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 ...

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 ...

Belgium has denied claims that it has sent troops to engage rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid a diplomatic spat between Belgium and Rwanda. News reports and social ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kathmandu [Nepal], April 8 (ANI): Defying government orders and tight security restrictions, the pro-monarchy Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) staged a protest march in the heart of Kathmandu on ...

An American academic living in Thailand is under arrest on a charge of insulting the monarchy. Thailand has a strict lese-majeste law. A single offense can land the guilty party with a prison ...