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A border conflict may cost the Thai prime minister her job

The fate of Thailand’s prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, is hanging in the balance after only ten months in office. A recent flare-up in a historical border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand could become her ultimate undoing.

The Conversation

Embattled Thai PM Reshuffles Cabinet As Crisis Rages

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra began a cabinet reshuffle on Monday as a political and judicial crisis sparked by a leaked phone call threatens to sink her government.

International Business Times

Thai prime minister visits border with Cambodia after leaked conversation triggers resignation calls

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has visited the border with Cambodia as she faced resignation calls following a leaked phone call between her and Cambodia’s former leader discussing recent border tensions

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Thai PM apologises over leaked call with Hun Sen as crisis threatens to topple government

In phone call, Paetongtarn Shinawatra discusses border dispute with former Cambodian leader and calls him ‘uncle’

The Guardian - AU

Thai PM To Meet Army Commander To Defuse Political Crisis

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will on Friday visit an army commander she called an "opponent" in a leaked phone call as she battles to defuse a crisis threatening to topple her government.

International Business Times

How a leaked phone call led to the demand for Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s resignation

A phone call leaked by a Cambodian leader has pushed the fragile coalition government on brink of collapse

The Independent UK

Thai prime minister's leaked phone call with Cambodia's Hun Sen sparks outrage and political turmoil

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has apologized for the political turbulence set off by a leaked recording of her negotiating with Cambodia’s former leader in the two nations' latest border dispute

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Thai PM Faces Growing Calls To Quit In Cambodia Phone Row

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra faced mounting calls to resign on Thursday after a leaked phone call she had with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen provoked widespread anger and a key coalition partner to quit.

International Business Times

Thailand and Cambodia: Why tensions are flaring over long-disputed border again

Claims over ownership of historical sites have raised nationalist tension between the two countries

The Independent UK

Postcard from Cannes #6: Thai ghost whisperer film wins Critics' Week prize

Thanks to its lively and quirky social commentary, A Useful Ghost by Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke won the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this week. It was the first time in ten years that Thailand has been represented at the event.

Radio France Internationale

Thailand's ex-Prime Minister Yingluck ordered to pay for losses from a rice subsidy program

A Thai court has ordered exiled former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay more than $304 million to compensate for losses incurred by a money-losing rice farming subsidy program that her government had implemented more than a decade ago

The Independent UK

LGBTQ Thai Ghost Story Turns Political In Cannes

Film director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke felt Thailand's popular gay cinema needed to branch out and do more politics, so he enlisted one of the country's top influencers to help.

International Business Times

Two doctors face suspension in Thaksin hospital case

The Medical Council of Thailand has said it plans to suspend two doctors and issue a warning to a third after concluding that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was not critically ill, which had been cited as the reason for him to serve his prison sentence in a hospital.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar's military leader is in Thailand for talks on earthquake relief

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and the leader of Myanmar’s military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, have visited the Thai capital for diplomatic talks widely assumed to focus on efforts to restore peace in war-torn Myanmar

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Thai Prime Minister survives a challenge by rivals who say her father is pulling the strings

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra easily survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament following a two-day debate in which rivals charged that she has mismanaged the country and let her father, a former prime minister, control her administration

Bangkok Post

PM asked if she lied about her father's 'serious illness'

An opposition MP has said that Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra told reporters her father Thaksin was healthy just two days before he returned to Thailand, and questioned why he was then

The Independent UK

Thailand's prime minister faces a no-confidence vote over alleged influence by her father

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is facing a no-confidence motion in parliament as the opposition alleges she is being unduly influenced by her father, a former prime minister, and is mismanaging the country

Bangkok Post

Thaksin asks Naomi Campbell to help turn Thais into supermodels

Supermodel Naomi Campbell will visit Thailand next month to offer advice to Thaksin Shinawatra on his idea to groom Thais to be models, the former Thai prime minister has said.

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The Guardian - UK

Thai prime minister declares £324m in assets including 217 designer handbags

Paetongtarn Shinawatra made required wealth declaration to national anti-corruption commission

Fortune

Thailand’s new prime minister inherits a $14 billion cash handout problem and a sluggish economy

Thailand’s economy isn’t growing as fast as its peers.

The Conversation

Thailand’s youngest ever prime minister: a new veneer for old power structures

On 16 August, Thailand elected its youngest-ever prime minister, the 38-year-old Paetongtarn “Ing” Shinawatra. The daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a dominant and controversial figure in Thai politics, Paetongtarn has led the Pheu Thai (For Thais) party, Thailand’s second-largest party, since 2023.

Evening Standard

Sven-Goran Eriksson: The surprisingly colourful Swede who became England's first foreign manager

Former coach has died aged 76

International Business Times UK

From Working In McDonalds To Thailand's Youngest Prime Minister: Meet Paetongtarn Shinawatra

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand's youngest Prime Minister, has risen from working at McDonald's to leading the nation with a commitment to economic reform and political continuity.

Evening Standard

Who is Paetongtarn Shinawatra? Thai parliament votes for past prime minister's daughter as PM

The 37-year-old only entered politics in 2021 and is already seen as the puppet of her powerful family

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