King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, the world’s longest-reigning current monarch who was embraced as a near-deity by his subjects, died Thursday. He was 88. The palace said the king died at Bangkok’s ...

Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country’s monarchy and who, in ...

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King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, who took the throne of the kingdom once known as Siam shortly after World War II and held it for more than 70 years, establishing himself as a revered ...

Sirikit also became seen as a maternal figure for the country. Her birthday, August 12, has been celebrated as Mother's Day ...

The news briefly crashed some websites. BBC television reports were blocked. King Bhumibol had reigned for some seven decades and was widely regarded as a father figure in the middle income South East ...

The rituals of grief distract the mind. As Thai subjects mourned the world’s longest-serving monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died on Oct. 13 at 88 years of age, protocol unfurled with somber ...

Queen Sirikit, the glamorous mother of Thailand’s King Vajiralongkorn, died on Friday night aged 93. Her late husband King ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. After a prolonged illness, Thailand's King Bhumibol has died at the age of 88. His long-anticipated passing will ...

In this picture taken in 1934, the future king of Thailand, right, stands with his mother, Princess Srinagarindra, older sister Princess Galvani Vandhana, left, and his brother, Prince Ananda Mahidol.

BANGKOK --King Bhumibol Adulyadej, revered in Thailand as a demigod, a humble father figure and an anchor of stability through decades of upheaval at home and abroad, died Thursday. He was 88 and had ...

BANGKOK – Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died Thursday after a 70-year reign, was historically an important bridge in his nation's close, but recently strained, relations with the United ...