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, […]
The red shirts are rallying in 17 provinces in the North and the Northeast to support their fellow protesters in Bangkok, Interior Minister Chaovarat Chanweerakul said on Thursday. “Although protests are sprounting up, there are no reports of any danger,” he said, reaffirming the authorities can control the situation. Provincial governors are under instruction to […]
Thousands of red shirts from the North and the Northeast have started their march Friday’s morning, expecting to reach Bangkok by Sunday. Those from the North are expected to converge and stay overnight in Nakhon Sawan while those from the Northeast will spend the night at Nakhon Ratchasima. Before departing their respective hometowns, the red […]
BANGKOK, Jan 11 (TNA) – The numbers of the supporters of the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD)–the Red Shirts—are growing early Monday at the vacation residence of Privy Councillor Gen Surayud Chulanont at Khao Yai Thiang in Nakhon Ratchasima, but the protesters vow that they will neither use violence nor trespass into […]
5,000 Troops, Police To Keep Order At Udd Mountain Protest NAKHON RATCHASIMA : Villagers who occupy land on Khao Yai Thiang are undaunted by a prosecution ruling against privy councillor Surayud Chulanont’s right to hold a 22-rai property there. The Surayud land-holding scandal has triggered speculation that the state will evict villagers occupying the forest […]
A second round of Type A (H1N1) influenza has emerged in Thailand this month, as a third of the soldiers in a Phetchabun army base and many schoolchildren in Nakhon Ratchasima, Samut Prakan and other provinces have shown flu-like symptoms. Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said Thursday that the ministry instructed hospitals to prepare stocks […]
