{"id":73711,"date":"2025-08-29T10:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/29\/thailand-prime-minister-paetongtarn-shinawatra-court-ruling-cambodia-hun-sen-phone-call"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:29:23","slug":"thailand-court-to-rule-on-fate-of-prime-minister-over-leaked-phone-call-with-cambodias-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73711","title":{"rendered":"Thai court dismisses prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of former PM Thaksin accused of failing to protect country\u2019s interests over leaked phone call with Cambodia\u2019s leader<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s constitutional court has dismissed Paetongtarn Shinawatra from her position as prime minister, ruling that as the country\u2019s leader she violated ethical rules during a phone call with Cambodia\u2019s senate president, Hun Sen.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, which threatens to<strong> <\/strong>usher in a fresh period of instability in the country, means she immediately loses her job, which she had held for about a year. The 39-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/01\/thailands-pm-paetongtarn-shinawatra-suspended-over-leaked-call\">had already been suspended<\/a> from her duties on 1 July after a recording was leaked of the phone conversation, in which they discussed a simmering border dispute between the neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/29\/thailand-prime-minister-paetongtarn-shinawatra-court-ruling-cambodia-hun-sen-phone-call\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of former PM Thaksin accused of failing to protect country\u2019s interests over leaked phone call with Cambodia\u2019s leaderThailand\u2019s constitutional court has dismissed Paetongtarn Shinawatra from her position as prime minister, ruling that as the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73722,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73711\/revisions\/73722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}