BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand’s prime minister was forced from office Tuesday after a court ruled that he had broken a conflict-of-interest law by hosting TV cooking shows while in office. Prime ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Samak Sundaravej, a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who served a brief and tumultuous term last year as Thailand’s prime minister, died of cancer Tuesday. He ...

Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej of Thailand made headlines upon his election in January of this year, since the first post-coup democratically-elected leader of the world’s 50th largest country was ...

THAILAND'S recent political history has been, to put it mildly, volatile. In 1997 a democratic constitution supposedly ended several decades of flirting with generals. Four years later Thaksin ...

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Several Thai politicians at an extended parliamentary debate on how to end anti-government protests joined demonstrators occupying the prime minister's office in calling for his resignation, but a ...

Samak Sundaravej, a firebrand politician who briefly served as Thailand’s prime minister but was ousted for simultaneously getting income as the host of a popular TV cooking show, has died. He was 74.

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