• Thailand’s Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office  over her handling of a border clash with neighbouring Cambodia on August 29.

• The court said Paetongtarn had violated ethics in what her critics viewed as an overly friendly phone call with Cambodia's former Prime Minister Hun Sen.

• The case centred on her call with Hun Sen, Cambodia’s longtime ruler and father of its current premier, during which the pair discussed their respective countries’ then-brewing row over their disputed border.

• In a leaked telephone call, she appeared to kowtow to Hun Sen when both countries were at the brink of an armed border conflict. 

• Paetongtarn addressed Hun Sen as “uncle” and referred to a Thai military commander as her “opponent”, sparking a furious reaction in Thailand.

• The 39-year-old leader said she did her best to act in the national interest.

• Conservative lawmakers accused her of bending the knee to Cambodia and undermining the military.

• In July, the tensions spiralled into the two sides’ deadliest military clashes in decades, with more than 40 people killed and 300,000 forced to flee their homes along the border.

• Paetongtarn was suspended from her duties when the court agreed to hear the case against her, and Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai took over her responsibilities.

• The nine-judge panel ruled by six to three that she had not upheld the ethical standards required of a Prime Minister and removed her from office, pushing Thailand to the brink of political crisis.

• Born in Bangkok on August 21, 1986, Paetongtarn is the third and youngest child of Thaksin Shinawatra, a police officer turned telecoms tycoon who revolutionised Thai politics in the early 2000s and won two elections before being ousted in a 2006 coup.

• Thai politics has been driven for two decades by a battle between the conservative, pro-military, pro-royalist elite and the Shinawatra clan, whom they consider a threat to the kingdom’s traditional social order.

• Paetongtarn was the sixth Prime Minister from the political movement founded by her father to face judgment by the Constitutional Court.

• Only one — Thaksin himself — survived. The rest were all thrown out for various reasons.