The Latest Breaking News from Thaksin Shinawatra

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra still faces a criminal charge of lese majeste from 2016, and the attorney-general will decide if he will be indicted, the OAG spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Department of Corrections has asked people not to refer to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as a prison inmate - even though he is serving a jail sentence while in hospital.

The Department of Corrections (DOC) has denied that its new regulation, which allows for the detention of inmates outside prison, will benefit convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Jailed former premier Thaksin Shinawatra has not requested a second royal pardon for a further jail term reduction, according to the Justice Minister.

Thailand’s ruling party has selected as its leader the daughter of Thaksin Shinawatra, the country’s divisive former prime minister, highlighting the family’s continuing influence more than two decades after Thaksin entered politics

Jailed former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will continue receiving treatment at Police General Hospital under an extension approved by the Department of Corrections after a 60-day out-of-prison period expired on Saturday.

National police chief Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol on Tuesday called on the Police General Hospital to submit a report on the treatment it is providing for jailed former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

Pita Limjaroenrat says time is on the side of his youthful Move Forward party that took on the establishment and shook up Thailand’s ‘half-baked democracy’

A photograph of Thaksin Shinawatra playing with a grandchild in a swimming pool turns out to have been taken two years ago, and not since the ex-prime minister’s return to Thailand, as a former politician alleged on Friday.