The crisis in Bangkok has spread from Bangkok to the provinces outside the capital, worsening the country’s already precarious political crisis and sending reverberations through the Thai markets. The Thai baht has dropped to a seven-week low, the main stock index fell 2 per cent at a two-week low, and credit default swaps on government […]
Key red-shirt leader and rogue army officer Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol, who was shot in the head immediately after giving an interview to foreign reporters on Thursday night, died on Monday morning. Dr Chaiwan Charoenchokthawee, director of Vajira Hospital, said Maj-Gen Khattiya, better known as Seh Daeng, was pronounced dead at 9.20am. Seh Daeng sufferred an […]
Thailand’s government has set a deadline for opposition protesters to surrender women and children before it mounts a final assault on the Red Shirt encampments in central Bangkok. Red Cross workers were told they would be given safe passage through a “live firing zone” until mid afternoon Monday to remove the vulnerable from the 3,000-strong […]
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Thailand on Sunday expanded a state of emergency to more provinces as fears of unrest appeared to grow following a violent weekend of clashes in Bangkok that has left at least 25 people dead. The state of emergency was extended to five more provinces, bringing the total to 22 provinces and […]
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Thailand’s army had nothing to do with the shooting of an opposition leader in downtown Bangkok, a military spokesman said Friday. The Thursday incident is under investigation, said Col. Sansern Kaewkumnerd, an Army spokesman. Downtown Bangkok’s Lumpini Park turned into a mob atmosphere amid gunshots and explosions Thursday as anti-government protesters […]
The British Embassy in Bangkok will be closed tomorrow, 14 May 2010, due its proximity to demonstrations in the capital. The Embassy will continue to monitor developments in Bangkok in order to provide British nationals with the most up to date information. British nationals in Thailand requiring consular advice can continue to contact the Embassy […]
The Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) will advise the government to declare a state of emergency in 15 more provinces to block more red shirts from joining anti-government protests at the Rajprasong shopping area. CRES spokesman Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd said the new provinces were Chon Buri, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, Pathum Thani, […]
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has scrapped an offer to hold an early election this year after anti-government demonstrators refused to end their two-month-old protest, officials confirmed Thursday. Abhisit last week proposed to hold an election Nov 14, in a bid to appease the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), whose supporters are commonly […]
