AN AIRCRAFT transporter and a bus carrying airline staff collided in darkness at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok last night, killing one person and injuring 30 others. The injured were mostly thought to be Thai Airways staff. The bus tipped over in the crash, about 8.15pm, a police spokesman later told the media. One person, a […]
BANGKOK, Sept 18 — Nearly 2,000 police will be deployed around Ratchaprasong where anti-government ‘Red Shirt’ United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) activists will conduct activities to mark the fourth month since government forces forcefully regained the area from the protesters. Eighty-nine persons were killed, and at least 1,900 were wounded during several confrontations […]
A man who is wanted under an arrest warrant issued by the Criminal Court for posting comments deemed offending the monarchy has been arrested, Royal Thai Police spokesman Pol Maj-Gen Prawut Thavornsiri said on Saturday. Pol Maj-Gen Prawut said the man, identified as Wiset Pichitlamkhen, was arrested by immigration police at Suvarnabhumi airport while he […]
BANGKOK, 18 September 2010 (NNT) – The anti-government United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) has released a caravan of 50 red vehicles from Bangkok this morning heading north to join other groups of protestors in Chiang Mai. An assemblage of the red-shirt UDD supporters has taken off on a journey from Bangkok this morning […]
LONDON, Sept. 17 (UPI) — British nationals are advised against traveling near large gatherings in Bangkok through Sunday as Red Shirt demonstrations could turn violent, London warned. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said so-called Red Shirt protesters are preparing demonstrations in Bangkok and Chiang Mai to mark the anniversary of a 2006 coup. The […]
Trouble expected for protest anniversary Security is being stepped up at prisons where red shirt members are expected to turn up to demand the release of their leaders being held there. Chartchai Sutthiklom, director-general of the Corrections Department, said he has ordered security to be tightened at prisons, especially where red shirt leaders are held […]
Foreigners are warned by the US Embassy, Bangkok, to use caution in Bangkok and in and around Chiang Mai as the Red Shirts begin yet another demonstration which could turn violent as the 4th Anniversary of the ousting of Prime Minister Thaksin and the fourth month anniversary of the end of the Red Shirts protests […]
BANGKOK, Sept 16 – Thailand’s CentralWorld shopping complex –thecountry’s largest– will reopen for shoppers September 28, according to Central Pattana president and chief executive officer, Kobchai Chirathivat. CentralWorld, Thailand’s largest shopping complex and the second largest in Southeast Asia, was set afire by allegedly disgruntled Red Shirt protesters after their protest leaders surrendered to police […]
