Following is a list of events and scheduled events in the year 2024 in Thailand. The year 2024 is reckoned as the year 2567 in Buddhist Era, the Thai calendar.
MP and Secretary-General of the Bhumjaithai Party, Saksayam Chidchob, is found guilty by the Constitutional Court of concealing his stakes in a company and resigns from his political positions.[8][9]
18 January – Thailand halts the import of poultry products from Belgium and three French regions to prevent the spread of Avian influenza.[10]
20 January:
The leader of a credit card theft gang who stole ฿8 million in a month is arrested.[11]
23 January – Sa Kaeo province introduces a 10 pm curfew for minors aged under 15 following the murder of a 47-year old on 11 January by five minors.[13]
School teachers are no longer required to stay on campus after school hours following an attack on a teacher on 20 January.[15]
31 January: The Constitutional Court rules that the Move Forward Party and its leaders, including Pita, violated the constitution through its aim to amend Thailand's lèse-majesté. The court also orders the party to end their campaign to amend the law.[16]
7 February: The Thai government and Muslimseparatists from the southern part of the country agree on a possible peace process to stop an insurrection which started in 2004.[20]
18 February: Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is released on parole after spending six weeks in a Bangkok hospital on the account of his age and health.[21][22]
March
4 March: Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is acquitted by the Supreme Court on charges of corruption over a 2013 campaign to promote her government's infrastructure projects involving allegations of mishandling 240 billion baht ($6.7 billion) and failure to conduct proper bidding processes.[23]
12 April – Hundreds of refugees cross into Thailand from Myanmar after the fall of Myawaddy to ethnic armed organizations.[26]
29 April – Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara resigns as foreign minister shortly after being removed as concurrent deputy prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle.[27]
14 May – Netiporn Sanesangkhom, an activist charged with lèse-majesté, dies in detention after staging a months-long hunger strike calling for reform of the justice system and an end to the persecution of political dissidents.[30][31]
21 August – Thailand reports its first case of clade 1b mpox in a 66-year-old European man who works in one of the African countries with the ongoing epidemic.[46]
13 September – At least ten people are killed by flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi across Thailand.[51]
24 September – King Vajiralongkorn signs the same-sex bill into law, allowing same-sex marriages to be held in Thailand beginning in 2025.[52]
30 September – The Bangkok Criminal Court orders the extradition of Y Quynh Bđăp, a Montagnard activist convicted in absentia in Vietnam of terrorism charges over his role in the 2023 Đắk Lắk attacks.[53]
October
1 October – A bus carrying students crashes into a highway barrier before catching fire near Bangkok, killing at least 23 people and injuring 16 others.[54]
7 October – Three people are reported killed following days of flooding and landslides in the Chiang Mai area.[55]
28 October – The Narathiwat Provincial Court dismisses charges against security officials implicated in the deaths of Muslim protesters during the Tak Bai incident in 2004, citing the expiration of a 20-year statute of limitations and failure to arrest the seven suspects.[56]
November
7 November – A Thai woman is acquitted of involvement in the 2015 Bangkok bombing due to insufficient evidence.[57]
20 November – Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn is sentenced to death for the fatal poisoning of 14 acquaintances as part of the Am Cyanide case.[58]
30 November – One fisherman is drowned and another 31 are detained after Myanmar patrol boats open fire to three Thai fishing vessels off the coast of Ranong province.[60]
December
4 December
At least 29 people are reported killed while more than 33,000 are displaced following days of flooding in five southern provinces.[61]
