smuggling. 2025-06-23
Kunlavut Vitidsarn wins the silver medal in the Men's singles badminton event, earning Thailand its first medal in the sport. 2024-08-5
Thailand's election commission petitions the Constitutional Court to suspend leading prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat, alleging his violation of campaign laws due to prior share ownership in a media company, iTV. 2023-07-12
Thailand reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 11,784 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 415,170. 2021-07-19
After acquitting five Muslim men of murder, Thai judge Kanakorn Pianchana gives a speech complaining of corrupt pressure upon the judiciary, including in this case, to convict without sufficient evidence. He then shoots himself in the chest in court in Yala, but survives. Criticism from judges of the Thai legal system is rare, but rights groups claim Muslims often face trumped-up charges in the region, which is Muslim-majority and suffers from insurgency. 2019-10-5
At least 33 are dead and 23 missing after two passenger boats capsize off Phuket, Thailand. All are Chinese tourists. 2018-07-5
Flash flooding in southern Thailand kills at least 18 people. 2017-01-7
Thailand passes a law banning foreigners from hiring Thai women as commercial surrogate mothers. 2015-02-20