Anti-government protesters in Thailand say they plan another big parade and rally in the capital on Saturday. The protesters, known as the red-shirts because of their distinctive clothing, are calling for the prime minister to resign and call fresh elections. The government has extended special security legislation and brought in extra troops to staff check-points. […]
BANGKOK, March 25 (TNA) – Thai Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Thursday expressed concerned about a series of bombings which continued to rattle some official buildings in the capital and adjacent areas, but said the situation did not warrant putting an emergency decree into force. The deputy prime minister commented in his capacity as […]
SURAT THANI, March 12 (TNA) – Five bombs rocked the southern province of Surat Thani Friday morning as the anti-government United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) began moving to the capital for the mass gathering aimed to topple the government. No one was wounded in the five incidents. Late police reports said demolitions experts […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pattani, Thailand – A spate of bombs planted at bank automatic teller machines in Thailand’s violence-wracked southern province of Narathiwat exploded Tuesday, injuring two people. Bombs were detonated at four ATM booths and one beauty parlour in the province, which is 800 kilometres south of Bangkok and borders Malaysia, said Internal Security Operations Command southern […]
BANGKOK, Feb 28 (TNA) — Leaders of the anti-government Red Shirt movement, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), said Sunday the group has no connection with the bomb incidents in the Thai capital and its neighbouring province of Samut Prakan on Saturday. They asked the government to probe both the military and police […]
Grenade attack in nightclub district Police tightened security at all branches of the Bangkok Bank in the capital after an M26 hand grenade exploded at its Silom Road branch last night and another grenade was defused at the bank’s Rama II branch. Deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau Pol Maj Gen Anan Srihiran last […]
