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
BANGKOK – Thailand’s government yesterday agreed to impose the Internal Security Act ahead of protests this weekend, vowing to use “all means” to stop violence by backers of ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra. The security act will be imposed from March 11 to 23. Among the security measures is the banning of farm vehicles from the […]
Police yesterday arrested a man whose YouTube video had warned of bomb attacks and armed struggle in Bangkok. Phornwat Thongthanaboon, who is also known as “K Thong”, was seated inside a military van that Army expert Maj-General Khattiya Sawasdipol had taken to the Crime Suppression Division to ask about arranging for Phornwat’s surrender. Police had […]
BANGKOK: — Up to 20,000 Buddhist monks are reported to be preparing to join the mass red-shirt rally in Bangkok on March 12, threatening to mirror the “Saffron Revolution” in Burma in 2007. Earlier today, Saturday March 6, Arisman Pongruangrong, a prominent member of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), said he expected […]
