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General Prayuth Chan-ocha, center, addresses reporters at the Royal Thai Army Headquarters BANGKOK – Two months after the military coup, the Thai junta continues to interrogate, detain, and persecute activists, journalists, and academics. The period...

National Council for Peace and Order Chairman Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha talks to members of the National Legislative Assembly at the Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand Monday. Pic: AP. UPDATE:Thailand’s hand-picked parliament appointed junta and military...

Thailand’s army commander, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, took his unilateral declaration of martial law one step further on May 22, grabbing power for a military junta. The two-step coup caught some observers by surprise. They felt that the military...

No one can confuse General Prayuth Chan-ocha for a democrat. He’s been involved in two military coups overthrowing elected governments. He was the leader of the 2014 coup. He has established a repressive regime, and for all of the talk of a “roadmap...

Thailand is observing a year of mourning to mark the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The world’s longest serving monarch, King Bhumibol had spent 70 years on the Thai throne when he died last week at the age of 88. For the first time since World War...