BANGKOK, Mar 11 (TNA) – The number of foreign arrivals in Thailand will drop below what many expected if the anti-government Red Shirt protests during March 12-14 turn violent, according to a leading economist. Siam Commercial Bank Executive Vice President Sethaput Suthiwart-naru said the SCB Economic Intelligence Center (EIC) earlier projected that the number of […]
March 10 (Bloomberg) — Thailand kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a seventh meeting, refraining from following neighbor Malaysia in raising borrowing costs as political protests threaten the nation’s economic recovery. The government plans to invoke the Internal Security Act to control anti-government protests this weekend, amid concerns political unrest will hurt an economy […]
08:37 GMT, March 8, 2010 EU NAVFOR can confirm that early this morning a Thailand flagged fishing vessel (Thai Union 3) was released by pirates from the port of Heradeere after the payment of a ransom. The Thai Union 3 was hijacked on 29 October last year about 200 miles north of the Seychelles and […]
Family said to fear being held hostage Members of Thaksin Shinawatra’s immediate family have left or are leaving the country ahead of this weekend’s rally by supporters of the fugitive former prime minister. Thaksin’s former wife Potjaman na Pombejra and their son Panthongtae Shinawatra left for Hong Kong on Monday while their two daughters Ms […]
THAILAND will imprison and hand out heavy fines to any migrant workers who attend mass anti-government rallies in Bangkok this weekend, the labour minister said today. Migrants would be subject to a five-year jail term and fines of up to 100,000 baht ($3358) if found among protesters loyal to fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra who […]
BANGKOK (Reuters) – The Thai government plans to invoke a tough security law, giving the armed forces broad powers to control a rally in Bangkok by supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a minister said on Monday. The Internal Security Act (ISA) allows the country’s top security agency, the Internal Security Operations Command, to […]
BANGKOK, March 7 (TNA) — Thai police have apprehended a man suspected of involvement in a hand grenade attack at a Bangkok Bank branch in the capital last weekend, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Sunday. Mr Abhisit told journalists after his weekly TV and radio broadcast that police are questioning the suspect, who was believed […]
Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Saturday posted a message on his Twitter account, calling on people who love democracy and justice and those who think he is being treated cruelly to join the ‘March on March 14’ anti-government campaign of the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD). “We have to be […]
