Thailand's prime minister removed from office

泰国总理被免职

Newshour

2025-08-29

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Thailand's Constitutional Court has removed the prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, over her handling of a border dispute with Cambodia. We hear reaction from her party, and also ask what the news tells us about the country's turbulent politics. Also in the programme: why many small businesses around the world are now unable to send parcels to the US; and we report on how a group of Rohingya refugees were deported and left in the sea by the Indian authorities. (IMAGE: Thailand's Paetongtarn Shinawatra leaves following a press conference after the Constitutional Court ruled to remove her from office in a high-profile ethics case, following a leaked phone conversation between her and Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen, at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, August 29, 2025 / CREDIT: REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa)
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  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

  • We're coming to you live from London.

  • I'm James Menendez.

  • And we're going to begin in Thailand, in a day of political upheaval,

  • after the country's constitutional court dismissed the Prime Minister, Petong Tan Shinawat.

  • The judge saying there, reading out the verdict, that in performing her duty as Prime Minister,

  • the accused should have exercised good judgment and chosen to do it in a way that didn't violate the constitution and therefore,

  • He went on to say her term as prime minister had ended.

  • Well,

  • the case centered on the former premier's handling of a long running border dispute with Thailand's neighbor,

  • Cambodia,

  • a dispute that spiraled for a few days into open conflict last month before a ceasefire was agreed.

  • And in particular, on a phone call between Petong Tan and Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen,

  • which he then leaked.