Chulalongkorn University political scientist Chaiyan Chaiyaporn is confident that a case involving his tearing up a ballot paper during the 2006 election will not disqualify him in his bid to be named ...

Monarchs rise above politics in the way an elected head of State cannot, especially in multi-ethnic countries like Belgium where the institution of monarchy unites diverse, and often hostile, ethnic ...

Police in Nepal on Friday arrested the main person behind the March 28 pro-monarchy protests in the capital Kathmandu that killed two persons. Nepal Police said in a statement that Durga Prasai ...

Fresh pro-monarchy rallies in Nepal have put the new republic on the defensive. A speech by Gyanendra Shah, who was deposed in 2008, on the eve of February 19, which is commemorated in Nepal as ...

Thailand’s arrest of a prominent American academic on charges of insulting the monarchy has “alarmed” the United States, the State Department said, in a rare case of a foreign national ...

His supporters have tried to build on nostalgia among some Nepalis for domestic stability and international respect that the monarchy commanded. “Nepalis were promised better service delivery, ...

BRUSSELS - Belgian authorities have arrested seven Chinese nationals involved in a prostitution ring exploiting Chinese women, the federal prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. Prosecutors said ...

American academic Paul Chambers is currently in custody in Thailand for allegedly insulting the country’s monarchy, a crime punishable by years in prison in the Southeast Asian country.

BANGKOK — A U.S scholar teaching in Thailand who was jailed on charges of insulting the country’s monarchy — an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison — was released on bail on ...