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Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sued anti-government activist Sondhi Limthongkul and 11 others for defamation and $26 million in damages, according to Thaksin's lawyer Monday. Thaksin sued Sondhi and the state-run Communications Authority of...

The Thailand Constitutional Court agreed Thursday to hear arguments in a case against five political parties, including the ruling Thai Rak Thai party, the main opposition Democrats , and three smaller parties, for allegedly...

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said in a television broadcast that his Thai Rak Thai party is innocent of election fraud allegedly committed in an abortive general election this spring....

An investigative committee for Thailand's Attorney General's office on Tuesday unanimously recommended that five of Thailand's political parties be dissolved because of fraud surrounding an April general election . The recommendation includes the ruling Thai Rak Thai [party...

Thailand's Election Commission (EC) has determined that the ruling Thai Rak Thai political party broke two election laws by paying groups to run candidates in the annulled April parliamentary elections in...

The Thailand Supreme Court on Wednesday stepped up its efforts to pressure Thailand's Election Commission (EC) to resign over failed parliamentary elections in April, which the Constitutional Court annulled in early May, by...

Thailand's Cabinet on Tuesday approved October 15 as the date for new elections just three weeks after the country's Constitutional Court annulled last month's parliamentary elections , finding that the Election Commission unconstitutionally organized...

Judges from Thailand's Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, and Administrative Court on Tuesday rejected the October 22 date set by the Election Commission for new parliamentary elections and again demanded that the Commission resign ...

A spokesman for Thailand's three highest courts Saturday called for the current members of the country's much-maligned Election Commission to resign ahead of new elections ordered earlier this week by the country's Constitutional Court after...

A spokesman for Thailand's Supreme Court said Tuesday that when new parliamentary elections are held, the country's highest courts will take a leading role in guaranteeing free and open elections. The announcement comes one day after the Constitutional Court...