Red-shirt protesters will gather outside a military barracks on Monday to demand the government’s answer on their ultimatum that the government dissolve the House by noon or face mass demonstrations in the capital. United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) co-leader Natthawut Saikua said on Sunday evening that the protesters will go to the 11th […]
Tens of thousands of Thai opposition supporters have rallied in Bangkok to press the government to step down. They gave Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva until Monday to call fresh polls and vowed to demonstrate across the capital if he refuses to do so. The government insists it will not stand down and has tightened security. […]
BANGKOK–Tens of thousands of protesters flowed into Bangkok over the weekend, setting up what organizers say will be several days of protests to force Thailand’s army-backed government to call fresh elections and vividly demonstrating the continuing pull of Thailand’s ousted leader, former telecommunications billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra. Thrown out of power in a military coup in […]
Thousands of protesters from rural northern Thailand have begun arriving in Bangkok for a rally aimed at toppling the government of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajhiva. Trucks and other vehicles filled highways into the capital city Saturday as security forces searched them, ahead of a protest scheduled for Sunday to restore ousted Prime Minister Thaksin […]
BANGKOK, March 13 (TNA) – The Grand Palace and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok were still lively and crowded Saturday with foreign tourists who said they were not worried about the ongoing Red Shirt demonstrations despite the main protest venue being not far away from Bangkok’s prime tourist destinations. According to one […]
SPECIAL REPORT: The city is on a knife’s edge as tens of thousands of protesters gather in a bid to overthrow the government Expectation hangs thick in the air as the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship begins its protest today – with security forces not predicting any increase in tensions until the red […]
Thai authorities have started deploying 50,000 troops on to the streets of Bangkok ahead of rallies by anti-government protesters that they fear could turn violent The demonstrations by the so-called “Red Shirts”, who support fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, begins on Friday – two weeks after the kingdom’s top court confiscated $1.4 billion of the […]
The main airport in Bangkok has been locked down by soldiers as the Thai capital prepares for anti-government demonstrations. From Thursday 11th until the 23rd of March, supporters of the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra have warned they will protest throughout the country, and especially in Bangkok. Bangkok News
