A class action lawsuit against the sugar company Mitr Phol by Cambodian farmers displaced by the company’s plantation project has been withdrawn following rounds of mediation.

Following a fatal border clash on 28 May at the Chong Bok, Thailand and Cambodia agreed to hold bilateral talks through the Cambodia-Thailand Joint Commission on Demarcation for the Land Boundary (JBC) on 14-15 June. Both sides remain at odds on certain matters, particularly Cambodia’s move to refer the case to the International Court of Justice.

Following a campaign by the Northern Labour Network, the Ministry of Labour has ordered the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare to send letters to employers encouraging them to offer menstrual leave and free period products to their employees.

Gen Suchinda Kraprayoon, former Prime Minister and a leader of the 1991 military coup, died on Tuesday (10 June) at the age of 91.

Following a border clash on 28 May at the Chong Bok border pass in Ubon Ratchathani, Cambodia has said that it intends to take its territorial disputes with Thailand to the International Court of Justice, while the Thai government has said that it is committed to bilateral negotiations through the Joint Boundary Commission (JBC) and will not accept the ICJ’s jurisdiction.

A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to two years in prison by the Appeal Court for an earlier royal defamation conviction after he burned the King’s portrait in 2021.

Two army instructors have been given a prison sentence, along with 11 other conscripts acting as the instructors’ assistants, for the beating and death of an 18-year-old military conscript in Chonburi.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday (28 May) passed in three consecutive readings the new Crown Property bill, which renames the Crown Property Bureau as the “Privy Purse Bureau,” and to transfer the related offices in the Bureau of the Royal Household to the renamed Office.

The Thai Attorney General has dropped a royal defamation charge against US academic Dr Paul Chambers, who was charged over a blurb on the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute’s website promoting a webinar. However, despite this, the charge has already jeopardised his work as a lecturer at Naresuan University, with his employment now terminated.

Thai historian Thongchai Winichakul joined with representatives from the Cross Cultural Foundation and Thai Lawyers for Human Rights to submit a petition to the Criminal Court requesting the removal of leg shackles from detained human rights lawyer Anon Nampa during his royal defamation trial. The petition argues that the shackles violate Anon’s human dignity.

Human rights lawyer Anon Nampa has been sentenced to two years in prison for royal defamation related to a speech he delivered during a 2020 protest. He is currently facing a total of 24 years for royal defamation.

The Administrative Court has clarified its judgement over former Prime Minister Yingluck’s rice pledging scheme and explained why her liability was limited to 10 billion baht, instead of the 35 billion baht sought by the Finance Ministry.