A woman in Thailand, sentenced to a prison term of more than four decades on a charge of royal defamation, has been released by a royal pardon after serving just under one-fifth of her term

While the country is a constitutional monarchy that holds regular elections, analysts say it is beholden to an unelected old guard.

Thailand's Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been dismissed as prime minister by the Constitutional Court for a violation of ethics after only a year in power, plunging the country and its stuttering economy into more uncertainty.

Thailand’s billionaire former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of insulting the kingdom’s powerful monarchy Friday. Here’s what to know about the law that has ensnared hundreds

Thaksin Shinawatra had struck a grand bargain with Thailand’s establishment, analysts say, that allowed his daughter to ascend to the prime minister’s job.