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Milking a Cobra for venom during a snake handling display at Queen Saovabha Snake Park, Bangkok, Thailand. (Alamy Stock Photo)

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra declared her innocence and asked for "kindness" from a court Aug. 1 during her final statement in a criminal negligence trial that could land her in prison for 10 years if she is convicted.

"Hallucinations" is a project by Ben Russell for documenta 14, featuring three days of films aimed at aiding the audience, faced with the horrors of "an inescapable present," to "lose ourselves altogether so as to find ourselves anew." Screenings include "Tropical Malady" by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and "Phantom Orbits" by Peter Burr.

Thailand has a new king, with the country's crown prince formally taking the throne to succeed his much-revered late father, who reigned for 70 years.

Thais on Oct. 11 wore pink for 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a color they believe will help improve the monarch's health, two days after the palace said he was in an unstable condition. 

A Thai faces prison after being charged with lese majesty for insulting the king's dog, his lawyer said on Dec. 15, in an escalation of the already draconian royal defamation law.

Thanakorn Siripaiboon, 27, has been charged by police with lese majesty for a "satirical" Facebook post about the king and his dog, lawyer Pawinee Chumsri told AFP.

Thai authorities have not given any information over claims that a key suspect in the plotting of last month's deadly bombing in Bangkok was last tracked via multiple flights to Turkey, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said Sept. 15.

Thai monks led prayers Aug. 19 at a ceremony to reopen a Bangkok shrine hit by a deadly bombing, as police hunted a man seen calmly planting a backpack before the explosion that killed 20 people.

A bomb on a motorcycle exploded on Aug. 17 just outside a Hindu shrine in the Thai capital, killing 27 people, including foreign tourists, media reported, in an attack the government said was a bid to destroy the economy.

A bomb on a motorcycle exploded on Aug. 17 just outside a Hindu shrine in the centre of the Thai capital, killing at least 12 people in an attack the government said was aimed at destroying the economy and the tourism industry.