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This weekend, the ruling Palang Pracharat Party won the country’s first electoral contest since national elections held last year.Unofficial counts in the Lampang by-election shows PPRP candidate Wattana Sitwang leading his nearest rival candidate by a healthy margin....

The ruling Palang Pracharath party said on Friday that rumours that it was trying to coerce or convince MPs of the opposition and coalition to join the party was simply untrue and part of an opposition campaign to discredit...

Prawit Wongsuwan, seen as one of the masterminds behind the 2014 coup and a former military general, will be voted in as the leader of Thailand's ruling Palang Pracharath Party, local media and party insiders said on Thursday.Prawit...

Last week, the voters of Kaohsiung, Taiwan voted to throw out their mayor. The disgraced politician, Han Kuo-yu, had just earlier this year been on the presidential ballot. Now he has the dubious honour of being the first local...

The ruling Palang Pracharath party has been reaching out to members of the opposition as well as MPs of their coalition allies to tempt them into defecting and switching allegiances, several sources told Thai Enquirer on Wednesday.According to...

In Thailand, 58,903 people die from air pollution each year, according to a report by WHO.It is the result of social injustices, deeply interconnected and rooted from the profiteering of a few powerful people, and something that we can...

The Editorial Staff of Thai Enquirer stands with Rappler's Maria Ressa and her staff after their conviction by a Philippines court on Monday.Ms Ressa was found guilty of criminal libel for publishing a report on links between businessman...

Thirty-two members from Thammasat University's Faculty of Law came together to pressure the Thai government to investigate the abduction of Wanchalearm Satsaksit.Wanchalearm was seized by armed men outside of his apartment in Phnom Penh, Cambodia around 6 p.m. on...

As Thailand eases its lockdown measures and opens its doors back up to Thai nationals who have been stranded abroad, those that return home must undergo 14-days of state quarantine. Thai Enquirer had a chance to interview one of the...

“Many Chinese in the Obama era viewed American power as an empty throne. In its place, they now see a mad king fronting for a hostile American empire,” China analyst Richard McGregor wrote in 2019.Difficult, indeed, to blame...