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Following is a list of events and scheduled events in the year 2025 in Thailand. The year 2025 is the 244th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It is the tenth year in the reign of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X), and is reckoned as year 2568 in the Buddhist Era, the Thai calendar.
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Incumbents
- King: Vajiralongkorn
- Prime Minister: Paetongtarn Shinawatra (suspended since 1 July); Suriya Juangroongruangkit (acting; until 3 July); Phumtham Wechayachai (acting; since 3 July)
- Supreme Patriarch: Ariyavongsagatanana (Amborn Ambaro)
- President of the National Assembly: Wan Muhamad Noor Matha (Prachachat)
- House of Representatives: 26th
- Senate: 13th
Events
January
- 1 January – A tour bus crashes into a tree in Surat Thani province, killing five and injuring more than 30.[1]
- 4 January – Myanmar repatriates 151 Thai prisoners.[2][3]
- 7 January –
- Missing Chinese actor Wang Xing is found in Myanmar by Thai officials after being lured to Myanmar, with the case attracting attention on Chinese social media.[4][5][6]
- Former Cambodian opposition MP Lim Kimya is shot dead in Bangkok shortly after arriving from Cambodia.[7] His suspected killer is arrested in Cambodia the next day.[8]
- 8 January - 2025 Bangkok smog: PM2.5 levels in Bangkok exceeded acceptable health standards, beginning the annual air population season.[9]
- 13 January – South Thailand insurgency: 10 paramilitary rangers are injured in a bomb attack in Pattani.[10]
- 18 January – 2 February – 2025 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup in Malaysia and Thailand[11][12]
- 23 January –
- Same-sex marriage officially becomes legal in Thailand.[13]
- A court in Khon Kaen province convicts Olympic gold medalist and boxer Somluck Kamsing of sexually assaulting a 17-year old girl in 2023 and sentences him to more than three years' imprisonment.[14]
- 24 January – 2025 Bangkok smog: 352 schools in Bangkok are forced to close as a result of the city's poor air quality.[15]
- 28 January – The Paetongtarn cabinet approves ฿620 million to combat PM 2.5 dust pollution, forest fires and haze.[16]
- 30 January –
- Five Thais captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks in Israel in 2023 are released by the group as part of the 2025 Gaza war ceasefire.[17]
- Amid worsening air quality in central, northern and north-eastern Thailand, the government imposes a ban on crop burning.[18]
February
- 1 February – The 2025 Thai Provincial Administrative Organization election is held in 47 provinces.[19][20]
- 5 February – The Thai government stops the supply of electricity, fuel and the internet to several Burmese towns along the border with Thailand that are known to host scam operations.[21][22]
- 9 February – Five Thai hostages released by Hamas as part of the 2025 Gaza war ceasefire on 30 January arrive in Thailand.[23]
- 10 February – Seabed drilling on a bridge connecting Ko Samui to the mainland begins.[24]
- 13 February – Thai soldiers prevent a group of Cambodian visitors at the disputed Prasat Ta Muen Thom temple from singing the Cambodian national anthem, creating some tension between the two countries.[25][26]
- 15 February – The military in Tak province receives over 260 people, mainly Ethiopians, who were held in scam centres across the border in Myawaddy, Myanmar.[22]
- 20 February –
- After a decade-long manhunt Suthee Chuamthaisong, who was convicted of corruption by the Supreme Court in 2019 in relation to the rice pledging scheme under Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, is found by Thai authorities.[27]
- Around 200 Chinese nationals who were held in scam centres in Myanmar are repatriated to China via Mae Sot Airport.[28][29]
- 21 February – The Embassy of Israel in Bangkok issues outlines encouraging Israelis in Thailand to behave amid tensions between the Israeli community and locals in Pai.[30][31]
- 22 February — The Supreme Court orders the removal of Bhumjaithai Party MP for Bueng Kan Constituency 2 Suwanna Phumphiro for vote-buying.[32]
- 23 February – Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra issues a public apology over the Tak Bai incident in 2004 as part of a visit to southern Thailand.[33][34]
- 26 February – A tour bus carrying adults on a study trip overturns and falls into a ditch in Prachinburi province, killing 18 people and injuring 23 others.[35]
- 27 February – Forty Uyghurs held in Thailand for over a decade are deported to China at the request of the Chinese government.[36]
March
- 5 March – The Supreme Administrative Court annuls a 1975 directive from the Ministry of Education banning students from wearing cosmetics or having long hair.[37]
- 8 March – South Thailand insurgency: A series of bombings occur in Narathiwat and Pattani provinces,[34] killing five people and injuring 30 others.[38]
- 11 March – Surachate Hakparn is dismissed as deputy commander of the Royal Thai Police as part of an investigation into money laundering.[39]
- 14 March – The United States imposes sanctions on unidentified incumbent and former Thai officials for their role in the deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China in February.[40]
- 15 March – A section of the Dao Khanong Expressway Bridge collapses in Bangkok, killing five people.[41]
- 26 March –
- Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra survives a no-confidence vote in parliament.[42]
- The Constitutional Court of Thailand removes Somchai Lenglak as a member of the Senate following his conviction for electoral fraud.[43]
- 28 March — A magnitude 7.7 earthquake with an epicenter in neighboring Myanmar shakes multiple areas of Thailand, killing at least 62 people in Thailand, mostly from a building collapse in Bangkok.[44]
- 29 March — Orn-uma Boonsiri of the Bhumjaithai Party is elected unopposed as MP for Bueng Kan Constituency 2 in a by-election to replace her husband Suwanna Phumphiro.[45]
- 31 March — Former MP Sira Jenjaka is sentenced to a one-year prison term for his running for a constituency seat in Bangkok during the 2019 Thai general election despite being ineligible to do so due to a fraud conviction in 1995.[46]
April
- 2–4 April – 6th BIMSTEC Leaders' Summit in Bangkok.[47]
- 11 April – Nopparat Benjawattananan, a former head of the National Office of Buddhism who fled Thailand following a corruption scandal in 2017, is arrested in the United States.[48]
- 13 April – Four volunteer rangers are injured in a bomb attack outside a Buddhist temple in Ra-ngae district, Narathiwat province.[49]
- 17 April – A court in Khon Kaen sentences MP Ekarat Changlao to nearly 13 years' imprisonment for embezzling 405 million baht from a cooperative.[50]
- 19 April – Ten thousand dancers win the Guinness World Record for the longest Lanna Nail Dance in Chiang Mai.[51]
- 20 April – Seventeen people are injured in separate bomb and gun attacks in Narathiwat province.[52]
- 21 April – A double-decker bus collides with a trailer in Na Di district, Prachinburi province, killing seven people and injuring 40 others.[53]
- 24 April – Three vehicles figure in a collision along Motorway 7 in Samut Prakan province, killing eight people and injuring four others[54]
- 25 April – A Viking DHC-6 Twin Otter of the Royal Thai Police crashes into the sea during a training flight near Hua Hin Airport, killing all six people on board.[55][56]
May
- 1 May – The first recorded human fatality from anthrax in Thailand is confirmed in a patient who died in Mukdahan province.[57]
- 20 May – Fossils of a new species of dinosaur are found in Phu Wiang National Park.[58]
- 22 May – The Supreme Administrative Court convicts former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra of severe negligence over anomalies in rice sales to other countries and failing to act on possible corruption in her government's rice subsidy scheme and sentences her to pay more than 10 billion baht ($304 million) in losses.[59]
- 28 May – A Cambodian soldier is killed following a 10-minute clash between the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and the Royal Thai Armed Forces in a disputed area along Ubon Ratchathani Province.[60][61]
- 31 May – Suchata Chuangsri wins Miss World 2025 in India.[62]
June
- 6 June – The body of Thai national Nattapong Pinta, who was taken hostage by Palestinian militants during the 7 October attacks in Israel in 2023, is retrieved by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.[63]
- 16 June – Thirteen foreign nationals are arrested in a raid on a rented house in Samut Prakan province on suspicion of running an Internet fraud operation that amassed $1.2 million from overseas victims, mostly from Australia.[64]
- 18 June – The Bhumjaithai party leaves the ruling coalition following criticism over a leaked phone call between Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and former Cambodian Hun Sen in which the former is heard disparaging a Thai military commander. Paetongtarn apologizes over the remarks the next day.[65]
- 21 June –
- Thailand officially closes a key Cambodian border crossing in Buriram province.[66]
- The Department of Special Investigation seizes 2.4 metric tons of methamphetamine disguised as corn flour packages worth $90.8 million from a tourist boat off the coast of Rayong province and arrests eight men for attempted drug smuggling.[67]
- 23 June –
- 24 June – Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra implements a cabinet reshuffle.[70]
July
- 1 July – The Constitutional Court of Thailand suspends Paetongtarn Shinawatra as prime minister as part of an ethics investigation into her leaked phone call with Hun Sen.[71]
- 2 July – Transport minister and deputy prime minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit takes office as interim prime minister.[72]
- 3 July – Phumtham Wechayachai takes office as interim prime minister by virtue of a prearranged cabinet reshuffle by Paetongtarn Shinawatra that saw him become her deputy.[73]
- 11 July – A pile-up along Suksawat Road in Bangkok injures 55 people.[74]
- 15 July – A woman is arrested in Nonthaburi province on suspicion of seducing several senior Buddhist monks into sexual relationships with her and extorting 385 million baht ($11.9 million) since 2022 in blackmail efforts against them.[75]
- 23 July – Thailand recalls its ambassador from Cambodia and expels Cambodia's envoy following a landmine incident that injured five Thai soldiers on their disputed border in Ubon Ratchathani province.[76]
- 24 July – Cross-border clashes break out between Thai and Cambodian forces, killing at least 15 people in Surin, Ubon Ratchathani and Sisaket provinces.[77][78]
- 25 July – 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict: Martial law is declared in eight districts of Chanthaburi and Trat provinces bordering Cambodia.[79]
- 28 July –
- 2025 Or Tor Kor Market Shooting: Six people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass shooting at the Or Tor Kor Market in Bangkok.[80]
- Negotiations to end the 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict are held in Malaysia, culminating with prime minister Anwar Ibrahim declaring a ceasefire agreement between the warring countries.[81]
- 29 July – Twenty Cambodian soldiers are captured by Thai forces along their disputed border. Two of them are repatriated on 1 August.[82]
- 30 July – Nine people are killed in an explosion at a fireworks workshop in Suphan Buri province.[83]
August
- 9 August – Three soldiers are injured in a landmine explosion while patrolling the disputed border with Cambodia in Sisaket province.[84]
- 12 August – A soldier is injured in a landmine explosion while patrolling the disputed border with Cambodia in Surin province.[85]
Scheduled
- 21 November – The Miss Universe 2025 pageant will be held at the Impact, Muang Thong Thani in Bangkok.[86]
- 9–20 December – 2025 SEA Games[87]
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Art and entertainment
Holidays
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 29 January – Chinese New Year
- 12 February – Makha Bucha Day
- 29–30–March – Hari Raya Puasa
- 6, 7 April – Chakri Memorial Day
- 13–16 April – Songkran Festival
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 4, 5 May – Coronation of King Vajiralongkorn Holiday
- 9 May – Royal Ploughing Ceremony
- 12 May – Visakha Bucha Day
- 3 June – Queen Suthida's Birthday
- 10 July – Asahna Bucha Day
- 28 July – King Vajiralongkorn's Birthday
- 12 August – The Queen Mother's Birthday
- 13 October – King Bhumibol Adulyadej Memorial Day
- 23 October – Chulalongkorn Memorial Day
- 5 December – King Bhumibol Adulyadej's Birthday
- 10 December – Constitution Day
- 25 December – Christmas Day
- 31 December – New Year's Eve
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Deaths
January
- 6 January – Panya Kritcharoen, 75, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ratchaburi (2005–2023).[90]
- 7 January – Lim Kimya, former Cambodian opposition MP
February
- 23 February – Thanin Kraivichien, 97, Prime Minister (1976-1977).[91]
March
- 7 March – Thitisan Utthanaphon, police officer and convicted murderer.[92]
April
- 6 April – Pongsri Woranuch, 85, luk thung singer[93]
June
- 10 June – Suchinda Kraprayoon, 91, prime minister (1992), commander-in-chief of the Royal Army (1990–1992), and supreme commander of defence forces (1991–1992).[94]
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References
External links
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