Rebels kill 3 soldiers in southern Thailand

YALA, Thailand: Suspected islamic insurgents killed three soldiers and wounded another four in a gun fight with security forces and an ambush in the restive Thai south, police said Sunday. A group of more than 10 militants attacked six soldiers while they were patrolling in Yala province on Sunday morning, sparking a 10-minute gunfight in […]

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Thai PM: Education Ministry to solve gangster student issue

BANGKOK, 5 September 2010 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has tasked the Ministry of Education with presenting proactive plans to tackle gangster students and their street brawls after a nine-year-old boy was shot dead during a fight last week. Speaking in his weekly television program “Confidence in Thailand with Prime Minister Abhisit” airing from […]

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Red Shirts vow to fight ’till victory’

THAI protesters vowed yesterday to fight until victory, despite a warning from the Prime Minister and army chief that the government and the military were preparing to retake areas controlled the Red Shirts by force if necessary. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva spoke in a nationally televised interview alongside the army chief yesterday, in an apparent […]

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