Bangkok, April 22 (IANS) At least five people were killed and 100 injured Thursday when three successive blasts ripped through the main financial district of Thailand’s capital, media reports said. The blasts took place around 9 p.m. in Silom district, hitting the Bangkok Bank headquarters, the third floor of Sala Daeng sky train station and […]
Red shirts on Thursday submit a letter asking the United Nations to dispatch the international peacekeeper to Thailand to help protect the red shirts protesters. The letter was submitted to a UN representative by red shirt leader weng Tojirakarn at the UN regional office in Bangkok. “I want the presence of peacekeeping force to prevent […]
BANGKOK, April 22 (TNA) – Projectiles — rocks and marbles, launched from schoolboy slingshots and homemade rockets –streaked across Bangkok’s Saladaeng intersection as the Thai capital’s Silom Road local business community and the so-called ‘Multi-Coloured Group’ skirmished with anti-government ‘Red Shirt’ activists at Saladaeng intersection outside the Dusit Thani Hotel late Wednesday night. Homemade rockets […]
Tensions are high in the Thai capital Bangkok after a night of minor clashes, helicopter fly-overs and fireworks. A military spokesman has warned of “decisive action” and “chaos”, urging protesters to leave their extensive, fortified camp in the city. Protests have also escalated in the north of the country, where a train carrying military vehicles […]
WHEN TWO Russian tourists took an immediate disliking for each other on Phuket, the outcome was costly for one of them. The confrontation came early on Monday morning, soon after midnight, as both tourists left a nightspot in the western beach town of Karon with their girlfriends. According to officers in Chalong, the nearest police […]
Barricades set up as both sides armed to attacked The red shirts barricaded all six entrances to their protest site on Rajprasong intersection yesterday after the government made it clear that it was waiting for the right opportunity to use force to disperse the tens of thousands of protesters. However, Saladaeng intersection, adjoining Silom Road […]
A police sergeant was killed and 43 others were wounded when a grenade was thrown into their lines as they assembled for the national anthem in front of the Muang police station in Pattani on Wednesday morning, police said. One of two men riding a motorcycle threw the hand grenade over the station fence, according […]
The Thai army has made explicit its determination to use live ammunition against “red-shirt” anti-government protesters in certain circumstances. An army spokesman told a regular news briefing that troops were ready to use their weapons “decisively”. The red-shirts later called off plans to march on the city’s Silom business district, saying they wanted to avoid […]
