May began with an explosion thought to be politically motivated near Soi Ratchavithee Road 24 in Dusit district [May 5]. The time-delayed bomb caused no injuries and damaged only the phone booth in which it was planted.
    On May 30 the Constitution Tribunal made two landmark political decisions in one day ruling that the Democrat Party was not guilty of all charges relating to vote-buying and then disbanded the Progressive Democratic Party ordering its nine party executives out of politics for five years.
The Thaksin Shinawatra-led Thai Rak Thai Party faced the same charges after losing out in the party dissolution case and had its 111 party executives banned from politics for five years. The Pattana Chart Thai faced the same fate along with the Paen Din Thai Party and had 19 and three executives banned for the same time, respectively.
Two prominent people died - on May 12 Thanphuying Poonsuk Phanomyong, 95, the wife of former prime minister and statesman Pridi, through natural causes, and Sakorn Yangkhieosod, 85, founder of the internationally renowned Joe Louise Puppet Theatre, of lung disease and kidney failure, on May 21.
    An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre in Laos sent tremors felt in Bangkok and damaged a historic pagoda in Chiang Rai on May 16 No casualties were caused in Thailand.
On May 27 insurgents carried out two strikes in the deep South - igniting seven simultaneous bomb attacks in Songkhla's Hat Yai district injuring 13 people.
 Four days later they raided a security outpost in Bannang Sata district in Yala, killing eight Army rangers.